Just so we are clear…

Selling a cake to a gay person is participating in the marriage, but selling a gun to a shooter isn’t participating in a murder.

What a country!

I’ll put up a billboard making fun of Mike Pence IN HIS HOMETOWN if I get 10,000 follows on Twitch. Help out!
Give me a follow: https://twitch.tv/TheGodPod

Anne tells me that France is in flames, but I haven't seen much about it on my social networks. What's happening there, and why?

The U.S. Supreme Court justices have always had impassioned dissents, but why are they arguing out in the open like regular people? Axios dives into the high court's recent affirmative action decision that appears to have exposed some nerves:
Affirmative action exposes SCOTUS' raw nerves:
https://www.axios.com/2023/06/30/affirmative-action-supreme-court-thomas-jackson
#SCOTUS #AffirmativeAction #SupremeCourt

“The courts, if they were to proceed without any check on their power…then we will start to see an undemocratic and frankly dangerous authoritarian expansion of power in the Supreme Court. Which is what we are seeing now”

There’s a reason the GOP spends so much money trying to malign and discredit AOC

It’s because she’s right

🤔 These government agencies are suddenly finding the instability of the #Birdsite not so great. #EmergencyManagement

A touching unexpected reunion of a Ukrainian military man back from the front with his daughter at her prom
#Ukraine️ #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #news #Moscow #USA #UK #Germany #Poland #France #Turkey

Awful news. Victoria Amelina died from injuries sustained in the Kramatorsk missile attack.

#Ukraine

https://pen.org.ua/en/ne-stalo-viktoriyi-amelinoyi-ukrayinskoyi-pysmennyci-ta-nashoyi-dorohoyi-kolehy

45,000 years ago, a Neanderthal man experienced a crushing blow to the head that left him partially paralyzed for life, but his bones healed and he lived into his 30s or 40s, something only conceivably possible with the help of his community.

45,000 years ago.

But let’s pretend that 45,000 years later, we “can’t afford” universal healthcare.

https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/shanidar-1

Here's the thing with Elon.

At Tesla and SpaceX, he could hire engineers so passionate about electric cars and building rockets, so frustrated by the slow pace at other organisations, they willingly worked themselves to the bone and covered up for his many shortcomings. Quite how sustainable that is, we'll see.

But there are plenty of other companies with the same mission as Twitter. And software engineers are so sought after, he can't hire the best on peanuts. It can't work.

On the same week, both Reddit and Twitter made themselves useless due to greed and stupidity. Not a happy moment for the internet.

Experienced fedi users, let's not fuck this up for the new users and make them feel welcome! If you see an image without alt text, instead of scolding, spending that typing energy on writing an image description so the person can edit it in!

So cute how my irrational anger always let’s me know when I’m totally out of coping mechanisms

SCJs have taken bribes, they’re funded by dark money, unrepentant, the court has little credibility with the public (29% approval rate), & the Chief SCJ refuses to testify before Congress on ethics reform. The SC is deeply corrupt & compromised by several Republican SC Justices. Senator Whitehouse believes that once the full story is brought before the public, the impetus to act on court reform, at least among Democrats, will intensify. #ExpandTheCourt #CorruptGOP https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/25/whitehouse-alito-ethics/

It’s been a wild 72 hours since I resigned. When life settles, I plan to be more active here. #climatechange #climateemergency #climateaction #ClimateCrisis

By Justice Alito’s logic any seat on any private plane can’t count as a gift because if he didn’t fill it it ‘just would have gone to waste’.

So if I put $100,000 in a box with a explosive set to detonate in 24 hours and I told Alito he could pick up the money today and keep it because if he didn’t it was just going to go to waste it wouldn’t be a gift or a bribe.

What a legal genius.

https://www.axios.com/2023/06/21/alito-propublica-alaska-fishing-trip

More megalomusk BS
Elon Musk, King of Censorship: 10 Times the 'Free Speech Absolutist' Silenced Twitter Users

https://gizmodo.com/10-times-elon-musk-censored-twitter-users-1850570720?utm_source=gizmodo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2023-06-25

Whilst everyone is focusing on Russia, Ukraine is still under relentless Russian bombardment, nearly every day.

#Russia #RussiaIsATerroristState
#prigozhin #wagner
#Ukraine #StandWithUkraine #SlavaUkraini

This is about to get worse:
'Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who controls a sizeable group of soldiers, said that his forces are en route to the “zones of tension” and called Prigozhin’s mutiny “a knife in the back' #NYTimes from Valerie Hopkins https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/06/24/world/russia-ukraine-news/9debf645-ab2e-5cd9-834e-6b50c8f8c8b0?smid=url-share #Russia