@TexasObserver We should use the more accurate name for these schools: “segregation academies”

This is so moving 🥹 https://www.comicsands.com/mississippi-mom-colom-win-significance?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

@jaredwhite not really no

Cleaning out my spam folder. I don't think I have the expected reaction to those "YOUR SUBSCRIPTION WILL BE CANCELED AND YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE DELETED" emails. . .

https://youtu.be/P6AEhrHKL10

Computer Should Not Make Noise Unless I Want It To, Explicitly

It is not a coincidence that Schumer’s most vocal opposition comes from recently elected senators, Ezra Levin, executive director of the progressive group Indivisible, tells Rolling Stone.

“Those senators who just came through an election had to spend a lot of time with the public,
and they understand where the public is [on Schumer],” Levin says.  

“I don’t think anybody would deny that the people of this country want change,”
adds Maurice Mitchell, national director of the Working Families Party.

“People want government to do more, not less.

People want immediate relief from the economic crisis that they’re in.

They want accountability, and they also want new leadership.

We’re listening to our folks, and we are embracing that change,
and we are supporting Chris Van Hollen and his bid to be the next majority leader.”

Mitchell points to the blowout victories by newly elected Reps. Brad Lander of New York and Randy Villegas of California
— primaries they won against centrist candidates closer to the Schumer mold
— as evidence of the bold vision voters are looking for from Democrats.

“They both ran on Medicare for All, they both ran against the war,
they both were very clear about the need for us to change our relationship with the state of Israel,” Mitchell says.

“Chris Van Hollen is aligned on all of those things.”

💥Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) have also thrown their support behind Van Hollen,
as has Our Revolution,
the political group that grew out of Sanders’ 2016 presidential run,
and the Democratic Socialists of America, which kicked off a “Say No to Schumer” campaign this week. 

💥The political advocacy group MoveOn has taken a stand against Schumer too,
citing figures that indicate 82 percent of its membership wants to see him replaced.

“Our members are tired of politicians content with incrementalism,”
MoveOn’s Executive Director Joel Payne said in a statement.
(A poll by Indivisible had worse results: just 10 percent of respondents want Schumer to remain in the leadership.)

Schumer has been regularly pilloried throughout the second Trump era for failing to do more to thwart the president’s scorched Earth agenda,
provoking particular ire when he joined Republicans to pass a funding bill in March 2025.

Indivisible first called on the Democratic leader to step down from his position after that vote. 

“The argument, then as now,
was not about ideology,
it wasn’t about personalities,
it wasn’t even about communication style,” Levin says.

“It was about:
Do you know what time it is?
Do you know who is in the White House?
Do you know what this regime intends to do?
Are you willing to unify the caucus and strengthen the Democratic Party to get it done?”

Ahead of Van Hollen’s formal announcement on Thursday that he would seek the role,
Schumer claimed that he already had the votes necessary to be reelected leader.

Levin, for his part, is skeptical:

“After Van Hollen announced, the fact that you did not see 29 senators, en masse, in a press release or at a press conference with Chuck Schumer means he doesn’t have the votes yet.”

Van Hollen has echoed some of the incoming senators in emphasizing that Democrats won big in the midterms in spite of,
not because of, the party establishment.

“I think if you look at this election, this was not a Washington, D.C.-orchestrated victory.
This was a huge movement across the country,” he said this week.

“That’s why we won in places like South Carolina. That’s why we won in Mississippi. Look, I appreciate the work of everybody at the DSCC, but the reality is that until the very last minute,
the DSCC did not spend much in South Carolina or Mississippi.”

A total of 14 senators had publicly pledged to support Schumer on Friday, roughly half the number he would need to be reinstalled in his leadership position,
a process that takes place via secret ballot.

Ten senators, meanwhile, are on the record opposing his bid. 

Van Hollen has acknowledged that he is an underdog in the leadership fight,
but as last Tuesday’s results in places like Mississippi showed,
that doesn’t mean it’s not a fight worth having.

Jesus Christ Cologuard I know it’s been three years since my last colon cancer screening, stop with all the cute emails and text messages

Sharing of ideas and code is a core tenant of FOSS. PyLova literally started as a copy of Piefed. Why shouldn’t the ideas and features flow both ways?

Multiple images in posts and in-line comment editing are basic features coppied from Reddit (and, like, every social media site), which probably coppied them from somewhere else. Let’s not pretend like PyLova is breaking new ground here, lmao.

@max_power it's best enjoyed with a hot cup of tea

@fesshole that is really sweet.

Be gentle with people. Be difficult with institutions. Question authority, read obscure books, challenge assumptions, feed the cats and never mistake cynicism for intelligence. There is still an enormous amount of beauty worth fighting for. 🌈

@rnd hahaha, prave.

@snufkin_vc right click on the header

It is with profound sadness that the Canadian Armed Forces confirms the death of a fifth soldier who was receiving medical care in Ontario following the tragic incident that occurred at CFB Wainwright on October 17, 2026. https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/news/2026/11/fifth-canadian-armed-forces-member-dies-following-incident-at-canadian-forces-base-wainwright.html

it's the right day to enjoy this song - "The Day of the Grey Cup", from the 1968 Dal Richards album #CFL Songs. Music by Johnny Burt, lyrics by Jill Loring - and sung by my late friend Vern Kennedy,

https://argonotes.com/CFLSongs/DayOfTheGreyCup.mp3

Imagine being someone of Asian descent in the US right now. You just kind of survived all the COVID racism, and now this happens.

jfc

I mean, it makes running a smaller instance a lot easier. Maybe read what it actually does and think about why it would potentially be problematic.

Presumably people running small instances would make us of this drawing on moderation efforts from a bigger instance that they trust. It’ll benefit people on smaller or single use instances, but shouldn’t affect the majority of users. Just makes decentralization more painless.

I agree some other name such as “filtered banlist federation” or something could seem less scary as a label than “auto-ban”.

I want to make some videos, but I do not want to add them to TY, I am looking for an alternative, unfortunately I know Vimeo, but this is not what I am looking for.

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