Notices by Panama Red (panamared27401@mstdn.social), page 2

I wasn't, dude.

@jeffowski Please stop sharing this meme. It's not the *pastors* who are tax-exempt. It's the *churches that pay them* that are tax-exempt. Those churches should lose their tax exemptions, but that's a totally separate argument. The pastors are already paying taxes. (Maybe not enough, but in that respect they're no different from nonpastors with similar incomes.)

Fire-breathing cat.

@jeffowski I don't think it's intelligence so much as knowledge.

Something else that journos are doing wrong: reporting on "epic partisan battles" rather than getting into the nuances of issues and institutions. Among other negative fallout, this approach makes it harder for people to change their minds about anything. #press #journalism #media https://presswatchers.org/2023/12/epic-battle-framing-leads-people-to-tune-out-and-dig-in-scholar-says/

@inthehands It is RICO, is what it is

"I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream." ~ Bruce Springsteen, born #OTD in 1949.

@inthehands The cops are losing continence over THIS? Good Christ, ANY cop who doesn't understand where these rules are coming from is a fucking psychopath and needs to be locked up in an institution.

@mcnees My inner 6-year-old responds that this means one thing if Neptune is a planet and something entirely different if Neptune is a person.

@Popehat https://xkcd.com/748/

@patrickcmiller "Glitch" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. If pressed, Musk will say it was to save money on servers. The real reason is that visual documentation of the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street and other progressive organization during that period is gone for good.

"I've got a book coming out that says 200,000 Americans perished unnecessarily because they listened to antivaxxer disinformation." -- Dr. Peter Hotez on #AllIn on why he won't "debate" antivaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. #COVID #press

Outstanding! Janet Protasiewicz is the projected winner in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election! The court flips from hard-right to common-sense progressive. Abortion may be legalized in the state. The state may be ungerrymandered. Folks, you've got to vote, every election, every time.

@Mrfunkedude Since about 1963, yep.

When the #Panthers traded Christian McCaffrey to the #49ers for some high draft picks earlier this season, it did what every GM involved in a blockbuster trade hopes it will do: It immediately turned the 49ers from a good team to a great one. #SEAvsSF

@Marshall THE MOTION IS DENIED *bangs gavel*

I have #ADHD and just learned about #BrownNoise as a possible aid to concentration. So I've tried it. n = 1, but, holy hell, this is gonna be life-changing. Samples of brown noise available on YouTube. https://wapo.st/3TzIh1c