Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

If the Democrats make a deal with the Republicans that's as weak as Josh Marshall is suggesting it will be, I will vote for any Democratic challengers who run against the people who claim to represent me now in Congress.

Call your senators and House rep. Now.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/red-alert-now-is-the-moment-folks

Local game dev worker co-op in Los Angeles, Future Club, is about to drop their first game and they are launching a Kickstarter because they have no VC.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1355316302/part-time-hero-im-broke-but-i-have-to-save-the-world

I see you, I love you, I accept you.

"People aren't crazy, people aren't stupid, they understand that this is an unjust world. That you can be filthy rich without working, and that you can work two jobs and still can't afford to find a home. That's the reality, for millions of people in the Western world, and if we don't fix that they'll never vote for us again."

#FransTimmermans, Leader of Dutch Labour party, 2025

https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/02/122-how-europe-can-survive-trump-frans-timmermans/

Hey US Democrats, are you taking notes?

#Labour #SocialDemocracy

https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-02-23-dale/

Fighting the Klan in the 20s... parallels to fighting fascism today.

Interested to hear Dr Taiuru and the Microsoft rep explain how moving Family Court data to the Microsoft cloud is acceptable... RNZ's Ninetonoon just after 9.

“You want to destroy a people, destroy their education.” -Murad Tamini, Teaching Resistance

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Some good historical perspective for the current moment

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/02/weve-been-here-before-a-review-of-thomas-franks-the-wrecking-crew.html

I'm going to go ahead and guess that Western media has largely ignored what is going on in Serbia and reduced it to "anti-corruption protests" because it's not a story that fits into the favourite Balkan narratives.

All major universities in #Serbia have been occupied. Higher education is practically paralysed. 80% of Serbian citizens support the rebellion of the students; no other political force, not the SNS, not the opposition has ever seen such popularity.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/2/23/the-protests-in-serbia-are-historic-the-world-shouldnt-ignore-them

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“Nobody wants violence, but nobody wants Nazis to roam free, either. If Antifa is a waste of time, then everything else is a waste of time.” - Josh Fernandez, The Hands that Crafted the Bomb

Latest comic: What's the point of an economy that no longer serves the interests of human beings?

#labor #workers #economy #oligarchy #technology #automation #uspol #uspolitics #plutocracy

Map Reveals How Obesity Rates in the U.S Compares to Europe https://www.newsweek.com/map-reveals-obesity-rates-us-compares-europe-2034188?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Trump fires Black joint chiefs chair Hegseth accused of promoting diversity - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/21/trump-hegseth-joint-chiefs-cq-brown-jr which also what you would do to make sure the army doesn't contest your coup....

Texas #measles outbreak reaches 90 cases; 9 cases in New Mexico - https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/02/texas-measles-outbreak-may-have-spread-to-new-mexico-total-cases-near-100/ " The Texas cases are largely in children. Sixteen cases have been hospitalized." #antivaxxers

DOGE Exposes Once-Secret Government Networks, Making Cyber-Espionage Easier than Ever - https://cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-exposes-once-secret-government "an unprecedented number of critical government systems, including those at the nation’s nuclear research labs, have been exposed to the open internet" this is serious

If you didn't already know that anyone who works at least 1 hour per week, and makes at least $20, is counted as "employed" for purposes of headline unemployment statistics, you probably shouldn't be opining in public about the state of the economy.

https://archive.is/KoguR

In conclusion, my state (North Carolina) hasn't been a real democracy for years. We still have the best women's healthcare access & among the top education in the South, because we just can't seem to stop giving 'em hell.

"We're speedrunning a climate disasters because these companies are shoving these tools in our face that nobody wants." ~Angela Collier
#AI #LLM

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

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