How hopeful are you of the future?

Counter Social is 7 years old today!
I’m not sure of my exact join date, but I became active in November 2022. I am #grateful for the prescience of @th3j35t3r to create this haven then that due to attacks on democracies everywhere is so essential today. I am also so thankful for the support, intelligence and collegiality of our CoSo fam. As Tina said, “You’re simply the best; better than all the rest” Let us ALL go Pro or donate https://donorbox.org/countersocial
❤️🎉❤️🎉❤️

#CoSoversary #HappyBirthdayCOSO

Keith Haring gets a FOREVER stamp. Hurray. He died so young, in those horrible early years of a plague, when AIDS was usually a death sentence. And Anthony Fauci, who is now routinely demonized, gave us excellent leadership. By 1996, antiretroviral therapy was a real thing and people with the virus could grow old again. Does anyone expect us to have that kind of leadership now? #science #art https://www.yahoo.com/news/usps-honor-pennsylvania-native-stamp-130200593.html

Everyone should have to read "1984" in high school.

California to rename dozens of sites containing the word 'squaw'

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/16/nx-s1-5193831/derogatory-native-indigenous-women-removed-california

Real talk.. im beyond pissed to see hashtag der-bloo-sky trending not #CounterSocial

We can make it happen ladies and gentlemen.. and I can help.. ⬇️

Whats a guy gotta do to motivate some mofos? Lets do the thing. Coordinate here. Foook elon husk also.. ruzzian ass hatery.

Like.. this is the platform of the legendary Jester Actual is it not?

Lets keep making legends a reality yo.

Goddamn it.

already implementing this, except i refer to 45 as He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named

#politics #resistance #NeverSayHisName

𝐀𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚-𝐬𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐰𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝

If confirmed as the head of Trump I’s Department of Health and Human Services, Kennedy would involuntarily enlist the entire population of the United States in a clinical trial to see what happens if the most advanced country in the world rolls back its medical technology to the 1950s.

~ Tom Sullivan @ Hullabaloo

https://digbysblog.net/2024/11/17/an-america-sized-darwin-award/

This what happens when you think Trump owes you: you get mocked publicly.

“During his first meeting with Republican lawmakers on the Hill as president-elect, Trump asserted his power over Musk, mocking the tech billionaire for sticking around for so long. ‘Elon won’t go home. I can’t get rid of him,’ Trump said Wednesday. ‘Until I don’t like him.’”

No one is Trump’s friend. In his mind, yhey exist to be used.

https://newrepublic.com/maz/post/188412/trump-humiliates-elon-musk-house-republicans

#FreeLeonardPeltier !!!

Feel free to copy paste this whole post to them!

Let the fat orange turd know!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

https://lakotalaw.org/resources/free-leonard-peltier

https://www.amnestyusa.org/campaigns/free-leonard-peltier/

https://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/free-leonard-peltier-2/

https://youtu.be/GpnfFe4wLa8

Scientists find a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten in the Siberian permafrost

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/16/nx-s1-5193845/35000-year-old-kitten-siberia-frozen

#CoSoNews #FrozenSaberToothKittensOfCoSo
#cats

#CoSoMusic

Woke up to The Rolling Stones version, which I love, but I really love this version a little bit more. 😁

💕 Beast of Burden - Bette Midler

https://youtu.be/zsqf-ORB37Q

https://newrepublic.com/article/188149/trump-war-games-2025-plans-not-reassuring
Worth a quick read.

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Our oldest proposed yesterday! Adding More LOVE to the family feels amazing!!

Friends, it so damn dark.

Tom Nichols‬ ‪@radiofreetom.bsky.social‬:

If this MSNBC story about courts-martial is confirmed, I'm begging people - especially writers and reporters - do not fall for the Trump line that this is about Afghanistan. This is about Trump seeking revenge on the people who woudn't do things like shoot American protesters.

To understand why Trump takes any radical actions that destabilize U.S. hegemony and undermine the respect of our allies—such as threatening to leave NATO or withdrawing from the Paris Accords—simply ask yourself: What would Putin want? Now this!
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-transition-team-compiling-list-current-former-us-military-office-rcna180489

‪Greg Sargent‬ ‪@gregsargent.bsky.social‬:

Trump's immediate efforts to stock the government with MAGA types isn't just about loyalty.

It's also about creating the conditions for elite corruption to flourish beyond anyone's expectations. Right wing elites are going to loot the place from top to bottom:
https://newrepublic.com/article/188467/trumps-musk-oligarchy-corruption

Here's today's forecast map and today's high temperature map. Check out the NWS site for more National Forecast Maps https://www.weather.gov/forecastmaps #weather #wx #TheOutPost #Forecast #precipitation #Temperature

Scattered severe thunderstorms are expected to develop across parts of west/northwest Texas into southwest Oklahoma this evening and continuing through daybreak on Monday, posing a risk for severe wind gusts and a few tornadoes. Please stay weather aware. #WeatherAwareDay #weather #wx #SPC #TheOutPost #SevereWeather  

I find that @MrGoat and CoSo sharing a birthday where CoSo is 7, and thus an appropriate gift is "wool" to be oddly apropos.