Notices by Lurkle DEI makes life great (lurkle@mstdn.social), page 2

Lesson learned: it takes longer for a society to absorb the reality of Russian-style disinformation than it does for Russian-style disinformation to destroy that society.

So they won’t look at each candidate as an individual? It’s all so confusing.

"“At this time, you should know that no applicant for our fellows program, our summer internship, or employment in our office who is a student or affiliated with a law school or university that continues to teach and utilize DEI will be considered,” Martin wrote."

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/acting-dc-us-attorney-ed-martin-is-out-of-control

US warning about Chinese recruitment of fired workers. LOL. If you’re gonna live in a gaslighting dictatorship, why not go where the money’s better and someone’s actually thinking about the future?

"That is when capital flight really kicks in. When you lose trust. When you lose the confidence of people who maybe want to back you, support, guide you, but now can’t rely on you.

Then, there’s no choice but to pull the plug."

https://www.theissue.io/how-an-america-the-world-cant-trust-goes-from-collapse-to-implosion/

Holy shit Zelensky is a HERO. Straight up stone cold BOSS.

That's how you do this stuff, you fake-ass macho men. He has what you will never have.

Damn.

There is no more pressure in the world than sitting on live TV in the oval office and zelensky said "I will not kneel."

Just wow.

We also need to let this sink in: by shouting about WWIII, Trump basically said he’s not going to do anything to stop it. So to bolster his own ego, he’s willing to let the world be reduced to a nuclear cinder. So much winning.

Mozilla. Sigh.

Pretty much everything noble capitulates eventually.

You just keep moving to the next thing.

Tomorrow needs to be enough of an economic blip to remind them that recession is going to tank their plans.

We are TOUGH and we will do what it takes to make them respect democracy. Tomorrow isn't the end--it's just the beginning.

#BlackoutFriday

Trump is at least aware of what flu pandemics can do. So hiring RFK Jr. and letting him destroy flu preparedness is a calculated act of terrorism.

https://www.vox.com/2020/5/1/21243980/trump-1918-flu-pandemic-1917

@aral Fine, Tim … you know what else can change? Where we shop. Who we buy from. And you have ceased to be one of them.

@stevenodb @aral Shareholders are rejecting plans to scrap DEI. Cook tells them they may “have to” change them to “comply” but glibly says the company is still morally grounded. Cook personally gave a million dollars to the bigot leading this charge. Maybe I’m missing something.

I remember a lot of people hating various presidents in my life. The average person on the street fearing the president, though … that’s new.

Members of the military would do well to remember the trials that inevitably catch up to people when it’s all over.

"an apparent effort to intimidate the military and create an officer corps personally loyal to him."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/cq-brown-and-friday-night-massacre/681803/

"Replacing a Black officer with a white one who is literally, by law, unqualified, is not the best way to show that you are only worried about qualifications and not race."

https://www.whattrumpdid.today/2025/02/what-did-donald-trump-do-today-he-fired.html

Well, he’s got every single thing a dictator could want now.

The only question, then, for each of us, is whether we just go along with it.

When fires are at your doorstep and plagues are raging, these ads will be playing and Elon will be in his bunker spending quality time with his tax cuts:

"up to $200 million to run anti-immigrant ads in the United States and overseas that repeatedly thank President Donald Trump for leading an immigration crackdown."

https://digbysblog.net/2025/02/22/money-for-fluffing/

“We must do what they fear—tell the truth, spread the truth. This is the most powerful weapon against this regime of liars, thieves, and hypocrites. Everyone has this weapon. So make use of it.”

—Alexei Navalny, “Patriot”

Education without DEI is not education.

Angry?

Oh, you delicate daisies who cower behind 4chan avs, you have no idea how angry Americans are getting. You’re about to find out how people fight when their lives are on the line.