Notices by Kathy E. Gill 🇺🇦 (kegill@mastodon.social)

A 2022 YouGov survey suggests that conservative talking points have an ripe if uneducated audience:

“Americans tend to vastly overestimate the size of minority groups.”

— Trans people: 21% but actually 1%
— Black people: 41% but actually 12%
— Jewish people: 30% but actually 2%

https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/41556-americans-misestimate-small-subgroups-population

#USPolitics #Election2024 #demographics #LGBTQ

Five masked White supremacists waving Nazi flags demonstrated outside of a production of the play “The Diary of Anne Frank” this weekend.

It was the third Nazi demonstration in Livingston County, Michigan.

https://michiganadvance.com/2024/11/11/protesters-wave-nazi-flags-outside-performance-of-the-diary-of-anne-frank-in-howell/

#USPolitics #Election2024 #WhatComesAfter

One of the most insightful — and disturbing — essays on last week.

Found on BlueSky.

#USPolitics
#Election2024
#WhatComesAfter

https://cooperlund.medium.com/the-low-trust-election-fb635f995f3c

@katrinakatrinka

So don’t engage.
Mocking is engaging.

Five people with signs isn’t the same thing as a group with a parade permit and history of verbal violence.

@katrinakatrinka

It was only five, thank goodness. I don’t know that “mocking” would be effective.

@katrinakatrinka

Ignoring them makes them feel invisible. Not “safe.” Invisible is the worst. Their goal is chaos.

Again, the 2017 article does not come close to representing what happened here.

Haymarket Books has made 10 key antifascist ebooks #free to download.

“Wherever each of us live, work, and are in community: the time is now to build power and fight back, together.”

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-ten-free-ebooks-for-getting-free

#USPolitics
#Election2024
#reading

Truth.

#USPolitics #Election2024 #trump #elon #musk

@sleepy62 @pluralistic Does Canada have an equivalent to our anti-trust law?

The #Biden Administration once again writes rules that turn monopolies into competitive markets. This time: banks.

Switching costs are real. And now quantified for banking.

Reminder: monopolists and oligarchs pay lip service to “competition.” That’s why they are suing to stop this final reg.

From @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/01/bankshot/

Also
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/no-matter-what-bank-says-its-your-money-your-data-and-your-choice

#competition
#Election2024
#USPolitics
#finance
#harris

Truth.

They didn’t stop abortion
They stopped safe abortion.
They didn’t ban books
They banned thinking.
They didn’t burn witches
They burned women.

#USPolitics
#Election2024
#authoritarianism
#trump
#roevember

Jeff #Bezos: the Blue Origin meeting “was scheduled quickly that morning.”

The Bulwark: “If you are nice to Trump, the government will be nice to you. If you criticize #Trump, the government will be used against you. Which is why Trump met with Blue Origin on the same day that Bezos yielded. It was a demonstration—a very public demonstration.”

1+1=2

https://wapo.st/3NKRzHc
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/bezos-trump-and-the-failure-of-democracy

#RuleOfLaw #Election2024 #USPolitics

The Elon Musk million dollar lottery is probably illegal. Will the DOJ/FEC act?

Pennsylvania Gov Josh Shapiro has called for “law enforcement” to investigate.

https://themoderatevoice.com/the-elon-musk-million-dollar-lottery-is-probably-illegal-will-the-doj-fec-act/

#USPolitics
#Election2024 #ElonMusk #electionCrimes #electionFraud #bribery

Musk and #starlink will be a case study on the tragedy of the commons. https://zeroes.ca/@Geoffberner/113262449046734619

Written by a person who has clearly never been asked to check in - with or without ID - at a polling place. And Georgia is an ID-to-vote state.

There is nothing here to suggest that #elonmusk's mother, #MayeMusk is joking. (See her website to understand Elon's ego.)

Birdsite:
https://x.com/mayemusk/status/1842637728946544839

#USPolitics
#election2024
#voterFraud

The yellow counties have more people than the blue counties combined. (I would have used a different color.)

“Just 4.5% of U.S. counties contain 50% of the population.” It’s another reason why the EC broken.

https://brilliantmaps.com/half-us-population/

#Election2024 #USpolitics #society

Vance’s church has condemned his bigotry. 😳

“Today, our nation is divided by partisanship and ideology, which blind us to the image of God in our neighbor, especially the unborn, the poor, and the stranger. These negative sentiments are only exacerbated by gossip, which can spread quickly across social media with no concern for the truth or those involved.”

#USPolitics
#Election2024
#vance
#springfield
#TrumpVance
#catholicChurch
#immigration

Letter:
https://www.ohiocathconf.org/Portals/1/Bishop%20Statements/Catholic%20Bishops%20of%20Ohio%20Letter%20on%20Migrants.pdf

This should be bigger news.

23andMe stock is less than $1. They have until Nov 4th to get it above $1 or be delisted. The entire board has quit.

Wojcicki should appeal to 23andMe customers to keep it from being sold. Sale = privacy policies vanish. We are must impacted.

#society #privacy #genetics
#genetictesting #health

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/09/23andme-dna-data-privacy-sale/680057/

Also, 2023 #DataBreach
https://www.eladelantado.com/us/23andme-settlement/

This cannot be shared too often.

Trickle down economics is a scam.

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/september-21-2024?r=5wdm&utm_medium=ios

#USPolitics
#Election2024
#economy
#economics
#society
#incomeInequality

Trump promises to invade “all sanctuary cities” with federal “law enforcement” and petition Congress to make such cities illegal.

#USPolitics #Election2024 #immigration #trump #society #fascism #authoritarianism