NEW: Planned welfare reform could see big benefit cuts for disabled people who can't work, Citizens Advice has warned The government wants to replace long-term ESA disability benefits with a new, much more time-limited benefit called Unemployment Insurance (UI) www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Putting in my tinfoil hat: seems 'coincidental' that Mnpls, blocks from the Floyd murder, & Portland - 2 reliable escalation points - there were ICE shootings 2 days in a row? If it were Scranton & Albuquerque, ok. But literally the 2 towns known to blow? If Baltimore's next, I'm calling it a plan.

Where the hell are Google and Apple enforcing their app store terms of service on X? Grok doing CSAM should instantly be a removal from the app store. Any other app doing this would be pulled instantly. Journalists should be asking for comment from these companies.

Twitter is owned by a fascist, Facebook and the Washington Post have gone MAGA, and now CBS News is about to be turned into far-right state TV. Here’s why America has a liberal media bias problem.

@muellershewrote.com does an amazing job explaining and framing the Jack Smith epic, kinda bad ass, testimony.

open.substack.com/pub/johnfuge... @johnfugelsang.bsky.social is one of the best places to go to for uplifting and empowering perspectives whilst the world is on fire.

When I've talked to deepfake victims, both public figures and everyday people, I've heard horror stories about police laughing them out the door, girls getting expelled for reporting their classmates, and lawyers advising them that suing would just make it worse. This is abuse culture in action.

Pepsi allegedly gave Walmart discounts on its products, while charging other retailers higher prices. Biden's FTC filed a complaint. Trump's FTC later dropped it. This is a prime example of how monopoly-like power takes away our freedom of choice. Lina Khan explains.

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

Reposting for no particular reason 👀 (with apologies for uncorrected typos @lithub.com.web.brid.gy). Increasingly think the failure to twig the lies is not just lack of diversity in publishing + adherence to a certain convenient narrative about disability, but a wide failure in critical thinking.

I really wish that well meaning people would stop using the term "aspergers". Dr Asperger was a goddamn literal Nazi who killed and tortured hundreds of autistic kids en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_As...