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mastobit

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Here to learn, laugh, chat ‘n’ chill. #Web3, #tea 🍵 and #coffee ☕️ drinker, #CivilRights advocate, #disabled👨‍🦯 by #fibromyalgia. 🦥

Former #healthcare 🏥 worker. Current #AWS Certified #CloudPractitioner & student #SolutionsArchitect. 👨‍💻
#COVIDisNotOver

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@benfranklin2018@bird.makeup: I don't think there was ever one single coup, it was more like a series of coups leading up till today. Iran contra was a coup. 2000 steal a coup. But yeah the government is not under the control of rule of law or checks and balances anymore. It's a mafia state. SANDRA SAVICKAS: It dates back to JFK's assassination. That's when the coup happened. bird.makeup Jun 6, 2024 at 6:29:22 PM. the fascism is here @benfranklin2018: 80 years of voting has done nothing to stop the long march through the institutions counterreaction against the new deal, the civil rights era, frankly the civil war. Despite advancing very unpopular ideas, these guys have ended up with total control or veto power over everything.
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    #Christofascism #Trump #HakeemJeffries #Pelosi #fanatics #UnitedStates #USA #Democrats #Republicans #TwoWingsOneParty #politics

    #SarahKendzior
    https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/bearing-witness-to-the-disappearing?utm_medium=reader2

    The reasons for this are multifaceted and not fully clear. It is worth reviewing these officials words, which go far beyond affection for Israel or interest in protecting it. In the interest of brevity, I'll include only people in top positions: * In 2015 former CIA head turned Trump Secretary of State Mike Pompeo proclaimed, "We will continue to fight these battles. It is a never-ending struggle... until the Rapture". Pompeo, who became very rich through the Israeli lobby, had a series of meetings with the head of Mossad after leaving office. He is one of several Trump administration officials to wax rhapsodic about the end times while meeting with Israeli intelligence officials. * Mike Johnson, the new Speaker of the House, proclaimed that his 2020 visit to Jerusalem's Temple Mount was "the fulfillment of a biblical prophecy." Johnson is one of many Republicans in Congress working with Israeli Kahanists who want to destroy Al Aqsa Mosque, build the Third Temple, and usher in the end times. Jim Jordan, who nearly became Speaker. has met with the Kahanists more than ...
    * In 2007, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told the New Yorker that God had selected him for the US Senate in order to be the guardian of Israel. * In December 2018, I became worried that the Capitol would be attacked. This was not due to Trump, but due to Nancy Pelosi stating to megadonor Haim Saban - who defines himself as a one-issue donor, with the issue being Israel - that "If the Capitol crumbled to the ground, the one thing that would remain would be our commitment to our aid, I don't even call it our aid, our cooperation with Israel." Pelosi has never explained why she was discussing the Capitol crumbling at all, much less why, if it did, her priority would be a foreign state instead of the US. Pelosi has also confessed to appointing people to committees based on their "Israeliness" (her word, not mine).
    * Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, responded to the Israeli military's slaughter of Palestinian children in 2014 by giving a speech proclaiming "Israel today, Israel tomorrow, Israel forever". Jeffries was affirmatively paraphrasing segregationist George Wallace's cry of "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." * Donald Trump, a lifelong friend of Netanyahu whose son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is even closer to the Netanyahu family, has made enough incendiary comments to form a separate book, from threatening Jewish Americans by saying that "US Jews have to get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel before it is too late" to proclaiming himself "The King of Israel" and "the second coming of God", to, well, this sort of conversation. An excerpt from They Knew: In 2018, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, the two criminal operatives who, with Rudy Giuliani, abetted Trump in his attempted shake- down of the president of Ukraine, informed Donald Trump that he was the messiah. Their conversation was taped without Trump's knowledge, and while Trump's threat to "take out" the US ambas- sador to Ukraine attracted the most attention and led to his first impeachment, the religious rhetoric is also notable.

    augieray , to random
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    The GOP is simply reprehensible. I don't understand how any citizen can vote for any GOP candidate. The entire party is claiming the Trump fraud trial was a political hit job. The "law and order" party wants neither. (1/6)

    mastobit ,
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    @augieray

    https://awscommunity.social/@mastobit/112527850607368106

    wdlindsy , to random
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    Jacqui Lewis speaks of the carnage now occurring in Rafah:

    "What if these were my children; how could I go on breathing? Then another thought comes quickly: All these children belong to all of us. As James Baldwin wrote 'The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.'”

    #Israel #Palestinians #Rafah #Gaza
    /1

    https://jacquilewis.substack.com/p/enough-of-this-carnage

    mastobit ,
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    @wdlindsy Biden and his administration will not listen as evidenced by the police on campuses against the protesters.

    https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/red-lines

    mastobit ,
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    @wdlindsy We need more than a two-party system to hold the powerful and political in check. Because the $tatu$ quo is fixed.

    https://represent.us

    mastobit ,
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    @wdlindsy The pro-Israel lobby fund$ both the Democrats and Republicans.

    Both parties are devoid of a moral compass let alone any vision for 🇺🇸 at this point.

    https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/02/aipac-dont-contribute-which-pro-israel-groups-do/

    wdlindsy , to random
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    Peter Beaumont reports on the men who have Netanyahu's ear: national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and finance minister Bezalel Smotrich.

    Ben-Gvir is invoking God to justify Israel's attack on the Palestinians, as in God is on our side.

    Smotrich calls himself a "proud homophobe" and wants Torah law established in Israel's judicial system.

    #Israel #Netanyahu

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/08/cant-you-kill-some-netanyahus-political-survival-in-hands-of-far-right

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    @wdlindsy

    https://youtu.be/5y2FuDY6Q4M?si=aZKN_7_xNr-GAdGh

    dworkin , to random
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    😂Trump fell asleep in court yesterday.

    Also, don’t forget to subscribe! https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/subscribe

    mastobit ,
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    @dworkin @Npars01

    🍊 is a walking national security threat and this is somehow funny, effective in 2024? 🤦‍♂️

    https://awscommunity.social/@mastobit/112301076237043500

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    @Npars01

    This is Lincoln Project, inside-the-beltway 🧐 brain dead thinking. 🥴 It’s a complete disconnect 🔌 from voters’ day-to-day reality and their concerns to turn a protected seditionist, conman, mobster into mere entertainment. 🤡🎪

    If there is little to no other vision from liberals than “Trump bad!”, “Trump stinks!”, and other stupid, monosyllabic smear slogans, then people tend to pick poison for their pain.

    In 2015, I heard revenge. That feeling hasn’t left. People are struggling.

    tchambers , to Fediverse News
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    Wonder how many new Fediverse users this drives….? cc: @fediversenews

    https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/15/elon-musk-plans-to-charge-new-x-users-to-enable-posting/

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    @jejord @tchambers @fediversenews

    @sarahkendzior: What's happening to Twitter is not the same as what happened to MySpace, LiveJournal, Tumblr, or other faded sites. People gradually moved from those sites on their own accord to better options. What's happening to Twitter is a controlled demolition. 8:40 AM · Nov 18, 2022
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    • StillIRise1963 , to random
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    "The New York Times reports that Trump is planning to 'build huge camps to detain people,' and 'to get around any refusal by Congress to appropriate the necessary funds, Mr. Trump would redirect money in the military budget.’ "

    "How many people? ‘Millions’ writes the Times. And not just immigrants: Trump is planning to send his enemies to them, too.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/hartmann-trump/

    mastobit ,
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    @Npars01 @celtillos @StillIRise1963

    A longer timeline of increasing corporate control.

    https://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-become-people-excavating-the-legal-evolution

    futurebird , to random
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    OK that's ENOUGH #earthquakes for NYC for one day. I do not like this.

    At exactly 6:00 the Bronx vibrated like every subwoofer in every boom car was going by the building at once for about 20 seconds.

    Nope. Don't like it. #earthquake

    mastobit ,
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    @futurebird Another one? 😳

    MariaHill , to random
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    The Republican chief deputy whip and five other far-right members of Congress put forward a bill to rename Washington Dulles International Airport for the guy under 88 counts of indictment. It won’t get a vote in the Democratic Senate and President Biden must be rolling his eyes at the idea of signing it. Democrats might be willing to name a federal prison for Trump, as Gerry Connolly suggested.

    This is Republicans’ idea of what the country needs.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/02/republicans-dulles-airport-trump

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    @MariaHill @Npars01

    Thank you, #MerrickGarland. Thank you, #JamieGorelick. 😒

    randahl , to random
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    So Trump is now sharing photos of the daughter of New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan (Merchan oversees the Stormy Daniels trial).

    What does this dangerous man have to do, for the US justice system to simply show him the same consequences, anyone else would face?

    https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-another-attack-judge-merchan-daughter-1234997020/

    mastobit ,
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    @randahl @lisamelton

    Randahl, 🍊 won’t. It’s that simple.

    Please read this:
    https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-of-the-mafia-state

    And please read this:
    https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250245397/hidinginplainsight

    charlesgaba , to random
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    Donald Trump just threatened a “bloodbath for the country” if he doesn’t get elected this November.

    This would be a good day to donate to Democrats up & down the ballot.
    https://Blue24.org.

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    @charlesgaba @Npars01 https://awscommunity.social/@mastobit/112108742734220098

    mastobit ,
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    @Nazani @charlesgaba @Npars01

    https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-of-the-mafia-state

    “There is a #JamieGorelick Cover-Up Template. It was effectively deployed during the 9/11 hearings and reused for the 1/6 hearings. It operates as follows:

    1. Have the people who committed the crime, failed to prevent the #crime, or enabled the crime be the same people who investigate the crime
    2. Limit the scope and timeframe of the investigation

    #MerrickGarland #DOJ #mafiastate

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    @Nazani @markproxy @Npars01 @charlesgaba

    Much is already known.

    Worth reading because it traces the criminal network.

    #HidingInPlainSight #books #bookstodon #SarahKendzior

    https://www.amazon.com/Hiding-Plain-Sight-Invention-Erosion/dp/1250779405

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    @thepoliticalcat @Nazani @markproxy @Npars01 @charlesgaba

    by .

    Book 📖: https://static.macmillan.com/static/fib/sarah-kendzior/

    "A conspiracy theory, when rooted in a sincere desire to find and expose the truth, is a refusal to move on from betrayal. Conspiracy theories are expressions of grief and memory. This type of evidence-gathering is not solely the domain of conspiracy theorists. It is what historians, detectives, and human rights activists do. It is what investigative journalists and state officials are supposed to do, but frequently do not, because the professional incentive is to remain compliant in order to receive access to the conspirators or maximize a personal payout. The conspiracy theory label is slapped on both hostile actors who seek to deceive and honest actors who seek to enlighten, with the commonality being that they all tread uneasy ground, the kind of ground that, when split, opens the door to hell." Kendzior, Sarah. They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent (p. 31). Flatiron Books.
    "People are understandably afraid to hear the worst about the people and organizations whose job it is to protect them. This embrace of denial has accelerated despite (or perhaps because of) ample evidence of elite criminality available in the public domain. Trump and his cohorts’ long-standing dealings with the mafia and the Kremlin—a saga exhaustively documented over multiple decades—is often labeled a conspiracy theory by those terrified by the national security ramifications of it being real. Centuries of state abuse of Black and Native Americans—the torching of Tulsa’s Black Wall Street in 1921; the 1985 MOVE bombings of Black citizens, including children, in Philadelphia; the ongoing unearthing of mass graves of Native Americans—were dismissed as conspiracy theories until people from those communities gained the structural power to publicize them and found an audience willing to listen. It is notable that as knowledge of these atrocities increases among white Americans, other white Americans seek to ban this history from being taught in schools." Kendzior, Sarah. They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent (p. 32). Flatiron Books.

    "Conspiracy theories, in contrast, are not pleasant to hear. They deepen your fears and erode your trust—but, crucially, that can include your trust in the confidence men or other powerful actors. This opens the door to consequences and accounts for some of the derision heaped upon the term. A conspiracy theory is often a critical inquiry that powerful people do not want you to make. ... We live in a country where the mantra of the powerful is “Move on from the dead.” Move on from the reasons behind assassinations and wars and genocides and pandemics and deaths of despair. Move on and do not look too hard at who is responsible, because that may spur reevaluation and recourse. Move on and don’t ask questions, because questions challenge impunity. Move forward, because justice is divisive to the unjust. The idea of moving forward taps into optimism, which used to be an effective means of public placation. But it’s 2021 now, we are paralyzed in a plague now, we mourn the future more than the past now, and there is nowhere to move but into the realm of memory, where we seek to make sense of old ghosts. The collapse of democracy, rule of law, and climate at once leaves us with one lesson: the truth may hurt, but the lies will kill you." Kendzior, Sarah. They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent (pp. 19-20). Flatiron Books.
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    • wdlindsy , to random
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    "The responsibility falls on the press to ask Trump and the campaign at every turn, until we get an answer, how the bond was obtained. If Trump did it with his own assets, he should be more than willing to bolster his financial reputation by saying so. If he’s unwilling to share details, that should raise red flags."

    ~ Joyce Vance


    /1

    https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-924

    mastobit ,
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    @wdlindsy https://awscommunity.social/@mastobit/109656156594732667

    luckytran , to random
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    Studies show that you need to rest when in you have COVID to reduce your risk of Long COVID. The CDC shortening their COVID isolation guidelines will put people at greater risk of Long COVID.

    https://time.com/6215346/covid-19-rest-helps/

    mastobit ,
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    @luckytran @troutgirl

    shaknais , to random
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    #WritersCoffeeClub 02/25—How do you feel about Amazon's influence on books and publishing?

    I don't think I'm allowed to say anything specific, under some of my current publishing agreements.

    mastobit ,
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    @shaknais I like Kindle for storing books I have no physical space for.

    I also have a dislike relationship with Kindle books because of the DRM, limits on quoting pages, and potential for them just deleting the books I purchased.

    As for authors, @pluralistic has written and spoke extensively about how much he despises the restrictive Kindle publisher terms of agreement.

    Correction: He does sell his books via Kindle now. I wonder what changed his mind?

    mastobit ,
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    @pluralistic @shaknais Thank you, Cory, for the correction. Appreciate ya! 😀👍

    luckytran , to random
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    Latest Biobot data shows U.S. COVID wastewater levels are rising again, and higher than they have ever been compared to the same date in previous years.

    In other words, COVID levels are still high and taking longer to go down after this winter's peak. Keep taking precautions.

    Chart comparing U.S. COVID wastewater levels from each year, using Biobot data

    mastobit ,
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    @luckytran Again, higher lows as @TRyanGregory has previously stated which is the reason for concern.

    appassionato , to bookstodon group
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    Buying Silence: How Oligarchs, Corporations and Plutocrats Use the Law to Gag Their Critics by David Hooper

    This timely and important book focuses on the controversial issue of #SLAPP cases – Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation – which are designed to censor, intimidate and silence critics by burdening them with aggressive opposing lawyers, heavy legal costs and enquiry agents until they abandon the case.

    @bookstodon
    #books
    #nonfiction
    #oligarchs
    #lawsuits

    David Hooper, veteran media lawyer, explores how the power of money enabled the very wealthy to crush their critics and outlines the tactics they used. He examines how billionaire oligarchs, often ex-convicts and linked to organised crime, have tried to launder their reputation in this country by suing for libel, and how they have found lawyers only too happy to pocket their roubles. Hooper describes his experience with some of these oligarchs, including Boris Berezovsky when Hooper needed an armed bodyguard while collecting evidence in Moscow. It was a case where both plaintiffs were ultimately murdered, as was his client, the editor of Forbes Russia. The UK also has its home-grown Slappsters, of whom Nadhim Zahawi and Mohamed Amersi are the most recent examples. They also come from Greece, Sweden, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Malta and the United States. Hooper describes how those with something to hide tried, with varying degrees of success, to stop you knowing about it, and how their lawyers were willing to help them. The well-paid legal profession does not emerge with credit.
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    @appassionato @bookstodon @ashleygjovik Might be a good one to read.

    mastodonmigration , to random
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    To be fair, who among us is not one half billion dollar judgement away from bankruptcy? 🤷

    mastobit ,
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    @mastodonmigration Instead, most of us are one medical bill away from bankruptcy.

    rbreich , to random
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    Trump’s tax giveaway added $2 trillion+ to the deficit.
    Making them permanent would cost $3 trillion.
    More than 60% of the benefits would go to the richest 20%.
    He’s now eyeing a second round of corporate tax cuts.
    Does that sound like a champion of the working class to you?

    mastobit ,
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    @rbreich “Trump remains loathed. There is little grassroots desire for him to return. Voting for him is an act of freedom forfeiture, and most Americans know it.

    But there is a desire for clarity about evil, and that is what Trump delivers. Trump is straightforward suicide versus the suspicion that you are being secretly murdered.”

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    "Along with that sector of the electorate which seems detached and uninterested in our fate as a nation, we also have the problem of collective denial. American political elites who have the resources to be fully informed about the devastation Trump 2.0 would cause are among this group."

    ~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat


    /1

    https://lucid.substack.com/p/it-cant-happen-here-denial-detachment

    mastobit ,
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    @wdlindsy
    𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘉𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦, 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘳𝘶𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘧𝘪𝘢 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘊𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥.

    https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/behold-a-pale-horse-race

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    @wdlindsy

    Ruth Ben-Guit only points to the Republican side. For which she is correct.

    However, Ruth Ben-Guit stops there.

    She doesn’t offer an inquiry into the Democrats & the Biden administration which have enabled many of the Trump policies that they have claimed to oppose.

    The article I sent you goes over this.

    GottaLaff , to random
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    You may disagree fervently with Pres. Biden's Israel policies, and that's fine. But if you come into my feed calling him "Genocide Joe" or any variation on that theme, you're blocked.

    I've already had to block a few accounts for this.

    Pres. Biden is not "for genocide." I will not argue with you on this topic, nor do I discuss the Israel/Hamas war here.

    But I will not tolerate accusations of "genocide" by Pres. Biden. He's not "pro genocide."

    If that's a prob, it's on you.

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    @GottaLaff @pauliehedron

    Complicit. Bypassing Congress to give weapons to Israel. Unfettered access. It is a genocide.

    Even if you deny my above comments, instead, review the articles below. Or search “Biden weapons Gaza” for yourself. Takes a few seconds.

    November: https://theintercept.com/2023/11/25/biden-israel-weapons-stockpile-arms-gaza/

    Early December: https://www.npr.org/2023/12/09/1218407156/israel-tank-ammunition-sale-gaza-congress-state-department

    Late December: https://apnews.com/article/us-israel-gaza-arms-hamas-bypass-congress-1dc77f20aac4a797df6a2338b677da4f

    Air targeting intelligence provided: https://theintercept.com/2024/01/11/israel-air-force-targeting-intelligence/

    neilm , to bookstodon group
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    Does anyone know a good place to consistently buy foreign language books in the US? I’m willing to pay up to double sticker price.

    Specifically looking for children’s books in German and literature/contemporary novels and books in German, Russian, and French.

    Please don’t suggest Amazon, as it’s hardly a reliable source.

    @bookstodon

    mastobit ,
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    @neilm @bookstodon

    https://www.duolingo.com/

    https://apps.apple.com/app/id570060128

    mastobit ,
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    @neilm @bookstodon Sorry. My mistake.

    kcfromaustcrime , to bookstodon group
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    I can strongly recommend not getting Covid. The upside was a lot of book reading. The downside is the rereading because my brain has gone to mush ....

    #books

    @bookstodon

    mastobit ,
    @mastobit@awscommunity.social avatar

    @kcfromaustcrime

    Advice heeded.

    Going forward, if you aren’t already using these mitigations together as protective layers, please do so:

    𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫: Disposable N95s 😷 or better for indoors & outdoors among the public. Additionally, cold nasal sprays (ex. Betadine Cold Defense), & mouthwashes with cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC).

    𝟐𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫: filter & clean indoor air for each room (build Corsi Rosenthal boxes or buy Dyson air purifiers or another brand).

    mastobit ,
    @mastobit@awscommunity.social avatar

    @kcfromaustcrime @bookstodon

    Take with you or have a portable HEPA air filter in your workplace office.

    Buy an Aranet4 air monitor to test CO2 levels at home and abroad.

    𝟑𝐫𝐝 𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫: Buy Cue Health or Metrix & test with it. Do this even when you don’t feel sick because of the potential of being asymptomatically infected (yes, that is indeed a real feature of SARS2!). If positive, isolate from others until a negative test comes back.

    mastobit ,
    @mastobit@awscommunity.social avatar

    @kcfromaustcrime @bookstodon

    Let visitors & loved ones know ahead of time that you will test outside before they come inside and/or offer them a N95 😷 at the door for the duration of their visit. Trust but verify for health safety. Ask people to go home if they are positive.

    𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫: SARS2 vaccinations 💉. It’s your last line of effective but waning protection from being hospitalized.

    Hope these help! 🙂✌️

    mastobit , to random
    @mastobit@awscommunity.social avatar

    #journalism #news #TV #partisan #misinformation #disinformation

    Credit: @waltmossberg

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