βThe million-dollar question is now: how do we make sure the Observer is here in another seven decades?β
Our Editor in Chief @gabrielarana spoke with The Guardian, for World Press Freedom Day, about the importance of keeping publications like the ours alive: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/may/03/blocked-censored-jailed-or-laid-off-why-its-never-been-harder-to-be-a-journalist
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Respectfully, βvote wiselyβ is encouragingβ but not enough. As a nation, we havenβt reached 70% voter turnout since the 19th century. (electproject.org)
2024 puts the choice between maintaining our constitutional Republic and actual MAGA-GOP fascism on the ballot.
Getting out the vote MUST BE our priority, particularly in the reality of active voting suppression laws and strategies.
Microsoft acts like itβs lost all institutional knowledge of the Internet Explorer court case, which is pretty weird because I was twelve and the institution of me retains knowledge of it https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/3/23709297/microsoft-edge-force-outlook-teams-web-links-open
DYK the term 'scientist' was coined in 1834, specifically, to describe a woman of #Science b/c referring to her as a 'man of science' seemed at odds?
"Whewell coined 'scientist' not just as a gender-neutral term bt to celebrate 'the peculiar illumination of the #female mind: ability to synthesize separate fields into a single discipline...like an 'artist.'
Imagine if synthesizing minds had dominated the course of #history over the last 2k yrs?
#Marginalian #women
News outlets are already saying that Colin Allred "faces headwinds" in challenging Ted Cruz for Senate next year. Cruz is a coward who encouraged insurrectionists on January 6th. Allred is a patriot who knows when it's time to fight (against a mob of insurrectionists) and when it's time for calm (in the House chamber, certifying the votes). We need Democrats willing to challenge every seat. Allred will fight hard for Texas and democracy.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat warns that Republicans may be trying to crash the US economy in order to usher in authoritarian rule:
"The Republicans' endgame is to convert America into an autocracy, building on the momentum created by Donald Trump's Jan. 6 coup attempt and state-level assaults on democracy. To this end, party elites and their media allies have orchestrated a campaign to delegitimize a sitting president that has no domestic precedent in its intensity."
https://lucid.substack.com/p/republicans-have-crashed-a-national
Some of us do know, and we're working to get rid of it.
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Many Black people struggle with internalized racism. Almost all white people have internalized racism, they're just not struggling with it. They don't even know it's in them.
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@coffeepine My father was a violent antifascist. He landed on the beach at Normandy in 1944, at age 21.
May 5th is #RedDressDay in remembrance of our stolen sisters...
#MMIW #MMIWG2S #MMIP #NoMoreStolenSisters #Indigenous #WeAreStillHere
So... me. Work in aerospace, more space, not as much aero. Can fix my own car, choose not to. Can fix the random appliance of your choice. Hardcore introvert in person, which is why I love online. Lifelong science fiction fan. Read constantly. Scalzi is my favorite author, because he mixes exactly the right amount of snark into his writing. Together with a guy 30+ years, married since it was legal. Own a home in CA and don't plan to leave unless I immigrate to another country.