internet gryphon. admin of Beehaw, mostly publicly interacting with people. nonbinary. they/she
an encrypted messaging app with a handful of people you categorically trust to never tell on you or in any way implicate you in future criminal behavior, not a federated Reddit clone where you have no control over who sees your message, when, on what terms, and with what associated data. like, don’t be stupid—and at the very least, if you must publicly agitate in this way, don’t say this on a place where your words could have ramifications for people who aren’t large corporations and don’t have the money to get roped into legal trouble
aside: Hearing Things is very cool, and you should subscribe to them. they’re a genuine worker-cooperative, as far as i know
it’s fine to believe this is the appropriate remedy but this is not the time and place to write that down, have some basic opsec
this is good, and its outcome will have significant implications for the NLRB (and agencies like it generally):
The outcome of this legal battle has significant implications beyond the NLRB. It raises concerns about the broader threat to independent regulatory agencies and the precedent it could set for future administrations. While partisan shifts in agency leadership are normal, removing a duly confirmed Board Member in direct violation of the law is unprecedented and jeopardizes the stability of the NLRB’s mission to uphold workers’ rights.
i love Faiz but it’s really as simple as “he cannot speak or animate a room to save his life and he’s clearly better working on infrastructure side of things than leading a political party”. there’s a reason he was Bernie’s senior advisor and not a public face of the campaign (and before that an aide to Nancy Pelosi).
(oh, and that doesn’t even touch on Reid Hoffman and George Soros backing Wikler with a fucking PAC for an insider-baseball race like this)
i mean no offense but if we’re worried about the “Democratic establishment” it should probably give people pause that the vast majority of Democratic establishment leadership supported Ben Wikler, while the majority of Ken Martin’s support was from the “grassroots” state party infrastructure:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Democratic_National_Committee_chairmanship_election#Endorsements
Dick Durbin, Senate Minority Whip (2005–2007, 2015–2021, 2025–present) from Illinois (1997–present)[66]
Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader (2017–2021, 2025–present) from New York (1999–present)[69]
Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader (2023–present) from NY-08 (2013–present)[70]
Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (2007–2011, 2019–2023) from CA-11 (1987–present)[72]
(also, there is literally no ideological difference between most of these people. do you think Ben Wikler for example is pro-DSA? lol)
the book, if you’d like to pick it up
we’re obviously, contextually talking about deaths from heat, not from all the other stuff that happens on Hajj. don’t do this “you cannot be serious” routine when you simultaneously don’t even engage with the context of the question
yes; as far as i’m aware there has never been a mass-death event like this in the contemporary history of the Hajj, although it’s always been arduous and more potentially deadly when it falls during the summer
The various initiatives — known as Tempo 30 in German-speaking countries, City 30 across Europe, Love30 by the WHO and 20’s Plenty in the UK and the US, the latter referring to miles per hour — have been gaining steam in recent years. Paris and Brussels introduced a default speed limit of 30 kilometers per hour in 2021, Lyons in 2022 and Bologna in early 2024, with Milan and Parma planning to follow suit this year. Beyond the EU, Wales introduced a 20 mph limit as the default for all residential roads in September 2023, and a couple of US cities, like Portland, have begun reducing their residential speed limit to 20 mph.
you may take the United Fruit Company’s name, but you can’t take its legacy of financing terrorism and violence in Latin America…
this is actually quite cute, i think.
i don’t think “adding race-specific stripes to a pride flag” is a bad thing, is “treating people differently based on skin tone” except in the most cringeworthy, pedantic, I See No Color way possible, or is “racist”—and i think that if you believe these things you probably will not be allowed to partake in discussions like this on our instance after today
So a pride flag that is clearly textbook racist is good and arguing against it and the people that say its better because of the racism is not allowed here
when you call them racist and imply they’re segregationist for having their preference, yes, that is not allowed. that’s needlessly aggressive and needlessly sectarian—and speaking personally, “having a preference for more stripes on a flag that represent marginalized communities is racist and like segregation” is just such an overstatement of the point (that i otherwise agree with, for the record—i am not a fan of the progress flag) being made that it verges into being unserious.
this is not news and it’s not US news; don’t make a post like this in this section
also in Israel news today is this–the probable shutting down of Al Jazeera’s operations there. Netanyahu says he’ll act swiftly to request the outlet be banned under this new law
the strategy here appears to be that Israel is trying to bait Hezbollah into attacking them, which is a very sane strategy and not at all completely psychotic
that’s for you to figure out and is, respectfully, not my problem or the problem of anyone else’s moderating this instance. you’ve been told what is expected of you; you can take that or leave it.