Notices by Mastodon Migration (mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)

Video Clip: Sen. Cory Booker Filibuster Concludes - Let's Get In Good Trouble

Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏

h/t Aaron Rupar on Threads

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LIVE VIDEO: SEN. CORY BOOKER FILIBUSTER - RIGHT NOW!

"As long as I am physically able. Because our nation is in crisis."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2utlMxAwtE

"Cory Booker (D-NJ) has taken the Senate floor and is speaking as long as he is physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the administration have shown a complete disregard for the rule of law, the Constitution, and the needs of the American people."

Video: Tim Walz Holds a Town Hall in Houston Texas 3/30/2025

Beto O’Rourke joins Walz in wide ranging town hall and calls for Chuck Schumer to step down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZck0HxFsGI

O'Rourke 1:06:16: [Schumer] told us he was going to fight this thing and stick with Democrats. Every single Democrat in the house except for one stood together... Chuck Schumer said he was going to stick with them and then for for some reason he capitulates he caves and and he surrenders...

WELKER: Do you believe that Ratcliffe and Gabbard were truthful when they testified before your committee?

BENNET: No. I think they lied repeatedly to our committee and to the House committee... This is why the American people... are so deeply concerned, not just by what happened, but about the lies they were told about what happened.

h/t Aaron Rupar via Theads

Conservative Republican congressman Mike Flood of Columbus Nebraska held a town hall. It did not go well. Rep. Flood was heckled consistently after every answer. In one case a constituent standing up and saying "shame" and attendees raining down boos.

https://www.c-span.org/program/public-affairs-event/rep-mike-flood-holds-town-hall-meeting/657332

Question on:

Social Security: 12:40
Canada 32:20
DOGE 57:56
Rural Hospitals Closing: 1:05:55
Supporting Sexual Harasser 1:21:00

Video Clip: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney

“The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperations is over."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgjybooP-pA

Video: Governor JB Pritzker (D-IL) HRC Dinner 3/22

"I've always embraced the norms and rules of decorum... even when the other side of the aisle was periodically tossing those norms... I hoped that some part of Donald Trump's cruel nature would bow to two and a half centuries of tradition for 10 years ever since Donald Trump descended that ridiculous gold escalator... [but] the response to authoritarianism isn't acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing and one thing only. A punch in the face"

Video: Fighting Oligarchy - Tucson AZ with AOC, Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar 3/22

"If there was ever a time in the modern history of this country where people have got to stand up and fight back, this is the moment."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeLI1YI6ghQ

Offset links:
Casar 22:40 https://www.youtube.com/live/zeLI1YI6ghQ?si=nVZeQcKM2v_Julvb&t=1360
AOC 35:54 https://www.youtube.com/live/zeLI1YI6ghQ?si=jaTT76tsG7QEot_x&t=2154
Sanders 1:06:16 https://www.youtube.com/live/zeLI1YI6ghQ?si=tR-X5n-b2TVD80N4&t=3976

Crowd total reported to be 23,000!

#FightingOligarchy

So looks like the crowd total for this Tucson Fighting Oligarchy event was 23,000!

As opposition accounts on X are suspended in Turkey at this critical juncture in their political struggles (https://www.politico.eu/article/musks-x-suspends-opposition-accounts-turkey-protest-civil-unrest-erdogan-imamoglu-istanbul-mayor/), perhaps now is a good time to encourage our friends here on #Threads and #Bluesky to at least have an escape plan. Pack a social media emergency go bag by creating a Mastodon/Fediverse account (https://joinmastodon.org/) and start using it, at least as a secondary platform.

Video: KCCI exclusive 3/20/2025 - Full interview with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, in Iowa on town hall tour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbhYiv4aNo4

Folks on Mastodon, if you are paying attention to current events in the US, following @Nonilex, @GottaLaff and @heidilifeldman is very highly recommended. These three spectacular members of this community unflinchingly keep us informed even when the news is brutal. This is not easy work, and we are very fortunate for their dedication and commitment.

Video: TeslaTakedown Mass Mobilizing Call

While addressing the specific protest, this video is much more than simply an organizational meet up. Speakers include Rep. Jasmine Crockett (13:35), Gil Durán (24:25), Edward Niedermeyer (28:00), John Cusack (41:26), Micah Lee (55:55), Joan Donovan (59:00) [direct links in comment below]

Check it out, particularly Crockett, Durán, and Lee. What is forming here is a grass roots opposition movement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APHo7bea_p4

For those who have not seen it yet, ActivityPub co-author Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber has written a new thread that addresses the more recent claims that the #Bluesky AT Protocol is getting more "decentralized".

Her bottom line: "ATProto still cannot scale down and scale wide, not towards meaningful decentralization."

Here is a link to the very thoughtful and informative thread which also includes links to her other threads and essays on the topic of AT Protocol.

https://social.coop/@cwebber/114194820571954617

Why I recommend against Bluesky - Have you ever heard of the term federation-washing? by Nicco Venerandi

So the absolute best explainer about why Mastodon is a preferable platform to #Bluesky was just dropped by Niccolò Venerandi @niccolove Peertube: @veggero

https://thelibre.news/why-i-recommend-against-bluesky/

Definitely check it out!

And in addition to reading the article (which is great BTW), you can get the full clear concise explanation from his "Nicco Loves Linux" video linked in the comments to this post.

The outrage with Schumer and any Senate Democrat that votes YES on this cloture is boiling over right now.

Adam Parkhomenko on Threads: "When you feel like you need to move from protesting outside of USAID to protesting outside of Chuck Schumer’s office it’s time for a change. Let’s stop playing games... This is not working and it is not acceptable. And this cannot continue."

Simple post... Everyone really should consider following @heidilifeldman these days.

@alexlunaview

This all kind of started last week with the story the US was curtailing support of EW systems on the F-16s given to Ukraine. This gave new life to speculation about a "kill switch' in the F-35s, and Germany's Wolfgang Ischinger, the former chairman of the Munich Security Conference said: “If we should fear that the US would make the future German F-35 [jets] the same as they do in Ukraine now, then the issue of contract cancellation may be considered.”

https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/114134522943238905

Well folks, US defense industry stories don't get any bigger than this.

Portugal says it's no longer going to purchase F-35 fighters, and will instead buy next generation fighters from an EU source.'

https://www.airdatanews.com/instead-of-f-35-portugal-turns-to-europe-in-search-of-new-fighter/

"The Portuguese Defense Minister, Nuno Melo, ruled out an order for the aircraft, as did several other European nations, and blamed the Trump administration... Melo stated that the “predictability of our allies is a greater asset to take into account.""

h/t @alexlunaview

Bluesky To Sell Your Content To AI Data Miners

So it begins. Hidden in the Jay Graber's recent charm offensive is this innocuously framed initiative: Bluesky is weighing a proposal that gives users consent over how their data is used for AI (https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/10/bluesky-is-weighing-a-proposal-that-gives-users-consent-over-how-their-data-is-used-for-ai/)

Not so fast.

1) Shows they are planning on doing content deals with AI companies.
2) Seems like it is Opt-out vs. Opt-in (see below).
3) It is just a voluntary robots.txt file

h/t @Lydie https://tech.lgbt/@Lydie/114149023344861046

more...

#Bluesky