ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

I've been working my way through the podcast Ologies (which is AWESOME) and I finally got myself to listen to the space junk episode (which I had been avoiding because, well, I'm extremely aware of that and I figured it would be stressful).

Turns out that the host actually quoted from an article I wrote back in 2020 in the episode! How totally cool!! https://theconversation.com/spacexs-starlink-satellites-are-about-to-ruin-stargazing-for-everyone-149516

https://www.alieward.com/ologies/spacearchaeology

This GOP Rep wouldn't condemn #Trump's call for #GenMilley to be executed.
Then CNN's Abby Phillips let him prattle on, give a mealymouthed response & both sides the #AtochasticTerrorism. This is pathetic & part of the reason why the #DeathThreats & #WitnessIntimidation continue.

Bottom Line: Republicans are encouraging threats of violence. When the media doesn't press them on this support of political violence, they are complicit.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/09/spineless-gop-rep-refuses-condemn-trumps

Biden sounded an alarm yesterday. He declared an emergency. No American president has ever given a speech like this.

Everyone needs to hear it, but especially the editors running the major news organizations. https://sfba.social/@cynblogger/111145885460313731

As we face yet another Govt shutdown I reflect on these absurdities. In the United States:
•1 Senator can block all military confirmations—but it takes 60 Senators to overrule him
•1 Speaker can shut down the entire government—but it takes 218 House Reps to overrule him
•1 bought SCOTUS Justice can strip away rights for hundreds of millions of people—and it's virtually impossible to remove him

This is not a functioning democracy. It is GOP exploitation. Vote GOP Out. Reform our government.

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#WarInUkraine
#StandWithUkraine

@voron 🤷‍♂️ https://www.ft.com/content/1d10e282-923b-4d8a-8706-d75d00a2c10a

We see you, Kevin.

https://www.comicsands.com/kevin-sorbo-lgbtq-childrens-book-2665748177.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

President Biden made history by standing with autoworkers on the picket line. Trump held an invite-only rally at a nonunion plant outside Detroit. The choice couldn't be clearer which party truly supports workers. Can Biden get voters to listen? https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/biden-trump-uaw-strike-workers

We're excited to welcome @malachiskey as one of our new Fall 2023 Reporting Fellows.

Malachi Key (He/They) is a Fall 2023 Fellow at the Texas Observer. He’s currently the Opinion Editor at the University of Houston student newspaper and has previously interned at Houston’s NPR station. He has a particular focus on investigative #journalism #LGBTQIA+ issues, and political reporting.

#JournoLife #nonprofit #Texas

Amazing.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

This is one of my oldest cartoons, and one of my favorites. I made this 16 years ago or more. There's a tshirt of it in my store - someone told me recently that their tshirt is really worn out by now, and it made me feel old, but in a sort of nice "aged cheese" kind of way instead of a "moldy bread" kind of way.

Plausible.

"Voilà" TRUMP IN A HOLE!

As I mentioned earlier, released court documents confirmed that Donald Trump and his adult sons will be called to testify at his $250,000,000 NY civil fraud trial, which begins on October 2nd.

The trial is currently scheduled to get underway Monday.
#AureFreePress #News #GOP #Politics #USA #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #BREAKING #BreakingNews

https://abcnews.go.com/US/new-york-ag-plans-call-trump-adult-sons/story?id=103565222

Today is National Good Neighbor Day. For the most part, I’ve had good luck with neighbors. It’s been a mostly cordial, live and let live affair. BUT…I did live next door to a pedophile, and there is actually a show entitled Fear Thy Neighbor. 😬 Which sentiment best describes your experience with neighbors?
#Poll #Polls #Neighbors

No, I did not watch the GOP debates. I had better things to do, like deleting duplicate photos off my phone, pulling yarn pills off my sweater, and sorting my DVD collection by year of release. Much more exciting evening, too.

I think it is important to recognise that, even if you consider yourself “binary”, trans or cis, that it is not actually possible to perfectly perform the ambient cultural ideals of masculinity or femininity, and you shouldn’t hang your sense of self worth on how closely you can match that arbitrary and self contradictory template.

Figure out what your ideal self is and try to be that as much as possible. abandon masculinity or femininity as your ideals and strive for yourselfulinity

It was not the first time a white woman from Georgia demanded a black man work for free.