Kereea Says Unionize

I'm sorry to everyone who lives on the entire continent.

First: THIS RECALL IS NOT STATE SPECIFIC. IT IS NATIONWIDE.

here are the specific products and dates:

FDA page on this:

Modern rhetoric:

Talking about Strauss and Tnuva's monopoly like it's a trick by the joos to poison America and not, like, a major issue in Israel that Israeli farmers are constantly fighting against?

Treating the fact the "remilk" products are labelled in Israel as lab made but not in America as if that's an Israeli plot to poison them? And not the fault of the American government, FDA and the billionaires who run the food companies?

She literally used the word goyslop at the beginning. If anything American products are what's poisoning the rest of the world.

People literally commanding about the "well poisioners" being "at it again".

Susan Collins is still the least loyal Republican in the chamber....and still votes with Trump 95% of the time.

This tells you everything about the Senate Republicans - and that Collins, regardless of her performance to the contrary, is neither a moderate nor an independent.

Collins helped put Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, which ended federal abortion rights.

Mainers have consistently voted against Trump 3-to-1.

All this set up the Democrats with only one job: run a sane, likeable, independent-minded moderate against her.

Instead, they nominated Platner after somehow failing to vet him at all.

He knew his tattoo was a totenkopf, a Nazi SS insignia, and lied about it. He has massive character failings.

I think Haviv Rettig Gur is right that if Platner's tattoo had been a confederate flag instead of Nazi SS insignia, Democrats would have remembered what they claim to believe in.

But it was just the symbol of a Nazi concentration camp guard, and it was mostly Jews who were upset, so he still gets to be the progressive hero this moment needs.

Platner is currently polling a little better than Collins in Maine, but I haven't been able to take polls seriously since 2016.

I understand why Mainers will likely put Platner in office. I also think that anything that impedes the march of Republican authoritarianism is good.

But holy shit has the bar been lowered in our expectations of US Senators that Democrats who falsely claim to have principles are defending Platner's obviously shitty character.

When I was younger I was very right-wing. I mean…very right-wing. I won’t go into detail, because I’m very deeply ashamed of it, but whatever you’re imagining, it’s probably at least that bad. I’ve taken out a lot of pain on others; I’ve acted in ignorance and waved hate like a flag; I’ve said and did things that hurt a lot of people.

There are artefacts of my past selves online – some of which I’ve locked down and keep around to remind me of my past sins, some of which I’ve scrubbed out, some of which are out of my grasp. If I were ever to become famous, people could find shit on me that would turn your stomach.

But that’s not me anymore. I’ve learned so much in the last ten years. I’ve become more open to seeing things through others’ eyes, and reforged my anger to turn on those who harm others rather than on those who simply want to exist. I’ve learned patience and compassion. I’ve learned how to recognise my privileges and listen to others’ perspectives. I’ve learned to stand up for others, how to hear, how to help, how to correct myself. And I learned some startling shit about myself along the way – with all due irony, some of the things I used to lash out at others for are intrinsic parts of myself.

You wouldn’t know what I am now from what I was then. You wouldn’t know what I was then from what I am now.

It distresses me deeply to think of someone dredging up my dark, awful past and treating me as though that furiously hateful person is still me. It distresses me to see others dredging up the past for anyone who has made efforts to become a better person, out of some sick obsession with proving they’re “problematic.”

The obsession with finding shit in someone’s past and then claiming that a questionable or even sordid past negates all possibility of a good present needs to become extinct. Gold-star activism and purity culture are bullshit and we need to collectively reject the fuck out of them.

We really need to start asking where this purity bullshit came from. I’m not  Christian and was not raised Christian but there has been a lot evidence that much of gold star activism and purity culture originated in of evangelical youth movements and then infiltrated progressive left-wing and center-left politics when those youth left their churches but failed to leave behind the black-n-white puritanical “you’re going to hell if you stray one inch from the righteous path” style of thinking they were taught.

I distinctly remember some conversations I had in the late 00s and very early 2010s with long time social justice activists who were baffled and disturbed by the new crop of youth activists who were practicing something that was decidedly NOT social justice despite stealing that phrase from us.

In the decade and a half that has passed since then, all of this gold-star activism and purity culture has done exactly what I predicted back then: empowered the far-right while sowing division everywhere.

If I saw the clues and caught the hints then yes! I am clever and me and the author/creator/artist etc were in on it together the whole time!

If I didn't notice the clues or got fooled but can clearly see them in hindsight then "Ha! You won this time storyteller! I am delighted by this game we play!' and then I enjoy putting the pieces together afterwards and enjoying how clever it was. I feel like the creator respects me as an audience

If there is a "twist" that comes with 0 clues or foreshadowing at all I'm annoyed. I'm pissed off. I feel like I'm being condescended to and patronised. It's not clever or interesting and makes me annoyed I ended up caring about characters and plot points that ended up meaningless.

Because it's not that these stories don't have foreshadowing or plot clues. They just abandon it for a "surprising twist"

A story that pays off the clues is letting me into the fun and makes a participant in the story

Random plot twists that don't connect to anything in the story are not clever. If we don't see it coming because the writer didn't provide any clues, they aren't clever and it's totally unsatisfying (and I will NEVER read this writer again). These clues need not be lit up in neon with a parade of elephants and showgirls. But they need to be present

So far only two people have noticed him doing it but let me tell you, the MALICIOUS JOY I feel in knowing they get to experience The Dread is amazing.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

An exception for Rape, Life of the Mother, and Incest mean nothing when you have to prove it in a court of law, or get a team of lawyers and judges to sign off on it which can take weeks or even months.

Weeks a person dying hasn't got. Women are now dying. Actually dying. Because hospitals legally could not save their lives until they could wake up a judge and get their lawyers, and another sides lawyers awake and up and figured out if it was actually necessary or not. All people with no understanding of medicine, and no attatchment to the person suffering who simply doesn't want to die.

There's a lot more I could cover, like the increase in illegal abortion, abortion tourism, the massive increase in infant abandonment... but I'm going to leave it here.

People are dying. People who should be alive. Who would be alive if abortion was legal and the hospital could have simply treated their patient without waiting for a dozen men with no medical experience in another building to decide if their patient actually needs treatment or not. And yes they do have to wait. Because if they don't they get charged with murder for trying to save a life.

some people don’t deserve fanfics, much less for free.

also even if authors didn’t tag any specific warnings but they used the “creator chose not to use archive warnings” tag, then that is your warning.

Like, you REALLY think the party backed by billionaires and techbros HASN'T thought of interfering in Dem primaries to try and get a more favorable opponent? REALLY?

Like, look at the LA Mayor's race. People are pointing out that the result, two Dems running, is NOT was Karen Bass' camp would have wanted. She'd have cruised to victory against Spencer Pratt in LA. But now that she has a legit Dem opponent and there's NO chance of the seat going to a Republican, she's gonna have to fight for it. Thus her political machine probably did not try to rig the primary for this result.

Meanwhile in Nebraska, the Dem has pretty much dropped out of the race bc she sees that the guy who is running as an independent probably has a better chance of winning, and has endorsed him for Senate as our best chance of not having the GOP hold that seat.