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@DanWentzel As soulful a voice as I've ever heard. Her '90s greatest hits album was a constant in my car CD carousel.

Children must be protected from adults who think children must be protected from books.

@cjcrew Well, he's a sociopath. Borderline psychopath.

@cjcrew Yeah, that last sentence was more sarcasm. Completely agree with you. That's why I've believed for a while now that police unions needed to be ripped out by the roots, cleaned out, and replanted, and corrupt officers prosecuted.
In any way realistic? Probably not. But the days of "law enforcement" murdering the minority citizens they deem less-than or expendable has to end in this country, one way or another.

@JohnnyGenX Evolution usually takes care of that, yet . . .

@grapho @Janet Suddenly the bullies conveniently frame themselves the victim. Cowards, all.

"I can't imagine how you explain to a child that all the books in their classroom are dangerous and have been hidden without screwing up how the kid thinks about books, learning, and reading.

Orwellian in the strictest sense: state-led efforts at thought control."

- Will Stancil

I'd like to know how these courts can judge that "rhetoric" promoting anti-immigrant and racist takes aren't a direct threat to public safety, particularly in light of the rash of po-po crimes and extremist violence towards black and LGBTQ individuals and communities.
Apparently people or groups of people have to die before we make any headway with this country's flood of mass shootings virtually every. single. day.
npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/y

@kel Almost there, and series is pretty good so far.

@ranch_cat Late start to the series. Almost through episode two, and I'm liking it a lot.

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Mike Barbre

CounterSocial is the first Social Network Platform to take a zero-tolerance stance to hostile nations, bot accounts and trolls who are weaponizing OUR social media platforms and freedoms to engage in influence operations against us. And we're here to counter it.