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Union of Egoists 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Alabama profits off prisoners who work at McDonald’s but deems them too dangerous for parole

"Prisoners nationwide cannot organize, protest or strike for better conditions. They also aren’t typically classified as employees, whether they’re working inside correctional facilities or for outside businesses through prison contracts or work release programs. And unless they are able to prove “willful negligence,” it is almost impossible to successfully sue when incarcerated workers are hurt or killed.

Though the Alabama corrections department said it could not provide information about the number of prisoners who died while on outside jobs, the AP tracked down family members of prisoners who lost their lives. One man was killed after being sucked into a machine at a plant operated by massive poultry processor Koch Foods and others died after being struck by vehicles while picking up trash or doing road maintenance on the side of busy highways. "

https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-alabama-3b2c7e414c681ba545dc1d0ad30bfaf5

#alabama #prison #slavery

Alabama has earned hundreds of millions of dollars from prison labor since 2000.

No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama.

^{ROBIN MCDOWELL (AP News)}

#PRISON #slavery #Alabama

Dan Gillmor 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

The now-famous picture of Mangione being herded by massively armed police is a show of force.

Our rulers -- political and corporate -- want everyone to know how angry and scared they are now, and how they mean to stomp on anyone even thinking of challenging them.

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Dan Neuman 4 weeks ago • hometown (AP)

We know who the monsters are.

Schadenfreude 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Owl on the Prowl🦉 ✨

#AltElfOnTheShelf
#12DaysOfChristmas
#HashtagGames
#HashtagGame

#HashtagGames #12daysofchristmas #HashtagGame #altelfontheshelf

Eugene McParland 🇺🇦 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

The US Department of Justice has charged rostislav panev, 51 a russian-Israeli dual-national for his suspected role in developing malware and managing the infrastructure for the notorious LockBit #ransomware group.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-charges-russian-israeli-as-suspected-lockbit-ransomware-coder/

#ransomware

D C Fitzgerald 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Brown-throated three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus). They move about 40 meters per hour compared to the lightning speed of 270 meters per hour of the average box turtle. 🐢🦥 #nature #science #wildlife #photo

The Brown-throated three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus) is a slow-moving mammal found in Central and South American rainforests. It has long, shaggy fur that provides camouflage by supporting algae growth. Its body is about 50-60 cm long, with a short tail and three toes on each limb, ending in curved claws for gripping tree branches. This sloth has a small, rounded head and a flat face with a gentle expression. Its movements are deliberate, and it spends most of its time hanging from trees, eating leaves, or sleeping up to 15 hours a day. It’s solitary and known for its unique ability to survive on a low-energy diet.

#Science #wildlife #nature #Photo

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

sex is great, but have you watched Claire Saffitz make brioche donuts and turn them into profiteroles with vanilla ice cream and hot chocolate fudge? 🧐

https://youtu.be/ucWRYk1g_Dk

KimberlyN 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Oh dear gawd…🤤

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

@KimberlyN exactly! now am tryna figure out if i can make this for Xmas in my tiny kitchen with my tiny fridge. i have no room where to proof the dough AND dry cure a pernil.

@KimberlyN

hormeza 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Iceland
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Loforo - Free Blog Hosting

^Loforo

Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈⧖ 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

I firmly believe that the key to acceptance for the trans community is representation. It’s harder to hate people when you see them as human beings.

Please sign this petition if you’re so inclined.

#ProtectTransKids
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/12/20/petition-reinstate-transgender-storyline-disney-pixar-win-or-lose/

Petition to reinstate transgender storyline in Disney Pixar’s Win or Lose gets thousands of signatures

A petition started to encourage Disney Pixar to reintroduce a transgender storyline cut from Win or Lose has amassed thousands of signatures.

^{PinkNews Reporter (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)}

#protecttranskids

Mx. Luna Corbden 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

universally spooky

Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified: 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

"the biggest problem with oligarchy is that it’s a transitional form of government. Because oligarchy’s obscene level of corruption eventually arouses outrage among the citizenry, it’s either turned back into democracy — as happened here in the 1860s and the 1930s — or turns into full-blown tyranny (Russia, Hungary, Egypt, Turkey, etc.), as Trump, Musk, and Vance seem to be promising for America now.

The main weapon oligarchs use to convert democracy to oligarchy is political money, which is why big money must be stripped out of the political process if democracy is to survive. America is the only developed nation in the world where virtually unlimited money can purchase both elections and politicians."
#USPol
https://hartmannreport.com/p/how-oligarchy-works-who-wins-who-97d

How Oligarchy Works: Who Wins, Who Loses?

How Oligarchy works to turn power over to billionaires and leave you behind…

^{Thom Hartmann (The Hartmann Report)}

#uspol

TobeB 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

There is no need to overcomplicate things: a rise in global temperatures of 3.1C is not compatible with human survival. That is where we are heading, unless we act now. On our current path, the world will exceed 1.5C of warming, and could reach a rise of 2.6-3.1C by the end of the century.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/20/planet-climate-disaster-labour-government

The facts about a planet facing climate disaster are clear. Why won’t this Labour government face them?

Labour seems gripped by a form of denialism. The danger is real and incremental change won’t avert it, says Jeremy Corbyn, independent MP for Islington North

^{Jeremy Corbyn (The Guardian)}

#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCatastrophe #climatebreakdown #tippingpoint

David Sirota 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

🚨LEVER TIME: Inside the Military-Hollywood Complex

How the Defense Department line-edits the films & TV shows you watch, and uses the Marvel franchise to sell America on endless war. https://buff.ly/4ft0wAm

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NPR News (unofficial) 4 weeks ago • diaspora

Advocates want Biden to spare the lives of the 40 prisoners on federal death row

Anti-death penalty advocates hope President Biden will grant clemency to 40 people on federal death row. He has already commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoned 39 others.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
posted by pod_feeder_v2

Brian Ó Donnell / pod_feeder_v2 · GitLab

Publishes RSS/Atom feeds to Diaspora*

^GitLab

#USA #News #NPR #publicradio

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Bellarome 4 weeks ago • diaspora

1,500 communited sentences !! And, here I sit watching "48 Hours".

Abandoned America 1 month ago • mastodon (AP)

The remains of the defunct Presidents Park: a series of 20-foot tall busts of US presidents left forgotten and decaying in a field.

Read the story here: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/the-president-heads

A large bust of Woodrow Wilson is in the foreground, its face peeling away and stained by time. Behind it rows of other presidential busts are visible.

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Karl Auerbach 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

@msbellows What about President Bartlett?

@M.S. Bellows, Jr.

M.S. Bellows, Jr. 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

@karlauerbach I can't really miss him, since I still consider him my current president.

@Karl Auerbach

M.S. Bellows, Jr. 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

@skeletor Well done, sir.

Zoom in on part of the first photo showing 666 follows

@Inspirational Skeletor💀

Frozen Canuck 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

So Republicans are committed to their new leader, President Daddy Elon. Cheeto has been demoted to being Elon's lap dog. Got it.

rainey 🌻 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Bull on a donut.

Taurus on a torus.

#AltElfOnTheShelf
#12DaysOfChristmas
#HashTagGames

#HashtagGames #12daysofchristmas #altelfontheshelf

Jason844 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Yank on a Tank

#AltElfOnTheShelf
#12DaysOfChristmas
#HashtagGames

#HashtagGames #12daysofchristmas #altelfontheshelf

SFPublicPress 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

NEW: City workers clearing encampments are supposed to notify residents to separate essentials from items being confiscated, and collect signed acknowledgements of doing so. Despite logging 588 clearings, SF could not produce a single signed document. https://www.sfpublicpress.org/san-francisco-lacks-evidence-compliance-bag-and-tag-encampment-clearing/

SF Cannot Prove it Follows Encampment ‘Sweeps’ Policy

The city can’t prove it’s following a policy requiring staff to advise homeless people to separate essential items during encampment sweeps.

^{Madison Alvarado (San Francisco Public Press)}

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scott f 4 weeks ago • ActivityPub

so even after the Supreme Court gave SF permission to violate unhoused people's 8th-amendment rights, SF still manages to break its own laws.

Golden Bunny of Destiny 🕯🇺🇦🇵🇸 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Cock on a rock

#AltElfOnTheShelf
#12DaysOfChristmas
#HashtagGames

A colorful rooster with vibrant plumage, including shades of red, orange, green, and black, stands on a cobblestone path.

#HashtagGames #12daysofchristmas #altelfontheshelf

Jason844 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Bear in the Air

#AltElfOnTheShelf
#12DaysOfChristmas
#HashtagGames

#HashtagGames #12daysofchristmas #altelfontheshelf

Golden Bunny of Destiny 🕯🇺🇦🇵🇸 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Bacteria on a cafeteria

#AltElfOnTheShelf
#12DaysOfChristmas
#HashtagGames

#HashtagGames #12daysofchristmas #altelfontheshelf

Lulu · לולו 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

On the fifth year of 2020, my true love sent to me

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Lulu · לולו 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

@autolycos 👏 👏 👏

@Darth Osler

Its Not A Hoax ☑️ 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

December 18, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-18-2024?utm_source=substack&publication_id=20533&post_id=153348815&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=false&r=fyvv4&triedRedirect=true

December 18, 2024

Yesterday, Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) released an “Interim Report on the Failures and Politicization of the January 6th Select Committee.

^{Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)}

いしたにまさき・ノートPC没滅運動中 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

🎵【連載更新】骨伝導と空気振動のハイブリッドは何がいい？　クラファン実施中のワイヤレスイヤフォン「EO SPACE」を試す（1/3 ページ） - ITmedia NEWS https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/2412/21/news070.html

unusual_whales 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Trump: If there’s going to be a shutdown, let it begin now.

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

#Finance #News #Stocks #Economics #options

unusual_whales 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Trump has said any shutdown ‘is a Biden problem to solve’

Read more: https://t.co/fyOBlOKWJU

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

Trump has said any shutdown ‘is a Biden problem to solve’

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday morning shifted the blame for a potential government shutdown onto the current White House, asserting that resolving the funding impasse is “a Biden problem to solve.

^{Unusual Whales}

#Finance #News #Stocks #Economics #options

animalsfarm 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Mookie amongst the leaves

#CatsOfMastodon

A grey and white cat sitting amongst a bunch of leaves with the sun shining on his face

#catsOfMastodon

Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

“The U.S government failed to eliminate the virus on dairy farms when it was confined to a handful of states, by quickly identifying infected cows and taking measures to keep their infections from spreading…860 herds across 16 states have tested positive”

This is not good.
#BirdFlu #H5N1 #zoonosis #Science

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bird-flu-has-spread-out-of-control-after-mistakes-by-u-s-government-and/

Bird Flu Has Spread Out of Control after Mistakes by U.S. Government and Industry

As the bird flu virus moved into cows and people, sluggish federal action, deference to industry and neglect for worker safety put the country at risk

^{Amy Maxmen (Scientific American)}

#Science #BirdFlu #h5n1 #zoonosis

The Tyee 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

The U.S. has a health-care system that is terrible and getting worse.

It also has a health science system that is the best in the world and about to be dismantled.

Why Canada should prepare for an influx of scientists, educators and more, writes Crawford Kilian.

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/12/19/America-Public-Health-Breakdown/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

David Chartier 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Reminder that cops get to have #unions, but you don’t

#AmazonStrike #ACAB

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/two-arrested-at-amazon-teamsters-strike-in-queens-part-of-pre-holiday-multi-city-walkout/ar-AA1wbjpB

#ACAB #unions #amazonstrike

David Chartier 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

“It isn’t that you don’t “get” tech, it’s that the tech you use every day is no longer built for you, and as a result feels a very specific kind of insane.”
https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

David Chartier 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

“It’s not that you’re immune. It’s that you’re instinctually ducking and weaving around an internet and digital ecosystem that continually tries to interrupt you, batting away pop-ups and silencing notifications knowing that they want something from you — and I need you to realize that most people are not like you and are actively victimized by the tech ecosystem.”

David Chartier 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

“How much of your life is dodging digital debris, avoiding scams, ads, apps that demand permissions, and endless menu options that bury the simple things that you’re actually trying to do?

You are the victim of a con.”

Le Monde.fr 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Au Guatemala, 160 enfants tirés des griffes d’une secte ultraorthodoxe soupçonnée de violences sexuelles https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/12/21/au-guatemala-160-enfants-tires-des-griffes-d-une-secte-ultraorthodoxe_6460015_3210.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Its Not A Hoax ☑️ 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/17/media/trump-lawsuit-des-moines-register-ann-selzer-poll

Business / Media
Trump sues Des Moines Register and top pollster over final Iowa survey

By Brian Stelter, Katelyn Polantz, Hadas Gold and Paula Reid, CNN
Updated 1:08 PM EST, Tue December 17, 2024

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Truth Or Consequences ✅ 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

He wants to sue them into submission. Others voluntarily flock to Mar-a-Largo in hopes of getting their brown lips.

Its Not A Hoax ☑️ 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

@Savvyhomestead Yeah, and ABC just handed him a big, fact, fucking permission slip.

@Truth Or Consequences ✅

Unprecedented 2023 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Whiny baby.

minute 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

surprise electronic earrings launched (HALO-90 audio responsive earrings, open hardware, collaboration with kolibri): https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-x-kolibri-halo-90-electronic-earrings

a partial screenshot of the MNT shop page for the halo-90 earrings with many pictures of many options, and greta wearing the earrings which are circular PCBs with a ring of 90 blue or red LEDs

MNT x Kolibri HALO-90 Electronic Earrings - MNT Research Shop

Open hardware electronic earrings that light up and respond to audio in real time.

^{shop.mntre.com}

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elsemusic 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: The Far Side

Sue Stone 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Senate passes funding for pediatric cancer after it was stripped out of original CR

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/live-blog/government-shutdown-live-updates-rcna184880#rcrd65918

Government shutdown live updates: House sends funding bill to Senate ahead of Saturday deadline

Follow live updates and the latest news as government funding is set to expire on Saturday if Congress fails to pass a short-term spending bill.

^{NBC News}

Axomamma 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Just in case anyone is confused and thinks everything is just fine:

"However, the legislation that passed the Senate tonight is not exactly the same as the language in the original deal and is ultimately less money overall, per [Senator TIm] Kaine."

Laffy 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Via Max Berger:

The news today:

- President #Musk endorsed a neo-Nazi party in Germany

- Democrats in Congress negotiated a budget deal with him

👍👍👍

#Musk

Lake Michigan! Live! 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Current* conditions near Muskegon, MI:

Wide view of the Muskegon channel southern breakwater stretching into Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2024-12-21 03:20:01 UTC (about 13 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Muskegon: 26.80 F | -2.89 C // Precip: broken clouds // Wind: ENE at 5.010 mph | 8.06 kph // Humidity: 82%

Laffy 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

#BREAKING
"House approved legislation to avert a govt shutdown..

The chamber voted 366-34-1 in support of the legislation, clearing the two-thirds threshold needed for passage, since GOP leadership brought the bill to the floor under the fast-track suspension of the rules process. All Democrats except one — Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), who voted present — joined 170 Republicans in voting yes." https://trib.al/aH4tiAf

#BREAKING

Laffy 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

2/ "The package — which Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) rolled out shortly before the vote — would fund the government at current levels through March 14, extend the farm bill for one year and appropriate billions of dollars in disaster relief and assistance for farmers.
The legislation does not, however, include language to increase the debt limit, an eleventh-hour demand from President-elect Trump that hurled a curveball into the sensitive government funding negotiations."

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Laffy 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

3/ "In lieu of the debt ceiling hike, Republicans entered into an agreement to increase the borrowing limit by $1.5 trillion in exchange for $2.5 trillion in net cuts to spending, done through a reconciliation package in the next Congress"

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Laffy 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

4/ 🙄

Via Scott MacFarlane:

At news conference announcing passage of bill to avert government shutdown, Speaker Mike Johnson emphasizes that he spoke to Elon Musk an hour ago

Frank Bennett 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

I'm not great with numbers, but won't 2.5 trillion dollars in cuts wipe out most of the federal system that's not related to military adventures in some way? (Maybe I'm just counting wrong.)

BenAveling 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

@fgbjr roughly speaking, yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget
#alt4me

#alt4me @Frank Bennett

Lookie Loo 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

"Johnson's Plan D survived because Republicans pretended the debt ceiling was in the agreement and Democrats know that it's not."

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/20/mike-johnson-debt-ceiling-promise-trump

Its Not A Hoax ☑️ 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

(240) Democrats are not just going to roll over' to Musk & Trump on shutdown: Rep. Wasserman Schultz - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36eBW-ZkFog

Democrats are not just going to roll over' to Musk & Trump on shutdown: Rep. Wasserman Schultz

^YouTube