Utah is attacking VPNs. California wants to ban social media for minors. Governments across the globe are rushing to "protect the kids" by controlling the internet. We break it all down in our latest EFFector newsletter: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/californias-terrible-no-good-very-bad-social-media-ban-effector-389
RE: https://mstdn.social/@_L1vY_/116542531400126438
RFK Jr. trying to ban the anti-anxiety medications we need in order to function in a world with RFK Jr.
#Via Matt Novak
@paleofuture
3:43 PM · May 8, 2026
"Kennedy's health officials explored US ban of some widely used antidepressants
Their interest centered on specific treatments within a class known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, such as Zoloft, Prozac and Lexapro, which have been available in the U.S. for decades, one of the people said. The sources did not say which drugs were being examined..."
#Via Robert Evans / iwriteok
6:44 PM · May 8, 2026
"Fascists succeed in general because they are willing to take stuff, break rules, get violent, while most of their opponents are not.
Fascists lose, in general, because they pick (at least) one fight too many with someone they didn't expect to fight back."
It’s time to get some meow meows 
Goodnight my dear friends 
#Via Robert Evans / iwriteok
6:44 PM · May 8, 2026
"Fascists succeed in general because they are willing to take stuff, break rules, get violent, while most of their opponents are not.
Fascists lose, in general, because they pick (at least) one fight too many with someone they didn't expect to fight back."
"If you are taking seats from black people, which we are entitled to by the constitution of this country, then you are a thief." 💯
Baton Rouge civil rights activist Gary Chambers standing up to the corrupt GOP lawmakers who want to eliminate Louisiana’s majority Black districts.
If voting was useless they would not be trying to redistrict to supress the vote!
#USPol #Louisiana #Republicans #Elections #VotingRights #Resist
Xavi Hernandez is the new Chelsea coach. He seems like a great guy, so unlike Chelsea. Chelsea may be at risk of doing something accidentally serious and decent.
its fucked up that trump gets billions of dollars for his ballroom but if my friends want ball room they have to get multiple letters from gatekeepers and usually pay for the orchiectomy out of pocket
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116539461996395373
I was drafting a post last night about how the Supreme Court's dismantling of the Voting Rights Act was the beginning of another phase with what the GOP did to Memphis as an example, and today I find that they just did the same thing in my state.
This tells me 2 things:
1) as pissed off as I am that they just nullified the special election, if voting didn't matter, they wouldn't need to rig it
2) voting is not *enough*, we need sustained direct action, starting from the community level.
Fascism is incompatible with democracy.
Because most people don't want fascism, and democracy is "Government by what most people want."
The closest facsimile possible, is "Misrepresentative Democracy" where people vote for representatives, but the victims of fascism have less power to choose them.
The last baby was just born! The #BabyGoatCountdown for 2026 is complete! (But don't worry, there will be loads more super cute photos)
13 babies from 8 mamas.
@heidilifeldman thank you for bravely going out in the face of all this and for walking us all through it with you. i admire your work greatly and i'm reminded that positive change is the work of a movement of supporters not individual heroes
@hipsterelectron How kind. Thank you!
@chartier Why, Amazon of course!
https://www.amazon.com/Hiware-9-Inch-Stainless-Cocktail-Stirring/dp/B01E3SS8AI
I use these for mixing hydration powder in my water bottles.
@Linnefaulk Well dangit now Sharon you just dismantled my entire rant 😆
NASA Keeps Track As Mexico City Sinks Into the Ground https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/05/08/2347231/nasa-keeps-track-as-mexico-city-sinks-into-the-ground?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
@slashdot al igual que Venecia, México también está construido sobre el agua, ¿que sistema de pilotes se habrá usado para construir Ciudad de México?
In another thread, I’ll say more about the rest of my day today, because for me, as for so many of us, it was shot through with the Virginia Supreme Court quashing that state’s effort to fight partisan redistricting with its own redistricting. And, it was a day of boots on the ground work for democracy and rule of law. 6/6
@heidilifeldman thank you for bravely going out in the face of all this and for walking us all through it with you. i admire your work greatly and i'm reminded that positive change is the work of a movement of supporters not individual heroes
CDC Issued Level 3 Emergency Response for Hantavirus: What It Means
https://www.mensjournal.com/news/cdc-issued-level-3-emergency-response-for-hantavirus-what-it-means?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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