Katherine Villyard @kvillyard@librem.one

Good morning from the United States, where an entire political party is pretending that a conspiracy to upend an election is somehow protected by the First Amendment #uspol

Quote from article: This movement by the morbidly rich, which has fully captured the Republican Party, is led by fossil fuel and big business oligarchs who are using the social, religious, and political values of the old Confederacy to build a modern nationwide movement. They’ve built their political house on the foundation of bigotry, misogyny, and hate.

That movement, at its core, is fascist. And just like fascists of Europe in the 1930s who claimed that their main enemies were communists, these fascists label all who oppose them as commies.

They don’t actually believe that Democrats are communists, of course; they’re not that stupid. It’s just a convenient term of demonization. Fascists have always known that to enrage people to the point of violence it’s necessary to first turn their opponents into “the other,” and “communist” is a convenient all-purpose term to do that.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/why-american-fascists-label-all-who-452?r=1ekuyr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Print ARCs of my new book, LIBERTY'S DAUGHTER, arrived today! If you are a reviewer and would like a copy (print or ebook) let me know!

#EveryChildMatters

All First Nations ppl deserve to know the names of the children lying in unmarked graves at every single site at Indian Boarding schools. #Indigenous #WeAreStillHere

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/calls-for-residential-school-abuse-records-to-be-re-examined-for-names-of-deceased-1.6491378

I also should have mentioned that I actually critiqued Barbie so hard that I ended up consulting for Mattel. https://medium.com/csforall-stories/tech-barbies-backstory-how-she-went-from-math-is-hard-to-robotics-engineer-63d22437df5d

"The first thing auth govts do.. is shut down the archives, censor..and produce propaganda glorifying a mythical past.. We call on all TSHA members to resist the current effort.. to politicize it, to remake it into a heritage grp or, worse, a propaganda organ"- past Texas State Historical Assoc presidents.

But hey, the guy who led “lock her up” chants about Hilary having a private e-mail sever just was indicted for ordering the destruction of his own home security video server. The one with the evidence on it.

Once again, Teen Vogue is doing a better job covering politics than most other mainstream publications:

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/kids-online-safety-act-lgbtq-youth?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Everyone: Let's use this worldwide communication network to download all the movies and TV show we could ever want.
Hollywood Execs: But that would be piracy!
Everyone: So what?
Hollywood: If you pirate these movies, the people that make them won't get paid for doing so.
Everyone: So if we get the movies through you, they will get paid?
Hollywood:
Hollywood: I never said that.

FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users 🔗

This is true more broadly: to the extent possible, limit the data your server collects and stores, and only store data for as long as it is necessary.

This is a masterclass on how not to change a company name.

Anyone else would not change the name to a trademark their competitor owns, the logo to a symbol they cannot own and then try to take down the sign at headquarters only to have the cops shut that down because they had no permit. 🤦‍♂️

A trifecta of oopsie daisies. Should we let them release robot cars onto the roads?

#X #Musk #TwitteRx #twitter

Hey. So as major platforms start to fall apart, don't necessarily look for the next big one.

Dust off your blog.

Go back to establishing web-rings.

RSS feeds. Remember those?

This is the way to share good stuff. You don't need a centralized platform for that.

As hams, we should know that.

Did you know that some folks with disabilities are not allowed to save up over $2k in their bank account or they lose their assistance?

Do y’all remember Computer Engineer Barbie, the world’s worst computer engineer? Starring in the world’s most sexist children’s book? With all the discussion about Barbie, I realized it’s been almost a decade since that controversy blew up and I went viral for this feminist remix. (“Now with less sexism!”) https://caseyfiesler.com/2014/11/18/barbie-remixed-i-really-can-be-a-computer-engineer/

“I would have had to give birth to an identical version of my daughter without a skull and without a brain and hold her until she died,” said Ashley Brandt, had she not traveled out of state for an abortion.

Brandt was pregnant with twins, but one had a fatal condition—the longer she carried it in utero, the riskier it was to the survival of the other twin.

Texas has outlawed all abortions, except to save a pregnant woman’s life. MDs can https://tinyurl.com/43dw5t83. 1/2

#abortion #abortionrights