Hello World!
I just spoke with a #US #Senator office about the #fediverse . They're asking for more information to help spread around #Capital #Hill in small bite sized easy to understand pieces. I'm obviously going to give them @elena beautiful #movie on the #fedi (with some light editing which she's agreed to).
I'll of course show them https://fediverse.info/ and https://fedi.tips/ which are great websites. I figured I'd give them examples of amazing #AP projects such as #mastodon , #pixelfed , #peertube , #bandwagon , and #bonfire ; even things like @admin .
I'd love to know from folks any EASY to understand projects that best encompass the Fediverse and explanations of it.
What are some projects you'd hand to your friends and family that would explain and display to them what we are?
I'll say this isn't going to happen over night. There's lot of questions around regulations, trust & safety, etc. But I feel it's pertinent to at least get the conversation going, especially considering the current state of disdain for big social media and the impending legislation around these things.
I'll finally state if there's anyone in this list that does NOT want to be involved with this, that's totally fine and I understand and I can exclude you from the materials I give to them.
#boost #boostplease #government #laws #activityPub
@benpate @peertube @bonfire
@stefano @dansup @Mastodon
Man named Vance Boelter allegedly shot and killed #MelissaHortman, #Democratic #Minnesota state #representative and her husband Mark Hortman @ their home at some point early Saturday morning while, according to #lawenforcement, impersonating a #police officer. Also allegedly #shot state #senator #JohnHoffman +his wife Yvette Hoffman @their home. He runs armed security service w wife & is affiliated w @ least 1 evangelical organization that he runs https://archive.is/oc3UN#selection-569.2-569.158 #gunviolence #politics
So proud to call Alex Padilla my #Senator: "This son of Mexican immigrants grew up in working class Pacoima U went to MIT before returning home to help found a political machine that gave a voice to Latinos in the San Fernando Valley that they never had. He was the 1st Latino president of the L.A. City Council, served in both chambers of the state Legislature & also as CA's sec. of state before becoming CA's 1st Latino U.S. senator."
A must listen from Pete Buttigieg on the fascist assault on Senator Alex Padilla of California.
yes
and consider this
if #Trump #fascist #goons
feel free to assault an #American #Senator
what will they do to the citizens?
do Americans feel safe? in a country of law and right?
America is a full Fascist State.
All of this was already predicted to happen if Trump did came back to power
and do NOT think you can "vote" these fascists out of government
Now that they are in power they will NOT leave.
It will go way worse than this
this is just the beginning.
This #video of the half-hour speech #Senator Adam #Schiff (CA) made May 14 to the US #Senate to lay out #Trump's 10 most #corrupt #acts so far is very valuable for everyone to listen to. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=000yxkGXSVM Transcript: https://www.youtube-transcript.io/videos/000yxkGXSVM
#GOP The Party of Dumb
"Pope Felonious Assholiness," DIE LIKE A POPE!
(Such a compassionate Pope he's make)
Brian Tyler Cohen, "Yes, this is a real tweet."
#Attorney #Senator #AssKisser #LindseyGraham
#Pope #Trump #USPoli
Republican senator removes the topic of consent from sex ed curriculum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjkmpccnDpE&t=80s
“it protects both boy and girl, man and woman… we are protecting our youth. I need a better, I need an explanation why you would take it out.”
Day 22 cont ️
“‘Nobody’s going to walk with her’: can #JacintaNampijinpaPrice work with #Indigenous organisations if she becomes minister?”
Read the article yourself to grasp the support / lack of support for Price by Australian Indigenous leaders. Also read about the lack of reporting of protests at the Price press conference last Sunday.
#AusPol / #LNP / #Liberal / #IndigenousAustralia / #senator <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/20/nobodys-going-to-walk-with-her-can-jacinta-nampijinpa-price-work-with-indigenous-organisations-if-she-becomes-minister>
Old white #GOP people in #Iowa pissed off at #Senator #ChuckGrassley for not doing anything about #USA concentration camps in #ElSalvador
"If #Republicans would like to join #Democrats in removing Trump's power to #tariff and stop this #game of red light, green light with #tariffs I invite them to the #Senate floor." - Senator Warren. FINALLY someone said it. Thanks for defending #democracy #Senator #Warren.
Er müsste es besser wissen, denn wir sind schon seit 2022 mit seiner Regierung im Gespräch - und ratet mal, wer die ganze Zeit null #Kompromissbereitschaft gezeigt hat?
Er hat also in über zwei Jahren nicht die Zeit gefunden, sich mit unserem Anliegen zu beschäftigen, meint jetzt aber mit populistischen Falschbehauptungen gegen uns schießen zu müssen.
Der Mann ist übrigens Dr. jur. und hat seine Arbeit über "Bürgerbegehren und Bürgerentscheid in den Hamburger Bezirken" geschrieben.
Nur, um jetzt als #Senator diesen Unfug zu schreiben?
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Dressel
4/6
Zudem verbreitet #Dressel Fake-News, wenn er streut, wir wollten "#Werbung auf öffentlichem Grund ganz verbannen".
Das ist mitnichten der Fall.
https://www.hamburg-werbefrei.de/gesetzentwurf/
Darüber müsste er sich als #Minister doch eigentlich einmal informiert haben, bevor er sich derart einbringt und mit dem Daumen auf die Waagschale drückt?
Immerhin geht es ja nur um einen demokratischen Prozess.
#DirekteDemokratie #Hamburg #Populismus #SPD #Dressel #Senator #LinkedIn #Meinung #HamburgWerbefrei #Skandal
2/6
Gehört es wirklich zu den Aufgaben eines Ministers, alberne Tiraden auf "#LinkedIn" zu schreiben und Bürger:innen das gesetzlich verankerte Mitspracherecht und die Legitimität ihrer Anliegen abzusprechen?
Was treibt den Mann an? Warum hat er überhaupt Zeit dazu?
Eine inhaltliche und politische Entgegnung.
1/6
Day 15 cont
“The #Nationals #leader, #DavidLittleproud, called it a “slip of the tongue” when Price, the shadow minister for #GovernmentEfficiency and Indigenous #Australians, told a campaign rally she wanted to “make #Australia great again” on Saturday. The #senator later claimed she hadn’t “even realised” she made the comments, then accused the media of being “obsessed” with the US president.
Guardian #Australia has obtained an image of the senator at an event with her family over the Christmas period wearing a Maga hat.
…
Guardian Australia has approached #Coalition campaign headquarters for comment.”
#AusPol / #Liberals / #LNP / #HQ / #propaganda / #slogans / #JacintaNampijinpaPrice <https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/13/image-emerges-of-jacinta-price-wearing-maga-cap-one-day-after-she-says-coalition-will-make-australia-great-again>
Here are a couple of powerful sentences from the 25 hours marathon speech delivered by Democratic #senator Cory Booker:
“My voice is inadequate,” Mr. Booker said more than 19 hours into the speech. “My efforts today are inadequate to stop what they’re trying to do. But we the people are powerful.”
And “We’re senators with all of this power, but in this democracy, the power of people is greater than the people in power.”
#peoplepower #wethepeople