Notices by Mastodon Migration (mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)

🔥 On Tyranny - Ten Lessons 🔥

On this day of commemoration of our nation's 250 years of independence from tyranny, authoritarianism expert Prof. Timothy Snyder offers a compelling ten minute tutorial on resisting tyranny, beginning with: "Do not obey in advance."

https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/on-tyranny-special-250th-edition

Fifty years later, and this is what has been taken from us by the billionaires, corporations and corrupt politicians

They have stolen our joy.

Over the next fifty years our job is to take it back.

Barack Obama

America is a constant work in progress. Every generation must take up the unfinished work of the last and carry it further—protecting what's right, fixing what's wrong, and making our union a little more perfect. 250 years later, that’s more important than ever.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116855182902859321

Simply can't imagine using a social media platform where you could not edit your posts. It would be unbearable. 🤷

Just learned that #Bluesky users still can't edit their 300 character posts? 🤷

https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116448925245846694

As we are force fed one billionaire media story after another about how terrible the current progressive insurgency is for the Democratic Party and our hopes for electoral success, lets maybe ask: Since when did they care so much helping Democrats win elections? 🤔

Democratic Socialist Melat Kiros wins the nomination for US House of Representatives CO-1 (Denver Area)

h/t The Tennessee Holler

RE: https://mastodon.social/@indivisibleteam/116834339121565351

RIGHT NOW!

Great opportunity to help Progressive Dems oust Chuck Schumer and take control of the Senate...

Hmmmm 🤔

Colorado Senate Democratic Primary - Tomorrow

Sen. John Hickenlooper (incumbent)
- Age 75
- Supports Schumer
- Top donors AI & Energy corporations
- Supports fracking
- Public option
- Owns stocks in companies he regulates

State Sen. Julie Gonzales
- Age 43
- Oust Schumer
- Top donors individuals
- Ban fracking
- Medicare for all
- No stocks

The choice is clear. The stakes are huge.

Who is Taylor Lorenz and why should we care?

She's a technology columnist for the Washington Post, suspended this evening from Twitter apparently for asking Musk to comment on a story involving Musk. Musk is demonstrating that he can extort censorship from the media with the ban hammer. Taylor was targeted to be an example. Other journalists are put on notice it's not them...this time, and reminded to toe the line. This is about press freedom. That's why we all should care.

#twittermigration

Ken White, aka Popehat, a lawyer and popular poster on #Bluesky was recently suspended (https://www.popehat.com/p/a-bit-of-tedious-drama-at-bluesky). Suspension now over, Ken writes:

"...I believe that returning after a suspension carries with it an implicit promise that I won’t post that, or something like it, again. I won’t make that promise, so I won’t return to Bluesky."

Indeed, Bluesky is demonstrating they can extort censorship with the ban hammer. Other users are put on notice it's not you this time, toe the line.

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The Party of the People

What needs to happen, and what IS happening in one primary race after another, is a redefinition of the Democratic Party as the party of the people, not the billionaires and corporations.

Taking big money from corporate PACs is becoming the kiss of death for a Democratic candidate as it should be.

#WeThePeople

LANDER CRUSHES GOLDMAN

NY-10 Goldman v. Lander

A test of establishment v. progressive Dems.

Will update as results come in.

The big story emerging from yesterday's primary results is that Progressive Dems are winning everywhere by big margins over their establishment Corporate Dem opponents. #WeThePeople are taking over the Democratic Party.

How to spot the difference:

Takes money from AIPAC, AI and Crypto PACs >>> CorpDem
Supported by Schumer, Jeffries >>> CorpDem

Refuses to take money from AIPAC, AI and Crypto PACs >>> ProgDem
Supported by Mamdani, Pritzker, Warren, Sanders, AOC >>> ProgDem

#ProgressiveDemocrat

@Popehat @emptywheel

Admittedly Mastodon has an HOA problem. It has gotten better, but posters here are still sometimes pestered by people telling them how to use social media.

However, would argue that this sort of overly enthusiastic user behavior, is much less problematic than a centralized corporate authority censoring its users.

This account is not bridged to Bluesky, and will never be, but would like to extend an invitation to both these exceptional people to give us another try.

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Please come back...

There are two stellar accounts that hurt a lot when they departed Mastodon for Bluesky in 2023, @Popehat and @emptywheel.

Both left due to frustration with what we now call HOA behavior, and in particular people demanding CWs for politics related posts.

Now, apparently Popehat has been banned on Bluesky. Don't know the details, but even if the ban is lifted, the key take away is that the ban hammer is being used on #Bluesky to censor users free expression.

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#censorship

OK, so you may have seen that SpaceX high flying stock has been falling for the last several days despite the scam requiring your retirement funds to purchase it, but did you know that their really big spaceship is also grounded?

That's right, after the much ballyhooed Flight 12, which syncophantic media heralded a SUCCESS, even though the booster blew up, Starship is dead in the water until the FAA concludes whether the infernal machine's fancy new Raptor 3 engines are actually safe to fly.

RE: https://beige.party/@Lana/116795397010653803

Great SpaceX Index Fund MegaCap Trap explainer... with sandwiches...

@johntimaeus @petergleick

💯 The interesting part is what happens after the job gets buggered up.