Lil' Ms. Sunshine @mssunshine@social.cleverlibre.org

If Trump took stolen top secret documents to Mar-a-Lago, there's a good chance he took them to Bedminster and Trump Tower, too

“I think that is a very uniquely American idea of creating this marketplace of ideas where you can say anything you want completely without limits. It is very foreign to the German mindset where we, in our Constitution, our number one priority is maintaining human dignity. And so, hate speech is not part of the German concept of free speech, for example. So I think that when Elon Musk says that everything’s gonna be allowed, or whatever, I generally disagree with that.” – @Gargron

Toot toot! 😊

Picking this up from @WalterShaub - building a community edition - some friends to follow:

@elizaorlins
@BrandonFriedman @
@flyingwithsara
@evansutton
@danielschuman
@rafe
@kalhan
@kwalters
@jljacobson

HEADS-UP for in-person voters! If you’re voting in-person today is a good day to review the questions, measures & amends that may be on your ballot. When voters are reading lengthy ballot measures for the first time in the voting booth, it contributes to long lines. State ballot measures cover things like legalizing weed, campaign finance, term limits, policing.
Read & digest the ballot measures (& explanations) in advance on Ballotpedia at this link:
ballotpedia.org/2022_ballot_me…

One exciting thing about Mastodon is the very conscious effort by many to build it up, including creating and expanding the infrastructure for the influx of new participants from various communities (e.g. journalism, academia)

Are you new to Mastodon?

Do you need some help? A simple guide to how Mastodon works?

Check out my website, it answers lots and lots of questions you might have:

➡️ https://fedi.tips

It's written in non-technical language, and aimed at a general audience. If you're new here and feeling a bit lost, this is the site for you!

(There are also tips for advanced users in a separate section of the site.)

If you can't find the answers you want from the site, @ or message me 🙂

The plan -- and they aren't hiding it -- is to risk a global economic meltdown by using the debt ceiling as leverage to get Biden and the Democrats to swallow Social Security and Medicare benefit cuts. https://www.mediamatters.org/bloomberg/have-you-heard-about-gop-plan-either-gut-social-safety-net-or-destroy-economy

an attempt at a mastodon explainer for folks on the birdsite - mixed feedback on starting with the email metaphor, but I've gotten a number of replies saying this is useful

I'm not really trying to convince folks to come over here, but I just want to help more people *get* it so they can decide whether they want to or not.
✨ the more you know ✨

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1589281605763616769.html

If you want to browse through the journalists on the server @adamdavidson created, look here:

https://journa.host/explore