cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/765290

Two years ago when I launched Exploding-Heads, Lemmy offered a way to let me play a small role in fighting back against:

• censorship
• deplatforming
• propaganda
• Big Tech tyranny, and
• to help spread suppressed stories.

I knew Lemmy had its challenges, but I hoped it would evolve for the better. Sadly after 2 years, the culture of censorship through defederation has only grown stronger.

Meanwhile a better alternative has sprung up in the form of Nostr:

• it lets you own your own profile - if you move to another Nostr app or site, you still keep your content and followers
• it makes censorship very difficult
• it is not perfect, but is evolving for the better very quickly.

As a user you should not be at the mercy of instance operators who are

• petty tyrants, or
• benevolent dictators (who may turn tyrannical at any moment)

I do not feel I can alter the tyrannical direction Lemmy

Two years ago when I launched Exploding-Heads, Lemmy offered a way to let me play a small role in fighting back against:

• censorship
• deplatforming
• propaganda
• Big Tech tyranny, and
• to help spread suppressed stories.

I knew Lemmy had its challenges, but I hoped it would evolve for the better. Sadly after 2 years, the culture of censorship through defederation has only grown stronger.

Meanwhile a better alternative has sprung up in the form of Nostr:

• it lets you own your own profile - if you move to another Nostr app or site, you still keep your content and followers
• it makes censorship very difficult
• it is not perfect, but is evolving for the better very quickly.

As a user you should not be at the mercy of instance operators who are

• petty tyrants, or
• benevolent dictators (who may turn tyrannical at any moment)

I do not feel I can alter the tyrannical direction Lemmy is heading in and I want to dedicate my time and resources to a better alternative.

So Exploding

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled that several decisions the Food and Drug Administration took to make mifepristone more broadly available to women did not take safety concerns into account.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/739484

Emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop show that he made continuous efforts to airbrush his image and the Wikipedia articles associated with his Ukrainian benefactors.

The outreach by high-priced consultants making stealth edits to Wikipedia, for a period, paid off.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/739484

Emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop show that he made continuous efforts to airbrush his image and the Wikipedia articles associated with his Ukrainian benefactors.

The outreach by high-priced consultants making stealth edits to Wikipedia, for a period, paid off.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/739484

Emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop show that he made continuous efforts to airbrush his image and the Wikipedia articles associated with his Ukrainian benefactors.

The outreach by high-priced consultants making stealth edits to Wikipedia, for a period, paid off.

Emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop show that he made continuous efforts to airbrush his image and the Wikipedia articles associated with his Ukrainian benefactors.

The outreach by high-priced consultants making stealth edits to Wikipedia, for a period, paid off.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/739312

During the summer of 2020, at the same time thousands of BLM protestors were taking to the streets of Washington, D.C. and covering public spaces with paint and chalk, two pro-life activists were arrested for chalking the words “Black Pre-Born Lives Matter”on a public sidewalk.

The Frederick Douglass Foundation and Students for Life of America, who organized the pro-life protest and filed the lawsuit over the arrests, “plausibly alleged” that the statute’s enforcement was viewpoint discrimination, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found.

During the summer of 2020, at the same time thousands of BLM protestors were taking to the streets of Washington, D.C. and covering public spaces with paint and chalk, two pro-life activists were arrested for chalking the words “Black Pre-Born Lives Matter”on a public sidewalk.

The Frederick Douglass Foundation and Students for Life of America, who organized the pro-life protest and filed the lawsuit over the arrests, “plausibly alleged” that the statute’s enforcement was viewpoint discrimination, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/739304

Measure 110 was supposed to focus on “a drug addiction treatment and recovery program funded in part by the state’s marijuana tax revenue and state prison savings” but — surprise! — hasn’t followed through. There is simply no way to make drugs legal without aggressive treatment for addicts. And by “aggressive,” I do mean forcibly locking up, committing, and treating addicts who can’t or won’t take care of themselves. That means rounding the addicts up off the streets and detoxing them before they kill themselves — and/or others.

Measure 110 was supposed to focus on “a drug addiction treatment and recovery program funded in part by the state’s marijuana tax revenue and state prison savings” but — surprise! — hasn’t followed through. There is simply no way to make drugs legal without aggressive treatment for addicts. And by “aggressive,” I do mean forcibly locking up, committing, and treating addicts who can’t or won’t take care of themselves. That means rounding the addicts up off the streets and detoxing them before they kill themselves — and/or others.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/736182

• Asking for Phone Numbers Is ‘Conspiracy’
• Encouraging Voters to Watch Television Is ‘Conspiracy’
• Grassroots Campaigning Is ‘Conspiracy’
• Reserving Rooms Is ‘Conspiracy’
• Seeking Signature Verification Is ‘Conspiracy’
• Encouraging Someone to Attend a Hearing Is ‘Conspiracy’
• Encouraging Special Legislative Sessions Is ‘Conspiracy’
• Phone Calls to Lawmakers Are ‘Conspiracy’

• By the Government’s Own Definition, It’s Censoring
• Government Officials Treated Internet Monopolies Like Their Subordinates
• Judges Likened Government Behavior to Mobsters
• Censorship Is Election Interference
• Democrats Want Free Speech for Themselves While Banning It for Their Enemies
• Today’s Internet Is Still Massively Rigged

More likely they will run a RINO to try and hurt Trump.

Good old bait and switch.

The same day Campbell's memo went out, President Joe Biden called on federal agencies to "aggressively execute" plans to return employees to the office after years of working remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building, which cost taxpayers $144 million to construct, is absolutely hideous.

He faces absurd charges of spying, when he never spied. His crime was to embarrass the US government by selectively releasing information that Washington had tried and failed to keep secret.

I do not think this is a crime, here or there. Claims are made against him, by supporters of the extradition, which I do not think are true.

He took considerable care not to release material which would endanger or compromise individuals, and if he were an American citizen he would certainly be protected by the First Amendment to the US Constitution, which safeguards journalists – as Mr Assange is – from the anger of the state.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/734823

They should be hung for this under the Geneva Convention.

They should be hung for this under the Geneva Convention.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/734783

Unless these criminals are held accountable, we will get more of the same.

Trump betrayed the nation when broke his promise to prosecute Hillary Clinton for her crimes, which is one of the reasons we are in such a terrible state now.