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jik@federate.social ("Jonathan Kamens") wrote:

The Democrats on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee are holding hearings about what's going on at VA. I was invited to testify at one of the hearings (will post more about this later) and was told, "If your friends and family want to watch live, this will be streaming on the SVAC Democrats Facebook and X/Twitter feeds."
That the Dems are streaming only on Facebook and Twitter is another illustration that they're not up to the moment we're in.
#politics #USPol
I sent them this:

Screenshot of email excerpt: "I want to offer some feedback about your choice of streaming options: The federal government should not be streaming their content only on proprietary platforms like Facebook and Twitter. All the more so given that Zuckerberg, who controls Facebook, has bent the knee to Trump, and Musk, who controls Twitter, is destroying the federal government. I would like people to be able to watch my testimony, but I am incredibly reluctant to ask them to do so if they have to use Facebook or Twitter to do it. There are absolutely other options."