Fred Chapman 🍉

👨‍🎓 Applied Math PhD 🖥️ Software Developer ✍ Tech Writer/Editor
🎼 Tenor Soloist 🎸 Electric/Acoustic/Slide Guitar 💙 Blues Music
💉#GetVaccinated 😷 #MaskUp

[Fred Chapman 🍉 @fwchapman]

@support Twitter has sent me the same email notification 5 times in the last 12 days! How do I make it stop? By the way, none of your support contact forms deal with this kind of issue, so I have to tweet at you in public. This is very bad customer support infrastructure.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Statement from Drop Site News on Israel’s Murder of Our Colleague Hossam Shabat: We Hold Both Israel and the U.S. Government Responsible

🔗 Read here: https://t.co/HaxZ5qJ9Cw

[Ashley Haynes @odinikaeze]

Stephen Miller’s statement is authoritarian theater disguised as patriotism.

Forcing children to “love America” by federal mandate is not civic education. it’s state propaganda, North Korean style.

True patriotism grows from critical thinking, not indoctrination. And labeling any dissenting history or thought as “communist ideology” is a tactic straight from autocrats.

If your idea of education requires censorship and loyalty oaths, you’re not building great citizens, you’re manufacturing obedience.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

The President of the United States just called for the arrest of a sitting Governor.

This is a day I hoped I would never see in America.

I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican this is a line we cannot cross as a nation — this is an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism.

[Fred Chapman 🍉 @fwchapman]

It's an unfortunate fact of life that the older we get, the harder it is to control our bodily functions. This is a major source of distress to a lot of good people. Nobody should be ridiculed for something they cannot control. Please think about it, okay? Many thanks! 4/4

[Fred Chapman 🍉 @fwchapman]

@TantrumTrump2 Thanks for following me! Our Great Leader (GL) deserves to be ridiculed into oblivion, so I support your parody account. But I need to talk with you about the #DiaperDon hashtag. 1/4

[Fred Chapman 🍉 @fwchapman]

When people use a #disability as a #putdown or an #insult, it normalizes #ableism: it sends the message that it's okay to attack #disabled people for being disabled. I'm sure that's not your intention at all—but sadly, it is the effect. 3/4

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Last year, @Nike made $23 billion. Its founder is worth $35 billion. But Nike pays just dollars a day to the workers who make its products.

Today I met Dinar, who sews 222 labels an hour onto Nike products. She is paid $202 a month.

This is corporate greed at its worst.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Good morning.

If the Republican budget bill passes:

- 40% of the country will lose money
- 15 million people will lose their health care
- the richest families will get a $270,000 tax cut
- the debt will go up 2.4 TRILLION dollars

Who is asking for that??

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

A billionaire who profits off the presidency is feuding with another billionaire who bought access to the government to line his own pockets.

Neither should have ever been able to amass so much power.

What we're witnessing is a failed experiment in billionaire governance.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

🖐🏾

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in Supreme Court history.

It's allowed billionaires to completely take over our politics and destroy our democracy.

There are days when we are reminded just how pernicious that ruling was.

Today is one of those days.

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

🚨 BREAKING: President @JoeBiden torches Trump’s desperate lies in a new statement:

“Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false.

This is nothing more than a distraction by Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans who are working to push disastrous legislation that would cut essential programs like Medicaid and raise costs on American families, all to pay for tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and big corporations.”

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 BREAKING: Trump is reportedly preparing a sweeping move to cancel massive federal funding for California, per CNN.

This isn’t policy, it’s political retaliation. A sitting president targeting an entire state because it refuses to kneel.

Welcome to authoritarianism, American edition.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Trump's right: The easiest way to save money is to eliminate the "Billions and Billions" in corporate welfare Elon Musk has received.

Musk's right: Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" is a "disgusting abomination" that must be defeated.

Let's do both. It'll be a win-win for America!

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 LISTEN TO THIS …HERE IS ChatGpt’s thoughts on the 816 page BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL. THIS IS WHAT AI HAD TO SAY‼️ 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Civics 101

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

#pridemonth2025

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Reminder: DOGE was never about "efficiency."

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Remember how anti-vaxxers said mRNA vaccines would change our DNA?

Over 200 years ago, in 1802, anti-vaxxers claimed that getting the smallpox inoculation would turn you into a cow.

Because in 1802, the vaccine against smallpox was made using cowpox.

Anti-vaxxers haven't changed very much