Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

Exclusive: A veteran FBI agent told Congress that investigations into Giuliani and other Trump allies were 'suppressed'

https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-whistleblower-senate-judiciary-russia-giuliani-leak-trump-allies-fuks-biden-2023-8

If you have not already done so please contest Ohio law re one drop box per county. It's unacceptable that counties with 1.3 million people have the same number of boxes as those with 13 thousand residents.
Thank you again for all of your efforts for democracy. You are much appreciated.

YouTube is like "You might enjoy: A 1.5 hour long video of a person you've never heard of reacting to another person you've never heard of's reaction to a video you haven't seen about something you don't care about (Part 2)"

Best social network money can't buy.

#Fediverse

Don’t shy away from it; lean into it.

Run. On. Abortion.

We always win when we actually show up. You’d think we’d have showed up a bit more reliably before things got this bad. Now we have to show up like this. A lot. Because this ain’t over. It’s barely begun.

Source: @Karoli
https://mastodon.social/@Karoli@crooklyn.social/110856731584545069

Grey Goose vodka and Bacardi rum owner is hiring more staff and shipping tens of millions of dollars in products to the Russian market. It currently employs 350 people across 7 cities in Russia. Profits were up 8.5% in 2022! So much for the company’s “pause” after the invasion! https://www.wsj.com/articles/bacardis-russia-business-grows-as-other-booze-makers-leave-country-6060993f?mod=hp_lead_pos10

If you're a hardcore capitalist: climate change is an amazing, HUGE opportunity for large industrial nations to set themselves up to be leaders for this century and beyond, including controlling markets and generating tons of wealth--it's astounding that no one runs with this.

"The reaction against Judge Cannon’s order was swift and brutal. Professor Tribe said,

'Judge Cannon continues her dopey and constitutionally dubious usurpation of the executive branch’s investigative and prosecutorial prerogatives.'

Joyce Vance tweeted,

'Looks like it is a good week [for the prosecution] to ask the 11th Circuit to replace the judge.'”

#Trump #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #AileenCannon
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As Robert Hubbell notes, in seeking to put her thumb on the scales on behalf of Defendant Trump and to undermine federal cases against him, incompetent Florida judge Aileen Cannon disclosed the existence of a secret grand jury investigation that is ongoing in a different jurisdiction.

Which she absolutely ought not to have done….

She is, Hubbell concludes, the most incompetent judge in the federal judiciary.

#Trump #crime #criminal #AileenCannon
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/last-day-to-vote-no-on-issue-1-in

"Mastodon is far from perfect. But I only have so many hours in the day, and only so many days left in my life. I would much rather spend those precious hours making a open service better than using a temporarily superior closed one. I have seen that movie. I know how it ends."

- @pluralistic

https://doctorow.medium.com/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again-20074e311f1f

Nearly every graph of when modern society in the US started going to shit has a hockey stick bend right around Ronald Reagan

From: @matokie
https://mastodon.social/@matokie/110826805878969637

@lovelylovely

Personally, I'm all for trade schools and being able to be an apprentice. Many skills, if not most, or even all, rely on real world experience. Humans learn better and faster when they can touch the thing that they want to become.

Gold Hill, Nevada (8/7/2023).

#Abandoned #GhostTown #Mining #BlackAndWhite #Photography #LinuxPhotography #Darktable

Beavers are ace hydrologists—and great allies in preventing wildfires.

"Beavers banished to a remote Idaho valley have transformed the landscape into a lush wetland and a haven against fire and drought, satellite images show."

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/idaho-beavers-stream-drought-fire

As ever, disregard what a company says publicly and focus on what the legal documents says you are agreeing to when you use their product.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/7/23822907/zoom-train-ai-models-user-data-customer-consent

Obviously only an exercise of his 'freedom of speech' right?

Huddle up.

We gotta get word out to teachers that @skypeascientist.bsky.social is a FREE program that matches their classrooms with scientists.

During recruitment season we try to make sure we hit every US State. We're in 39 so far!

Here's where we DON'T have classrooms yet this fall:
AL
AR
MT
NN
NM
ND
SD
UT
VT
WY

Spread the word!
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