John Refior is on Mastodon

What do truthfulness and promise-keeping matter? washingtonpost.com/opinions/folks…

It took a while, but I saved a list of everyone I was following. Make an account on a platform not run by white supremacists, traitors to the United States, or agents of the Kremlin (in other words, Republicans), and I'll try to find you there

Twitter is dead. I am unfollowing everyone, logging out, and deleting the app from my phone. I encourage you to do the same.

@POTUS It's time for you to leave Twitter. Have your staff make you a Mastodon account and start posting there instead

Fall days at the White House.

“an untold number won in local elections to control the positions that run on-the-ground election operations in counties, cities and townships across the country” apnews.com/article/14ee28…

“aides to President Joe Biden and other Democrats believe voters punished the GOP for its reliance on conspiracy theories and Donald Trump-fueled lies over the 2020 election” apnews.com/article/9af868…

@elonmusk with Trump and his white supremacist followers still falsely claiming that the 2020 election was "rigged" against him and that he's the rightful president, this tweet has a double meaning. (And that's probably intentional, given the source is a known internet troll.)

Reinstate former President Trump

Washington Post story on the collapse of the Amazon rainforest

Garland names special counsel to lead Trump-related probes (from @AP) apnews.com/article/550c01…

“Since taking over Twitter less than three weeks ago, Musk has booted half of the company’s full-time staff of 7,500 and an untold number of contractors responsible for content moderation and other crucial efforts.” apnews.com/article/d9217e…

“a turnaround from Joe Biden’s passionate campaign trail denunciations of Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the brutal slaying”

“The Biden administration declared Thursday that the high office held by Saudi Arabia’s crown prince should shield him from lawsuits for his role in the killing of a U.S.-based journalist” apnews.com/article/49f3e4…

"Being forced by #ClimateChange to move is a growing reality expected to accelerate in the decades ahead. Over the next 30 years, 143M people are likely to be uprooted by rising seas, drought, temperatures and climate catastrophes, according to the IPCC" apnews.com/article/storms…

@kairyssdal "Cryptocurrency isn't useful money yet, but it will be one day." -Kai Ryssdal, Nov 8, 2022. It's money laundering for organized crime, Russian oligarchs, North Korea, and terrorists--with the lovely side effect of making the planet uninhabitable. There's no future in that.

"Our approach relies on a broad framework referred to as “climate attribution,” which has been used successfully to quantify human contributions to warming (winning the authors of the Fourth Assessment of the IPCC a Nobel Prize)" lawfareblog.com/scientific-cas…

.@Tesla needs to fire Elon Musk twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…

@sarahjeong You were ahead of your time @sarahjeong/3961883" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mastodon.social/@sarahjeong/39…

I'm seeing a lot of these, so it's not just you. I wonder who created them and why

@crampell You have two account listing on Mastodon, both were created this month, and both are tagged as bots. Are these yours?

@speechboy71 Don’t think that’s new

At this point, the NYT headline writers are just massively trolling

if you are leaving Twitter and want to preserve your tweet history, you can download it by going to your profile settings and clicking on “your account” then “download an archive of your data.” apnews.com/article/6e8bff…