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

I hope in 2024 we can stop caring what right wing attention freaks say about things. Oh, some guy hated the olympic ceremonies? Who fucking cares? It was beautiful, surprising, and joyful.

I'm done opening news apps and seeing stories about "the backlash" to popular things when you dig down and find out it's one weird christian complaining on instagram. That's not a real backlash!

Stop caring what random jerks think. Stop broadcasting their bad faith readings of everything.

Gen X here…

I’ve voted Blue my whole life, & I’m voting for Kamala Harris in November.

I’m doing everything I can to help elect the first woman president in American history.

It should have been Hilary in 2016, but better late than never.

It’s about damn time!

⚠️🇷🇺Russia loses another 1,310 invaders in Ukraine over past day (Statistics) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3889845-russian-army-loses-another-1310-soldiers-in-ukraine-over-past-day.html #Ukraine #Press #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #Russia #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#NoUSRepublicans2024
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow

New, by me: A federal district court in New York ruled that U.S. border agents must obtain a warrant before searching the electronic devices of Americans and international travelers crossing the U.S. border.

The judge warned that had they ruled in the government's favor, this ruling could have be used to target political opponents, who "would only need to travel once through an international airport for the government to gain unfettered access" to their devices.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/29/us-border-agents-must-get-warrant-before-cell-phone-searches-federal-court-rules/

And here is my on my own site talking about that news:

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2024/07/29/about-that-new-deal/

THE 3 SCOTUS REFORMS ENDORSED BY PRESIDENT BIDEN:

1. No immunity for crimes a former President committed in office.
2. Term limits for SCOTUS Justices.
3. Binding code of conduct for the Supreme Court.

Quick show of hands. ✋🏼 Who here absolutely loves Biden’s way of thinking?

There's a certain kind of leftist for whom no advancement is good.

Not "no advancement is good enough." No advancement that isn't burning society down and starting over is "good" (and that wouldn't be good if it actually happened) or even _progress_.

Sometimes it comes from a place of cynicism, often some other form of hurt, and it drives me _up a wall_ when I see it.

We are the luckiest family on earth.

On Sunday, we get the keys to our new townhouse in #Canada, finally.

So we walk over there today for fun, & our neighbor Jerry, who must be over 70, is cutting down our overgrown bushes for us, because we told him we wanted to pull some of them to give Hammy more space. He wanted to get the ball rolling.

On his own. Because he's amazing.

& he's going to keep doing it until we actually move in.

We were floored.

#PortMoody, & Jerry, I love you.🥰 🇨🇦

I'm 55 years old. I didn't think I'd see one black POTUS in my lifetime and I am going to get TWO. Incremental change. It's difficult but black folks are long suffering. 🎶 We shall overcome someday. 🎶

#blackmastodon #uspol #uspolitics #Democrats #voteblue

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar comments on the horrifying shooting of Sonya Massey in her home in Springfield, Illinois, after she called the police thinking an intruder was on her property. Policeman Sean P. Grayson then shot Massey. Abdul-Jabbar writes,

"The question here isn’t how this could happen, but why it happens with such regularity—mostly to Black people. …

This is why Black people fear the police."

#police #murder #Black #shooting #SonyaMassey
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https://kareem.substack.com/p/the-horrifying-police-shooting-that

I was thrilled to join the OUT FOR HARRIS call with my LGBTQ+ family last night. We raised over $300,000 from over 20,000 participants and signed up 1,500 volunteers for the Harris Campaign. You can still join the movement! See replies for how.

Sarah Palin was ONLY VP who ever damaged her ticket in measurable way

The Bearded Palin will be worse. Couchy McDolfin (don't ask) hates women in the year of the woman voter (Freedom!). That Asshole JD Vance, Trump's new Vice Pence will cost Trump several points he can't spare

#LetTrumpBeTrump

What's in that grog stuff, anyway?

🤑 👠💪🏼 #Harris2024 #YesWeKam

JD Vance says parents should vote on behalf of their underage children to reflect their stake in the future.

By the same logic, adult votes should be weighted with life expectancy. A 20-year-old has a greater stake in the future than an 80-year-old.

This would wipe out Trump.

He has a point!

This is someone calling me a “chink”. 🥲

🤡

Anyone have spoilers for the JD Vance/George Santos crossover episode?

I'm betting George dresses up as a couch in drag while JD searches for dolphins on Grindr.

Roses are red.
Roses are blue.
Depending on their velocity
relative to you.