Amy Jussel, @ShapingYouth
@shapingyouth.bsky.social
Founder: http://ShapingYouth.org Passionista, media literacy educator, youth advocate, former ad agency pro, author of new Digital Dogs kidlit series using storytelling as applied science for media literacy and critical thinking: http://DigitalDogsBook.com
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Forwarding a prior post of my book series to see how it shows up visually. Working on Book 2 & 3 right now, with my illustrator pal dodging drones in Kyiv. sigh. x.com/ShapingYouth... #medialiteracy #edu #kidlit
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When I feel powerless amidst all the crazy, it's helpful to me to just do something. My something was taking the time to talk to NPR about why we should not cut federal data collection. I realize it won't change many minds. But it was something: www.marketplace.org/episode/2025... #econsky #dataecon
What if government data becomes untrustworthy?
It won’t be good for businesses that need to predict tomorrow’s economy. Plus, the warehousing sector, hard versus soft data and Utah’s booming culture of entrepreneurship.
www.marketplace.org
June 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
When I feel powerless amidst all the crazy, it's helpful to me to just do something. My something was taking the time to talk to NPR about why we should not cut federal data collection. I realize it won't change many minds. But it was something: www.marketplace.org/episode/2025... #econsky #dataecon
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Margaret Brennan totally exposes FDA Commissioner Makary for making it up as he goes and making conflicting recommendations in order to cast doubt on covid vaccines. He's so terrible during this interview that Brennan is left shaking her head as she wraps it up.
June 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Margaret Brennan totally exposes FDA Commissioner Makary for making it up as he goes and making conflicting recommendations in order to cast doubt on covid vaccines. He's so terrible during this interview that Brennan is left shaking her head as she wraps it up.
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Proposed Federal Budget Could Lead to Over 51,000 Preventable Deaths, Researchers Warn in Letter to Senate Leaders [PS: that's 51k every year] ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
Proposed Federal Budget Could Lead to Over 51,000 Preventable Deaths, Researchers Warn in Letter to Senate Leaders
In a letter to ranking Senate leaders, public health and policy researchers at Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania warn that provisions in the
ysph.yale.edu
June 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Proposed Federal Budget Could Lead to Over 51,000 Preventable Deaths, Researchers Warn in Letter to Senate Leaders [PS: that's 51k every year] ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ
June 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ
He couldn’t spell “emoluments” if he tried…Disturbing that the #NatSec implications are off the media radar w/the grift being a wrist slap to boot. Taught HS this week and OH youth ask “how can he keep doing this stuff when it’s against the law? I get busted for not having a hallpass!” Um… Anyone?
Breaking News: President Trump plans to accept a luxury Boeing 747 from Qatar that he will use as Air Force One and will keep using after he leaves office. The plan — involving possibly the biggest foreign gift ever received by the U.S. government — raises substantial ethical issues.
Trump Is to Accept a Luxury 747 From Qatar for Use as Air Force One
www.nytimes.com
May 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
He couldn’t spell “emoluments” if he tried…Disturbing that the #NatSec implications are off the media radar w/the grift being a wrist slap to boot. Taught HS this week and OH youth ask “how can he keep doing this stuff when it’s against the law? I get busted for not having a hallpass!” Um… Anyone?
💯 AND…today in teaching HS English as a substitute the curriculum calls for .edu and .gov to be deemed “reliable sources” for research use vs using the CRAAP detection critical thinking/ sources rubric. Um…Invalid in this propaganda/whitewashing/data wiping admin, folks! 🆘 #medialiteracy
I went to the Senate floor to tell a story about Trump’s first 100 days - a story of daily, norm shattering corruption.
I laid out 40 different corrupt acts - each one alone could have taken down previous presidents.
1/ A 🧵 of my speech. People need to know this story.
I laid out 40 different corrupt acts - each one alone could have taken down previous presidents.
1/ A 🧵 of my speech. People need to know this story.
May 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
💯 AND…today in teaching HS English as a substitute the curriculum calls for .edu and .gov to be deemed “reliable sources” for research use vs using the CRAAP detection critical thinking/ sources rubric. Um…Invalid in this propaganda/whitewashing/data wiping admin, folks! 🆘 #medialiteracy
Random thought for the day after looking at my newsfeed sigh... (from tech bro titans to our kakistocracy clown cars at every single level of governance) 😢
May 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Random thought for the day after looking at my newsfeed sigh... (from tech bro titans to our kakistocracy clown cars at every single level of governance) 😢
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the united states—the most powerfulcountry in the world—has now become the most dysfunctional, kleptocratic, and unfree political system of the advanced industrial democracies. by far. www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-a...
April 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
the united states—the most powerfulcountry in the world—has now become the most dysfunctional, kleptocratic, and unfree political system of the advanced industrial democracies. by far. www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-a...
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Trump’s legacy is one of broken promises—bankruptcies in business, betrayals in politics. Now, he’s wrecking trust in America’s alliances, economy, and government. Once trust is gone, it takes generations to rebuild.
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
The Trump Doctrine: Breaking Trust at Home and Abroad
How Betrayal and Chaos Are Redefining America’s Role in the World
adamkinzinger.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Trump’s legacy is one of broken promises—bankruptcies in business, betrayals in politics. Now, he’s wrecking trust in America’s alliances, economy, and government. Once trust is gone, it takes generations to rebuild.
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
How would you answer youth who can’t yet vote and feel their future is fodder for a greedy gerontocracy destroying their country, democracy, and their ability to travel abroad without shame? The stain of betrayal, belligerence, and misguided bravado has trashed our reputation worldwide forevermore.
April 3, 2025 at 4:31 AM
How would you answer youth who can’t yet vote and feel their future is fodder for a greedy gerontocracy destroying their country, democracy, and their ability to travel abroad without shame? The stain of betrayal, belligerence, and misguided bravado has trashed our reputation worldwide forevermore.
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What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
March 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
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"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."
March 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."
#MoreLikeThisPlease I’m so ashamed by the sophomoric behavior and infantile tantrums of those occupying our nation’s Oval Office as they side with aggressors and denigrate our democracy with their reality tv show antics as self serving shills for oligarchs and autocrats. Citizens Arise!
🚨 BREAKING: After torpedoing yesterday’s meeting with Zelensky, JD Vance fled to Vermont for vacation—only to be met by hundreds of furious protesters.
Couldn’t have happened to a better guy!
Couldn’t have happened to a better guy!
March 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
#MoreLikeThisPlease I’m so ashamed by the sophomoric behavior and infantile tantrums of those occupying our nation’s Oval Office as they side with aggressors and denigrate our democracy with their reality tv show antics as self serving shills for oligarchs and autocrats. Citizens Arise!
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NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...
kyivindependent.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
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I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.
February 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.
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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
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Q: how to 6x DOGE savings ($2.5b)?
A: Cut subsidies to Tesla ($15b)
A: Cut subsidies to Tesla ($15b)
February 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Q: how to 6x DOGE savings ($2.5b)?
A: Cut subsidies to Tesla ($15b)
A: Cut subsidies to Tesla ($15b)
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The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.
February 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.
“We the people” (especially youth) are asking what we can do as individuals to halt the massive grift and dismantling of our nation, given we are battling grenades with butter knives in this fight for freedom. Pls. share productive action steps and recommendations?! Anyone?
February 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“We the people” (especially youth) are asking what we can do as individuals to halt the massive grift and dismantling of our nation, given we are battling grenades with butter knives in this fight for freedom. Pls. share productive action steps and recommendations?! Anyone?
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Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.
February 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.
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Is Donald Trump going to respond to Musk’s email and report on what he did last week?
To help, I’ve gone ahead and done it for him. A thread:
To help, I’ve gone ahead and done it for him. A thread:
February 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Is Donald Trump going to respond to Musk’s email and report on what he did last week?
To help, I’ve gone ahead and done it for him. A thread:
To help, I’ve gone ahead and done it for him. A thread:
A bit of #edu #medialiteracy sunlight in an otherwise dismal cloudy trajectory of our nation's lawless autocratic grifting rogue 'leadership' www.teenvogue.com/story/media-... #misinformation
How Students Are Learning Not to Believe Everything They See on TikTok
“I feel like I should look up if it’s true or not before I start spreading it.”
www.teenvogue.com
February 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
A bit of #edu #medialiteracy sunlight in an otherwise dismal cloudy trajectory of our nation's lawless autocratic grifting rogue 'leadership' www.teenvogue.com/story/media-... #misinformation
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