Twitter's lead European Union privacy regulator said she was concerned that the Elon Musk-owned U.S. firm had launched its Twitter Blue subscription service in the region without consulting her office, despite a pledge to do so

https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitters-lead-eu-regulator-concerned-over-blue-tick-roll-out-2023-03-07/

Firearms are the leading cause of death for American Children and Teens.

46 Medical Organizations have come together in unity to address one of the most important Public Health Problems of modern time.

Just Released: http://bit.ly/FirearmMedicalSummit

A guy who's been impeached twice and is facing multiple felony charges should not be allowed to run for office.

What the fuck is wrong with America?

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

George Orwell

The catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa in Alexandria, Egypt, is a huge necropolis that dates back to the 2nd century CE. With 3 tiers of tombs that could accommodate up to 300 corpses, the catacombs shows a unique combination of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman artistic traditions

A woman is arrested for throwing wine on Rapey McForehead Gaetz. When will he be arrested for rape?

Trump Jr. complains about Fox: "I haven’t been on in nine months" https://trib.al/vGJxSyz

A state court has blocked Utah’s first-in-the-nation ban on abortion clinics from taking effect in a ruling in which the judge called the Republican-controlled Legislature’s objective in enacting the ban “nebulous.”
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/utah-judge-delays-implementing-statewide-abortion-clinic-ban-rcna82609

“Don’t join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed."
President Eisenhower, Dartmouth College, 1953

The Texas Senate just passed a bill to give Greg Abbott’s handpicked Sec. of State the power to overturn elections in the 3rd biggest county in the U.S.

Republicans weaponizing 2020 election lies to rig elections. This is a HUGE story.

So, the Secretary of State has the power to CANCEL election results in its largest Democratic county is also the same state that wants to ban all polling locations on college campus. This isn’t random. It’s the literal definition of voter suppression.

JFC this is goddamn horrific.

Glad I stopped eating at this shithole a long time ago.

https://www.wdrb.com/news/business/investigation-finds-10-year-old-children-working-unpaid-at-louisville-mcdonalds/article_65180cb8-e95d-11ed-beab-ef0317b2e48b.html

For the first time, scientists have caught a star in the act of swallowing a planet — not just a nibble or bite, but one big gulp.

https://apnews.com/article/star-eats-planet-galactic-gulp-660ef9e64e15e35f8ad820e032494704

Why are people surprised that the Dilbert guy turned out to be a racist weirdo? He's been pretty far gone since 2016.

ICYMI: Canals in Venice are almost dry amid drought warnings in Italy following weeks of dry winter weather and the Alps having received less than half of their normal snowfall https://reut.rs/41azlnZ

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EPA temporarily halts removal of contaminated waste from East Palestine derailment https://trib.al/WEb2RZ6

Putin will be killed by his inner circle, Zelensky predicts

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ed56db1c-b5ec-11ed-a1e6-75eebc433c21

“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.”--Rebecca Solnit

Hearing that the Twitter layoffs last night were well above 50 and hit multiple departments including engineering.

the layoffs last night included a ton of surprises. Hardcore Musk loyalists and the founder of the newsletter platform Revue that Twitter acquired in 2021.

How many more abuse victims have to come forward before people admit that enabling abusers is a problem?