Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

Mastodon is where breaking news happens now.

Maybe Tucker Carlson can get into professional wrestling now.

Bed Bath & Beyond has filed for bankruptcy shortly after spending $1B in stock buybacks & cash payments to shareholders. Employees of 20 years got 0 notice & $0 severance.

It wasn't inflation. It wasn't labor cost. It is 100% corporate greed.

Tax billionaires. Unionize workers. Protect our economy.

I wish I could be half as brave as she is. In Montana!!! I’d be scared as hell.

Fragile Republicans Want Trans Lawmaker Censured for Fiery Speech

https://www.thedailybeast.com/montana-republicans-want-trans-lawmaker-zooey-zephyr-to-be-censured-for-fiery-speech?via=ios

Want to die in a hail of bullets? Move to a Red State. The statistics aren't even close. #guns #GOP #NRA #politics https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/23/surprising-geography-of-gun-violence-00092413?fbclid=IwAR2-0deKyXQJ1NLiHCjdGRMJ2VcAuT1gwGsAPid6LleM12la2YOwSIICps4

The Natl Acad. of Sciences, Engineering & Med, who helped shape the govt’s response to the opioid crisis, accepted ~$19 million from the Sackler family (owners of Purdue & makers of OxyContin.)

“I didn’t know they were taking private money,” Von Korff, a prominent pain care researcher, said. “It sounds like insanity to take money from principals of drug companies and then do reports related to opioids. I am really shocked.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/23/health/sacklers-opioids-national-academies-science.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#opioid #sacklerfamily #opioidcrisis
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A few days back, the Sun unleashed an Earth directed flare. It took a few days to arrive, but it finally came in the early hours of this morning.

Aurora have lit up the world since!

Astrophotographers have captured them in Victoria, Tasmania. The below Gorgeous photo by AsV member Eddie Pang was captured using iPhone 14 Pro of this morning’s aurora captured at the Astro. Society of Victoria's Leon Mow dark sky site north of Heathcote (VIC)

In the north, they are reporting aurora as far south as Kansas!

#Aurora #SolarStorm #GeomagneticStorm #SolarMax #Astrodon

@rodhilton

The fact that MAGA *still* fail to realize how they are being exploited by rich Republicans is amusing.

Musk has imposed these celebrity blue checks on people who refuse to pay him.

And they *still* don't get why that's a problem.

Modern Republican & Tory policy is funded to impose the unwanted on anyone who isn't a billionaire.

And they still don't recognize that as fascism .

They finally cracked the Mayan calendar, and the reason they couldn't before is that the 819 days of the calendar have to be viewed across a 45-year time period to fully understand, and that is just 🤯

The Mayans were wild, man

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a43645858/how-the-mayan-calendar-works

#history

@tchambers @georgetakei It's George Takei's birthday??!!
Happy birthday, Mr. Takei!!!

@MeanwhileinCanada Who'd have thought the war on drugs could be won just by making it all available.

As a Coloradan, there are less people here buying MJ than ever.

“I did not sacrifice 21 years of my life to stand idly by, while religious fanatics try to impose fascism on my country”

My hero this week is former Navy Commander John Wessley Rexrode, who goes to the podium at a local schoolboard meeting to speak the truth about the new book ban laws. 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

https://youtu.be/CXr9YcMU_WU

Can we take a moment to appreciate the fact that buying Twitter Blue makes you look like such a loser that Elon personally paid for multiple celebrities' blue checks in order to humiliate them

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Anti-trans laws come from right wing think tanks like the Claremont Institute. To take away the right to vote from young people.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/16/dark-money-us-supreme-court-case-voting-law-moore-v-harper

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/magazine/claremont-institute-conservative.html

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/04/18/male-supremacy-core-hard-rights-agenda

The Claremont Institute is funded by GOP billionaire donors to end democracy
http://conservativetransparency.org/org/the-claremont-institute/

https://www.thebulwark.com/what-the-hell-happened-to-the-claremont-institute/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wz9b/claremont-institute-desantis

They are deliberately creating a civil war for financial gain & keeping the proceeds of bigotry & economic looting
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/10/claremont-ryan-williams-trump/620252/

You cannot make this shit up!
"A member of GOP leadership in the Tennessee House of Representatives was recently found guilty of sexually harassing at least one legislative intern, likely two, by an ethics subcommittee acting in secret, NewsChannel 5 Investigates has learned.

About six hours after being confronted by NewsChannel 5 Investigates, Rep. Scotty Campbell gave up his seat in the Tennessee General Assembly.

Campbell, who served as vice chair of the House Republican Caucus and who recently voted to expel three Democrats who engaged in a gun violence protest on the House floor, had suffered no previous consequences as a result of his actions."
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/revealed/revealed-gop-leader-who-voted-to-expel-tennessee-three-found-guilty-of-sexually-harassing-interns

Pope Francis lost his Blue Check status today because the Catholic Church wouldn’t pay $8/month to Twitter.

I guess the Pope sees Twitter Blue as a needless indulgence.

🤣

Statistically, 1 in every 3 people in a relationship cheat so I only need to figure out if it’s my boyfriend or my husband.