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Katherine Stewart
8 months ago
A Texas woman had a miscarriage. She was jailed for five months.
jessica.substack.com/p/texas-jail...
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Five Months in Jail—for a Miscarriage
5.20.25
https://jessica.substack.com/p/texas-jailed-a-miscarriage-patient?open=false#%C2%A7criminalizing-care
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Just wrapped up another year at George Washington University. I’m impressed by the bravery and moral determination of our students. If only university administrators had the same courage and integrity.
8 months ago
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@davekarpf.bsky.social
still fits in his wedding suit!
8 months ago
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reposted by
Illiberalism Studies Program
8 months ago
Marlene Laruelle and
@stevenlivingston.bsky.social
open this issue by addressing the 2024 US elections and a potential
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turn in the growing embrace of Christian nationalism.
www.illiberalism.org/christian-na...
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Christian Nationalism as an Illiberal Interpretation of Religion | illiberalism.org
Marlene Laruelle and Steven Livingston on the 2024 US elections and a potential illiberal turn in the growing embrace of Christian nationalism
https://www.illiberalism.org/christian-nationalism-as-an-illiberal-interpretation-of-religion
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Happy to see this new publication w/ my dear friend Babak Bahador. We fit Benkler et al's propaganda feedback loop concept into James Carey's communication ritual framework, arguing that the logic of the former is explained by the latter.
shorturl.at/u0pOF
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Propaganda feedback loops as communication rituals: Hate speech on talk radio - Steven Livingston, Babak Bahador, 2025
The goal of this paper is to deepen the clarity of Benkler, Farris, and Robert’s “propaganda feedback loop” concept. It argues that a sizeable portion of the in...
https://shorturl.at/u0pOF
9 months ago
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What explains such reckless behavior . . . Oh, right.
9 months ago
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Irony is so delicious.
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The Irony Nobody Saw Coming for Pete Hegseth
YouTube video by NowThis Impact
https://youtube.com/shorts/3vVIZgAQCR4?si=QSLbQdzfcZiFsbu_
10 months ago
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Katherine Stewart
10 months ago
"While Money, Lies, and God is a copious recounting of relationships and rhetoric nurtured by right-wing money, at its core, the book is a cry of the heart to left-leaning donors and organizers to create institutions built to last, outside of...the party box."
democracyjournal.org/magazine/76/...
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The "New" American Fascists
They’re a lot like the old fascists, but with a little more polish—and a lot more money.
https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/76/the-new-american-fascists/
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Acyn
10 months ago
Casey: There’s this whole mentality that MAGA has painted—like you’re either MAGA or you’re, you know, drinking soy lattes or whatever. But there are a lot of people who are just like, “We’re just regular people—we don’t want a dictator, we don’t want to see people’s benefits ripped away..”
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Fred Guttenberg
10 months ago
While the Russian Useful Idiot in the White House is busy claiming bullshit wartime authority to further his efforts destructing Democracy, just a reminder that everything he has said is a lie & everything that he says going forward will be a lie. As for his enablers, screw them.
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Let me get this straight. The genius decided it was a good business move to get cozy up w/ right wingers who think climate change is a hoax while insulting the folks most likely to buy his stale line of EVs. I mean, what could go wrong?
10 months ago
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I want to see this bastard go down in flames, just like his rockets.
10 months ago
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My first mentor was a refugee who didn't speak English when he arrived in the US. John Shalivashvili spent 4 decades serving his country in the US Army, rising through the ranks from private to a 4-star general and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Bonespurs Trump is a fraud.
10 months ago
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Katherine Stewart knows this landscape extraordinarily well. See her Lies, Money, and God
add a skeleton here at some point
10 months ago
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Lance Bennett and I have a new article out in Perspectives on Politics. We offer an alternative take on the role of social media and democratic backsliding. It is available here:
shorturl.at/Yxayi
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Platforms, Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy: Connective Action and the Rise of Illiberalism | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
Platforms, Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy: Connective Action and the Rise of Illiberalism
https://shorturl.at/Yxayi
10 months ago
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10 months ago
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Waste and Fraud.
10 months ago
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So you say you plan to buy a Tesla.
10 months ago
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11 months ago
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My AP interview about Musk was picked up by PBS.
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Elon Musk uses his X ownership to be a mouthpiece for Trump narratives and his White House position to push his priorities
The emergence of X owner Elon Musk as the most influential figure around President Donald Trump has created an extraordinary dynamic — a White House adviser who's using one of the world's most powerfu...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/elon-musk-uses-his-x-ownership-to-be-a-mouthpiece-for-trump-narratives-and-his-white-house-position-to-push-his-priorities?fbclid=IwY2xjawIY32lleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHVukxEbERF6YqQXP-egtV2MVMGMRxIQHzniBUCEIVHL8_-JjF1e0GfJK_A_aem_GTzuTO1129pr7HROfpktCA
11 months ago
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Swasticar sales are way down.
11 months ago
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reposted by
Katherine Stewart
11 months ago
For Stunned Federal Workers, Sleeplessness, Anger and Tears
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...
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Federal Workers Grapple With Trump’s War on Bureaucracy
One thing lost in the Trump administration’s war on the federal bureaucracy is the collective voice of the employees. But some have begun to speak out.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/us/politics/federal-workers-trump.html?smid=bs-share
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11 months ago
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Remember when we were suppose to become alarmed by Hillary Clinton's emails?
11 months ago
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reposted by
Radical Reports
11 months ago
German Protesters Condemn Chancellor Front-Runner Merz for Working with Neo-Nazi Party
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German Protesters Condemn Chancellor Front-Runner Merz for Working with Neo-Nazi Party
In Germany, 160,000 demonstrators rallied at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate Sunday to condemn conservative leader Friedrich Merz for collaborating with the extreme-right Alternative for Germany party to push an anti-immigrant measure. The bill ultimately failed after members of Merz’s own CDU party refused to support it. Merz has been favored to become Germany’s next chancellor in the upcoming elections.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/4/headlines/german_protesters_condemn_chancellor_front_runner_merz_for_working_with_neo_nazi_party
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11 months ago
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I'm so looking forward to participating in this Disinformation Summer Institute UC San Diego in June.
11 months ago
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shorturl.at/Ts1T3
11 months ago
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According to Wired magazine, the Doge team is being led by a group of six “young and inexperienced” engineers aged 19 to 24, one of whom is still in college.
11 months ago
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And I wonder how Tesla will sell in Canada
11 months ago
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11 months ago
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Of course it did.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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Meta donates $1m to Donald Trump’s inaugural fund
Donation comes after CEO Mark Zuckerberg dined with Trump at Mar-a-Lago and appears to be an effort to improve relations
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/12/meta-donates-1m-to-donald-trumps-inaugural-fund
about 1 year ago
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George Washington University offers its employees only UnitedHealthcare medical insurance.
about 1 year ago
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While the cost of deductibles has skyrocketed, wages have remained stagnant.
about 1 year ago
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An interesting comment to a YouTube video talking about UHC. Make Oligarchs Afraid Again
about 1 year ago
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Here is More Perfect Union's terrific explanation of the rise and practices of United Healthcare Group.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=frr4...
. To learn more about MPU, see here:
perfectunion.us/about/
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This Company Makes Billions By Rationing Your Health Care
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frr4wuvAB6U
about 1 year ago
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I'll just leave this here for now.
about 1 year ago
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JD Vance is unable to say that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. This is his demonstration to Trump that he is more of a toddy than Pence.
over 1 year ago
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Walz is too often using fragments of sentences.
over 1 year ago
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Vance is making Harris the incumbent.
over 1 year ago
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Boom. Walz on housing. Good job. Lives in the same house he bought with the GI Bill.
over 1 year ago
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I look forward to seeing the analyses of this VP debate. It seems Harris has been the object of attention far more than Trump. That is not a good thing for Harris/Vance.
over 1 year ago
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Vance has one answer to all questions: Those immigrants. BS.
over 1 year ago
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Pro woman. Yes
over 1 year ago
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No, no, no. Walz needs to remind people that it was Trump who appointed 3 Supreme Court Justices who overturned Roe. That is the point.
over 1 year ago
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I met Hadley, the young woman who Walz mentions, here in Flint. She is amazing.
over 1 year ago
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This is a disastrous moment for Waltz. The answer is I wasn't there as I claimed. American democracy is on the ropes on this stupid gotcha question.
over 1 year ago
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Hey y'all, I'm new here. If you are from a German language speaking country, check out Amerika ungeschminkt vom 1. Oktober 2024. See the final 50 some minutes of the video to see the die letzten 90 Sekunden im deutschen Fernsehen
over 1 year ago
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Walz is now more comfortable, hitting his stride. Vance obsessive attack on Haitians is weird. Yes, weird.
over 1 year ago
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Calling Pete Buttigieg.
over 1 year ago
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