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Changeling poet, musician and writer, born on the 13th floor. Left of counter-clockwise and right of the white rabbit, all twilight and sunrises, forever the inside outsider.
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YSK that Kbin can subscribe not only to magazines and communities, but entire instances.
This may be useful for folks looking to expand their feed. I discovered this on accident and it completely revolutionized my experience on Kbin....
The Supreme Court is out of control and must be reformed (www.dailykos.com)
The majority then announced, with an opinion from Chief Justice John Roberts, that it was overthrowing the student loan forgiveness program, granting a request from six Republican state attorneys general on behalf of a loan servicer, the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, that did not want to be used as a plaintiff....
Scientists discover huge, heat-emitting blob on the far side of the moon (www.livescience.com)
Scientists have discovered an anomalous blob of heat on the far side of the moon....
The Supreme Court May Preemptively Ban a Federal Wealth Tax (newrepublic.com)
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed published in 2021, two of the Moores’ lawyers also declared unambiguously that the lawsuit “stands to slam shut the door on a federal wealth tax like the one Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants to enact.” They made a direct pitch to “the courts” to hear the Moores’ case “now” to make it...
Kbin Pornbot alert - looks like a number of bot accounts have taken up residence on kbin and are spamming /m/random with porn
Looks like we've had a wave of porn bots hit recently. Screenshot is a sampling of what's popping up on my threads feed when sorted by new....
Meet Anansi - the West African trickster God who inspired Br'er Rabbit, and is canonically confirmed as the first Spiderman, (allthatsinteresting.com)
A beloved figure of Ghanaian folklore, Anansi is a spider god and a charming trickster who triumphs over larger and more powerful adversaries by using his wits alone....
Forcing your computer to rat you out - Cory Doctorow - Pluralistic (pluralistic.net)
Powerful people imprisoned by the cluelessness of their own isolation, locked up with their own motivated reasoning: "It's impossible to get a CEO to understand something when his quarterly earnings call depends on him not understanding it."...
[News] “Dark” right-wing network recruits MAGA “army” to replace 50K federal workers Trump plans to purge (www.salon.com)
A network of conservative groups is gearing up for the potential reelection of Donald Trump, actively enlisting an "army" of Americans to come to Washington with a mission to disassemble the federal government and substitute it with a vision that aligns more closely with their own beliefs and ideas, according to The Associated...
[News] "Hit list": Trump grand jurors face violent threats after names and addresses shared on QAnon forums - Salon.com (www.salon.com)
Users on far-right online forums are publishing private information about members of the Georgia grand jury that indicted former president Donald Trump and 18 of his allies in a sweeping criminal case focused on alleged 2020 election interference earlier this month, leading to jurors receiving threats online....
Dark Money - Clarence Thomas got a personal media campaign worth at least $1.8 million from conservative nonprofit groups led by lobbyist Leonard Leo, part of $1.6 billion in donated by Barre Seid to Leo. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Leo is well-known for shepherding conservative judicial nominees, but the public relations campaign shows how he has continued to exert influence in support of right-leaning justices after helping them secure lifetime appointments....
Victims of “Donbas genocide” were paid actors, Prigozhin’s fired trolls reveal (euromaidanpress.com)
In the aftermath of Prigozhin's media empire collapse, former employees spoke out about the dark tactics employed, including hiring individuals to portray "victims of Ukrainian Armed Forces” in staged reports that underpinned Russia's fake pretext for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine -- the manufactured "genocide in Donbas."
Texas places traps of razorwire barrels to stop migrants from crossing the Rio Grande (www.houstonchronicle.com)
The July 3 account, reviewed by Hearst Newspapers, discloses several previously unreported incidents the trooper witnessed in Eagle Pass, where the state of Texas has strung miles of razor wire and deployed a wall of buoys in the Rio Grande....
Italy begins stripping lesbian mothers of their parental rights (www.lgbtqnation.com)
One mom said she cried for 10 days after hearing she was being removed from her daughter's birth certificate....
[News] Arizona Prosecutors Are Probing Rudy Giuliani’s Role as Fake-Elector Kingpin (www.rollingstone.com)
Prosecutors in Arizona are “aggressively” ramping up their criminal probe into the 2020 fake electors plot aimed at keeping then-President Donald Trump in power. They’re not just looking at the fake electors, though. Rudy Giuliani is also now high on their list....
[News] State attorney says DeSantis fired her because she was ‘prosecuting their cops’ (www.theguardian.com)
An elected Democratic prosecutor whose removal Ron DeSantis boasted about during the first Republican presidential debate said the hard-right Florida governor and his allies ousted her because she was “prosecuting their cops”....
[Opinion] Trump's plans to become a dictator: It's time to get real about Project 2025 - Chauncey DeVega - Salon (www.salon.com)
Donald Trump is a dictator in waiting. Like other dictators, he is threatening to put his "enemies" in prison – and to do even worse things to them. These are not idle threats or empty acts of ideation: Donald Trump is a violent man who is a proven enemy of democracy and freedom....
Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands (www.theguardian.com)
The French supermarket chain Carrefour has put labels on its shelves this week warning shoppers of “shrinkflation”, the phenomenon where manufacturers reduce pack sizes rather than increase prices....
Florida bans AP psychology over gender identity, sexual orientation lessons | Orlando Sentinel (nordot.app)
ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida will not allow public school students to take Advanced Placement psychology because the course includes lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity, topics forbidden by the state, the College Board said Thursday. That could mean that a week before school starts in many districts, about 5,000...
[News] State Republicans Try to Remove NC Supreme Court Justice for Mentioning the Existence of Racial Bias (slate.com)
On Tuesday, it was reported that North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls could be ousted from her seat for judicial ethics violations. Did she fail to disclose gifts from a billionaire benefactor on whose cases she was ruling? No. Maybe she’d gone on luxury vacations across the globe paid for by some of the richest...
News: LAPD taking selfies with Donald Trump sparks outrage (www.newsweek.com)
A video showed a large group of uniformed officers posing for a photo with the former president and shaking his hand at Los Angeles International Airport.
[Poll Analysis] Lauren Boebert begs supporters for help after admitting her campaign is flailing (www.lgbtqnation.com)
It’s official: Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert (R) is scared. Recent polling has shown Democratic frontrunner Adam Frisch in the lead in Boebert’s district, and now the anti-LGBTQ+ Congresswoman is pleading with voters for help....
[News Analysis] GOP waging a "coordinated national effort to undermine American elections," says leading official (www.salon.com)
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat viewed as a national leader in voting rights, has received 67 death threats and over 900 threats of online abuse within just three weeks, according to a system used by her office that tracks harassment and threats against election workers....