@blamethecraft.bsky.social
So tired, but we march forward. Baseball, Gardening, Rasslin’, Cooking, TTRPGs, Hope.
Yup. About the only thing keeping me sane.
--"the findings revealed significant differences in stress levels based on gardening frequency. Notably, those who gardened daily experienced a 4.2 percent reduction in relative stress levels compared to those who didn’t garden." 🌱 #gardening #health
The Benefits of Gardening Just Keep Sprouting
Groundbreaking science is unearthing all sorts of surprising ways gardening is good for your health, mood and quality of life.
reasonstobecheerful.world
December 12, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Yup. About the only thing keeping me sane.
This guy could’ve ended this nightmare in 2021. He didn’t. He is wholly responsible for what happens next and if we survive this, should be vilified in the history books.
Mitch McConnell: “We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now, reminiscent of before world war two,” he says. “Even the slogan is the same. ‘America First.’ That was what they said in the ’30s.”
Mitch McConnell: ‘We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now’
The Republican Senator on his plans to spend the last two years of his term fighting back against an increasingly isolationist GOP
www.ft.com
December 11, 2024 at 6:04 PM
This guy could’ve ended this nightmare in 2021. He didn’t. He is wholly responsible for what happens next and if we survive this, should be vilified in the history books.
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Dear Democrats,
you could lead the world in post pandemic recovery. Fox News will tell everyone the economy is in crisis.
You could add millions of jobs. Elon will tell everyone the migrants are stealing them.
You have a massive information flow problem.
Deploy counter measures.
you could lead the world in post pandemic recovery. Fox News will tell everyone the economy is in crisis.
You could add millions of jobs. Elon will tell everyone the migrants are stealing them.
You have a massive information flow problem.
Deploy counter measures.
December 10, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Dear Democrats,
you could lead the world in post pandemic recovery. Fox News will tell everyone the economy is in crisis.
You could add millions of jobs. Elon will tell everyone the migrants are stealing them.
You have a massive information flow problem.
Deploy counter measures.
you could lead the world in post pandemic recovery. Fox News will tell everyone the economy is in crisis.
You could add millions of jobs. Elon will tell everyone the migrants are stealing them.
You have a massive information flow problem.
Deploy counter measures.
This can not be understated. Not all rural voters are frothing at the mouth, MAGA lunatics. Most don’t see an alternative because Dems have largely left these areas. That has to change. @benwikler.bsky.social @nikkifried.bsky.social @kenmartin.bsky.social @martinomalley.bsky.social
Do you know how much progress Democrats could make by turning out just 3% more rural voters?
Three percent. This is exactly why I focus on rural down-ballot candidates. They may not be able to win their own race, but they can help races at the top of the ticket. carsey.unh.edu/publication/...
Three percent. This is exactly why I focus on rural down-ballot candidates. They may not be able to win their own race, but they can help races at the top of the ticket. carsey.unh.edu/publication/...
Modest Changes in Rural Voting Could Have Significant Implications in 2024
In this brief, authors Dante Scala and Kenneth Johnson estimate how much a slightly better (or worse) performance by the candidates in the rural areas of seven battleground states could influence the outcome of the 2024 election.
carsey.unh.edu
December 6, 2024 at 1:27 PM
This can not be understated. Not all rural voters are frothing at the mouth, MAGA lunatics. Most don’t see an alternative because Dems have largely left these areas. That has to change. @benwikler.bsky.social @nikkifried.bsky.social @kenmartin.bsky.social @martinomalley.bsky.social
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A solid lesson for the US.
South Korea’s Yoon says he will drop martial law order
https://www.ft.com/content/99191702-78dd-4d06-b4ec-301694e99e83
https://www.ft.com/content/99191702-78dd-4d06-b4ec-301694e99e83
South Korea’s Yoon says he will drop martial law order
President backs down after parliament rejects his emergency decree
www.ft.com
December 3, 2024 at 8:21 PM
A solid lesson for the US.
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When your neighbour is Russia ... "Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy" edition.cnn.com/interactive/...
Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy
Russia's neighbor has developed a plan for countering misinformation. Can it be exported to the rest of the world?
edition.cnn.com
December 3, 2024 at 12:17 PM
When your neighbour is Russia ... "Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy" edition.cnn.com/interactive/...
This is the way.
If you're a DNC member, I'm asking for a chance to earn your vote.
Whoever you might be, I'd be grateful if you'd join me.
This is going to take all of us—and you can't wring your hands when you're rolling up your sleeves. Sign up here to help: benwikler.com
Whoever you might be, I'd be grateful if you'd join me.
This is going to take all of us—and you can't wring your hands when you're rolling up your sleeves. Sign up here to help: benwikler.com
Ben Wikler for DNC Chair
Today, the country we love needs the Democratic Party to be stronger. To unite. To fight. And to win.
benwikler.com
December 1, 2024 at 2:23 PM
This is the way.
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Good. It’s horrific how other platforms abused their reach to strangle local, independent, and national outlets alike.
I WANT to see news and actual vetted work and I WANT journalists to get rewarded for it.
Because I want to live in a thinking human world over some AI generated slop dystopia
I WANT to see news and actual vetted work and I WANT journalists to get rewarded for it.
Because I want to live in a thinking human world over some AI generated slop dystopia
November 27, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Good. It’s horrific how other platforms abused their reach to strangle local, independent, and national outlets alike.
I WANT to see news and actual vetted work and I WANT journalists to get rewarded for it.
Because I want to live in a thinking human world over some AI generated slop dystopia
I WANT to see news and actual vetted work and I WANT journalists to get rewarded for it.
Because I want to live in a thinking human world over some AI generated slop dystopia
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Leonard Leo, Harlan Crow, Ginni Thomas, Martha Alito, John Roberts, Sam Alito, and Clarence Thomas love it when you blame Garland and Biden for the fact that the Supreme Court stopped the cases against Trump.
November 25, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Leonard Leo, Harlan Crow, Ginni Thomas, Martha Alito, John Roberts, Sam Alito, and Clarence Thomas love it when you blame Garland and Biden for the fact that the Supreme Court stopped the cases against Trump.
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Literary Activism: Prepare Your Library Before January Arrives. bookriot.com/prepare-your...
Prepare Your Library Before January Arrives: Book Censorship News, November 22, 2024
How libraries should prepare for the incoming administration right now, from updating trustee descriptions to addressing mis/dis information.
bookriot.com
November 23, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Literary Activism: Prepare Your Library Before January Arrives. bookriot.com/prepare-your...
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no better evidence that we’ve got a couple trillion-dollar squatters holding the internet back than the fact that a company with 20 employees can make a better platform than Meta
November 21, 2024 at 8:40 PM
no better evidence that we’ve got a couple trillion-dollar squatters holding the internet back than the fact that a company with 20 employees can make a better platform than Meta
There is no positives for this with customers and a prime example of how little Trump gives a shit about ordinary Americans.
Delta’s CEO says Trump has promised to roll back a rule requiring automatic refunds on canceled flights and another requiring airlines to disclose the full cost of a ticket up front
Delta CEO says the Trump administration will reverse government 'overreach' seen under Biden
The chief executive of Delta Air Lines says the incoming Trump administration will be a “breath of fresh air” for airlines after what he called government “overreach” under President Joe Biden.
apnews.com
November 21, 2024 at 12:43 PM
There is no positives for this with customers and a prime example of how little Trump gives a shit about ordinary Americans.
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When I say that the right is dominating the left on almost all platforms, this is what I mean. I hope Democratic officials take this into account every day. If you want an ecosystem that will advocate for YOU, then YOU need to help build it. Give interviews to creators, break news with creators...
November 20, 2024 at 5:43 AM
When I say that the right is dominating the left on almost all platforms, this is what I mean. I hope Democratic officials take this into account every day. If you want an ecosystem that will advocate for YOU, then YOU need to help build it. Give interviews to creators, break news with creators...
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no one has asked about the species of the #cavs win-streak frog yet so i did. neorsd.medium.com/we-may-have-...
We may have identified the species of the Cavs frog.
The mystery appearance of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ win-streak frog had everyone asking questions. Ours might have an answer.
neorsd.medium.com
November 18, 2024 at 6:16 PM
no one has asked about the species of the #cavs win-streak frog yet so i did. neorsd.medium.com/we-may-have-...
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"'Obviously we're still waiting to see where the administration will go, but it does look like our community has been played...'
"'We are very disappointed,' he said..."
www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
"'We are very disappointed,' he said..."
www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
Muslims who voted for Trump upset by his pro-Israel cabinet picks
U.S. Muslim leaders who supported Republican Donald Trump to protest against the Biden administration's support for Israel's war on Gaza and attacks on Lebanon have been deeply disappointed by his Cabinet picks, they tell Reuters.
www.reuters.com
November 18, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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A pretty clear choice to run the Democratic Party going forward…
As we enter a harrowing new chapter in American life, remember this: we are stronger than we think. 🧵
November 18, 2024 at 3:51 PM
A pretty clear choice to run the Democratic Party going forward…
This might sound familiar because it is. NPR wrote about it in 2018 and the high suicide rate among farmers because of, you guessed it, tariffs and the GOP messing with the Farm Bill.
President-elect Trump won landslide support in much of farm country, but his embrace of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his plan for a tariff fight with China alarms many farmers and agriculture experts.
Some in the U.S. farm industry are alarmed by Trump's embrace of RFK Jr. and tariffs
President-elect Trump won landslide support in much of farm country, but his embrace of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his plan for a tariff fight with China alarms many farmers and agriculture experts.
www.npr.org
November 17, 2024 at 5:02 PM
This might sound familiar because it is. NPR wrote about it in 2018 and the high suicide rate among farmers because of, you guessed it, tariffs and the GOP messing with the Farm Bill.