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A request to my follows: If you post bad political news, please try and link - or at least mention - a resource or an action to oppose, resist or compensate for the bad news. That helps keep us from getting demoralized!
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Tim Shorrock
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What Trump didn't proclaim yesterday was that "his" battleships will be built by South Korea's largest military contractor Hanwha. "Buy America" my ass.
english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...
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Trump says US will work with Korea to build âGolden Fleetâ of new Navy warships
The US president unveiled what he called the âTrump classâ of ships, saying they would be â100 timesâ more powerful than any battleship built to date
https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/1236223.html
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Tyler King
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Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our governmentâs offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.
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Ida Bae Wells
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The VP of the US can give a speech saying no one has to be ashamed to be white anymore â the type of mainstream political speech we havenât seen since before the civil rights acts, and the rhetoric is treated as merely divisive with few pointing out the obvious truth that white men remain in power.
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Ned Resnikoff
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The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
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s. e. smith
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Speaking as someone who stopped breathing last night because the power went out, we are NOT equipped for the disablity impacts of our failing power infrastructure. Great read from
@juliametraux.bsky.social
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What a crumbling power grid means for disabled Americans
Angela Frederickâs new book calls to put disability at the center of disaster planning.
https://grist.org/energy/what-a-crumbling-power-grid-means-for-disabled-americans/
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Timothy Burke
2 days ago
All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now â that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.
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Michael Stipe
2 days ago
Gift rhymes with GRIFT. Ask an Army brat lyricist
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Sonja Drimmer
7 days ago
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me &
@cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
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Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industryâs ongoing capture of higher education.
https://www.publicbooks.org/four-frictions-or-how-to-resist-ai-in-education/
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Tom Gauld
2 days ago
âThe last-minute christmas rush at the bookshop.â - my latest cartoon for
@theguardian.com
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Laura Jedeed
3 days ago
Alternately, you could be a bimbofied Riley Gaines railing against trans people injecting unnatural substances into their bodies
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Got a tip that the CDC has quietly resumed posting data about the spread of
#COVID
#flu
and
#RSV
! Nationwide 7-day average hospitalizations for
#COVID19
are down to 0.8 per lakh, and
#RSVirus
is up to 0.8 per lakh, but it's
#influenza
putting people in the hospital!
contagion.grieve-smith.com
3 days ago
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Laura Jedeed
3 days ago
Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson are not having a bit of a tiff. The party is fracturing. This is not a drill Doesn't mean we're out of the woods or that what comes next won't be worse. But this is end-of-an-era shit
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Donât Risk Evil Andrew for Mayor
4 days ago
Kathy Hochul is to the right of Mitt Romney
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Pauline Park
4 days ago
"Our new study finds that hate crimes motivated by sexual orientation or gender identity account for 23% of all reported hate crimes in California since 2001... Reported incidents more than tripled over this period, from 25 in 2013 to 84 in 2024...":
williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications...
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Ash G.
5 days ago
Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.
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atreides nuts
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idk as a VERY long time Fukuyama hater this turn from him does not surprise me one bit. he was always a dumb guyâs idea of a smart guy
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Mark Blyth
5 days ago
For your weekend listening pleasure, it's me and
@johncassidysays.bsky.social
talking about his belter of a book Capitalism and its Critics:
player.captivate.fm/episode/b858...
Do it. And then get the book.
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The story of capitalism, as told by its critics
Quickly and easily listen to The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth for free!
https://player.captivate.fm/episode/b85805f1-554f-4bd5-9749-dd09e03d9c9b/
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Laura Jedeed
5 days ago
Yes, these are real ICE agents in the TPUSA merch room. Everyone is getting selfies taken with them. This seems fine
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Naomi Klein
5 days ago
I've been waiting to find out exactly how Trump was going to personally profit from the AI greed frenzy he has unleashed because there was no way he was *not* going to get a piece. Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
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Trump Media to merge with nuclear fusion company to power AI
The all-stock deal comes amid growing energy needs for the tech sector.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/12/18/trump-media-to-merge-with-nuclear-fusion-company-to-power-ai
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Doug Henwood
5 days ago
I'm fundraising today on
@kpfa.org
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support.kpfa.org
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Ida Bae Wells
6 days ago
Yesterday I was a bit snide about it, but watching people who are in the mainstream affirming this belief that there was âa cultureâ of white male disadvantage while this administration attacks civil rights law and deploys white nationalism, raises the stakes and signals the danger we are in.
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Raw Story
6 days ago
President Donald Trump threatened NBC's broadcast license days after the network aired an interview with Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) ."Raphael
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Trump vows NBC won't 'get away' with Dem interview in threat to broadcast license
President Donald Trump threatened NBC's broadcast license days after the network aired an interview with Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA)."Raphael Warnock was on Meet the Fake Press with a one sided and very biased Kristen Welker as the Host(ess!)" Trump ranted on Wednesday. "Warnock spent the entire sho...
https://bit.ly/4rU4wkK
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Peter Manseau
6 days ago
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Woodhull Freedom Foundation
7 days ago
Today, on the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, we remember the lives lost due to violence. Today is a call to action to continue fighting against the stigma, discrimination, and legislation that fuel this cruel violence. âïž
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Laura Jedeed
7 days ago
Here are some possible answers for why a woman would dedicate themselves to anti-feminsim, there are probably more: 1) Never questioning what one was taught growing up 2) it's lucrative as hell 3) sexual fetishism as praxis 4) being "one of the good ones" can feel amazing
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"Why Do Minorities Join the Far Right?"
A Thread From Long Ago
https://open.substack.com/pub/laurajedeed/p/why-do-minorities-join-the-far-right?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&shareImageVariant=overlay&r=c8n9l
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Ida Bae Wells
7 days ago
Oh, these poor millennial white men who just knew their ascendancy was secure as opposed to 30 percent of Black teens with no jobs and the spiking Black unemployment rate. Thank God things have returned to normal, amirite?
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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US jobless rate for Blacks and teens surges in November
The unemployment rate for two U.S. groups that are often the most vulnerable to job loss in a softening economy - Blacks and teenagers - surged to the highest levels in more than four years in Novembe...
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/us-jobless-rate-blacks-teens-surges-november-2025-12-16/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6941ba7525625600014c3c40&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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This is incredibly important. If you read one thing this week:
marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
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I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpt
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Andrew Heiss
8 days ago
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
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Journal of Sociolinguistics
8 days ago
New book review essay! đ How do we know when a dialect feature is âstabilisedâ? đ€ Claire Cowie examines evidence for this through Sharmaâs From Deficit to Dialect and Leuckert et al.âs Indian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century. Read it here đ
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if you want to read my piece on Miller Syndrome, it's here
archive.is/7B2YN
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Somebody finally said it! And it's true about all our cuisines. Jewish food is a mixture of Canaanite, German, Slavic and Turkish food. Scottish food is basic Northern European shepherd fare. Everybody borrows from everybody else. Most things change over time.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The myth of traditional Italian cuisine has seduced the world. The truth is very different | Alberto Grandi
The comforting tourist-brochure idea of what Italian food looks like obscures a story shaped by hunger, migration and innovation, says Alberto Grandi, author and professor of food history
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/15/myth-traditional-italian-cuisine-food
9 days ago
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting)
13 days ago
Do you have âextreme views in favor of mass migrationâ? âAnti-Americanism,â âanti-capitalismâ or âanti-Christianityâ? âHostility towards traditional views on family, religion and moralityâ? Congratulations, you may be headed for the FBI's brand new enemies list.
fair.org/home/fbi-is-...
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FBI Is Making an Enemies Listâand Most Corporate Media Didnât Even Check It Once
The Trump FBI's enemies list could encompass over half the US public, and virtually no corporate media outlets covered this catastrophic decree.
https://fair.org/home/fbi-is-making-an-enemies-list-and-most-corporate-media-didnt-even-check-it-once/
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Mark Copelovitch
9 days ago
Incredible, not in a good way, how many academics, journalists, and policy folks continue to actively attend the Nazi Bar on a daily basis.
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Gernot Wagner
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Real-life lesson in mean vs median
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đŹCasuallyLucidđđ
10 days ago
"Without GutiĂ©rrezâs ID, the agents resorted to another approach. They took a photo of his face... âOh yeah, heâs right. Heâs saying the right thing. He does got papers,â GutiĂ©rrez recalled the agents saying." He was just walking home. They are doing this everywhere, no matter who you are.
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How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE's Facial Recognition Tech
Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he was a U.S. citizen. Only after they scanned his face, did the agents let him go.
https://www.404media.co/how-a-us-citizen-was-scanned-with-ices-facial-recognition-tech/
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Imagine a fun, CGI boot stamping a cute, CGI human face, forever
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Ryan J. Reilly âpaints a vivid and urgent portrait of⊠disarrayâ
11 days ago
Trump attacks quickly turn to threats:
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting)
11 days ago
To NYT chief Joe Kahn, raising the fact that he was mentored in journalism by his father, who served on the board of a group that compares the NYT to Hamas, is just a way of saying "his father was Jewish."
fair.org/home/nyt-edi...
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NYT Editors Gaslight Readers Over Paperâs Gaza Bias
Even as NYT chief Joe Kahn was clamping down on the newsroom, he offered praise to then-President Joe Biden for backing Israelâs genocide.
https://fair.org/home/nyt-editors-gaslight-readers-over-papers-gaza-bias/
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Pauline Park
11 days ago
Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain & Slovenia are doing the right thing & all European countries should
#BoycottEurovision
because it's become nothing but a propaganda vehicle for
#ApartheidIsrael
in the midst of its ongoing
#GazaGenocide
; they should all be supporting
#BDS
to
#FreePalestine
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Pauline Park
12 days ago
John Rykener (a.k.a. 'Eleanor') was a transgendered sex worker who was prosecuted for homosexuality
#OnThisDay
in 1384 â a rare instance of the documentation of LGBTQ life in medieval England â a hidden
#history
we need to know more about~!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John/El...
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New bus boarding island at 41st Street and Queens Boulevard! The presentation for the Queens Boulevard bike lane in Sunnyside said there were plans for two
#bus
boarding islands; if anyone has seen the other one, please put it in the replies!
#QueensNY
#BusBulb
#BusNYC
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Doug Henwood
13 days ago
How are the MAGA loons going to react to this? Rethink or dig in?
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The Onion
15 days ago
âI brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!â Winfrey said
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Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic
THE ARCTIC CIRCLEâWith a vow to destroy the abomination she had created if it was the last thing she ever did, television host Oprah Winfrey has spent weeks on a ship pursuing Dr. Phil through the Arc...
https://theonion.com/oprah-pursues-dr-phil-on-ship-through-arctic/
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Doug Henwood
13 days ago
Rubio's change of the official State Department typeface from (silly) Calibri to (tired) Times may be ridiculous, but also a sign how much these people hate the disabled. Sans serif is easier on the visually impaired, so making accommodation is woke. Eugenicists, all of them.
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Ida Bae Wells
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@cbsnews.com
is advertising an Erika Kirk town hall moderated by Bari Weiss under the tagline: âCan she unite America?â I want us to think about all the whys here and their implications.
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New post: When I express concern about
#COVID19
, I have some friends who say, "Well, isn't it just like the
#flu
now?" Some
#COVID
cautious people say "No, it's much worse!" Well, it is kind of like the flu, and
#RSV
- but we should care about the flu and RSV too!
grieve-smith.com/ftn/2025/12/...
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Why I care about the flu too
This is part of an ongoing series exploring how to live with compassion in our world of infectious diseases, which tend to recur in waves. It started with me trying to figure out how to avoid getting...
https://grieve-smith.com/ftn/2025/12/why-i-care-about-the-flu-too/
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New post: When I express concern about
#COVID19
, I have some friends who say, "Well, isn't it just like the
#flu
now?" Some
#COVID
cautious people say "No, it's much worse!" Well, it is kind of like the flu, and
#RSV
- but we should care about the flu and RSV too!
grieve-smith.com/ftn/2025/12/...
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Why I care about the flu too
This is part of an ongoing series exploring how to live with compassion in our world of infectious diseases, which tend to recur in waves. It started with me trying to figure out how to avoid getting...
https://grieve-smith.com/ftn/2025/12/why-i-care-about-the-flu-too/
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Pauline Park
16 days ago
#PearlHarborDay
always brings back unpleasant memories of bullying, harassment & racial slurs â ironic, given that I was a Korean adoptee born many years after the attack on Pearl Harbor & given that the country of my birth was itself invaded & occupied by Japan...
www.history.com/this-day-in-...
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Haus of Decline
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