The US is crazy because when we are kids they tell us we have a bill of rights and a first amendment and then you grow up and see they literally arrest people for standing still while holding a flower and poltical beliefs that defy the will of the state.

Russia eased vaccination standards when diphtheria seemed beaten. 157,000 infections. 5,000 dead. Japan dropped mandates after a trust collapse. Rubella came back. Babies born blind and deaf. Nigeria boycotted polio shots. The virus paralyzed 2,500 children and spread to 20

the mountain is known as the six grandfathers (tȟuŋkášila šákpe) to the lakota sioux tribes and is sacred to their nations. the US stole the land and so hideously defaced and desecrated this spiritual space in what should be considered both a humanitarian and environmental crime

Open source developers rise up!! We need to protect open source technology

I don’t want grocery brands engaging in mass surveillance. I want grocery brands to stop price gouging customers and stop lobbying for food safety deregulations.

When Lina Khan ran the FTC, she spotted this *exact* scenario and launched an investigation The very first thing Trump’s FTC Chair did when he took over was kill it

So this is where you go on strike, guys. The monsters on top can only be monsters because they are permitted to. They are, in reality, frightened little boys with unprocessed trauma who need control over everything. They are nothing. CONFRONT THEM.

It is insane that they are still trying to force KOSA or even pushing some of its authoritarian overstep and overreach into Blackburn's AI Bill. If you can, fight back against this and make sure to call you representatives to tell them not to vote for this.

Democrats joined with republicans to pass a law that made this prosecution easier because they were annoyed by pro Palestine groups.

You have to make the penalties hurt. Force them to split apart their company. Force Bezos to spin off Audible, Kindle, groceries, and everything else. If it's a monopoly—or oligopoly—that sells everything, it's price fixing everything ONLINE AND IN PHYSICAL STORES. Break it

How many more Democrats does the "Don't boo. Vote!" crowd think California needs in order to pass legislation for its constituents? This isn't even Kayfabe because CA-Dems have a SUPER MAJORITY, but somehow we still can't get what they promised us, even without Repubs to blame

The people kidnapped by ICE are not "expelled". They're being trafficked to countries not of their birth and heritage. People born in Latin America and Asia are being sent to Affican nations like Congo in exchange for mineral rights i.e. THE US GOV'T IS SELLING AND TRADING HUMANS

This is what you want to keep doing? This system that kills everything and makes everyone but a select few suffer? This???

A place that used to be made of wet marsh. Drought. We’re just going to keep pretending this isn’t real and we’re not charging head first, running full speed into conditions that are inhospitable to human life.

This should be making international headlines. Every alarm bell known to mankind should be ringing. This is dangerous and genuinely catastrophic

*Chilean mining companies excluded

The "Age Verification" is a trojan horse law, it is not about age or even privacy! It's the power for the government to decide who is allowed to use computers and cell phones. Once infrastructure is in place, it can be (and will be) extended with other arbitrary rules.

When city councilwoman Inna Vernikov illegally brought a gun to a campus protest for the explicit purpose of intimidating demonstrators, she was not arrested nor was her gun seized by officers at the scene

Mind you it’s not age gating, it’s IDENTITY GATING. There is no such thing as “age verification” it’s ID verification. I think we need to stop using the term age verification bc it’s an industry term that obfuscates the reality of what’s happening.

sorry but Mark Twain already made the perfect reply to this bullshit line of reasoning about 150 years ago