Greg Spradlin @spradlig@social.cleverlibre.org

Dear CNN: please stop referring to Ron DeSantis as "conservative." He has moved to the far right of conservative and is full-blown fascist. This is a man who will likely run for president and attempt to do to the country what he is doing in Florida. By referring to him as a conservative softens his ideals and makes him seem not that bad. But he is that bad, no, he's worse. He is a fascist. And that's what he should be called in your reporting.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/24/politics/ron-desantis-florida-universities-gender-studies/index.html

I ended up talking invisibility with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Negin Farsad on StarTalk! Here's my blog post about it. https://skullsinthestars.com/2023/04/25/talking-invisibility-on-startalk/

I've got 700+ followers but I know at least a third of you haven't taken a chance to listen to my music... I could really use some new ears, especially if you like #industrial, #IDM and generally #weird #ElectronicMusic.

I'm in the midst of a streaming slump, so I would *really* appreciate a few new listeners!

Here's the latest album:

https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/psychedelic-ghost-stories

@synths #music #PleaseBoost #PleaseListen

Another corrupt nondisclosure-of-blatant-conflicts Republican Supreme Court denizen: Gorsuch. No shame, no accountability. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/25/neil-gorsuch-colorado-property-sale-00093579

Jack Dorsey enthusiastically co-signed the deal that betrayed 200 million Twitter users and handed their accounts over to a fucking right wing egomaniacal billionaire. You’ll have to excuse me if I’m not eager to sign up for another one of this dude’s schemes.

Republicans passed a bill in Texas to end countywide-voting, which allows voters to choose polling locations that are convenient or have short lines, and a bill allowing the state to take over county election administration on flimsy pretexts.

If signed into law, the fix is in. Republicans will close locations in opposition areas to engineer impossibly long lines for democrats, but keep voting fast and easy for Republicans.

#RepublicanExtremism #TxLege #Texas

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/texas-senate-passes-bill-end-countywide-voting-election-day-rcna80829

I hope they force every editor at The New York Times to read this opinion piece in The New York Times showing how the mainstream media (led by The New York Times) by emphasizing isolated examples of right-wing-extremists not being loved on elite universities WHILE ignoring Republican states using states to make swaths of speech illegal, they have misinformed all of US on the true threat to free speech https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/opinion/free-speech-campus-states-not-students.html

#GoodNews

“House Republicans are abandoning a years-long push by their party to pass a federal abortion ban.”

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/23/politics/national-abortion-ban-house-republicans/

F Twitter.

#BanAssaultWeapons
#ItsTheGuns

@composeroftheday
@jazz

#ComposerOfTheDay April 24
Joe Henderson

Inner Urge https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lGoJGYkWLYHkul0FHBgPvl_TfjvD_tNd0 via @YouTube

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Henderson

#Jazz

Twitter changes its algorithm to boost Russian, Chinese and Iranian state media, because that is what "free speech" is all about
https://dfrlab.org/2023/04/21/state-controlled-media-experience-sudden-twitter-gains-after-unannounced-platform-policy-change/

#GoodNews

The Alaska Supreme Court just ruled that partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional under the Alaska Constitution’s equal protection doctrine!!

https://news.yahoo.com/alaska-supreme-court-landmark-ruling-134700990.html

Is the Democratic leadership putting as much pressure on Feinstein to resign pronto as they did on Al Franken?

Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts asked to testify before Senate about ethics rules

#nbcnews #supremecourt
#ethics

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/chief-justice-roberts-asked-testify-scotus-ethics-rules-rcna80668?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=6441772bab13e00001e1a0c8&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&s=09

Calling it “intelligence” is just marketing. Believing it’s anything other than mass tech-assisted plagiarism is like believing “Coca-Cola” still contains cocaine because of the name.

There’s a *reason* why all the bitcoin (and other) grifters are now shilling for AI.

This is a very insightful point from @melaniesill. Real-world events the NYT might otherwise frame as "Gay People in Florida Face Increasing Harassment" or "Florida Abortion Ban Leaves Women Desperate" are now exclusively presented as "DeSantis Seeks to Rally Evangelical Voters" or "DeSantis Leans Into his Anti-Woke Brand." Once you notice it it's everywhere, and it's completely toxic.

https://mastodon.social/@melaniesill/110198930247163451

A colleague of mine at the @nytimes has written this explainer of Mastodon, noting that Elon Musk has tweeted and deleted three derogatory posts about it today. Gift link. No paywall! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/07/technology/mastodon-twitter-elon-musk.html?unlocked_article_code=Ym-dwAQpggeE8wyaweGmXOufG3kT571DziACj-9ztHR_DoW7UhtaveVqma6Hv4EqVjAI5sGgYV6a2SeRsj8oUBQaD1HarCCtStjPVb8x_Ji80zfZLoYQCLM-gog21aqvplknt9x8mosa29DwKbKQ-6enjCF_sgiq4DQQr9Eofe-GmU7aWoskhPbpOIr27gh_7WqFNd26WRsgsD8vplthIN5kaQl72Mq3dFgNEja1CsWfi18vBu7OQAxKp8adjjpfm9g8vHYrCaxDlYgWCu7uw39KXZnMSP7hqgZzba_6JtqsC0iw8frVDsA38syUq-GJ2QPTzEipr5QDZrGcwDXRocszBvXxS-A&smid=share-url

An April 1, 2023 rally by Volusia United Educators, protesting the FL legislature's anti-education, anti-freedom bills.

I wrote about why Twitter has become a national security threat, and how its owner keeps making decisions that help violent autocrats and harm democracies around the world. Currently, Musk is not only re-platforming Kremlin-linked accounts — he’s amplifying them, despite Russia’s continued involvement in war crimes and the distribution of terroristic content.
https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/kremlin-twitter-accounts-get-a-boost

Reposted from @chasingoz on TikTok. This is *real*: see https://bit.ly/41u4tOF .

A teacher in Manatee Middle School narrated this offensive and inaccurate video, which was shown over TV screens to the entire school

#confederacy #voteblue #colliercounty #manateemiddleschool #shame #lostcause