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Steve Thompson PhD<p>20 years ago when Fox News embraced Ann Coulter. That's when.</p><p>When Did Republican Women Get to Be So Vile as These Four? | The New Republic - <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/198707/pam-bondi-tulsi-gabbard-linda-mcmahon-kristi-noem-vile-four" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/article/198707</span><span class="invisible">/pam-bondi-tulsi-gabbard-linda-mcmahon-kristi-noem-vile-four</span></a> Pam Bondi, Tulsi Gabbard, Linda McMahon, and Kristi Noem are the new model of right-wing womanhood.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vitriol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vitriol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a></p>
h o ʍ l e t t<p>→ Here are some of the horrible things that you can now say on Instagram and Facebook (by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/@rjcc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rjcc</span></a></span>)<br><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/24338471/meta-hate-speech-hateful-conduct-policy-moderation" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/2025/1/7/24338471</span><span class="invisible">/meta-hate-speech-hateful-conduct-policy-moderation</span></a></p><p>“Meta is giving the green light for people to target LGBTQ people, women, <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a>, and other <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/marginalized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marginalized</span></a> groups with <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>violence</span></a>, <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/vitriol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vitriol</span></a>, and <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/dehumanizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dehumanizing</span></a> narratives. With these changes, Meta is continuing to normalize anti-LGBTQ hatred for <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/profit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>profit</span></a> — at the expense of its users and true <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a> of expression.”</p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Instagram</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>women</span></a></p>
Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Residents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Residents</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Springfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Springfield</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Ohio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ohio</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/hunkerdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hunkerdown</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/pray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pray</span></a> for a political firestorm to blow over. </p><p>Between the morning <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bombsweeps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bombsweeps</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Springfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Springfield</span></a>’s <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>schools</span></a> and the near daily afternoon <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/mediabriefings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mediabriefings</span></a>, a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/hush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hush</span></a> comes over the city of 58,000 that <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/residents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>residents</span></a> say is uncanny, haunting even. It’s <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fear</span></a>. It’s <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/confusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>confusion</span></a> — <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/dismay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dismay</span></a> at being transformed overnight into a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/target" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>target</span></a> for the nation’s <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Racist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/vitriol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vitriol</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-haitian-immigrants-springfield-ohio-7e8b09654c0dd90d72c884dbb798c71b" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/election-20</span><span class="invisible">24-haitian-immigrants-springfield-ohio-7e8b09654c0dd90d72c884dbb798c71b</span></a></p>
beSpacific<p>Amanda Jones' memoir recalls being branded 'That Librarian' by haters for calling out <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a>. Host Deepa Fernandes speaks with <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Louisiana</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/school" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>school</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/librarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>librarian</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/AmandaJones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmandaJones</span></a>. In her new memoir, "That Librarian: The Fight Against <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Book</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Banning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Banning</span></a> in America," Jones tells the story of the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/vitriol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vitriol</span></a> she received both in person &amp; online after she spoke out against censorship at a public meeting. <a href="https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2024/08/27/amanda-jones-that-librarian" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wbur.org/hereandnow/2024/08/27</span><span class="invisible">/amanda-jones-that-librarian</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/hatecrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hatecrimes</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/bookBans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookBans</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/publiclibraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publiclibraries</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/librarians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>librarians</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a></p>
beSpacific<p>The biggest of stories came to the small city of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Butler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Butler</span></a>. Here’s how its newspaper met the moment local <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a> matters. Photographer Morgan Phillips, who stood on a riser in the middle of a field with Trump’s audience that Saturday evening, kept on her feet and kept working, <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/documenting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>documenting</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a>. After <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SecretService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SecretService</span></a> officers hustled the former president into a waiting car, the people around her turned to shout <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/vitriol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vitriol</span></a> at the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/journalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalists</span></a>. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/TrueGrit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrueGrit</span></a> <a href="https://apnews.com/article/butler-pennsylvania-newspaper-trump-assassination-attempt-87c73207c4d4470e4d9deb13b2852572" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/butler-penn</span><span class="invisible">sylvania-newspaper-trump-assassination-attempt-87c73207c4d4470e4d9deb13b2852572</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>‘Make Trump Human Again’ seems to emerge as Republicans’ new theme</p><p>The campaign is hoping to erase Trump’s history of <a href="https://c.im/tags/vitriol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vitriol</span></a> with the image of a ‘caring and loving’ family man</p><p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/18/trump-campaign-unity-rnc?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/articl</span><span class="invisible">e/2024/jul/18/trump-campaign-unity-rnc?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TV</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/presenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>presenter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/KirstieAllsopp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KirstieAllsopp</span></a> recently took to <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a>/#X to say that she opposes <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/pubertyblockers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pubertyblockers</span></a> but calls for “<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/listening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>listening</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/understanding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>understanding</span></a>” for the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a>. </p><p>Because this <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/stance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stance</span></a> apparently did not <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/vilify" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vilify</span></a> the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a> enough, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Hatemonger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hatemonger</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JKRowling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JKRowling</span></a> entered the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/chat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chat</span></a> with her usual <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/vitriol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vitriol</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Women</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transgender</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scotland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TERFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TERFS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Bigotry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bigotry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transphobia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TERFIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TERFIsland</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.intomore.com/culture/jk-rowling-picked-a-fight-with-a-uk-presenter-and-things-are-getting-stupider-by-the-minute/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">intomore.com/culture/jk-rowlin</span><span class="invisible">g-picked-a-fight-with-a-uk-presenter-and-things-are-getting-stupider-by-the-minute/</span></a></p>
tallship<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://venera.social/profile/fediversenews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fediversenews</span></a></span></p><p>!!Moderation request!!</p><p>I come home to find my feeds/streams flooded with vitriolic politicial drivel emanating from a group to which I belong that states emphatically that it doesn't tolerate off-topic traffic.</p><p>The stated purpose of this Fediverse group on my home Friendica server is stated as follows:</p><blockquote>This is a Friendica group dedicated to <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> news. What are the advantages of a group over a hashtag?<p>Groups can do things that hashtags can't. For example, groups:</p><ul><li>are moderated</li><li>can re-share content</li><li>can speak as a group</li></ul><p>Joining and contributing to a Friendica group is easy. To share your posts to @Fediverse News, follow these steps:</p><ol><li>Follow @Fediverse News</li><li>When sharing Fediverse news, tag @Fediverse News</li><li>The @Fediverse News group will then re-share your post</li></ol><p>This is an actively moderated group. Be sure to stay on topic, or your posts will be removed.</p></blockquote><p>As per the instructions for this Friendica / Fediverse group, I'm notifying the moderation team by CC'ing the following address with this complaint and request to remove the vicious hate that's been spewing into the group here all day long while I've been away working:</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://firefish.city/users/9khldzk9uj8d89kq" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>atomicpoet</span></a></span></p><p>People who sign up for a Fediverse News site should not be subjected to hatred being fomented, propagated, and bantered about with respect to unrelated matters, such as (abominable) off-topic, political vitriol.</p><ol><li>) Posting announcements concerning the onboarding and subesquent federating nature of a public figure's account on threads.net is a relevant matter to the Fediverse, Fediverse Technology, and Fediverse News.</li><li>) acerbic comentary, name calling, ad hominem, and libel, as has consumed the group today, is not - those posts are a cause of severe harm and should most certainly, IMO be removed as per the terms/rules quoted above.</li><li>) The level of cacophony and pejorative hate speech permitted to continue throughout the day today is shameful. This is not the place to engage or encourage such juvenile behavior, let alone permit it to foment and spread across the Fediverse as it has today!</li></ol><p><strong>Moderation Team</strong>: Thank you, in advance, for taking your time to address and resolve this matter, returning this group to the decorum it usually enjoys with people conversing and observing the principles of civil discourse.</p><p><a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=tallship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tallship</span></a> <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=moderation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>moderation</span></a> <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=Civil+Discourse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Civil Discourse</span></a> <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=ad-hominem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ad-hominem</span></a> <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=vitriol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vitriol</span></a> <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=hate+speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hate speech</span></a> <a href="https://venera.social/search?tag=harm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>harm</span></a></p><p>⛵</p><p>.</p>