#pitchforks

· 2mo ago

It's essential that people understand the flagrant contempt for law that Elon Musk demonstrates on an ongoing basis. A current example: dozens of fossil fuel generating turbines with no permits and poisonously placed near black communities. https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/pollution-musks-unpermitted-xai-power-project-hits-hardest-black-communities-2026-07-14/#pitchforks

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Boosted by @octothorpe@mastodon.online

Maryland's Democrat-controlled state government enacted a law purporting to ban surveillance pricing. But as @pluralistic@mamot.fr explains, it's all loophole -- and leaves Maryland's citizens worse off than they were before this Big Tech-driven charade. #pitchforks https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/30/something-must-be-done/

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Pluralistic: How not to ban surveillance pricing (30 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Dan Gillmor @dangillmor__dup_4171@mastodon.social

· 9mo ago

Boosted by @flargh@mastodon.social

Trump, Musk, Rubio, and their henchmen destroyed USAID -- directly causing hundreds of thousands of deaths, mostly children. The apparatchiks celebrated while bosses lied about what they'd done. I can't overstate my incandescent rage at these monstrous people. https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan #pitchforks

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.

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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.

Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a result.

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