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What’s crazy to me…is the insanity of people literally imploding over undocumented immigrants trying to survive, rather than the companies illegally hiring and knowingly exploiting them for cheap labor.
February 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
What’s crazy to me…is the insanity of people literally imploding over undocumented immigrants trying to survive, rather than the companies illegally hiring and knowingly exploiting them for cheap labor.
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In her latest ‘Letters from an American,’ @hcrichardson.bsky.social underscores the urgent need to reinforce our democratic institutions. As Cas Mudde observed on Bluesky, ‘the fight against the far right is secondary to the fight to strengthen liberal democracy.’
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
November 30, 2024
Cas Mudde, a political scientist who specializes in extremism and democracy, observed yesterday on Bluesky that “the fight against the far right is secondary to the fight to strengthen liberal democra...
open.substack.com
December 1, 2024 at 12:40 PM
In her latest ‘Letters from an American,’ @hcrichardson.bsky.social underscores the urgent need to reinforce our democratic institutions. As Cas Mudde observed on Bluesky, ‘the fight against the far right is secondary to the fight to strengthen liberal democracy.’
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now.
As conservative states wage total culture war, college-educated workers — physicians, teachers, professors, and more — are packing their bags and moving to blue states.
As conservative states wage total culture war, college-educated workers — physicians, teachers, professors, and more — are packing their bags and moving to blue states.
The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now.
As conservative states wage total culture war, college-educated workers—physicians, teachers, professors, and more—are packing their bags.
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2024 at 5:38 PM
The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now.
As conservative states wage total culture war, college-educated workers — physicians, teachers, professors, and more — are packing their bags and moving to blue states.
As conservative states wage total culture war, college-educated workers — physicians, teachers, professors, and more — are packing their bags and moving to blue states.
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Social media is in desperate need of innovation. Meta is only letting you have a slice of control over what you see because Bluesky is here building for you.
We wrote on Saturday about how Meta is going all-out to meet the threat of Bluesky: wapo.st/3OrYxBj
Today they took another step— finally allowing users to set their default feeds to a chronological “following” feed.
Today they took another step— finally allowing users to set their default feeds to a chronological “following” feed.
November 26, 2024 at 2:54 AM
Social media is in desperate need of innovation. Meta is only letting you have a slice of control over what you see because Bluesky is here building for you.
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November 21, 2024 at 11:55 AM
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Thanks for noticing.
November 17, 2024 at 11:05 PM
Thanks for noticing.
Make America Health Again … a better tomorrow, tomorrow.
RFK Jr. Shares McDonald’s With Trump After Trashing His Diet
www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
RFK Jr. Shares McDonald’s With Trump After Trashing His Diet
www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
November 17, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Make America Health Again … a better tomorrow, tomorrow.
RFK Jr. Shares McDonald’s With Trump After Trashing His Diet
www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
RFK Jr. Shares McDonald’s With Trump After Trashing His Diet
www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
Jimmy Carter is one of the few Presidents who cared more about the people than the position or himself. He continues that caring today, living a modest life.
November 16, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Jimmy Carter is one of the few Presidents who cared more about the people than the position or himself. He continues that caring today, living a modest life.
If you have an invalid handle this should resolve it.
One part of our upgraded infrastructure may affect your profile.
If you see your handle now says “Invalid handle,” please reverify it by navigating to Settings > Change my handle > Type in your current handle > Verify DNS Record > Update.
(Basically, update to the same handle.)
If you see your handle now says “Invalid handle,” please reverify it by navigating to Settings > Change my handle > Type in your current handle > Verify DNS Record > Update.
(Basically, update to the same handle.)
November 14, 2024 at 4:26 PM
If you have an invalid handle this should resolve it.
The twitter exit is picking up steam.
November 12, 2024 at 9:26 PM
The twitter exit is picking up steam.
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Regarding blocklists, don't blindly follow them unless you have a high level of trust and personally know the creator of the list. Previously on Twitter these lists were used to create division amongst online communities and blindly silenced valuable activists, and unrelated third parties.
November 12, 2024 at 4:54 AM
Regarding blocklists, don't blindly follow them unless you have a high level of trust and personally know the creator of the list. Previously on Twitter these lists were used to create division amongst online communities and blindly silenced valuable activists, and unrelated third parties.
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On this day in 1970, Charles Schulz replied to a 10-year-old kid who had written and asked, “What makes a good citizen?"
November 9, 2024 at 9:40 PM
On this day in 1970, Charles Schulz replied to a 10-year-old kid who had written and asked, “What makes a good citizen?"
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Really compelling idea from @wileynickelnc.
He suggests that Democratic leadership appoint a “shadow cabinet” - members of Congress assigned as watchdogs for each cabinet agency, offering clear counterpoints for the Admin’s actions.
The Brits do this. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
He suggests that Democratic leadership appoint a “shadow cabinet” - members of Congress assigned as watchdogs for each cabinet agency, offering clear counterpoints for the Admin’s actions.
The Brits do this. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | What should Democrats do now? Form a shadow cabinet.
The venerable British institution of the opposition would serve America well today.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 11, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Really compelling idea from @wileynickelnc.
He suggests that Democratic leadership appoint a “shadow cabinet” - members of Congress assigned as watchdogs for each cabinet agency, offering clear counterpoints for the Admin’s actions.
The Brits do this. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
He suggests that Democratic leadership appoint a “shadow cabinet” - members of Congress assigned as watchdogs for each cabinet agency, offering clear counterpoints for the Admin’s actions.
The Brits do this. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
This is from September and it’s accelerating.
Twitter has lost nearly one-fifth of its daily active user base in the U.S. and a whopping one-third in the UK. mashable.com/article/elon...
Elon Musk's X is losing users in the U.S., UK, and EU. X's own data proves it.
The former Twitter continues its decline under Musk.
mashable.com
November 11, 2024 at 4:54 AM
This is from September and it’s accelerating.
Dems need an honest conversation on how to counter the endless psychological operation that has been going on since the 2016 election. Stop pointing fingers and get aligned.
“Illusory truth effect”, where repeated information is perceived as more truthful over time, regardless of its accuracy.
“Illusory truth effect”, where repeated information is perceived as more truthful over time, regardless of its accuracy.
My colleague @helenlewis.bsky.social :
One of the mysteries of this election is how the Democrats approached polling day with a set of policies on gender identity that they were neither proud to champion—nor prepared to disown.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
One of the mysteries of this election is how the Democrats approached polling day with a set of policies on gender identity that they were neither proud to champion—nor prepared to disown.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Democrats Need an Honest Conversation on Gender Identity
The party went into an election with policies it couldn’t defend—or even explain.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2024 at 11:03 PM
Dems need an honest conversation on how to counter the endless psychological operation that has been going on since the 2016 election. Stop pointing fingers and get aligned.
“Illusory truth effect”, where repeated information is perceived as more truthful over time, regardless of its accuracy.
“Illusory truth effect”, where repeated information is perceived as more truthful over time, regardless of its accuracy.