Notices by Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)

NEW: Leading up to Election Day, citizens, leaders, journalists and politicians called out the dangers of a second Trump presidency.

"What has surprised me, depressed me and ultimately angered me are the voices that have gone silent," marc.e.elias writes. Now is the time for courage, not obedience, he argues. https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/now-is-the-time-for-courage/

Hi Muskrat!

U.S. auto safety regulators said Tuesday they have opened an investigation into 280,000 new #Tesla Model 3 and Model Y vehicles over reports of loss of steering control and power steering. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-regulator-opens-probe-into-tesla-cars-over-loss-steering-control-2023-08-01/

🤬#Missouri judge ruled ban on gender-affirming health care for minors can take effect Mon…means next wk health care providers prohib from providing gender-affirming surgeries to children. Minors who began puberty blockers or hormones before Mon will be allowed to cont. meds, but other minors won’t have access to drugs.
Some adults also lose access to gender-affirming care. Medicaid no longer cover treatments for adults, state won’t provide surgeries to prisoners #LGBTQ https://apnews.com/article/transgender-health-minors-missouri-196d873aa5a5b8b05b0af18f0e653a16

I'm not replying... you guys, I'm inundated. I still need to import stuff at the new digs.

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Whatever it takes to bring followers over to my new @GottaLaff@mstdn.social account, I've failed.

So, please spread the word to my usual friends to follow me there if somehow I messed up that part of the move.

I'm having a tough time getting it right. Sorry.📢

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Via my pal @PaulHRosenberg:

"We could call them "Executive Disorders," in honor of his psychological condition."

OH GOOD LORD, I'VE CREATED HAVOC!!

Yes, it's me on mstdn.social.

and here at Mastodon.social.

I'm moving to the former.

All is okay.

@kims I'm GottaLaff at mstdn.social and here.

@WarnerCrocker And go viral!

@WarnerCrocker I just did watch, even though I keep seeing it and never got to.

It didn't make a dent. It was great, others can benefit, but he won't.

@FediThing Oh good, thanks. I really don't care THAT much. People will find me.

But lists? My Mastodon deck interface is all about lists/columns. I lose those?

Via Kimberly Atkins:

I wish this were a country where a serious allegation like this would matter, because it should. But it didn’t matter when it was Anita Hill. It didn’t matter when it was Christine Blasey Ford. This is our America. Heaven help us

"Senators receive affidavit containing new allegations against #Hegseth, who denies the claims

The former sister-in-law of Trump’s defense secretary pick said that Hegseth made his second wife fear for her safety.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna188342

Vindictive putz.

“Within hours of taking office, [Felon] #Trump terminated the Secret Service detail that was assigned to his former national security adviser John Bolton, Bolton confirmed to CNN on Tuesday.

https://cnn.it/4jrvcW0

I know I'm opening myself up for an onslaught of responses I won't understand, irrelevant replies, and redundant replies, but I'm asking anyway:

I'm considering switching from Mastodon . social to mstdn . social. Stux is awesome, I need to break from zillions of bots as best I can.

I've never tried to transfer before. I have a good guide, but in real life, do followers get moved reliably? Do posts?

Tips?

*Bracing for replies*

@Wileymiller

Politico:

COLUMN | “Time to Admit It: Trump Is a Great President. He's Still Trying
To Be a Good”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/21/harris-column-trump-great-president-00199564

Via Brad Moss:

Everything.

Justin Baragona:

Newsmax's Judge Napolitano says #Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship is "a very troublesome thing he wants to do," adding "if he can nullify that portion of the Constitution, what else can he nullify."

Keep fighting

WaPo:

“Natl Treasury Employees Union, which represents fed govt employees in 37 agencies & depts, has sued #Trump over his order that makes it easier to fire career civil servants & replace them w political loyalists. The complaint calls the order “contrary to congressional intent”… building a govt made up mostly of jobs “in the merit-based, competitive service.”

The suit is one of many filed in the past 24 hours that seek to block Trump from overhauling the federal workforce”

😥Damn. #RIP Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter and children’s book author who was one of the most humorously neurotic literary voices of his generation, died Jan. 17 at his home in Upstate New York. He was 95.
The cause was congestive heart failure

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/01/21/jules-feiffer-cartoonist-humorist-pulitzer-dead/

@SnowshadowII Do you like your instance? I'm thinking of switching.

I spend hours blocking on this one.

@emd I like the look of it. But can it handle all the idiot bots that pester me all the time? @SnowshadowII