Trump's disruptive visit to Valdosta is particularly offensive since he has NO role in directing relief efforts. He's just a tourist.

Strikes don’t create crisis. Corporate greed creates crisis. Pay labor.

If the Pentagon Papers came out today, 100% Meta, Google, and X would censor it.

MMmmasnick.bsky.socialSep 30, 2024 7:16pm

Just a week after both Meta & Google promised Senators that they would never block a potentially embarrassing story related to a candidate for national office, both companies did just that. Apparently the promise only applied to embarrassing info on GOP candidates. www.techdirt.com/2024/09/30/b...

Big Tech’s Promise Never To Block Access To Politically Embarrassing Content Apparently Only Applies To Democrats

It probably will not shock you to find out that big tech’s promises to never again suppress embarrassing leaked content about a political figure came with a catch. Apparently, it only applies when …

CS Lewis: oh John Lewis: not the bloody elves again

I really want people to understand that this is just as awful and upsetting and invasive for a trans girl as it would be for a cis girl under the same scrutiny. Because when it happens to cis girls/women people get upset, but when it’s an actual trans girl somehow it’s “complicated.” It’s not.

GBgbbranstetter.bsky.socialSep 29, 2024 1:12pm

In order to determine whether a 15-year-old volleyball player was transgender, Florida police sought out her medical records to determine any changes in her body weight and asked her teammates if they had ever seen her nude. One detective referred to the girl as "it"

people (on here) yelled at me about this when i said it before but a) you need traffic enforcement and b) speed cameras are vastly preferable to cops.

DHdavidho.bsky.socialSep 29, 2024 11:02pm

“…when speed cameras are doing the ticketing, the proportion of tickets issued to Black and white drivers aligns closely with their respective share of roadway users. With human enforcement, in contrast, police officers stop Black drivers at a rate that far outstrips their presence on the road.”

Police stop more Black drivers, while speed cameras issue unbiased tickets − new study from Chicago

‘Driving while Black’: Researchers found that Black drivers make up 70% of police traffic stops on roads where only half the drivers are Black.

And Gates McFadden is lovely 🥰

well, I know the Playmate isn't ME so...

Suicide rates are lower in U.S. counties with more health insurance coverage and broadband internet access and higher income, a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysis suggests.

Insurance, income, internet linked to lower suicide rates in new analysis

The CDC report found that counties with the most health insurance had a 26 percent lower suicide rate than counties with the lowest levels of three community factors.

I don't feel like the national media is conveying right now what a catastrophe is unfolding in western North Carolina.