Notices by Mary Hilton for Harris (fmhilton@mastodon.sdf.org)

@joeo10 Thank you for that!
I'm going to go slow with getting it up and running, because it's the first real NEW computer I've ever had. All the rest were tech husband specials.

I'm getting happy now! My computer is shipped but not yet picked up by FedEx!

Oh, I will be so happy to finally have a machine that works!

It's not the ring they're kissing, actually.
"'Morning Joe' Co-Hosts Agree 'To Restart Communications' With Trump After Long-Standing Criticism"

They're afraid of being canceled by Trump's new FCC nominee. They love their money, and they can't get regular jobs.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/morning-joe-trump-scarborough-mika-brzezinski_n_673b4621e4b0f7e185133c89

@joeo10 Plus, with Elon having a potentially influential spot in the Wh, it can get very tricky because he'll try to buy every social platform to make sure the 'haters' are under his control. Don't say it won't happen..just look at the past election for that nonsense.

@joeo10 I was tempted to sign up for Bluesky, but when I saw the original owners I balked. Corporate hegemony is bad. The same people who own all the other shitty platforms, like Meta also own Bluesky.

Perhaps we should all take these words to heart:

"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them."

Eric Hoffer
#quotes

One reason to be very scared of this time around-it's obvious Trump is going through Alzheimer's.
Who the hell is going to be running the country?

@Ricardus Same here. I'm just not cut out to be fighting the same devils this country has been fighting for over 150 years. Let the young ones find out this. I can't do it any more. 8 years was enough.

@Ricardus Here's an editorial that speaks to that point.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-is-america-not-a-fluke/
"A country that allows its environment to be ravaged, its children to be shot, its wealth to be hoarded, its workers to be exploited, its poor to starve, its cops to murder, and its minorities to be hunted doesn’t really deserve to be “saved.” It deserves to fail."

@maddad All those millions of people who have died for this country will have died in vain.

Because we're not smart enough to reject hate and people who promote hate.

In years to come historians will ponder where did the America that went to the moon go?

We used to be the most hopeful nation in the world, the one where everyone could get ahead.

Now we have nothing more than hate and bile to hear all day long.

We should be ashamed of ourselves.

@joeo10 I love the Onion! 🤣 I'd read them over the NYT any day.

What the true agenda we're voting against in November:

Fascism
White Nationalism
Theocracy
Nazism.

These are all bad things. We don't want them in our country and we don't need people who espouse them in office.

VOTE BLUE FOR DEMOCRACY AND DECENCY!

@StillIRise1963 Here's a poll that should see some results. I wonder if anyone will fill it out. Boost for wider audience. I'm genuinely curious.

@joeo10 There's another news org that's gone. Nobody I know would pay for it on line-the cable people spend enough money on them, don't they?
Bullshit.

@joeo10 I agree with that as well, but under our capitalist system that would be impossible.
Greed is good, as Mr. Gekko would say.

@joeo10 It was assumed that it would happen anyway-they're synergistic.
But the private equity firm shit is going to kill it good. Like they do everything they buy.

Private equity firms should be banned from buying anything.

@IveyJanette @StillIRise1963 There's also the lie that black women don't have difficulties while having babies. That they don't get sick at all. Vicious lies.

@StillIRise1963 @IveyJanette That is the truth. The abortion bans have been killing black women and their babies at unprecedented rates since Roe was overturned. That is racism defined and demonstrated. It was overturned by white people for white women and babies, couldn't care less about black women or children.

@IveyJanette @StillIRise1963 That's a great word "Misogynoir" to describe the situation. Perfect blending of two concepts. I hadn't seen it before today. Thanks!