The irony of Zuck OKing LGBTQ-directed hate speech is that he looks like he's transitioning to my 60ish year old neighbor, quite literally named Karen, whose hobbies include complaining about children playing outside in our neighborhood Facebook group.

As the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wisely said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Today and every day, I pledge to never silence my voice in the fight for what is right, and I will continue to march in the path he forged toward justice.

What’s the difference between a gov controlling an algorithm, silently eliminating reach for things it doesn’t like, vs the same gov using its power, to demand that the platform remove the things it doesn’t like.?

In China they are overt. With TikTok in the US, they control silently

A rising tide lifts all ships. Looking forward to new leadership at helm of the Texas Democratic Party/

You may notice a familiar voice narrating...

I’m a liberal who bought a Tesla and forced my reading group to read Hillbilly Elegy. Sometimes I can’t believe just how gullible Trump supporters are.

Kindness will be resistance and empathy will be a holy hell, dig-your-heels-in rebellion. Employ both.

I don’t know who did this, but thank you 🤣

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Hanlon's Razor says we should never attribute to malice what can be attributed to ignorance. I think about that a lot.

At what point in this era of endless, accessible information does ignorance become bouyed by malice, though? I think about THAT a lot.

Texas Republican Party threatens to censure Republicans who broke from far-right David Cook. Burrows is still a regressive voucher supporter, but more in line with ousted Phelan.

While the free exchange of ideas via social media is something They™️ want squashed, it's also the upward financial mobility of young people, particularly artists that's a threat. Funky hometown-themed art prints? A great family photographer? A local baker? They grew their business on social media.