Toots 𦣠from 06/17 to 06/21
John ColagioiaAs discussed previously, on Fridays, I present my weekly social media roundups. Note that toots of articles generally include header images from the articles, which I donât include here unless their creators happen to have released them for use under a free license, and I notice. Most have not, or I donât notice. But I now add my commentary here, where I donât feel restricted by message length.
Also, I donât generally attach pictures to posts with quotations.
9:06 â Mon 17 June 2024
Image Not Shown: A boxing match between Uncle Sam and a stereotypical robber baron
The CFPB is genuinely making America better, and theyâre going HARD from Pluralistic
creating a registry of habitual corporate criminals. This roguesâ gallery will make it harder for other agencies â like the DOJ â and state Attorneys General to offer bullshit âdelayed prosecution agreementsâ to companies that compulsively rip us off.
Hashtags: #CFPB #USPol #Economy
We need so much more of this, but it shows that we can have an economy that doesnât completely hollow out the country.
12:04 â Mon 17 June 2024
What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! It seems to me that that which is given us by nature for our own preservation ought to be worn round the neck as a pendant and in the hat for a medal.
Hashtags: #Quotes #LGBTPride
9:05 â Tue 18 June 2024
Content Warning: US Politics, Awful Former President
Image Not Shown: Donald Trump at his Las Vegas rally on June 9, 2024, during which he told voters that he doesn't care about them
Trump had one honest thing to say at his rallyâand the media missed it from Daily Kos
âWe need every voter. I donât care about you. I just want your vote,â he said.
Hashtags: #Trump #GOP #USPol
Honestly? It actually surprises me that Republicans havenât jumped on this to praise his statement. After all, theyâve spent decades spinning the story that âyou canât tell the difference between parties,â except that they (despite all evidence to the contrary) tell the truth about their base motivations. In that light, youâd almost expect them to make not caring about Americans their sloganâŚ
12:06 â Tue 18 June 2024
They burnt down all those gardens and groves. That paradise of idol-worshipers became like hell.
Hashtags: #Quotes #LGBTPride
9:02 â Wed 19 June 2024
Image Not Shown: People speaking at a support group
Addiction Recovery Is Hard. Funding It Shouldnât Be from OtherWords
Nationally, about 2.5 million people aged 18 and older had an opioid abuse disorder in 2021 â and nearly 300 people died of overdoses every single day. Yet only 36 percent of those experiencing addiction received any treatment at all.
Hashtags: #Addiction #Health
This situation especially irks me, because Iâve seen so many studies over the years linking drug use to loneliness and boredom. That simplifies the dynamic, for many reasons, but we could almost certainly reduce the number of people dealing with addiction over time through outreach alone. But we have governments that wonât pay for that, wonât pay for drugs that reduce addiction, and wonât fund programs that help people break addictions.
12:07 â Wed 19 June 2024
Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.
Hashtags: #Quotes #LGBTPride
9:04 â Thu 20 June 2024
Image Not Shown: Rooftop construction at a high-rise building undergoing conversion to apartments in Manhattanâs financial district in New York City, April 11, 2023
Cities with empty commercial space and housing shortages are converting office buildings into apartments â hereâs what theyâre learning from The Conversation
Despite these challenges, if residential conversions bring people and energy back to downtowns outside of the workday, stores, restaurants, entertainment and other amenities of a vibrant lifestyle will follow.
Hashtags: #Cities #Housing
We absolutely need more of this. Despite managementâs obsession with controlling employees, the pandemic made it absolutely clear that companies have thrown their money away maintaining lavish offices and workers get more done if they donât need to carve out a chunk of every day to commute.
12:03 â Thu 20 June 2024
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
Hashtags: #Quotes #LGBTPride
9:01 â Fri 21 June 2024
Image Not Shown: Woman overwhelmed by anxiety struggling with her mental health and negative emotions
Gun violence exposure harms health of Black Americans from Futurity
This research shows that we must start thinking about and providing support to address the health implications of being exposed to gun violenceâthe day-to-day exposure, experienced directly and indirectly, and the effects that accumulate over time.
Hashtags: #Guns #Race #Violence
Like the addiction story above, this doesnât seem like something that we want to make more difficult, and yetâŚ
12:05 â Fri 21 June 2024
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Hashtags: #Quotes #LGBTPride
Bonus
Because it accidentally became a tradition early on in the life of the blog, I drop any additional articles that didnât fit into the one-article-per-day week, but too weird or important to not mention, here.
Content Warning: Policing
Image Not Shown: Screenshot of the travel history, redacted
Cops Released a Carâs Travel History to a Total Stranger from 404 Media
The unusual case highlights that stalkers or other malicious third parties could piggyback off surveillance systems that are used by the police if not enough protections are in place to stop the distribution of such data. And it comes as automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) are an incredibly common sight in towns and cities across the U.S.
Does anybody want to bet that precincts do this in hopes of getting the public to turn against freedom-of-information laws�
Image Not Shown: Solidarity action in Vanuatu for Kanaky Indigenous people in New Caledonia
New Caledonia cries, âEverything is negotiable, except independenceâ from Global Voices
French President Emmanuel Macron arrived on May 23 to defuse tension in the Pacific territory, but his visit failed to quell the unrest as he merely suspended the enforcement of the bill instead of addressing the demand for a dialogue on how to proceed with the decolonization process. He also deployed an additional 3,000 troops to restore peace and order which only further enraged the local population.
This seems like a bad move while Macron also considers handing his government over to fascists, but I admittedly donât know anything about modern French colonial politics.
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