@shularises

The effort hinges on a surprising new tactic: repurposing Social Security's "death master file," which for years has been used to track dead people who should no longer receive benefits, to include the names of living people who the government believes should be treated as if they are dead. As a result of being added to the death database, they would be blacklisted from a coveted form of identity that allows them to make and spend money.

What a grim paragraph www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

This is fascism.

“Laura Loomer [a Trump ally], NY Young Republican Club president Gavin Wax & InfoWars host Owen Shroyer…said their verification badges disappeared > they criticized Musk's support for H1B visas, railed against Indian culture & attacked Ramaswamy, Musk's DOGE co-chair.” www.axios.com/2024/12/27/m...

Elon Musk’s Newest Critics on X Just Paid the Price Conservative influencers slammed Elon Musk over his recent posts on immigration—and now they’re being punished.

Elon is on the warpath—destroying his reputation among MAGAs for supporting [their] free speech.

His mask is off for the MAGAs now, too.

Seasonal message which applies to the rest of the year!

Orbán and Putin are part of the new Axis of Evil that Donald Trump and Elon Musk desperately want America to join along with Netanyahu, MBS, MBZ, Milei, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-un, Erdogan, Lukashenko, Modi, el-Sisi and far-right elements (e.g. AfD and Le Pen) in some pro-democracy nation-state allies.

Chortle 🎄

I preferred Thing, obviously!

Weirdo! xx

Grievable deaths.

How a hostage family leader became Israel's loudest anti-war voice After Ayala Metzger's relatives were kidnapped from Nir Oz and abandoned by the government, she had no choice but to be an ‘anti-regime dissident’ — and to insist on a shared future for Israelis and Palestinians.

How a hostage family leader became one of the loudest anti-war voices in Israel - https://www.972mag.com/ayala-metzger-nir-oz-israeli-hostage-families/

#ClaresLaw gives you the right to know if your partner has a known violent past

Sussex Police’s disclosure rate (the rate at which they respond to Clare’s Law) is 70%

Although this should be higher, this is up from 56% in 2023

#16Days #16Actions #RespectWomen #ClareWood #WhiteRibbon #IDEVAW2024

I was just worrying publicly about where J.D. Vance has been, saying that I feared he'd been among the worst people on Earth hatching nefarious schemes, and now this shows up in my feed

The abortion analogy gets deployed by people on both sides of the arguments.

"men don’t do a fair share because they don’t like domestic labour, they consider it demeaning, disgusting & boring, they’d rather be doing things which give them greater social status, & they don’t care about relieving the burden on their partners’ shoulders"

Me on the mental load - link in bio

Pete Hegseth’s church belongs to a denomination whose leader, Doug Wilson, has implied that men rape women bc “we have forgotten the biblical concepts of true authority & submission” whereby a “man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.” 1/ (Link in post 2.)

Why hello old timer! 🥰

Israel’s war in Gaza amounts to genocide, Amnesty International report finds Human rights group says Israel ‘brazenly, continuously and with total impunity … unleashed hell’ on strip’s 2.3m population

Israel has committed acts under the Genocide Convention in Gaza, including killing, causing harm, and imposing conditions to destroy Palestinians, with the intent to eliminate them, a report finds. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

#FiLiA would not happen without #volunteer time & passion! We started with 2 volunteers & now have 175!

The conference is HUGE, many projects, newsletter, global #sisterhood & #solidarity building, working groups, Women only disco, art & more!

On #VolunteerDay - a thankyou to all our volunteers!

No I really didn’t!

Yes done that!

Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense should alarm all of us | Moira Donegan Pete Hegseth, who has been accused of drunken, irresponsible and predatory behavior, would be in charge of the world’s most powerful military

I wrote about Pete Hegseth. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

That’s so helpful!

Thanks for those cheering words! Will do..

My first post. Glad to be here but not sure how things will pan out. The time & energy I invested in twitter has made the leap across very difficult, much as I hate X under Musk. Well, I guess a lot of you feel something similar.