Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The excellent @democracydocket site -- an assemblage of information and commentary about voting rights, elections and the perilous condition of American democracy -- is looking for a news editor.

https://www.democracydocket.com/careers/?utm_source=Democracy+Docket+Newsletters&utm_campaign=95a34fff6f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_03_15_08_46_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-2029d74fb4-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=95a34fff6f

Because of Arizona’s horrendous abortion ruling today, every event planner I know is going to cross another state off their list of “places we can hold conferences and offsites that support emergency healthcare procedures if they arise with any of our employees while they are there”.

Giant media companies' financially disastrous merger in the U.S. destroys a news operation in New Zealand.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/513905/all-newshub-operations-to-be-shut-down-250-jobs-to-go

From Elsewhere:

DONT THROW AWAY YOUR ECLIPSE GLASSES‼️

stick your glasses in an evelope & mail to the address below so that kids in Latin America can use them Oct 2, to watch the South American Eclipse

Eclipse Glasses USA, LLC
PO Box 50571
Provo, UT 84605

An article published late last month connects Georgia Sons of Confederate Veterans spokesman Martin K. O’Toole to the circulation of a notorious piece of neo-Nazi propaganda.

The article--written by Spencer Sunshine and Hannah Gais, and published on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Hatewatch” blog--concerns the 2003 reprint of James Mason’s Siege. Siege was first released as a book in 1993. It has become a key text among neo-Nazis who favor terrorism to achieve their goals. A mass shooter who murdered three Black people in Florida last year cited Siege. The book also inspired “accelerationist” neo-Nazi groups such as Atomwaffen Division and The Base.

You can read Sunshine and Gais’ article here:
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2024/03/28/how-mainstream-racist-group-revived-terroristic-tome-siege

According to the new article, Greg Johnson and Ryan Schuster operated Black Sun Publications, responsible for the 2003 Siege reprint. Schuster claimed that the venture was a publishing imprint of the Foundation for Human Understanding (FHU). FHU, founded in 1973, was a tax-exempt organization promoting racist pseudoscience which disbanded in the mid-2000s.

FHU’s Internal Revenue Service filings for 2001-2005 are available online:
https://beta.candid.org/profile/7749884

These filings show that Martin O’Toole was President of FHU at the time of the Siege reprint. Interestingly, the filings for the years when Johnson and Schuster arranged the reprint, claim that FHU had just over $200 in assets. The filings do not refer to Black Sun Publications or any new publishing venture.

The new findings about Black Sun and Siege suggest that FHU hid much of its true activity while O’Toole headed the organization.

This is not the first time that Martin O’Toole has been tied to unambiguous neo-Nazi propaganda. During the 1980s he produced and mailed newsletters for neo-Nazi Gary “Gerhard” Lauck:
https://atlantaantifa.org/2022/04/28/notes-on-martin-kenneth-otoole-and-white-supremacy-part-one/

The Sons of Confederate Veterans will yet again gather at Stone Mountain Park for “Confederate Memorial Day” on Saturday, April 27th. The SCV will predictably claim to be about “heritage, not hate.” However, their own Georgia spokesman gives the lie to this claim, through his long history in the white nationalist movement and his role promoting violent neo-Nazism.

#antifa #antifascist #StoneMountainGA #SonsOfConfederateVeterans

This week marks five years since Assange has been imprisoned in the U.K.

It’s time for the Biden administration to protect press freedom and drop this case.

Learn more and take action now.

https://freedom.press/assange

@aislerhq any chance for SEPA transfer payments? Having to rely on third parties to complete a transaction when we have fine p2p payments makes me want to shop somewhere else.

From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Two LA Times journalists reached a $1.2 million settlement with the Minnesota State Patrol, dismissing a suit against the agency on Apr. 5, nearly four years after troopers shot them with rubber bullets and pepper-sprayed them during BLM protests.
https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/reporter-struck-with-crowd-control-munitions-while-covering-minneapolis-protests/

We're hiring! Firmware/Software Engineer

https://jobs.lever.co/framework/36bcbf61-332d-4ab8-8c6d-20fffa1ef506

Thank you for your numerous participation. We're now particularly interested in input from underrepresented groups (i.e. people with disabilities of any kind and people who are not cis-male 😉)

Remember when Biden promised to veto single-payer healthcare if it ever crossed his desk? Remember when he pointed to Italy's COVID experience as evidence that universal healthcare doesn't change anything? Good times. But anyway...
[The Great Medicaid Purge was even worse than expected]
https://archive.ph/nUfEP

@EU_Commission why not also enforce the existence of nomadic lifestyles in all the EU? It is literally illegal for Roma people to exist in the way they traditionally have within the EU itself. That needs to change.

MPs in Ghana have passed a draconian bill that will criminalize LGBTQ+ people, stifle free speech, and incite discrimination. EFF and 34 civil society organizations wrote to President Nana Akufo-Addo urging that he reject the bill. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/eff-and-34-civil-society-organizations-call-ghanas-president-reject-anti-lgbtq #ghana #lgbtq #freespeech

Hi everyone, we are doing user research for #Forgejo, the software that powers #Codeberg.

If you have 30 minutes in the next week, consider participating in the interviews to help us get insights in how you interact with Codeberg and how we can improve the experience for you.

https://cloud.splvs.net/apps/calendar/appointment/MiRtBJ5rYdT4

Latest comic on microplastics and PFAS getting into food. Yum!

#food #cartoon #environment #pollution #pfas #farming #gardening

With the help of sleazy "investment firms" whose job is to help rich people hide their money, rich tax evaders laugh at the IRS -- and the rest of us.

Read this leak-fueled report from @icij https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2024/04/how-investment-firms-shield-the-ultra-wealthy-from-the-irs/

The estate tax rate should be 100% after -- let's be wildly generous to heirs who've never lifted a finger to earn their parents' money -- the first , say, $10 million.

Here's where #KOSA is likely to harm young people, in their own words. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/thousands-young-people-told-us-why-kids-online-safety-act-will-be-harmful-minors

Turns out, we all have a lot in common, regardless of where we live. Whodathunkit, amiright?

"This shoddy analysis and faux expertise does real damage. It is clear that the overwhelming portrayal of rural America as angry and irrational feeds into and amplifies the divisions between rural and urban Americans, overshadowing the shared challenges and aspirations that cut across these geographic lines."