Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

Dear journalists: Twitter is now the platform of choice for right-wing extremists -- a platform where they are welcomed, promoted, and even in some cases paid by Musk's site.

Why, when there are real alternatives, is it still your site?

Notice how every time there's a labor strike, you see countless articles with headlines like "UPS Strike Could Cost U.S. Economy Billions—Here’s How It Would Impact Consumers" and not by the accurate headline of "UPS's Executive's Greed Could Cost US Economy Billions".

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2023/07/17/ups-strike-could-cost-us-economy-billions-heres-how-it-would-impact-consumers/?sh=491459c63af6

NEW ON SITE: The Buggay Family and Associates (originally published August 2020)

https://atlantaantifa.org/2023/07/14/documentation-the-buggay-family-and-associates-originally-published-august-2020/

We have added documentation on the Buggay family of Woodstock, Georgia to our website. This family is highly involved in neo-Confederate organizing and also has deep ties to white supremacist "Christian Identity" circles.

We're republishing what was originally a long Twitter thread, as Twitter is a poor archive for anti-fascist documentation. We also wish to highlight the Buggay family once again since their "Jubilee" musical project was the entertainment at the Sons of Confederate Veterans "Confederate Memorial Day" event at Stone Mountain this year.

Great, someone has created an #AI tool specifically for crafting #fraud #emails. Article: "An attacker who isn’t fluent in the recipient’s language might need some help creating a persuasive email and polishing it up." #AIpocalpyse https://therecord.media/ai-tool-generates-bec-fraud

Oh my. Unloading a coal train. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcfPKB9x8p0

Mammatus clouds in Saskatchewan, Canada:

#Photography #Mammatus #Saskatchewan #Canada

photo by Michael Johnston

Propaganda 101

1. Repeatedly claim that government crime agencies are corrupt.

2. Do your corruption while in office.

3. When caught, remind everyone that 'government crime agencies are corrupt' and you need to get elected so you can rebuild those agencies (into your corrupt image).

A single state trooper logged 1,350 fraudulent traffic tickets into a Connecticut database meant to detect racial profiling. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/connecticut-police-trooper-1000-fake-tickets-1234789116/

@davetron5000 Yeah their formula is not good. Part of it is how much they love a sympathetic villain. I grew up with comics where villains were actually bad people, and Magneto was super interesting because he was the one villain who was fighting for a good cause but doing it badly. Now MCO keeps trying to make all their big bads like that, and we end up wasting a ton of time on their backstory and why we should sympathize with their villainy. Changing Thanos from a madman who wanted to kill half the universe just to impress a lady into a misguided champion of sustainability was definitely a choice, and they keep making that same choice on most of their villains now. So boring. I just want a villain I can feel good about hating, not one I feel I need to root for as the underdog.

Your rights are an illusion

A 3 judge panel on the federal appeals court ruled a catholic school was in their rights to fire a counselor because they’re gay

Shelly Fitzgerald was not subject to anti-discrimination protections because of “ministerial exception”

It allows religious organizations to fire certain workers if they disagree with their beliefs

• The panel: two Trump appointees and one from Reagan

You’re fooling yourself if you think theocracy will stop here

One mom said she cried for 10 days after hearing she was being removed from her daughter's birth certificate.

Italy begins stripping lesbian mothers of their parental rights - #LGBTQ Nation https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/07/italy-begins-stripping-lesbian-mothers-of-their-parental-rights/

#Water pumped from deep underground helps #alfalfa grow at the Saudi-owned Fondomonte farm in the Butler Valley, in western Arizona

Saudi Arabia bans industrial scale farming of alfalfa, to protect its limited water supplies.

So they grow it in a #US desert and ship it back home, using AZ’s scarce water.

Perspective: The prior republican admin even blocked efforts to track the amount of water being used. #Arizona get saudi the fuck out.
#natsec
🎁: read it free

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/16/fondomonte-arizona-drought-saudi-farm-water/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjQ5ODUwMjE4IiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTY4OTQ4MDAwMCwiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTY5MDc3NTk5OSwiaWF0IjoxNjg5NDgwMDAwLCJqdGkiOiIzMDBhZTc5MC0wOWY3LTRkYWUtODhkNi04YTNkNDY4YzNmNzEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vcG9saXRpY3MvMjAyMy8wNy8xNi9mb25kb21vbnRlLWFyaXpvbmEtZHJvdWdodC1zYXVkaS1mYXJtLXdhdGVyLyJ9.ez1ful0d3x4JvXNTYEs9s_7X3dWsNEh_iuxAmSfY9Zg

“If the minimum wage had continued to go up in step with productivity, it would now be not $7.25 but about $25 an hour. A recent RAND study found that if the U.S. had remained as equitable as it was in 1975 for the next 43 years through 2018, the bottom 90 percent of Americans would have earned an extra $47 trillion. Instead that money flowed in a great flood to the top.” https://theintercept.com/2023/07/16/class-warfare-1-percent-technocrat/