Beth Ⓥ 🌱 😷

| she/her | vegan | abolitionist | AuDHD | socialist | anti-capitalist | pro masking 😷 and community care ♥️

[Beth Ⓥ 🌱 😷 @beth72]

They wanted to shift away from helping people & materially improving their lives & instead pivot to austerity. To accomplish that the Dems had to get people to believe the lie that COVID is over. The vast majority of liberals and “leftists” were only too happy to do their part.

[Stephen Semler @stephensemler]

Harris's unappealing platform originated in March 2022, when the Biden-Harris admin gave up on economic populism and pivoted toward austerity and historic Pentagon budgets.
https://t.co/52JiQkdAIc

[KOSU @KOSURadio]

The Sand Springs City Council voted 6-1 Tuesday night to rezone 827 acres for a proposed data center to be operated by Google. Some residents shouted for a recall vote after the meeting adjourned.

@TulsaFlyer
https://t.co/IER614kzxh

[SUPPORT MUTUAL AID/DIRECT ACTION 🏴 Ⓐ @tigerfoos]

It’s never too late to stop using AI
It’s never too late to start masking
It’s never too late to unlearn propaganda
It’s never too late to become better

[Plague Poems @PlaguePoems]

After the solstice
the fall ends
and the winter begins.

And after the solstice
plague season continues
plague season just continues.

[The American Prospect @TheProspect]

Amazon has conned school districts out of tens of millions of dollars with AI-fueled pricing and bunk claims of competitive bidding. @NaomiBethune argues that it’s time for school districts to end their contracts: https://t.co/L76uPVmEgT

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

in this interview, NPR's @scottdetrow refers to:

"illicit tankers"
"smuggling"
"black market"

Again: Venezuela shipping oil to Cuba violates NO international laws. US sanctions do not, by definition, make something "illicit"––it's just 1 out of 193 UN member states.

[Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell]

For decades, policymakers claimed that letting Walmart extract special deals from suppliers would lower prices. So they stopped enforcing the Robinson-Patman Act — wiping out many small retailers. Now the evidence is telling a very different story.

[United Farm Workers @UFWupdates]

Today's action continues the joint worker solidarity that happened over the weekend when boycotting Windmill mushroom workers met with striking Starbucks baristas and discussed their mutual struggle in Eugene OR.
#NoContractNoCoffee #BoycottWindmillMushrooms

[Beth Ⓥ 🌱 😷 @beth72]

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[Jammer @acrossthemersey]

There are several healthcare industry reports showing various sales trends with data driven factors provided.

The latest is loss of taste and smell (anosmia) expecting to reach $4.1B by 2034 with increasing LongCOVID cases and viral infections (COVID) being the major catalysts.

[EFF @EFF]

Online age verification isn't like showing ID at a bar. It's more invasive, affects far more transactions, and poses serious privacy, security, and free speech risks that in-person checks never do. https://t.co/1pCzLNUz8G

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

On January 28, 2026, the FTC will host an “Age Verification Workshop” at the Constitution Center in Washington. The official topic is child safety. The real subject is identity infrastructure.

They will gather researchers, policy staff, and tech firms to discuss systems that estimate or confirm user ages, tools that verify who you are before you click anything.

This is the federal step toward what states like Texas, Utah, Missouri, Virginia, and Ohio already started: laws forcing websites to check IDs, face scans, or link accounts to certified third parties.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

Congress is about to pass the biggest set of censorship and surveillance laws in our lifetime and influencers and the media are silent. It’s pitiful

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

This is always what it’s about. It’s not about “protecting kids” it’s about censoring speech and rolling out mass surveillance. And Congress is trying to do the same thing in the U.S. this week

[alpha @omarsbigsister]

I disagee. The reason Age Verification laws like KOSA & the SCREEN Act never passed in the US while they passed in Australia and the UK is the mass opposition we have in the US to it. But that ONLY keeps working if we keep it up and keep contacting congress & the news about it.

[alpha @omarsbigsister]

@thehill @TheHillOpinion I know no one is going to read it, but the people who wrote it actually want KOSA, a mass censorship and surveillance tool disguised as "protecting kids", to pass.
Wizz should be removed from the app store. Easy solution. There's no need to pass KOSA.
https://t.co/qitJME6OVw

[Beth Ⓥ 🌱 😷 @beth72]

@CovidDataReport I just wish they would stop adding “crowded” to their advisories. Exposures happen all the time in places that aren’t necessarily crowded.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

AGE VERIFICATION SURVEILLANCE BILL IS ABOUT TO BE STEAMROLLED THRU THE HOUSE!!! the future of the internet is at stake.

We need to stop mass surveillance by the govt now or we'll lose the ability forever. You will have to show ID to access the web. KOSA must die, call TODAY

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

Earth is hotter than it’s been in about 125,000 years.
CO2 levels their highest in around 12 MILLION years.
Scientists are warning of 4C+ this century, societal collapse & BILLIONS of deaths.

Imagine a media & politics not interested in talking about this.

We should be furious.