Wherein some platforms have a little more backbone than "but but but national sovereignty!":
![Speaking exclusively to PinkNews at LGBTQ+ music festival Might Hoopla, where Grindr held its own “Gaybourhood” section, Tristan Pineiro, Grindr’s senior vice president of brand marketing and communications, explained how the platform is hoping to be seen as a “global Gaybourhood in your pocket”.
“We want to provide anything that you find in a physical Gaybourhood digitally,” Pineiro explained.
“Of course, if you’re lucky enough to live in a city that has its own [physical, gay neighbourhood] then of course that’s where you should be going, that’s where you should be supporting. However, in the majority of places, that’s not always possible. Grindr exists in 60 countries where it’s actually still illegal to be gay.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7ixolzataqsaxfm2ams6zrg6/bafkreid4lxcqhmjv3z5ratd6ce2nak67cpujq7ilmlnau2ahbblltgukki)
PinkNews@pinknews.bsky.social · last yr.Grindr creating ‘Gaybourhoods’ in countries where being LGBTQ+ is illegal
A victory for scammers. The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has been gutted by @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h...
The CFPB Has Been Gutted
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally-mandated agency.
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Cruel. Illegal. Intentional. Falsely marking people as dead erases a person’s ability to live and earn wages—and the Trump Administration knows it. This isn’t a mistake. This is another sinister tactic. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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"Not Stolen, Conquered" is a slogan for American neo-fascist group Patriot Front bsky.app/profile/uzza... archive.is/xSfTP
Uzza@uzzamodea.bsky.social · last yr.Great Replacement? Check Patriot Front slogan? Check
18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
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That asshole in the White House will NEVER speak for me. Smash that 💙 if you stand with President Zelensky.
He just needs to go home, get on the horn to the eu, get munitions, and do offensive counter air and deep strikes
What Republicans really mean when they blame 'DEI' | Mehdi Hasan
What Republicans really mean when they blame 'DEI' | Mehdi Hasan
Referencing DEI is the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism In 1981, Lee Atwater, the most influential Republican party strategist of the late 20th century, sat down for an off-the-record interview with the…
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As President Trump demolishes the government’s biggest provider of foreign aid, USAID, he is ending a 60-year bipartisan consensus about the best way to keep the U.S. safe from its enemies. On "The Daily," our reporters explain the rise and fall of USAID — and American soft power.
The Demise of U.S.A.I.D. and American Soft Power
In demolishing the government’s biggest provider of foreign aid, President Trump is ending a 60-year bipartisan consensus on the best way to keep America safe.
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Hi. My name is Sean, and I am a recovering journalist who happened to find a way to convert existing skills into a new career. Watching all the things I worried would happen between 2017 and 2020 when I was reporting on natsec come to pass now 5 years after I left that gig give me various feels. /1
The Balkanization of the American Empire has already started; state-level politicians need to recognize and prepare for it: maggiemcneill.com/2025/02/07/b...
Balkanization
Attention, state-level politicians: the watchword is “Balkanization”. You need to seriously start thinking about it. Don’t sink into the comfortable, warm embrace of patriotic h…
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Federal agencies and departments generally don't keep big balances in their bank accounts. The whole system relies on quarterly or even monthly transfers of budgeted funds from Treasury. You choke off the money flow to an agency, things start failing much more quickly than you might expect.
I'm doing free simple cat doodles again today! Post a picture of your cat below and I will draw as many as I can for at least a couple hours! Reposts/Likes/Follows = 💜💜💜
Donold’s supporters don’t care if they lose their jobs or their freedom as long as he is performatively ‘owning the libs.’ That’s how much they have been taught to hate you.
Have we all seen enough dictatorships and autocracies to know where this is going?
Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social · 2y agoElon says nobody actually voted for Harris, it’s all a hoax funded by USAID. This man is not well.
5000 FBI agents united together might be a fairly formidable force against subversive forces taking over the government. Just sayin'.
Marc Veldhoen@marcveld.bsky.social · 2y agoFBI turns over details of 5,000 employees who worked on January 6 cases to Trump Justice Department, as agents sue OMG, the US is an authoritarian state. www.cnn.com/2025/02/... 1/4
Pretty disappointed overall in the response of the cybersecurity community to literal nazis taking over the government. I can count maybe a dozen colleagues using their skills or even speaking out about this.
They will define EVERYTHING they can as DEI and use that as an excuse to drain the NIH and send the funds elsewhere.
Inspiring to see hundreds turn out to protest NYU cutting off care to young trans people. Coming together to hold institutions accountable when they preemptively comply with fascist initiatives is a pretty good way to fight the overwhelm.
Institutions that can sustain a body blow now is your time to step up
David Hackney@davidnhackney.bsky.social · 2y agoThe American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now #MedSky www.acog.org/clinical/cli...
