SusannaShakespeare

@SusannaShakespeare@mas.to

Disabled…Lover of books, Family, Animals & Archeology. College town “Townie”. Daughter of “Liberal Hippies” & carrying on the family tradition. PK, Democrat & NFL Nerd
My favorite bird pinned post was about karma…alive in my hometown!
https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2021/07/ann-arbors-former-cia-building-is-now-a-new-marijuana-dispensary.html

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wendysiegelman, to Ukraine
@wendysiegelman@mastodon.social avatar

An FBI agent released info describing Ukrainian oligarch Pavel Fuks as a Russian Intel asset who once paid Giuliani $300K

New reporting shows Fuks is linked to shell company owners of two units in Trump Tower NYC

My latest:

https://newstracs.com/ukrainian-oligarch-pavel-fuks-has-newly-reported-ties-to-trump-tower-in-nyc/2023/09/18/

SusannaShakespeare,

@wendysiegelman
I’ve been following “threads” of this story in diff news sources (NYT-Felix Sater).
The work done here is remarkable & frustrating for those…
Wondering if any credible, active fed investigators are acting on this?

Ties btwn 🤡& Putin were/are glaringly obvious…
& the fact they’re using the party as their “bagmen”…
Is a failure of . Not that they care.

For decades, funded our military apparatus…
For just such occasions…WTF?

MeanwhileinCanada, to random

Pineapple on pizza is, oddly enough, a Canadian tradition. Hawaiian Pizza was invented by Sam Panopoulos, an Ontarian restauranteur of Greek heritage, in the 1950s.

SusannaShakespeare,

@MeanwhileinCanada
No wonder Michiganders are so fond of it!

yoyoel, to random
@yoyoel@macaw.social avatar

Since 2020, I’ve been at the epicenter of a wide-reaching campaign to intimidate social media platforms into backing away from their investments in safety and security. It worked.

New from me (gift link): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/opinion/trump-elon-musk-twitter.html?unlocked_article_code=4tdIbFuKLW42ISeaU4acN26WTieKQcsLEoCyhJt1DC8dcAq9yCnJjyrbKLCEWm2hVWmWh-x94MKiw-I_OrqJ8JIYpDsdvQ4BFioWZ_RXCQ4ftJfFamVymL4ZnoK5RUQIhDdY-ZuJck3JBMeNXn5VYxEZ-tp8__DgJ_29osLV2tNCx4SZkrQrNtAyYPdzMK4asGiGrshlttyZF4arTjYH7ObwQo2-GSiVT3z3QovPSQ8Q4L9ggP7frVv1zKmIi4yukMwCGcqmRYnUy8pmnGPw0wWV3c9FMTUKuc6VM7kGy9gMnz_OUsQCiX8LR3v5Ls40VVkp1tb_c7PD4BiQ6lFP2Aw&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

SusannaShakespeare,

@yoyoel Indeed!

“…the essential humanness of trust & efforts. It isn’t machine learning models & faceless algorithms behind 🔑content mod decisions: it’s people. & people can be pressured, intimidated, threatened & extorted. Standing up to injustice, & online harms requires employees who are willing to do that work.

Few people could be expected to take a job doing so if the cost is their life or liberty. We all need to recognize this new reality…”

futurebird, to random
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

Can we stop calling them "the chaos caucus" ? that is way too cool-sounding of a name.

"the crybaby caucus"
"the cray cray caucus"
"the complainer caucus"
"the Caucasian caucus"
"the creep caucus"
"the colonoscopy caucus"
"the crab-face caucus"
"the cuckoo caucus"
"the crusty caucus"

Many options abound!

SusannaShakespeare,

@futurebird
I’d like to add…

*The cruelty caucus
*The callous caucus

  • The remorseless caucus
futurebird, (edited ) to random
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

To be fair, I've been "using pragerU in the classroom for years" ... for STEM even.

I have a folder of "Terrible graphs" that I use for discussions for stats students, they make so many horrible graphs I had to only pick the most interesting examples so that there is more variety.

(And I've been using them less since the students say it's too easy to spot their flaws. It's more fun to dissect a bad graph that made it into a major newspaper.)

SusannaShakespeare,

@futurebird
I feel a strong kinship w/you.
I like how how you roll.📊

VPS_Reports, to random
@VPS_Reports@kolektiva.social avatar

Anti-LGBTQ+ extremists got away with macing counter protesters in Pasadena, CA today. Even though the attack happened in broad daylight, on camera, in front of a courthouse, and extremists involved confessed: there were no arrests made. Here’s the full story: https://www.vpsreports.com/post/anti-lgbtq-protesters-mace-counter-protesters-outside-pasadena-courthouse-no-arrests-made

SusannaShakespeare,

@VPS_Reports

…wow!

What’a embarrassing sub-par job of protecting the citizenry!
Or is there another “full-of-$h*t” homophobic excuse?

br00t4c, to Broncos
@br00t4c@mastodon.social avatar

Broncos Offensive Line Earns Strong PFF Ranking Ahead of Week 2

https://heavy.com/sports/denver-broncos/broncos-offensive-line-rankings-pff/

SusannaShakespeare,

@br00t4c
I must say this superstitious 🦁 fan never thought this would be a reality…

“• Packers, Lions round out top three: The Packers led the in Wk 1 with a 96.7 pass-blocking efficiency rating, while the Lions let up only five pressures.”

New possibilities are exciting (nod to the gods) & cautious of our curses.

gwynnion, to random
@gwynnion@mastodon.social avatar

“'Children in the US can be legally married in 41 states, physically punished by school administrators in 47 states, sentenced to life without parole in 22 states, and work in hazardous agriculture conditions in all 50 states.' Over and over again, the worst states for children are clustered around the 'pro-life' Bible Belt, and the map of the states that are the worst for children looks a lot like a map of red-state America."

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/09/human-rights-watch-usa-child-abuse-labor-report.html

SusannaShakespeare,

@gwynnion
Thanks for bringing more attention to this issue…
Every time I see another gov or statehouse neglect to see as…
Autonomous human beings…w/right’s & (s) we all demand for ourselves.

Kid’s rights…legal was debated frequently in ‘80’s.
Today’s kids are only seen as an extension of their & .
To do w/as they like…ownership…no .

Is that what we want for this country?
What kind of future do you see if this continues?

SusannaShakespeare,

@gwynnion All. Of. This.⬇️
“Most of the US also allows adults to assault children at school. Only 3 states fully ban corporal punishment at both public & private schools…”

“& not a single state bans corporal punishment—adults committing acts of violence against children—in the home. Nearly 50% of American kid’s experience corporal punish—child abuse—@ home, & it’s perfectly legal, so long as those children aren’t seriously injured.”

US is a violent place…especially to our kids.

SusannaShakespeare, to random

🦁

Amon-Ra St. Brown is the “Bringer of Light”!
You are the Sun God.

Tinu, (edited ) to random
@Tinu@mastodon.social avatar

The least privileged people define resistance. Not the most privileged.

Every time you decide to judge what people WITH NO CHOICE are doing to survive?

First check your privilege.

Then present a solution THEY can use, not the one you think they SHOULD USE.

Finally, name what you are doing to help.

Otherwise kindly shut the entire fuck up.

SusannaShakespeare,

@Tinu
I’d like to add an Amen!🌹

TonyStark, to random
@TonyStark@progressivecafe.social avatar

U.S. voters need to be 100% clear: if we re-elect this man, our democracy is finished. He will turn the weapons of law against his opponents (us), and arrest, try, convict, sentence, imprison and/or execute them. Is this the country you want to live in?

I hope not. I don’t.

Trump threatens retaliatory scheme he already tried to implement-
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-threatens-retaliatory-scheme-already-tried-implement-rcna103385

SusannaShakespeare,

@TonyStark
Another “metaphorically frightening swift kick”.

“🤡 expects us to believe that he has ‘no choice’ but to weaponize fed law enforcement & pursue charges against his political opponent’s, seemingly unaware of the fact that, while in office, he already tried to weaponize fed law enforcement & pursue charges against his political opponent’s.”

‘Way he’s talking…it seems we’ll need “jumper cables⚡️”…
Jolting folks that 🤡’s stretched…”warmed up”…Run his👗-rehearsal!

Deglassco, (edited ) to history

The March on Washington was the product of a long and arduous journey. Each moment built upon the previous one, generating momentum and solidarity among civil rights activists. By the time the march occurred in 1963, it stood on the shoulders of decades of activism, struggle, and resilience.

1/

@blackmastodon @BlackMastodon

SusannaShakespeare,

@Deglassco
My parents were “Ann Arbor Hippies” having their 1st child @ 22 & 23.
They could not afford to attend & the logistics…impossible.
They helped organize (they were poor, living in HUD housing)…
& donated what they could.

Yrs later they marched in the “Great March”!
(2nd #MarchOnWashington for Lesbian & Gay Rts.
It was a large political rally that took place in DC, on Oct 11, 1987.
Its success, size, scope, & historical importance is why it’s #thegreatmarch

w7voa, to Texas
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

ordered to remove Rio Grande border buoys. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172749163/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172749163.50.0.pdf

SusannaShakespeare,

@w7voa
Why isn’t this disgusting waste of 💰in furtherance of a scheme…
By the Gov. to push his political agenda…

At the cost of lives!
Much like …He thinks these lives don’t matter.
It’s blatant campaign of hate & power.
Unfortunately, Texas citizenry pay the enormous price tag…& public shaming.

No escaping on how records the evil perpetrated there.

popcornreel, to Mexico
@popcornreel@mas.to avatar

BREAKING: Mexico Supreme Court decriminalizes abortion nationwide. (via AP)

SusannaShakespeare,

@popcornreel
Now whose the “backward” country?

Come on…you can say it…
(Hint…separated families at border)

e_urq, to trans
@e_urq@journa.host avatar

Parents of trans youth spent hours pouring their hearts out to an NYT reporter. They thought she empathized with them, and trusted her with their stories. But as publication approached, one mom began to grow suspicious of the reporter's closeness to the very anti-trans activist she'd proven to Ghoraysh had lied in a sworn affidavit.

The story of an aggressive NYT reporter who played hardball with a vulnerable family, and won.

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/you-betrayed-us-azeen-parents-of-trans-youth-reeling-after-speaking-to-the-nyt

SusannaShakespeare,

@e_urq
The white-hot rage I hardly can control, hit this 3rd gen “newspaper woman” hard.
I didn’t realize…I could be more heartbroken than I was, the day Newhouse shuttered the 200+ yr old, award-winning paper (Ann Arbor News) I’d worked at for > 30 yrs.!

These days I realize it was a step toward the collapse Truth, trust & transparency. An opening salvo in the fascist, corrupt attack on

TexasObserver, to Texas
@TexasObserver@texasobserver.social avatar

“HB 2127 was a power grab by the Legislature and an unwarranted and unconstitutional intrusion into local power granted to Houston and other home-rule cities by the Constitution.”

An important "death star" update from McHam Investigative Reporting Fellow @josephinelee:

https://www.texasobserver.org/judge-strikes-down-leges-power-grab-against-cities-hb-2127/

SusannaShakespeare,

@TexasObserver @josephinelee
“We are seeing this pattern of not just in the state of but across the country, w/state govts that want to stifle localities from making their own decisions & be able to meet their constituents’ needs.” -Benavides

Remember all those charges of “Big Govt”…
Repub’s have jammed-down our throats?
Well, my God…how their tune has changed!
& the song they’re marching to these days leads to democracy’s demise.

dgoldsmith, to random
@dgoldsmith@mastodon.social avatar

From @theintercept:
#fascism #corruption

The corruption and naked contempt for democracy is astounding.

Georgia GOP gears up to remove Atlanta prosecutor who indicted Donald Trump
https://theintercept.com/2023/08/24/georgia-prosecutor-trump-gop/

SusannaShakespeare,

@dgoldsmith @theintercept

“This is part of a nat. trend that we’re seeing of predominantly #white often #gerrymandered state legis targeting prosecutors…often #black prosecutors & often prosecutors elected in cities & counties w/larger Black & brown pop. So the #partisan & #racial nature of this retaliation I think is something that’s really important to highlight.”
#racism #justice #georgia

#gop want to convince us…our #vote doesn’t matter…it’s useless…Bll$ht!

GottaLaff, to ethelcain
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

😡 Via Media Matters' Ari Drennen:

BREAKING: Three -appointed judges on the 11th circuit just cited the Supreme Court's ruling in Dobbs that overturned the right to an abortion in their decision allowing to ban transition-supporting care for youth.

SusannaShakespeare,

@GottaLaff
Frightened, I am…

AbandonedAmerica, to random
@AbandonedAmerica@mastodon.social avatar

The abandoned Packard Plant in Detroit

Gallery: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/packard-motor-car-company

SusannaShakespeare,

@AbandonedAmerica
Any one else getting vibes!

GottaLaff, to random
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

The new U.S. majority isn't just young, tolerant and diverse. They vote. The right hates that, and it hates what it sees when it looks at something like U.S. women's soccer

They hate America AND democracy, and it's devolving toward violence.

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 1/...🧵

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/us-conservatives-embrace-authoritarianism-anti-democracy-20230813.html#loaded

SusannaShakespeare,

@GottaLaff @willbunch
This ⬇️🎯…

“Once upon a time, “Bleeding ” was a warning to America — harbinger of a civil war to come. It doesn’t have to be that way this time around. But we won’t succeed until we’re clear-eyed that nearly half of Americans hate who we’ve become, hate democracy when they no longer can win, & will embrace to get the results they can’t get at the box.”

SusannaShakespeare,

@GottaLaff @willbunch
This really stews my 🍅!
So much for a “ ”…

"…but we also want to make sure no other news org. is ever exposed to the Gestapo tactics we witnessed today. We will be seeking the max sanctions possible under the law."

"This has never happened in so this has a chilling effect & we're going to do everything we can to make sure that this kind of practice is not encouraged & people are held accountable" -Emily Bradbury

historyofpunkrock, to punk
@historyofpunkrock@sfba.social avatar

45 years ago today
The Runaways perform live at CBGB in New York, August 2, 1976.

Joan Jett, Jackie Fox, Sandy West, Cherie Currie and Lita Ford

Photo by Richard E. Aaron

SusannaShakespeare,

@historyofpunkrock
“Oh…what a night!”

oh_that_courtney, to Texas
@oh_that_courtney@hachyderm.io avatar

You may have heard that Houston schools plan to convert libraries to disciplinary centers and fire the librarians.

What you may not have heard is that the State of Texas took over the Houston school district and installed its own superintendent.

That's the guy who is closing libraries. This is not something local residents want, and the superintended is not locally accountable,

SusannaShakespeare,

@alexwild @oh_that_courtney
Very much like that!
The constituency had no in that matter…
Like …these TX families are stuck…
In an “authoritarian-trip-back-to-fifties” BS!

These folks love their …
Just as long as they have power, control &💰!
The reality is they’re not qualified to make these decisions!

I’m sick of so many adults…
Denying kids any semblance of agency over their own lives.

fulanigirl, to blackmastodon
@fulanigirl@blacktwitter.io avatar

@blackmastodon I have a bonus cut this week. A certain bad actor in the country music world caused people to dog country music last week. I get it...but for all you closeted country music fans who might have been silent last week, here’s Miko Marks on her cut ANCESTORS. It’s country y’all. She's Black and she is singing about us. https://youtu.be/8UTXD5ig_Og

SusannaShakespeare,

@fulanigirl @APBBlue @blackmastodon
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