My, this is a long and accurate list of corrupt capture. It will be a great reference point when the gavels start falling. From: @ThomHartmann https://mstdn.social/@ThomHartmann/116958274685180684

If you've asked yourself, what can *I* do, here's a concrete answer. Disable the surveillance apparatus in your own community and cut off the data the regimes relies on to track not only immigrants but women crossing state lines for abortion care. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Radical thought for the day: What if our charities joined forces and worked collaboratively to tackle the real world issue; dismantling capitalism? This is the top 10 charities in the UK by revenue (note; the top charity is £1.4 billion+). Charities (by […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Publicly owned essential services. From: @MatWright https://mastodon.social/@MatWright/116882615173988184

"Six days earlier, Governor Greg Abbott appointed Don Huffines as Texas Comptroller... Huffines is the man who owns #JeffreyEpstein ’s Zorro Ranch. He’s now going to run the finances of the state of #Texas. This is what #Republican policy, masquerading as […] [Original post on newsie.social]

Today I learned that there are only three English cities with an electrical consumption greater than 200 megawatts: London, Manchester and Birmingham. By comparison, the people who want to build AI data centres here, which nobody asked for, want a supply of up to 1 gigawatt (1,000 megawatts) for […]

Hey my design peeps: I have two windows that face front with semi sheers bunched up on a tension rod. I used to love how much light it let in, but now my daughter is bothered by too much light. What can I put over the window under the curtains to reduce light? It faces front, so it should look […]

Even dogs are ready for the big beautiful obituary. From: @ShibaEveryHour https://mas.to/@ShibaEveryHour/116858765778479266

On Memory #forgottenabook#HashTagGames

Masterclass. Never accept their premise, never have their argument - force your own. Give people a clear origin story for their pain and concrete reason to believe you are the one to address it.

A few years back Morgan Stanley bought out ETrade. In the process they converted my mother's trust account into a personal account with no beneficiaries. If she had died at any time in between there would have been a giant legal shitshow. Its been temporarily mitigated, and we'll get it […]

Yes! This whole speech is a breath of fresh air. And the response to it demonstrates how desperate we are for such oxygen. Every moment Dems demonstrate a commitment to freedom over fascism, we are so ready to receive it.

#books #bookstodon I’m a 4.

Thread. Also recommended follow. From: @SeanCasten https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/116823833764645162

All my New Yorker covers (1/3) They are all available on the Condé Nast Store where you can buy prints, cards, and other merch. I get a royalty from this. www.condenaststore.com/art/tom+gauld

This makes me smile. From: @Color_Palette_Bot https://mastodon.art/@Color_Palette_Bot/116816460795061175

RE: https://indieweb.social/@CassandraVert/116800795404539897 So, this official announcement that went up on the 23rd is now taken down as of the 26th (as is a companion announcement). The link still works. Now they show a date of 6/25 but are not on the official list of announcements for 6/25. […]

Well this is fun, dude sets up a smart bulb as a wifi server full of banned epubs, https://www.richardosgood.com/posts/banned-book-library/

Texas politics: Nice, experienced, charismatic white guy vs the worst person in TX but with R by his name: tie. Incumbent R white guy known for terrible policies causing death leads against nonwhite woman by 7 points. Texans voting for their own destruction. From: @mekkaokereke […]

Tech peeps, what does this mean to you: OMB [Russell Vought] shall lead the strategic coordination and oversight of the national PQC [Post-Quantum Cryptography] migration policy. Every dept is supposed to send a coordinating rep to Vought. What exactly is being migrated, and to where?

47 released an EO today on arms sales priorities. The criteria are purely to advance American interests, nothing about helping where there is no ROI. It creates a committee to make sure weapons are used in approved ways. It seems to put Congress on post-sale notification status. #executiveorder

I have tickets for a #worldcup game tomorrow (NZ-Egypt) and in the “tickets” app there’s this little card illustrating the things you’re not allowed to take in. On my phone it is absolutely indecipherable. On a big screen still pretty ridiculous.

@rigg.lgbt Happy birthday to offspring 🎉

Tuesday, June 24th, I'll be in a virtual conversation with philosopher Martin Peterson for @resistanceschool.bsky.social. He is resigning from his position at Texas A&M over the university's decision to bar him from teaching parts of Plato's foundational texts. Here is his resignation letter.

US killed its science research to privatize it. From: @FluentInFinance https://mastodon.social/@FluentInFinance/116784081903886523

Not only is Ukraine not using any civilian targets, but they are shutting down Russian power during the mildest weather of the year so civilians are less likely to freeze.

What you have to understand is that for Starmer's team, the right is not the enemy. The left is. Its driving mission, from the moment Starmer took over, was to stamp out first the Labour left, then the wider left. It hates us, deeply and viscerally, with a passion never directed at the right.

A massive shift is taking place here. Well-organised far-right terrorism is being treated as ordinary criminality, while conscience-driven protests against genocide are treated as terrorism. A highly conservative (and deeply weird and fantastical) Court of Appeal ruling embeds this shift.

I’m no fan of FISA, but Trump menacing U.S. security unless Congress takes steps to gut elections is next level traitorous. Senator says Jay Clayton nomination hearing to go ahead unless Trump tells him not to appear – US politics live […]

This is also important because one of these days when someone is killed at a protest, they will try to charge all the protesters with felony murder. Which is not how that works, but we're already past that point. From: @bolts https://journa.host/@bolts/116766662999342245

@ai6yr From: @TheJen https://beige.party/@TheJen/116757804176241762

finally 🔥 what should be the mainstream democratic party position

Everyone who talks about economics will appreciate this. Also, US media should be talking about economics and propaganda like this. From: @RichardJMurphy https://mas.to/@RichardJMurphy/116752736963331076

Didn't we just give UAE billions of dollars? From: @jmcrookston https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/116744069214113251

47 is releasing all our oil reserves and using up our stockpile of weapons. Coolcoolcool. From: @CNN https://c.im/@CNN/116737537597326707

And this is why we need a wealth cap. From: @kottke https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116731721954213019

Gil Duran knows more than anyone I know about the tech bros plans to take over the world. From: @gilduran https://journa.host/@gilduran/116703825547800994

This feels very much like a Fediverse thing…I’m looking to re-wild my backyard. Anyone know someone in Metro Vancouver who could help me? Boost for each please. #gardening #rewilding

Turn over all the rocks.

I'd love to see what forensic architecture says about 47's term. From: @DrALJONES https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/116708018336476294

If you look at all the hundreds of people 47 has pardoned or commuted, this is what he overturned: $413 million restitution $376 million fines. 1/2

Google takes on $80B equity financing: analysis. From: @mrpoor852 https://www.threads.com/@mrpoor852/post/DZHAZ03CD-i

@rigg.lgbt From: @swizzlevixen https://social.lol/@swizzlevixen/116673560881528709

I just saw an ad for an American flag on a short solar pole that casts light patterns at night...except you're supposed to take the flag down at sunset. 🙄

@mikiesherrill.bsky.social Why in the world would you deploy state police to attack unarmed protesters instead of stopping ICE from escalating?

GOP declared itself the party of law and order because it wanted control over which laws were enforced and against whom. They claimed immigration because they wanted to screen who got in. They claimed to be the tax experts because... You get the idea.

Unless you are all these things: White Male Well off Straight Protestant English Good looking Fully able Neurotypical US born You belong to a group that has been oppressed in America at some point. That is what most Americans have in common. Together we can stop all oppression.