Y'all know what, I'm probably about to say the quiet part outloud and I don't care. You know how them wheelchair users went up to the whitehouse and was like "Hands off my ADA!"? I mean I could be making it up, my memory is awful. But even if that didn't happen, it shows what I'm on about with this. Y'all know how hard it is for blind people who aren't well connected to get transportation to places? Hell, even buying groceries is hard in a lot of situations. On a bus? Oh no there's a rule where you can only cary on what can comfortably fit in your lap. Uber? Oh hey looke the driver doesn't wanna be held liable of the blind person like falls or something so no ride. So getting a few thousand blind people somewhere will be pretty hard. Yeah there's the yearly convention, but I'm willing to bet a good hundred thousand more joined by Zoom than went to the convention. And the Whitehouse, or Apple, or government offices, they have to see people in their faces to feel something, to change. Like, calls and emails? Those can be ignore, or put onto low ranking call center folks that can only send stuff up the chain or just nothing at all. But you see blind people up in your face, angry and willing to do shit? You gonna fucking listen. And that's why solidarity is so fucking important. Because a lot of us can't be in marches to the #whitehouse, or out there at #WWDC, or writing the latest news about #Reddit. All that. Solidarity is really, really important. And that's why when I see posts by black people, or trans people, I sit here and think "What if that was me?"
We're still learning details of the #DebtCeiling deal, but for now it looks like #Republicans basically won. They threatened to absolutely devastate the US economy unless the White House agreed to spending caps, funneling more of the food stamp budget to wealthy investors, hurting poor people, and being complicit in racial demagoguery ("welfare queen"-like #GOP propaganda). And the White House gave them all those things to a degree. https://apnews.com/article/debt-ceiling-deal-food-aid-student-loans-3c284b01d95f8e193bca8d873386400e
>>Driver arrested and #Nazi flag seized after truck crashes into security barriers near the #WhiteHouse
The suspect, who now faces multiple charges, made threatening statements about the White House at the scene of Monday night's incident, a law enforcement official told NBC News.
As AI continues to advance and its tools become evermore integrated into the daily lives of tech consumers, the White House has unveiled executive actions to "mitigate" the risks it could have on the American public.
In light of the paper from Geoffrey Supran, @rahmstorf, and Naomi Oreskes showing that #Exxon predicted #GlobalWarming extremely accurately between 1977 and 2003, contradicting their decades of #ClimateDenial, this exchange between Rep. AOC and Exxon scientists is worth revisiting.
And now, let this graph sink in and ask yourself why the #US's government has not been able to do anything about this, in particular since the disastrous #SCOTUS ruling #CitizensUnitedVsFEC?!?
UPDATE:
Once you have done that, a third hearing has now taken place by #Congress that examines that fatal connection in more detail, the #SBC, led by its Chairman, Senator #Whitehouse:
Elon Musk is threatening to end his $44 billion agreement to buy Twitter, accusing the company of refusing to give him information about its spam bot accounts.
Official White House staffers rely on their verified accounts to inform the public on behalf of the administration. Verification, combined with the designated Twitter profiles, helped to ensure the public could trust those messages.
#ElonMusk announced earlier in March that Twitter will begin removing legacy verified check marks on April 1