Notices by Sally Strange (sallystrange@eldritch.cafe), page 5

@toussaint They tell me to vote Biden, but Biden emphatically does not want my vote. Who am I to tell Biden whose votes he needs?

@AnarchoNinaWrites lmao

"I vote and advocate for the candidate even as the candidate spits in my face. Therefore I should be able to spit in your face and receive your support"

As usual, fuck the fascists on the USA "supreme" court.

Critics call the EPA's good neighbor rule "ineffective" but without this principle of regulating interstate pollution, the northeast would never have solved its acid rain problem.

I'm old enough to remember going hiking in the Adirondacks and seeing dead and dying trees and lifeless lakes due to acid rain, which was formed from pollution byproducts emitted from factories in Ohio, Illinois, and other midwestern states.

Truly, the fall of the USA is essential for the survival of humanity.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-epa-good-neighbor-air-pollution-ea23421c78999293267339faf4453cdb

Timothée Parrique responds to Jacobin Magazine's latest entry in its intensely anti-degrowth campaign:

"Ten years ago, this piece would have still been shameful but at least with the excuse of dealing with a new, niche topic. In 2024, however, after decades of extensive research on degrowth, such pseudo-scientific boohoos can no longer be tolerated. I would have cut some slack to a politician or a business leader, but a university scholar has no excuse for producing an analysis that superficial. In light of the recent convergence between degrowth and eco-socialism, this is a step backward. Silver lining: these anti-degrowth whimpers might actually make degrowth more popular. As Rubén Vezzoni commented: 'turns out the best argument for degrowth is the intellectual meagreness of its detractors.'"

#Degrowth

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-03-04/a-response-to-daniel-driscoll-another-slice-of-degrowth-bashing/

Piracy is preservation

https://universeodon.com/@memeorandum/112680551026114680

Remember Patrick Braxton? The absolute legend who got sick of his small Alabama town being run by a bunch of unelected racist anti-vaxxers? The guy who ran for mayor of Newbern, AL, and won, despite said unelected officials trying to give him the wrong information about running for office? The guy who was then subsequently locked out of the mayor's office by said racist anti-vaxxers and sued?

Well, he has had a minor setback: a federal judge refused to grant his and other plaintiffs' request for an immediate injunction forcing Haywood "Woody" Stokes III (the unelected, white mayor who inherited the mayoralty from a 60-year-long chain of unelected white men) to stop locking Braxton out of town hall and step down. She noted that the plaintiffs, by waiting over a year to file the suit, failed to show the urgency of the request. However, she also noted that his argument in the trial, set to begin this September, is likely to win out.

#USpol #ALpol #racism #WhiteSupremacy #DemocracyDocket #PatrickBraxton #News #breaking

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-judge-in-alabama-denies-black-mayors-motion-to-force-white-town-leaders-to-allow-him-into-office/

@ATLeagle @w7voa *shot (sorry, can't help copy editing)

@northernlights @DemocracyMattersALot A billionaire is not an individual

losing my goddamn mind because everything happened at once today, I'm still trying to finish this goddamn project, and I won't be at work tomorrow or the next day (holiday, then I'm getting a colonoscopy!)

@AnarchoNinaWrites just want you to know that I, at least, appreciate how freakin nice you are.

@AnarchoNinaWrites Nina, you are generous to a fault.

OK State court dismisses reparations suit for survivors of Tulsa Racist Massacre of "Black Wall Street" residents.

'“The massacre happened 103 years ago, but it remains a vivid memory of [Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Ford Fletcher], who as young girls saw their community destroyed in the worst act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history,” the legal team explained in a statement. “As Mother Fletcher celebrated her 110th birthday last month and Mother Randle will celebrate the same birthday later this year, time is of the essence for this investigation to begin.”'

#Racism #WhiteSupremacy #USAhistory #BlackHistory #Reparations

Follow Capital B News on here: @capitalbnews.org

They do incredible reporting, consistently surfacing stories that nobody else covers well, or at all. #CapitalBNews

https://capitalbnews.org/tulsa-case-dismissal-reparations/

@checkervest @esvrld Ashley, we have to talk about how your online posts don't match your real-life behavior. They must match, Ashley! Otherwise people might think you're complex and multifaceted! No, Ashley, you cannot contain multitudes. That's against the rules.

This is great. Disney workers, trying to unionize, created buttons and stickers featuring Mickey Mouse's raised, clenched fist. It's public domain after all! Disney tried to stop them wearing these at work, but there's a law that says companies can't do that, even if they have a dress code, so the unionizers are suing Disney.

#Unionize #Unions #UnionStrong #organize #Disney

https://www.ocregister.com/2024/06/12/disneyland-union-files-charges-over-mickey-mouse-raised-fist-buttons/

@archaeohistories #Alt4You #descriptiveText

Me: listens to music that's sad and melancholy

Also me: Damn I'm feeling sad and melancholy, what's up with that?

It's funny to me that certain people are concerned about the Fediverse being a predominantly leftist online space when it is literally the only social network about which that is remotely true. Like what is the problem, really? You having trouble hearing conservative viewpoints? I'm not. I'm here because I'm tired of having those viewpoints blasted in my face day in and day out. If you wanna hear conservative viewpoints, you have Facebook, Twitter, Bluesky, the Guardian, the NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, Fox News, MSN, The Economist, the Wall Street Journal, Joe Rogan--and that's not even mentioning the fringe right outlets like Breitbart or the Daily Caller or whatever. Plus, you could always just make an alt and consort with the nazis on Truth Social.

@DebR You don't have to sound SO gleeful about Trump putting me in a camp

"The border will open when crossings decrease" = "The beatings will continue until morale improves"

#USpol

Your chance to insult, and then be blocked by, a misogynist: https://mastodon.social/@stefanfendt/112553035742356620