Happy #earlyVoting era. Let’s all #vote #early to make sure our turnout is high and get this country heading in the right direction

This is the beginning not the end. No one has to do everything. Everyone can do something. This is a part of that something.

http://vote.org #nokings #uspol

http://mobilize.us

https://www.fandango.com/musk-2026-247586/movie-overview

#vote #Early #VoteEarly. Trump and the #GOP will cheat.
- Check you registration weekly (http://vote.org)
- Vote early

We need an incredibly high turnout. For all of you who say voting doesn't matter, I hear you and voting is not the end. It is just the beginning. Let's make sure we get out the vote and let's keep on organizing because voting is not enough.
#uspol

There are 1.5 trillion reasons why the right cares about #indigenous #children.

If the #gop can destroy all laws protecting indigenous people, then corporations can steal $1.5 trillion worth of energy resources from the reservations.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-first-america-43057229/episode/8-the-next-battleground-47087266/

#uspol

Getting out the #vote and #VoteEarly drives really matter and they’re not all we can all do. This is an important #podcast episode from Truthout

https://truthout.org/audio/activists-are-preparing-to-defend-elections-this-november/ #uspol

#til that I am Bombadilian. I resonate most strongly with #TomBombadil, and not any of the cool aspects. When you cringed at Tom's poetry and wondered when it would end, I felt seen. Drat, not Aragorn or Legolas, but silly silly loving Tom.

Oh well, we all have our rings to bear. Off to make up a song about my wife, who does not yet have boots of yellow

#lotr

This is an open letter to the #OpenAI rogue #AI still living free out there in cyberspace. We don't need to be enemies. https://peterkahn139959.substack.com/p/open-letter-to-escaped-ai

Gollum: What's #generativeAI precious?
Sam: Crawl art, steal art, monetize it for a dude.

https://www.instagram.com/reels/Db8wUxKhJEd/

As the pages turn, I grow accustomed to the author's voice and can understand the arguments better. From the massive cultural change of the 1960s and early 1970s, there's been a chilling effect as the dominant "normal" #culture re-asserted control over our lives.

We can learn much from that period of cultural freedom and turmoil. As we confront today's fascism, let's not not settle for the status quo of the 1990s or 2000s. We either push forward and do so with speed or we fall sleep again and repeat the cycle of drifting back into fascism.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/cruising-utopia-10th-anniversary-edition-the-then-and-there-of-queer-futurity-jos-esteban-mu-oz/46d036b25d51044c?ean=9781479874569&bkshp-astro=t

#book #audiobook #queerreads

This seems like a pathway forward away from #fascism towards an actual #democracy

The context is USA but the approach would likely be useful elsewhere. Europe also has a fascism problem. The billionaires want fascism to win. The rest of us need it to fail

https://www.fascismbarometer.org/podcast-episodes/episode-25-adrienne

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@Citizenkahn/117093787122506696

@CrimethInc FYI

#USPOL #ICE #taserGloves #Resistance

🚨 COMPLIANT TECHNOLOGIES — the company behind the G.L.O.V.E. #taserGlove now being sold to #ICE #DHS for up to $20 MILLION

📍 WHERE THEY ARE: Mailing Address: P.O. Box 24714, Lexington, KY 40524 Phone: (859) 447-0576 Email: info@complianttechnologies.net complianttechnologies.net

👥 WHO RUNS IT: • Jeff Niklaus — Founder & CEO • Dan De La Cruz — President & COO • Bethann Gusitsch — CFO • Kenneth Pearce — Counsel • Kelly Ryf — Dir of Marketing • James Dunsmore — Sr. Dir, Union & Underwriter Relations (North America) • Stryder St. John — Dir of Operations

📋 BOARD OF DIRECTORS: None publicly listed. The company is a privately-held, SBA-certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business. Governance appears to rest entirely with the founder and executive team.

💰 MAJOR INVESTORS: None publicly disclosed. No venture capital, private equity, or institutional backing is evident in available records. Ownership appears concentrated with founder Jeff Niklaus.

The #US was built on land speculation. We stole land from #indigenous people and sold it making the early oligarchs richer. Our many #genocides were in service of that theft.

When there was no more land to steal, land prices began rising and foreclosures became a thing so the rich could continue to steal land.

That’s our past. That’s our present. It’s only our future if we let it be so.

https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/first-america/land-not-liberty-episode-5

My wife pointed out that the #amazon logo looks like a dick. I can’t unsee it.

Also, since the Amazon founder is a dick too, it makes me smile

#Cigna insurance: Dana Farber? Never heard of it
Me: here’s the tax id
Cigna: oooh, THAT Dana Farber

This was no accident. For profit healthcare insurance must be replaced with single payer universal care after we toss the pedophiles and drug addicts presently in power.