Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0UkNC_Ioh8

Nothing hits like a barbecue, especially when it’s about good salmon and even better company. That’s why I came thousands of miles to Coast Salish Territories, aka Seattle, to get a taste of some freshly caught Coho from the Quilcene River, grilled to perfection. This isn’t your average cookout. This is the Salish Sea Assembly, an unapologetic, hard-hitting gathering of land defenders, artists, and radicals from across Turtle Island, hosted by Savage Fam’s Ant-Loc and fearless land defender Kanahus Manuel.

Check out my video report to see what went down.

#DefendTheSalishSea #LandBack #SalishSeaAssembly #IndigenousResistance #NoTransMountain #BigOilResistance #AmplifierFilms #WarriorUp #ProtectOurWaters #SavageFam #TurtleIsland

Are We All Suffering From the 2020 Post Bernie Malaise?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoiaDiEpREw

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the US President is not able to create new government agencies by fiat. Musk's DOGE is a "presidential advisory commission," i.e. without any power of it's own. Congress creates administrative agencies, not the President. So please stop freaking out, you're just giving your political opponents what they want (to see you having a tizzy fit over what is essentially a PR move).

@aral Yes, the religion of growth based economics is a cancer.

The cultural disease is terminal https://autcollab.org/2024/11/10/healing-resisting-internalised-ableism/.

The WEIRD indoctrination system makes sure that all children are indoctrinated in Homo Economicus® from a very young age, before we learn anything substantial about Gaia and the living world. This is possibly the most cruel, dehumanising, and life denying part of WEIRD cultures.

@sam Bring back blogrolls!

On the main page of my blog I have a list of blogs I follow—title, link, blurb, feed URL. They're grouped by category. Used to be very, very common.

(I should probably go through and freshen the list.)

https://petergelderloos.substack.com/p/hope-in-hopeless-times

If you liked our recent video in collaboration with Peter Gelderloos, check out his substack, catch him on these tour dates in the midwestern so-called US or buy his books from plutobooks.com

I wound up having to delete all my archived email today. Why? Because so much of it was corrupted it was basically unreadable, and it wasn't worth sifting through the bad to save the good. It feels weird. It feels really, really weird.

Chinese city still officially in summer as 30-year heat record broken - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/14/chinese-city-still-officially-in-summer-as-30-year-heat-record-broken "Temperatures in Guangzhou fail to drop below level that meteorological service uses to mark change in season" #ClimateCrisis

On Monday November 25th at 8pm we’ll screen a new short video from @subMedia and Peter Gelderloos. There will be time for a short discussion afterwards. Details to follow when we have our letter writing flyer done, since that will precede the screening.

If the worst does not actually come to pass, I don't think I'm going to be sitting here going "oh noooo I can't believe I strengthened my communities, made sure I'm up to date on my healthcare needs, and volunteered for causes I believe in"

Want to help volunteer to get the word out about #DocumentFreedomDay or #SoftwareFreedomDay or #HardwareFreedomDay? Do you enjoy writing? Please consider signing up for the #WritingMonth challenge: https://writingmonth.org/ There's an option to work with a buddy. So, if anyone wants to do blog posts or articles for #DFD, #SFD or #HFD along with us at the #DFF, please let us know.

Shell’s successful appeal will not end climate lawsuits against firms, say experts - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/14/shell-successful-appeal-will-not-end-climate-lawsuits-against-firms-say-experts "Dutch appeal court ruled in favour of oil and gas company over judgment telling it to limit emissions" #ClimateCrisis

The @fsfe called on the community to participate in a consultation on the European Union’s Digital Europe Programme and demanded long-term sustainable funding for #FreeSoftware (#OpenSource) after recent budget cuts.

We also asked you, our community, to participate. And many of you did, nearly 800 answers were received —an unusually high number for such consultations. Big thanks to all of you who did and who made this a success! 👏

https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20241113-01.en.html

#Lincare Made Billions While Repeatedly Defrauding #Medicare. Feds Did Little To Rein It In.
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Lincare, the nation’s largest distributor of home oxygen equipment, has repeatedly violated Medicare rules and probation agreements, victimizing ailing patients and costing taxpayers huge sums. The federal #government has done little to stop it.

https://propub.li/3UNDUms

#News #Healthcare #Insurance #Fraud #CPAP #Health

Hmm. Sounds like Ōtautahi's council is planning to enact some pretty constraining bylaws on dog owners... I haven't found the full list of proposed regulations yet, but some seem pretty unworkable (and a few quite unnecessary). Much of it is being done in the name of 'ecosystem protection'... I wish they'd address the elephant in the room: free-roaming domestic felines. I'd say cats are vastly worse for the local environment than dogs.

HR 9495, which would've let Trump and his treasury secretary decertify any nonprofit they claimed supported terrorism, appears to have failed. Phew

Pro-Israel Democrats wanted to use this to crack down on Palestine protesters, but it was structured as a bill that needed 2/3, and it seems that enough Democrats went "oh shit, we don't want *Trump* to use this against nonprofits *we* like," and reconsidered just in time.

#uspol for the muters
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-urges-house-to-kill-bill-that-could-give-trump-admin-power-to-crush-dissent-and-go-after-political-enemies

It completely staggers me that *anyone* could vote for GOP. I can't really come up with a sufficiently comprehensive characterisation to describe my despair & disbelief that they appear on track to control all 3 arms of gov't (exec, court, and congress). The US is a total unmitigated disaster. It is pathetic and heartbreaking to see it.

Anyone want to start a webring of personal blogs and websites? We could pick a connecting topic (ie. all members of a specific group, or all co-op folks, or just all single-person personal blogs, etc.) or just allow random sites. I'm trying to think of a better way to find good stuff than search, which is 99% controlled by Google even if you're using third party search engines, and is mostly useless these days anyways.

Spotify just reported record-breaking profits.

In totally unrelated news, Spotify stopped paying nearly 90% of artists on the service ANYTHING (no royalties for songs w <1k streams/year)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/spotify-earnings-profitability-subscribers-1236060081/

The Biden administration massively expanded the electronic monitoring of immigrants, restricted access to asylum, left 287(g) in place, and increased deportations. So yes, the Trump administration does have “what they need” to carry out mass deportations.