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Over on #Bluesky there was a bit of a controversy over the suspension of Sarah Kendzior. I thought it was an interestingly nontrivial moderation problem, so I wrote up a little case study on how this would have been handled on Mastodon: http…

Kendzior Case-Study

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/11/03/Time-to-Migrate

I’ve spoken with my boss (he’s a bit of a dickhead but his heart’s in the right place) and confirmed that I won’t be getting fired for opposing Israel’s ongoing genocide and supporting the human rights of the Palestinian people to live with freedom and dignity like the rest of us but not everyone is as lucky.

Pro-Palestinian influencer Dr. Nahla Al-Sarraj fired following Zionist smear campaign
Dr. Nahla Al-Sarraj gained hundreds of thousands of social media followers by discussing the Gaza genocide. She was fired after a pressure campaign from Israel lobby groups that she believes aimed to silence her. Despite this, she remains unbowed.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) dipped into her campaign funds
to attend a concert hosted by MAGA artist Kid Rock,
amid ongoing rumors that the two are dating
https://www.thedailybeast.com/lauren-boebert-torched-for-using-cam…

Lauren Boebert Torched for Using Campaign Funds to See Rumored Rockstar Lover
It’s unclear how seeing Kid Rock contributed to Lauren Boebert’s campaign.

In which, on the occasion of my 3-year migration anniversary and the release of Mastodon 4.5, I assemble all my arguments as to why Mastodon is great and why anyone else on a service that’s becoming less fun/safe/useful should migrate to Mastodon and do it now, in late 2025: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When…

Time to Migrate

Annual inflation hit 2.7 percent in December as food costs rose (Sylvan Lane/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/business/5685932-consumer-price-index-december/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p49#a260113p49

RE: https://syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/115887740554594210
Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people isn’t limited in its goal to erasing Palestinians in Gaza by murdering them, creating conditions unsuitable for life, and ethnically cleansing them. The g…

On this Remembrance Day, let us bow our heads thinking of, along with those who died in yesterday’s wars, the ones who will die today in today’s wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_con…

List of ongoing armed conflicts - Wikipedia

Russian generals say all goals of the war will be achieved.
Russian economists say despite the pressure the economy will outlast Ukraine’s.
Even Russian fan-boy Donald Trump says that Russia is much stronger and Kyiv has no cards left to play in the war.

Hearing only reassurance,
it is little wonder that President Vladimir Putin sees no reason for real concessions on Ukraine.
From the vantage point of the Kremlin, the war is going according to plan.

With an army of yes-men, how Putin’s world turned into an echo chamber
The Russian president has little incentive to compromise in the ongoing peace talks because everyone around him keeps reassuring him that Russia is winning.

Days of demonstrations against immigration agents left Minnesota tense on Tuesday,
a day after federal authorities used #tear #gas to break up crowds of whistle-blowing activists
and state and local leaders #sued to fight the enforce…

Tensions flare in Minnesota as federal agents and protesters square off
Days of demonstrations against immigration agents and a new lawsuit have left Minnesota tense. Federal officers sprayed eye irritant and dropped tear gas at a swarm of activists Tuesday in Minneapolis. Students, meanwhile, walked out of a suburban school, part of the ongoing tension over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement sweeps. Minnesota and its two largest cities are suing the government to try to halt or limit the enforcement surge that led to the fatal shooting of a woman…