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2024-07-05 23:29:50

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You can cancel your WaPo subscription right now, if you want. It's easy. Here's how: https://helpcenter.washingtonpost.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000177571-How-to-cancel-your-digital-only-subscription
[@pomegranate_stew](https://kind.social/@pomegranate_stew ) @npub1l2h…wcr0

2024-07-05 22:52:21

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Because the Washington Post, which is now a overt fascist propaganda rag, is reporting dishonestly.
They imply that this is a photo of the "group of Democratic senators" who are asking Biden to step down. However, there is, at most, only one such senator. There may be zero.
That photo was taken on 6/24/2021. It shows Senators Shaheen (D-NH), Portman (R-OH), Cassidy (R-LA), Collins (R-ME), Sinema (D-AZ), Manchin (D-WV), and Warner.
@npub1l2h…wcr0

2024-06-08 14:46:50

Good news/bad news:
1. In military raids on two locations in #Gaza, #Israel rescued four hostages. They are alive and in good medical condition. One Israeli soldier was severely wounded in the raids.
2. Benny Gantz canceled his speech in which he was planning to announce the departure of his party from Netanyahu's coalition.
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/08/israel-hostage-rescue-gaza-music-festival

2024-06-05 00:07:55

Today in Michigan, a Nazi was sentenced for conspiring with other Nazis to threaten Black and Jewish people and desecrate a synagogue with swastikas.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/white-supremacist-sentenced-federal-hate-crimes-conspiracy-targeting-black-and-jewish-people
He was prosecuted by DOJ's Civil Rights Division. If Trump wins, the GOP promises to turn the Civil Rights Division into its opposite, prosecuting any institution that has DEI programs.
If you're voting third-party, you're saying you're okay with that.
#USPol #racism #antisemitism
https://www.yahoo.com/news/project-2025-movement-could-erode-130000679.html

2024-06-01 18:49:24

By order of Gov. DeSantis, Florida cities are no longer free to celebrate #Pride by lighting up their bridges in rainbow colors. DeSantis calls it "Freedom Summer."
DeSantis already signed a law that authorizes Florida doctors and hospitals to refuse to take care of LGBTQ patients, and just leave them to die. DeSantis calls that "medical conscience."
When people say "both parties are the same," they're saying they don't give a shit about #LGBTQ people.
#USPol #Hate
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/21/florida-bridges-rainbow-lights-pride/

2024-05-31 02:03:20

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That's incorrect. Florida allows felons to vote, if they have been convicted in a different state, and if that conviction would not prohibit them from voting under that state's laws.
In New York, where Trump was convicted, felons are prohibited from voting only while they are serving their prison sentence.
https://dos.fl.gov/elections/for-voters/voter-registration/constitutional-amendment-4felon-voting-rights/

2024-05-28 23:10:28

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What you're doing here is truly sickening. You're trying to convince people who care about Palestinians to cause terrible harm to Palestinians, by electing Trump.
You're supporting a party that claims "there are very few innocent Palestinian citizens," and supports vaporizing all 2 million people in Gaza "like Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
#USPol
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-israel-finish-problem-gaza-1234981038/

2024-04-09 05:21:11

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Well, I'm only beginning to dip my toe into the issues here, but... my admin spends a lot of their own time and money running my instance, and they don't even charge me for using it. I choose to make donations, but they don't require or even know that I do. So, from their perspective, my account is nothing but a burden for them.
That being the case, I don't think they really owe me a vote on how they handle threads. Of course I'm free to migrate if I want.

2024-04-09 04:55:09

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Wow, hey, I totally missed this! But... I don't seem to be able to follow @[email protected]. Is that because he didn't opt in to sharing his posts with the Fediverse? Or is it because my server is located outside of the US?
https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/21/networking-traffic/threads-has-entered-the-fediverse/

2024-04-09 04:45:18

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[@fediversenews](https://venera.social/profile/fediversenews)
Isn't that a Threads account, rather than one in the Fediverse?