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applesnail.bsky.social
@applesnail.bsky.social
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Expert in federal housing programs. Mom. Committed to eliminating homelessness and eradicating poverty. Avid reader. Proud public servant.
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applesnail.bsky.social
Please stop referring to this clown as a mob boss. Stop referring to the Republican LOSERS as mafioso. It makes them feel like they are cool. They are not fucking cool. It makes them feel like they are strong. They are not strong.

No one with any swag would choose to kick it with these people.
March 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
applesnail.bsky.social
For all the avid readers out there who have been stuck in the Amazon/kindle cycle, it is way past time to make the switch. Make it with me!

www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...
Bookshop CEO Andy Hunter amps up his crusade against Amazon
The bookselling platform’s next frontier in the fight against Amazon: ebooks.
www.theverge.com
March 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Odds are good that someone in your life has received vital care at a university-affiliated hospital near you.

Trump and Musk want to destroy them. Call your reps and demand they push back -- especially if they're Republicans.

www.house.gov/representati...
February 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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matthewfacciani.bsky.social
This website shows you how many jobs NIH funding creates for your state along with the overall economic activity generated.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org
February 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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radiofreetom.bsky.social
I think it was the inevitable outcome of millions of people not understanding and not caring how their own government works
February 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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jamellebouie.net
every single republican in office is a fucking oathbreaker who is selling out the constitution and our democratic birthright
February 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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pbump.com
Sincere props to a colleague who very obviously is doing his job well.
February 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
applesnail.bsky.social
“…acknowledge the reality. If my use of the word “dictatorship” disturbs you, if your first reaction is to say “Isn’t that a bit shrill?”, you’re part of the problem. The constitutional crisis isn’t something that might hypothetically happen; it’s fully underway”

open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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What’s really happening beneath the Musk/Trump chaos
open.substack.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
applesnail.bsky.social
This is absolutely awful, devastating news for a very large majority of the people that live in this country - they just don’t know it yet.
February 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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davidingram.bsky.social
DOGE "Fork in the Road" emails went out to federal judges, who have lifetime appointments www.newsweek.com/doge-emails-...
DOGE emails went out to federal judges by mistake
U.S. District Judge Randolph Daniel Moss said judges across the country received emails from Elon Musk's DOGE.
www.newsweek.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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taniel.bsky.social
Senator Schatz, @schatz.bsky.social, rejects idea that Dems should wait for Trump to touch 'most popular' programs to fight.

"I'm not going to just wait until they touch the ACA. That's the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess."

www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
You are referring to them criticizing what you’ve done around U.S.A.I.D. by saying foreign aid is not good territory for Democrats to fight for? Yeah. And you think I don’t know that foreign aid is not as popular as Medicaid? Of course I know that. But there are going to be mass deaths from malaria and H.I.V./aids and other preventable diseases and conditions because of what the United States is doing. So do I have to be thoughtful and sometimes clever about how we go about communicating that? Yes. Am I going to wait for a more popular program? No, because what they are doing here is ignoring a federal law. Which federal law are you talking about? The Foreign Assistance Act, and then, of course, every appropriations bill that funds the State Department and foreign-ops budget. They’re ignoring multiple federal laws. And I’m just—excuse me for being quaint about this—but I’m not going to just gloss over that and wait until they touch the Affordable Care Act. That’s the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess. We are constantly being told that something isn’t polling well enough yet. And one of the things that Republicans do well is not allow their pollsters to tell them everything. They invent whole stories and then the polling follows.
February 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
I can’t take it. “some see”? Just us paranoid race-obsessed people?
The absolute refusal to identify racism unless it involves metal chains or burning crosses is an article of faith for so many media outlets and courts. It’s sickening. And it’s part of why we have a country that is so incapacitated.
ajbauer.bsky.social A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · Feb 3
“Some See”
NYT headline: As Trump Attacks Diversity, Some See and Unmistakable Message of Racism
February 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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turban.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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klong.bsky.social
I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."

He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts
A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that...
www.wsj.com
February 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
LISTEN: Judge Coughenour condemns Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship.

It is “apparent that to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals. The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore…for political or personal gain.”

Part 1:
February 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
This was a really touching article on the life and death of Michael Burawoy. 47 years at UC Berkeley. He loved the community and the community loved him back.

www.berkeleyside.org/2025/02/06/m...
Hit-and-run driver kills legendary, retired UC Berkeley sociology professor
Michael Burawoy, a widely influential labor scholar, was struck while walking inside the crosswalk near Children’s Fairyland.
www.berkeleyside.org
February 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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bcmerchant.bsky.social
Sanitation workers strike in DC until Musk ends DOGE
mamaselkie.bsky.social K8 @mamaselkie.bsky.social · Feb 6
Maybe all those "wasteful and useless public workers" should stop providing water and sewer and sanitation services to the capitol and white house. Think of all the money the City of Washington, DC would save! Jesus and the Founding Fathers were okay without flush toilets and running water, right?
February 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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owasow.bsky.social
Now, imagine a simple model in which activists opt to engage in nonviolent or violent resistance and then the state responds with typical or excess force. (To be clear, the world is more complicated, but these simplifying assumptions help us describe some common patterns.) 3/
Figure 2 from paper "Agenda Seeding" shows a decision-tree like diagram in protesters choose nonviolent or violent tactics and the state responds with violent or more restrained forms of force. Figure 2 summarizes the model. In the first period, subordinate group activists attempt to raise awareness through agenda seeding that involves activists employing tactics, possibly nonviolent or violent, which might make the news. News organization still set public agendas but social movements, like any group seeking greater attention or publicity, attempt to entice media to prioritize their concerns. Southern civil rights protests, for example, were often planned for mornings so footage could be flown to New York in time to air nationally on the evening news (Torres Reference Torres2018). Similarly, movement leaders selected Selma, AL, as a site for voting rights protests partly for its proximity to television network affiliates in Montgomery (Torres Reference Torres2018). Media attention, however, can be sympathetic or hostile. Even presented with similar facts, different reporters and news organizations often structure stories in systematically different ways (Davenport and Litras Reference Davenport and Litras2003). Civil disobedience, for example, can be covered as a form of justifiable protest or unjustifiable criminality. Kinder and Kam (Reference Kinder and Kam2010) find that whether an issue can overcome societal biases to become salient depends significantly “on the ability of the issue to command the public’s limited and fickle attention and on how the particular issue is framed” (38). Activists, attuned to the ways in which media can frame an issue, routinely fought to craft narratives through a kind of political theater in which protests were “staged” and injustice “dramatized” (King Jr. Reference King1964; Lewis Reference Lewis2017).
February 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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owasow.bsky.social
Consider photos like these from recent protests. Imagine the narrative these images construct for the media and the larger public. How do these images fit our ideas of who is a “good guy” or who is a “bad guy”? 2/ www.npr.org/2025/02/05/g...
Photo of a protester holding a sign that reads "Did you vote for Musk?" Photo of a group of protesters holding signs. Three signs read "USAID Saves Lives." Two more signs say "The Faces of Foreign Aid."
February 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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owasow.bsky.social
I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Article title: Agenda Seeding: How 1960s Black Protests Moved Elites, Public Opinion and Voting Article Abstract How do stigmatized minorities advance agendas when confronted with hostile majorities? Elite theories of influence posit marginal groups exert little power. I propose the concept of agenda seeding to describe how activists use methods like disruption to capture the attention of media and overcome political asymmetries. Further, I hypothesize protest tactics influence how news organizations frame demands. Evaluating black-led protests between 1960 and 1972, I find nonviolent activism, particularly when met with state or vigilante repression, drove media coverage, framing, congressional speech, and public opinion on civil rights. Counties proximate to nonviolent protests saw presidential Democratic vote share increase 1.6–2.5%. Protester-initiated violence, by contrast, helped move news agendas, frames, elite discourse, and public concern toward “social control.” In 1968, using rainfall as an instrument, I find violent protests likely caused a 1.5–7.9% shift among whites toward Republicans and tipped the election. Elites may dominate political communication but hold no monopoly.
February 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children
I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
applesnail.bsky.social
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Education Department staff warned that Trump buyout offers could be canceled at any time
In a staffwide meeting Wednesday, leaders of the Education Department told employees the Trump administration’s resignation offer comes with major caveats.
www.nbcnews.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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nathantankus.bsky.social
EMERGENCY PIECE: My piece, out at 6 am today, is the exclusive source for the information that Marko Elez HAD fully read & write access and his access got downgraded to "insert only" a "read and limited write" access according to the best available understanding

www.crisesnotes.com/day-seven-of...
Day Seven of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025: “Yours and WIRED's Reporting is Actually Doing Something”
Notes on the Crises pivoted over the weekend into around the clock coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025 Read Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 & Part 4 If you are a current or fo...
www.crisesnotes.com
February 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
applesnail.bsky.social
Fucking idiots
February 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM