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Good job, Trump!

For Trump’s Jewish Allies, His Dinner With Antisemites Is a Breaking Point https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/us/politics/trump-jews.html?smid=tw-share

Hmm... I wonder why mastodon.social is performing so terribly right now.

*checks Twitter*

Oh, that's why.

#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, PhD student Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars.

Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a £3m prize for her work in 2018. She's using it to set up a foundation to improve diversity in STEM.

#WomenInSTEM #Histodons #ScienceHistory

It’s in the Post app mission statement that you can’t cyberbully the rich
#tech #technology #journalism #postnews #twitter #twittermigration #politics

In the mids of the Twitter chaos, please know this. The company that built Qatar’s World Cup stadium built China’s #Uyghur prison camps. There go your corporate values. Too often, companies tout their values when they serve their interests. But they can’t hold the same values when it involves authoritarian govs.

‘Is America’s infatuation with billionaires finally coming to an end?’ Let’s hope so. And hopefully we’ll stop worshipping rich people as well.

https://www.salon.com/2022/11/25/is-americas-infatuation-with-billionaires-finally--ifinallyi--coming-to-an-end/

NEW: Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) sues Cochise County for failing to certify its election results by today's statutory deadline. Hobbs alleges that the county and its supervisors are violating Arizona law.

Read the complaint: https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hobbs-Complaint-for-Special-Action-Relief.pdf

They could not successfully sow doubt in our democracy without first dismantling our education system. In that regard their efforts the past three decades have been successful.

We must fight on multiple fronts if we are to be successful long term. Get involved in your local school boards, it affects you whether you have kids in school or not.

#democacy #politics #education #schoolboards

If you’re here as part of the #TwitterMigration, this is the official account for The Lincoln Project.

We’ll remain active on Twitter defending democracy ‘til the lights go out, but you can also follow us here or:

INSTAGRAM: http://bit.ly/31yyrHR
FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/3zCBHhT
TIKTOK: http://bit.ly/3xHYRCY
REDDIT: http://bit.ly/39PLnxi
EMAIL: http://action.lincolnproject.us/join

Unfortunately I have to stop actively working on #Metatext for a while due to health issues. I really wish I could implement Mastodon 4 features and squash every bug, but it's not possible for me to do so right now.

I know the app has become important to a lot people, so I'm open to a new maintainer who can carry on its values of privacy and accessibility taking it over if there's interest and a fit. Email info@metabolist.org if you (or your organization) are interested

It took us a minute, but we're verified!

Having now been on #Mastodon for 1 month, a few observations:

- Mastodon makes me realize how much the #Twitter algorithm maximized user outrage to boost engagement for profit. Gross. Here, my feed is interesting & supportive.

- There's a culture of kindness - at least so far. It's extremely appealing & should be normalized on & offline.

- Beyond reactions to toots, people share songs, poetry & ask great questions. I can't remember the last time I found social media to be fun.

For totally legit reasons, I was sifting through Twitter's front-end code earlier today and noticed this new payment handler named "TwitterBluePaymentFailureFix". The bundle itself has code that deals with Twitter Blue payments through Apple and Google App stores.

I'm not saying it's definitely related, but I wouldn't be suprised if that's why the Birdman is ranting about Apple's 30% fee on in-app purchases.

Join me in laughing derisively at the rapid & ignominious failure of Peter Tiel's "anti-woke" banking app. https://qz.com/the-fall-and-fall-of-peter-thiel-backed-right-wing-fint-1849811428

We've seen this illustrated again & again in recent years: reactionaries can only tear down & destroy. They can't build anything. Selfish, resentful, dull-minded people who define their whole identity around victimhood ... are not built for creativity & adaptability.

There's a certain Twitter migrant who likes Twitter but hates Elon Musk.

For me, I just hate Twitter.

Elon Musk is therefore a useful illustration for why centralization and corporate control over social media is terrible.

But Twitter has always been evil—whether or not Elon Musk runs it.

And post.news is evil for the same reason Twitter is: it's corporate-run centralization of social media.

Some people actually want that because they're not convinced that Twitter was always evil.

Maricopa County, Arizona (Phoenix) says that contrary to some imaginings, no voters were disenfranchised by Election Day tabulator glitches; all had the option to place their completed ballots in a secure box for later tabulation, which is in fact the system used in most Arizona counties. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/27/maricopa-county-elections-printer-toner/

These are the Biden holiday decorations, just unveiled by our first lady, Dr. Jill Biden.
My first thought was, “What, no blood red scary trees, symbolizing the blood of our enemies?!”
It’s sure nice to have normal back. In so many ways.

It's just a fad.