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Hi. I’m Emma, creator of #MobileFriendlyFirefox (#FriendlyFox), and I'm #trans 🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her].

Appreciate my projects?

Want to support my transition?

Monero:
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HRT is a lifelong expense, and surgeries are really expensive.

Any donations would be greatly appreciated.

❤️

#Transgender

Questions about receiving anonymous #Monero donations:

1. Should I share the primary address or a subaddress?
2. Are there any limitations to using one over the other?

Thanks.

Edit: I think I'm just going to go ahead and use a subaddress.

Monero:
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Waffle House reportedly deducts $3 from workers’ pay for each on-shift meal, even if they don't eat it.

The policy could cost all Waffle House workers ~$30M per year.

This is a company that already pays some workers as little as $2.90/hr before tips.

Textbook corporate greed.

“#Trump has spent more than $100 million — none of it his own money — since leaving office on legal costs related to fending off investigations, indictments and his coming criminal trials, federal records show”

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/27/us/politics/trump-cases-legal-fund.html

Marilyn Lands, a Democrat who made reproductive rights a central part of her campaign, wins a special election Tuesday for a state House seat in deep red Alabama.

Lands won 62.31% of the vote with 100% of precincts reporting. Her opponent, Republican Teddy Powell, received 37.50% of the vote.

Lands, a licensed professional counselor lost her 2022 bid for the Huntsville-area seat by nearly 7 points.

Damn right - Women are not without electoral or political power. 👩

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/26/politics/alabama-special-election-democrat-reproductive-rights?cid=ios_app

👏🏻Marilyn Lands, Democrat who made reproductive rights a campaign focus will win #Alabama special election, CNN projects

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/26/politics/alabama-special-election-democrat-reproductive-rights?cid=ios_app

Two state attorneys general are plainly running interference for Musk and his increasingly extremist-coddling deadbirdsite. They're deploying state power against a journalism organization -- one of the few -- that takes on right-wing media and lousy work in Big Journalism.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/missouri-ag-sues-media-matters-in-lawsuit-echoing-elon-musks-complaints/

This is incredibly dangerous to freedom of expression.

Given journalists' myopic continued presence on Musk's site, it seems they don't care.

Kind of amazing that Lester Holt, managing editor of NBC’s main newscast, got through all this without saying a word about it.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/26/ronna-mcdaniel-nbc-exit-00149193

we live in a world of e-waste and related refuse, from batteries to electronics to fluorescent lights, and yet no where, afaict, has incorporated e-waste pickup into their waste management processes, nor are there widespread e-waste dropoff points

Used to be that if a giant bridge collapsed, you'd be able to hop on Twitter and read all about it, the rescue efforts, what happened, all as information was being uncovered. It was the place to go for a major news story, people would be tweeting new info and it would all be gathered under the heading 'Francis Scott Key Bridge'...

#Trump’s Truth Social is now a public company. Experts warn its multibillion-dollar valuation defies logic

“Despite the late-day slide, Wall Street is still assigning Trump Media an eye-popping valuation of nearly $11 billion — a price tag that experts warn is untethered to reality.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/26/markets/trump-media-stock-truth-social?cid=ios_app

The price of asthma medication has soared in the U.S. over the past decade and a half.

The pharmaceutical company Teva sells QVAR RediHaler, a corticosteroid inhaler, for $286 in the U.S.

In Germany, Teva sells that same inhaler for $9.

https://theconversation.com/asthma-meds-have-become-shockingly-unaffordable-but-relief-may-be-on-the-way-222858
#health

Your periodic reminder that Medicare For All would save $450 billion in health care costs and 68,000 lives per year.

🎯 Via #Biden-Harris HQ:

A feeble and confused #Trump posts a typo-riddled all-caps rant misspelling “Biden,” “disinforms,” “misinforms,” and other basic words

A Truth Social post from Trump:

I'm not running to terminate the ACA, AS CROOKED JOE BUDEN
DISINFORMATES AND MISINFORMATES ALL THE TIME, I'm running to CLOSE
12:12 PM · Mar 26, 2024

#WompWomp

New York Judge Merchan imposed a gag order on Tuesday that prohibits #Trump from attacking witnesses, prosecutors and jurors, the latest effort to rein in the former president’s wrathful rhetoric about his legal opponents.

The judge imposed the order at the request of the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which brought the case against Trump.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/nyregion/trump-trial-gag-order.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fk0.fW-u.bJkcWyWuuotD&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Trump says pardoning violent Jan 6 insurrections would be one of his first acts as President.

This isn’t only disgusting, it’s incredibly dangerous.

He’s offering a “get out of jail free” card to people who commit violence on his behalf.

It welcomes more political violence.

👀👀 House Ethics Committee is investigating Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, the panel said in a statement on Tuesday.

The committee did not specify what it is investigating and said it will make another announcement on the matter by May 10

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/texas-rep-troy-nehls-investigated-house-ethics-committee/story?cid=social_twitter_abcn&id=108517848

Via Democracy Docket:

BREAKING: Federal court dismisses lawsuit from #Pennsylvania Republicans alleging that President Biden and Gov. Josh Shapiro's (D) efforts to expand voter registration in the state violated the U.S. Constitution.

Please proceed....

Via Politico:

House Democrats are pushing for a hearing on Jared #Kushner’s business deals — the latest sign that they could focus their investigations on Donald #Trump’s family members as the former president looks to take back the White House.

We are living through a war on democracy. NBC hiring insurrectionists, shady stock schemes to enrich a presidential candidate, plans to deploy 'soldiers' to the polls, suspect judicial rulings. Everyday we are reminded that the insurrection is not over. Billionaires and their GOP operatives are conducting an active slow motion coup. This year will determine if the people or billionaire oligarchs rule this country in the future.

Exclusive: A U.S. lawmaker involved in health policy has asked the Food and Drug Administration why it did not inspect Elon #Musk's Neuralink before allowing the brain implant company to test its device in humans. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-lawmaker-seeks-answers-fda-inspection-musks-neuralink-2024-03-26/

Greetings! New here. Trying to wrap my brain around Mbin- is there a well constructed summary of the differences between Lemmy, Kbin, and Mbin that's beginner-friendly?

“Chuck Todd Chides NBC News Over Handling Of Ronna McDaniel Hire; Network Gets Backlash Over Decision To Retain Former RNC Chair As Analyst”

This reminds me of the fiasco caused by CBS’s hiring of fellow liar Mick Mulvaney.

If you think TV news executives would have learned their lesson from that, you’ve probably never met a TV news executive.

https://deadline.com/2024/03/nbc-news-ronna-mcdaniel-paid-contributor-1235866884/

Amazon and Space X are fighting in court to have the NLRB declared unconstitutional.

This means the two richest men on earth want to dismantle the agency that holds them accountable for union busting.

Nothing terrifies them more than worker power.

When I go to the doctor or dentist in Paris, it’s so cheap that I never bother to submit a claim to my US insurance company. Americans deserve better healthcare coverage.