Russian TikTok Influencers Are Being Paid To Spread Kremlin Propaganda – Slashdot

An investigation has uncovered a coordinated campaign to pay Russian TikTok influencers to post videos pushing pro-Kremlin narratives about the war in Ukraine. Vice News:Numerous campaigns have been coordinated in a secret Telegram channel that directs these influencers on what to say, where to capture videos, what hashtags to use, and when exactly to post the video. These campaigns were launched at the beginning of the invasion and have involved a number of the highest-profile influencers on TikTok, some of whom have over a million followers.

And even though TikTok has banned new uploads from users located inside Russia, the campaigns have not stopped. The Telegram channel is run by an anonymous administrator who recruits social media influencers and told VICE News he was a journalist. The administrator lays out the requirements, such as minimum views required and the date and time the video needs to be posted. He also asks potential recruits to say how much money they demand per post. It remains unknown who is paying for the campaigns. Source: Russian TikTok Influencers Are Being Paid To Spread Kremlin Propaganda – Slashdot

Mayor of Melitopol abducted after refusing to collaborate with Russian invaders

Ivan Fedorov, Mayor of Melitopol Photo Radio Svoboda

 

Ivan Fedorov, Mayro of Melitopol, has, reportedly, been abducted by the Russians who have seized control of the city and tried, in vain, to get him to collaborate with them.  This new abduction comes a day after Russian soldiers burst into the Melitopol home of Leila Ibrahimova, a Crimean Tatar and Deputy Head of the Zaporizhya Regional Council, carried out a ‘search’, seized her mobile phone and took her away.  She was later released, but that abduction and now that of Fedorov are chillingly reminiscent of the lawlessness, the abductions and enforced disappearances, especially of Crimean Tatars,  that Russia brought to Crimea with its invasion in 2014.

Source: Mayor of Melitopol abducted after refusing to collaborate with Russian invaders

A Nurse’s Story: My True Cost of the Pandemic | Labor Notes

Conditions in hospitals have always been strained, and not because they have to be. The system is broken on purpose—the priority is profit, rather than people.

The INA and other union groups have shown me real-life, research-backed examples of how health care could do better. A Safe Patient Limits bill is one solution and is possible statewide and, eventually, federally. They’re already doing it in California: four patients to one nurse, maximum.

We have enough nurses per capita to enact safe patient limits in Illinois and elsewhere. But if we don’t give health care workers what they need to survive Covid—PPE, staffing, appropriate public safety policy, and respect as humans and professionals—will we still have enough left when Covid is no longer the scapegoat for our long-failed system?

Kristen Perez is a nurse at an inner-city safety-net hospital in Chicago. 

Source: A Nurse’s Story: My True Cost of the Pandemic | Labor Notes

I Stand

Grounds For Hope

I stand
Protect you from the shelling
Shot in the back made me numb
I stand 
Bam, bam bullets propelling
Look what the world has become.
I stand
Spreading my hands over your head
From the missiles in the sky
Silently praying to the engine of Bayraktar
I stand
Holding back tanks stockpile
From ruining your peaceful land
I stand
My land on fire
Battling with evil command
I stand
Feet on the ground
Rumbling from bombs
I stand
On graves of dreams that are screaming 
For the freedom of unbound
I stand

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Do I Need the Gift of Gab to Speak?

From Behind the Pen

Image Credit: mohamed mahmoud hassan

Yesterday I had to go pick up a few things from the grocery store (or market, depending on your neck of the woods). In the aisle I was shopping in, I almost bumped into another lady who was standing behind me, picking up some sardines for her cat. We exchanged niceties, chuckling about almost bumping into each other. And of course, in the canned food section, or in any section of the grocery store for that matter, you somehow find a way to strike up a conversation with someone, even if it is about the ingredients or the weather.

Interestingly, our conversation began about people not speaking to each other or to acknowledge their presence. Of course, having been born with the gift of gab, although you don’t have to carry on an extended conversation with a perfect stranger in a grocery store, does it…

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FIRE DA BUMS!!!

Filosofa's Word

So, Congress has yet again passed a bill to avert a government shutdown just as they’ve done every year for the past umpteen years … it’s become a joke … wait ‘til the last minute to get your act together and people will praise you while they ignore what you’ve actually produced.  Ho-hum. Yesterday evening, the Senate passed the $1.5 trillion spending bill that the House had passed earlier this week.  $1.5 TRILLION!!!  That is 30 million times what the average wage earner earns!  The first thing that galls me is that the Democrats in the House caved on the issue of helping people when they dropped the $15.6 billion in COVID relief funding that included money for research and development of treatments and vaccines.  When the next surge hits, the next variant arises from the ashes, they may regret that decision, but it was said that the Republicans…

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