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Michigan charges 16 fake electors for Donald Trump with election law and forgery felonies (apnews.com)

Damn right.

Supreme Court blocks OxyContin maker’s bankruptcy deal that would shield Sackler family members (apnews.com)

This is epic AF. I thought these dope pushers were gonna get away scot free, there for a while.

Exclusive: Georgia prosecutors have messages showing Trump’s team is behind voting system breach (www.cnn.com)

Whoops! somebody got the soot on their hands this time

US Navy joins Army, Marine Corps in having no Senate-confirmed leader, in historic first (www.reuters.com)

Long since time the prez appoint some 'acting chiefs' -- this represents a clear and present threat, and not just from our rivals on the world stage.

Trump's legal advisers urge him to cancel press conference to refute Georgia allegations: Sources (abcnews.go.com)

Trump's promised press conference to refute the allegations in the indictment handed up by the Fulton County DA's Office is now in doubt, multiple sources said.

Experts: Jack Smith’s latest move means Trump can’t use Judge Cannon to prevent pre-election trial (www.salon.com)

D.C. judges are "fed up" with "Trump's maneuvers and sensitive to need to move quickly," ex-prosecutor says

Tasers, taunts, torment: How 6 White officers subjected 2 Black men to hours of grueling violence, and then tried to cover it up | CNN (www.cnn.com)

On the evening of January 24, three sheriff’s deputies in Rankin County, Mississippi, received a group text message from another deputy on the same shift: “Are y’all available for a mission?”

Trump tells Georgia witness not to testify (www.axios.com)

Trump Violates Court Order with Attack on Federal Judge (www.meidastouch.com)

It didn't take long

United States vs. Trump, Docket #67656604-15 (www.courtlistener.com)

This is brutal for team ShitGibbon.

Family of Utah man shot dead by FBI after threats to Biden say he was ‘frustrated’ (www.independent.co.uk)

‘He was understandably frustrated and distraught by the present and on-going erosions to our constitutionally protected freedoms and the rights of free citizens’

Georgia Supreme Court Rejects Trump Effort to Quash Investigation (www.nytimes.com)

With indictment decisions imminent, the court refused to scuttle an investigation into whether the former president and his allies interfered in the 2020 election.

Russia confirms it hit Swedish plant in Lutsk, saying it was a military target (www.pravda.com.ua)

The Russian Embassy in Sweden, in a rude comment, confirmed the strike on the Swedish company SKF’s plant in Lutsk on the night of 14-15 August, saying that it is a legitimate military target.

North Carolina elections at risk of chaos with Legislature's proposed overhaul (www.nbcnews.com)

The three new bills come as the state begins to institute a strict new voter ID law.

sparseMatrix, 9 months ago to kbinMeta

So, I've been using mastodon a long time, several years in fact, and I never really understood all the folks complaining that it was too complicated; I mean, it was just always intuitive to me. Now maybe that's because I never really did the tweeter.

What I have done is a lot of reddit, and I gotta say, why the hell is this so complicated? :P

I'm only half kidding.

One thing that should always taken into consideration by software peeps is that when making a 'replacement' like this (dont tell me it's not a replacement for reddit, there's too much signal in the noise of this mag about 'reddit migration'), is that users that are relocating their operations will need extra handholding and assistance.

Unlike a lot of us, these peeps aren't casually learning how to do a new cool thing, they're typically perceiving some real and or imagined (Hey, both can cause a lot of stress and anxiety!), they're fleeing something, and trying to settle into a new, safer place; or so they hope.

I may sound like I'm 'asking for a friend', and I am, but that friend is me :D

Please, we need some kind of FAQ that says 'this is the reddit thing you want to do' and 'here's how to do it on kbin'. We need the next section to say, 'You can do these things on reddit, and not on kbin' and one more section in the FAQ that says 'These are cool things kbin does that reddit doesn't'.

A HUGE ask would be user style sheets to make it look and act more or less like reddit; really, as far as I can tell, there's only really a couple of big differences. Hell, it might suffice if we just had a FAQ that pointed out the substantive differences.

The biggest problem is, y'all just kinda 'sprung' the whole microblog/People/Threads on us; those single word descriptors are really only useful if you're 'in the know' already.

I've been posting off and on at kbin now for several months, hoping I'd eventually just soak it up; but it hasn't happened. I still keep screwing some things up here and there; just yesterday I was off to the races posting about some things, and managed to editorialize a title when I thought I was using post body to introduce the link. It's been sent to the ether, now.

I'm not in desperation about anything. I'm not a 'migrator' or refugee, or any of that. I do have a couple projects on reddit I'd like to bring here, I think this is the future of social media, and I think I will get a higher quality engagement here. I also have some projects already here that I'd like to get supercharged, and I can't really do stuff until I know the ropes..

So yeah, it would be great if the devs would drop some smooth pdfs or single page html or damn just if they'd 'own' a markdown document that could be loaded off any kbin page or something, that would be bad ass.

In the absence of that though (or something like it) what do y'all have out there, in userland?

Thanks for readin' muh screed.

AAA pulls back from offering insurance in Florida, following Farmers (www.cbsnews.com)

More insurance companies are fleeing the state because of the growing threat from natural disasters.

GOP Legal Experts File Amicus Brief Backing January Trial For Trump (thehill.com)

Maybe, if these shit for brains expert hadn't purchased their law deg...nm...

There Can Be No Saving the Republican Party (newrepublic.com)

They've said the quiet part out loud for so long now, that we actually know who they are....

Trump cancels press conference on election fraud claims, citing attorneys’ advice (apnews.com)

The tide is turning. r/conservative on reddit is acting as if they never supported him.

Proud Boy on house arrest in Jan. 6 case disappears ahead of sentencing (apnews.com)

No balls on this one after all?

NY Times Annotated Charging Document from the Fulton County DA (www.nytimes.com)

Annotated copy of the sprawling RICO charges (sprawling is good in this case, it's what RICO is all about.

Trump's request to delay trial ridiculed by lawyers: "Good luck with that" (www.newsweek.com)

The former president's lawyers are seeking a trial beginning in April 2026 on charges related to attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

Political Warfare Comes Home (www.foreignaffairs.com)

After Trump’s indictments, can America protect the peaceful transfer of power?

Federal Judge Strikes Down Portions of Texas Voter Suppression Law S.B. 1 (www.democracydocket.com)

Bipartisan House group pushes for select committee, classified hearings into UFOs (thehill.com)

The bipartisan group of representatives pushing for public information on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) is having difficulty continuing their effort after a blockbuster committee hearing last…