friendofsymfony

@friendofsymfony@friendica.me

Publisher of Symfony Station, Ringmaster of Mobile Atom Media, Personally a cross between Billy Butcher and Wednesday Addams.

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jeffjarvis, to random
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At last, The Times covers the stakes of a Trump victory. Now keep going with the perils to women's control of their health, race, the courts, the environment, education, freedom of speech....
Gift link:
If Trump Wins
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/07/us/politics/trump-policy-list-2025.html?smid=url-share

rbreich, to random

59 years ago today, Griswold v. Connecticut guaranteed the right to birth control.

Justice Thomas says the Supreme Court should "reconsider" that ruling.

And this week, 38 GOP senators voted against the Right to Contraception Act.

Republicans are coming for birth control.

w7voa, to random
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Authorities in Xinjiang have sentenced five Uyghur former colleagues of a VOA journalist to at least seven years in prison because of their links to him. https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/colleagues-voa-journalist-jailed-links-06072024171425.html

ProPublica, to news
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NEW: Justice Clarence Thomas Acknowledges He Should Have Disclosed Free Trips From Billionaire Donor

The trips include vacations in Indonesia and at the exclusive, men’s-only Bohemian Grove retreat, which were first reported by ProPublica last year.

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-gift-disclosures-harlan-crow

Osteopenia_Powers,
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@ProPublica
“Justice Clarence Thomas Acknowledges He Should Have Disclosed Free Trips From Billionaire Donor” after a mere four years! The kind of incisive legal mind we expect in a Supreme Court Justice!

molly0xfff, to crypto
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Coinbase’s “Stand With Crypto” PAC claims to have raised $87 million, but their donations list totals up to only $1,176,900. They seem to be double-counting corporate contributions to super PACs to overstate how much their “community” supports this supposedly grassroots project.

The list trails off at donations of $44.67, so there could be additional smaller donations not shown on the page, but not more than $85 million’s worth.

Our community See how our community is taking a stand to safeguard the future of crypto in America. Donations to Fairshake, a pro-crypto Super PAC, are not included on the leaderboard. Recent activity Top donations 1 position 1 medal MoonPay profile picture MoonPay $1,000,000.00 2 position 2 medal ENS avatar for toshibase.eth toshibase.eth $20,000.00 3 position 3 medal Generic profile picture for anonymous user geminifrontierfund.eth $15,000.00 4 ENS avatar for barmstrong.eth barmstrong.eth $11,774.37 5 Generic profile picture for anonymous user wwarren.eth $10,049.30 6 Generic profile picture for anonymous user Anonymous $10,000.00 7 Generic profile picture for anonymous user 0x...37e02 $8,951.84 8 Generic profile picture for anonymous user 0x...ede10 $7,174.67 9 Generic profile picture for anonymous user Anonymous $5,000.00 10 ENS avatar for warpie.eth warpie.eth $3,500.00

w7voa, to random
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Unexpectedly strong employment growth in the US with the Labor Department reporting an addition of 272,000 jobs. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

w7voa,
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"The great American comeback continues, but we still have to make more progress," says President Biden in a statement about the May jobs report. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/06/07/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-the-may-jobs-report/

dangillmor, to random
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Republicans' voter suppression is a host of schemes designed to deter, or prevent, people who tend to vote for Democrats from being able to vote. In Florida, as the @newrepublic shows, it's working as intended.

https://newrepublic.com/article/180930/florida-voter-registration-suppression-desantis

dangillmor, to random
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The Nation magazine devotes its current issue to how Trump and his army of extremist apparatchiks would turn the U.S. into a sicker, more violent version of Orban's Hungary -- or worse.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/project-2025-democracy-fcc-fec/

This is journalism that does what we need right now.

It is journalism aimed at saving our democracy -- and, by extension, freedom expression, which is one of the most threatened rights should the right wing take full control.

It is the kind of reporting we need from all journalists.

jeffowski, (edited ) to random
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ben, to technology
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"The pervasive nature of modern technology makes surveillance easier than ever before, while each successive generation of the public is accustomed to the privacy status quo of their youth." https://werd.io/2024/online-privacy-and-overfishing

mobileatom, to random
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Friendica 2024.06 Release Candidate available.

https://forum.friendi.ca/display/39bbe52a-93ec3a88-d847ec4f77bb097b?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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rbreich, to random

Office Hours: Why is the world drifting toward authoritarianism and neofascism? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-why-is-the-world-drifting?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

w7voa, to random
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A Michigan man was sentenced to prison today for conspiring with other white supremacists to victimize Black and Jewish people and for defacing a synagogue. - DoJ https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/white-supremacist-sentenced-federal-hate-crimes-conspiracy-targeting-black-and-jewish-people

GottaLaff, to legal
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Via @juddlegum:

is now a convicted felon.

Since the verdict, various politicians and pundits have advanced arguments suggesting that Trump's convictions were illegitimate, unfair, or inconsequential.

In this thread, I will dismantle these one by one.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1797620509519356112.html

w7voa, to random
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President Biden gave a 90-minute interview to Time magazine on May 28 in which he said Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu might be stalling on ending the war in Gaza for political reasons. Transcript: https://time.com/6984968/joe-biden-transcript-2024-interview/

rbreich, to random

The Party of Huge Nothingburgers https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-party-of-nothingburger-issues?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

laurahelmuth, to random
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These are incredibly dangerous people and it's worth understanding just how wrong and wrong again they are (conspiracy theories, ableism, filthy lucre, reckless parenting, disgracing family name, on and on) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-jr-s-vice-presidential-pick-drawn-in-by-debunked-autism-conspiracy/ by @stevesilberman on Scientific American

ben, to random
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“Nine witnesses in the criminal cases against former President Donald Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages, new jobs, and a grant of shares and cash from Trump’s media company.” https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-criminal-cases-witnesses-financial-benefits

matthewskelton, to ai
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AI as a religious cult. "The millenarianism and manifest destiny of AI and techno-futurism."

By Emily Gorcenski

https://emilygorcenski.com/post/making-god/

randahl, to random
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Guilty as charged! 🔥

This new anti-Trump video from The Lincoln Project deserves a thousand boosts. 🙌🏻

https://youtu.be/FwcjDO6JCVQ?si=SQun3oGdi0sjFtfZ

dangillmor, to random
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An insider at NBC's Trump "Apprentice" TV program explains, in detail, what a con game it all was -- and, almost parenthetically, notes one of Trump's more blatantly racist acts.

If the people involved in this had not been accomplices in the scam for so long, the public might have known a lot more about Trump's vile character when it mattered.

https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/donald-trump-news-2024-trial-verdict-apprentice.html

alshafei, to Palestine
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Stop Killer AI:

https://stopkiller.ai/

mhoye, to random
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"Once more let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt. It may even wear a dress shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power and special privilege."

  • Tommy Douglas.
wdlindsy, to Ethics
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"Tens of millions of Americans reasonably doubt that Alito can fairly discharge his duties. Alito is gaslighting the American people—a technique he learned from Trump. Having been caught in his lie he is doubling down on the lie—while pretending to be aggrieved that Americans doubt his veracity.

This debacle is a stain on the Court and an indictment of Justice Robert’s leadership."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Alito #SupremeCourt #insurrection #ethics #corruption

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/justice-alitos-arrogance-threatens

euronews, to random
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Belgium’s far-right spends big on Meta ahead of EU elections, expert finds
https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/05/30/belgiums-far-right-spends-big-on-meta-ahead-of-eu-elections-expert-finds?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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