Notices by ts 🚉 (tsyum@thepit.social)

Does your #Mastodon app say how long someone’s account has existed? Newness isn’t necessarily a reason to distrust, but this can often be useful information for deciding how to engage here.

#fediverse

@ryanhoulihan whaaat, how has the Biden admin messed this up so badly?

Sandra Hemme spent 43 years wrongfully imprisoned. Missouri would pay little if she is freed | KCUR

https://www.kcur.org/news/2024-06-30/sandra-hemme-spent-43-years-wrongfully-imprisoned-missouri-would-pay-little-if-she-is-freed

This is a great time to learn about forced confessions. They happen in the U.S.

We #remember the exonerated five.

That people get put into cages at all upsets me, and our legal system is pretty fucked on top of that. Pls read “Mistakes Were Made (but not by me)” if you can find a copy.

#abolition #Missouri #news #USPol

@aral @RustyBertrand @kittylyst thank you, Aral. I’d boosted the OP but have to undo for now

With the #Boston Globe reporting on yesterday’s event, my estimate is that hundreds of people gathered to say No #Pride in Genocide. It was powerful - especially considering that some of our active protestors had departed the previous night to be in Washington 🇵🇸
At Boston’s Saint James Ave and Berkeley St, I felt the energy under my feet. Numerous pple in the parade were expressing their support for Palestine, too. On Boston Common, we connected the past and present struggles of our community.

TIL that Judy Garland was born Frances Ethel Gumm, and the night of her funeral was the Stonewall riot - in 1969.

#history #pride

Man, the idea endowments keep the cost of college low? 🤦♂️
We see this b.s. People are drowning in debt.
We divested from South Africa years ago. We can absolutely divest from Israel. And we must.
#education #USPol

Boston Globe/NYT: US military ships are working to build a pier for Gaza aid. It’s going to cost at least $320 million.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/30/world/us-military-ships-are-working-build-pier-gaza-aid-its-going-cost-least-320-million/

It seems to me that $320 million is a *tiny fraction* of what we’ve given the terrorist state next door.

@Adam_Cadmon1 @tillshadeisgone Jameelah (Jones) posted an *excellent** video with tips and reminders for this moment: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLuDk8b6/

Protesters block private jets at Hanscom Airfield - The Lexington Observer

https://lexobserver.org/2024/04/20/hanscom-extinction-rebe/

Thank you to everyone that is addressing the reality we’re increasingly faced with - a system that destroys our future. The #climate crisis is here. We have to stop the insanity of believing in trickle-down economics and imagine with open-mindedness a different way of doing things

#MAPoli #transportation

Federal judge orders City of Houston to stop ticketing 'Food Not Bombs' for feeding homeless downtown

https://abc13.com/food-not-bombs-wins-injunction-houston-volunteers-ticketed-for-feeding-homeless-downtown-free-meals-near-city-hall/14426341/

🥳 congrats to everyone involved. I know there are some good Texans fighting for our human rights. Much love from Boston 🤟🏼

South Africa’s Legal Case Is a Devastating Indictment of Israel’s War on Gaza

https://jacobin.com/2024/01/south-africa-icj-isarel-gaza/

“The intent to destroy a group is often seen as the most difficult element of genocide to prove and is often the distinction between a brutal war and a campaign of genocide. South Africa’s [case] submission shows how the genocidal rhetoric that has accompanied Israel’s campaign in Gaza has been overt and omnipresent from the outset. The running database of Israeli statements of genocidal intent and incitement compiled by the legal group Law for Palestine has now passed FIVE HUNDRED entries.”

@AnarchoDoggo @SallyStrange gift link? Can’t read…

Some #goodNews: #Maine will consider banning new natural gas pipelines:

https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/11/11/politics/natural-gas-pipeline-energy-debate-joam40zk0w/

“So the question is, can we continue with a business as usual approach?” he said. “I think it’s very important that we study the future of natural gas in Maine.”

Gov’r Mills is likely to need a push from residents. But given the problem of burning fossil fuels, other project expenses, and how surprisingly successful heat pumps have shown themselves to be, it’s smart to tackle this Q now.

#climate

@feditips @Gargron would a person have to do everything twice- like follow somebody- or is there a way to have one account mirror the other automatically?

Can we not yet bookmark using the iOS app? :(
@feditips

Curious about this "NOTE" feature. Is it a place that only I would see--in case I had a thought regarding some profile, a note to self? @feditips do you know?

Weird that I can see posts from people when I’m a rando on the Internet, but thru my account (the iOS app) they don’t show up. Have you noticed this @feditips ? Anyone else?
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