Bones
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This makes a lot of sense in a mafia-sort of way
Why the plan behind Trump's Tyranny By Trade War matters
It ties everything together—including why we keep underestimating Trump.
(And I don't mean to underestimate his abilities. I mean, underestimate his willingness to crash the world's economy like one of his dad's casinos.)
It ties everything together—including why we keep underestimating Trump.
(And I don't mean to underestimate his abilities. I mean, underestimate his willingness to crash the world's economy like one of his dad's casinos.)
Why the plan behind Trump's Tyranny By Trade War matters
It ties everything together—including why we keep underestimating Trump.
www.thefarce.org
April 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This makes a lot of sense in a mafia-sort of way
For those that need to hear it.
youtu.be/shEKuhyRpmU
youtu.be/shEKuhyRpmU
WHY PROTEST NOW | The #TeslaTakedown is a Great Start | Next Comes What | Andrea Pitzer
YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer
youtu.be
March 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
For those that need to hear it.
youtu.be/shEKuhyRpmU
youtu.be/shEKuhyRpmU
I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org
5calls.org makes it easy to participate in Democracy. In this case, it was to ensure my Rep, Susie Lee (D-NV) opposed the Republican budget being voted on 2-25-25. Call your reps!
5calls.org makes it easy to participate in Democracy. In this case, it was to ensure my Rep, Susie Lee (D-NV) opposed the Republican budget being voted on 2-25-25. Call your reps!
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
5calls.org
February 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org
5calls.org makes it easy to participate in Democracy. In this case, it was to ensure my Rep, Susie Lee (D-NV) opposed the Republican budget being voted on 2-25-25. Call your reps!
5calls.org makes it easy to participate in Democracy. In this case, it was to ensure my Rep, Susie Lee (D-NV) opposed the Republican budget being voted on 2-25-25. Call your reps!
Good explanation of how the Judiciary, Congress, and the Executive branches interact.
www.youtube.com/shorts/Awtu4...
www.youtube.com/shorts/Awtu4...
going to be doing a lot more of these kind of explainers i think
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
www.youtube.com
February 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Good explanation of how the Judiciary, Congress, and the Executive branches interact.
www.youtube.com/shorts/Awtu4...
www.youtube.com/shorts/Awtu4...
Neoreactionary Forces Are Capturing U.S. Government Infrastructure
open.substack.com/pub/hackingb...
open.substack.com/pub/hackingb...
Neoreactionary Forces Are Capturing U.S. Government Infrastructure
A new memorandum describes the coup occurring before our eyes.
open.substack.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Neoreactionary Forces Are Capturing U.S. Government Infrastructure
open.substack.com/pub/hackingb...
open.substack.com/pub/hackingb...
We live in a banana republic with nukes.
February 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
We live in a banana republic with nukes.
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The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
snyder.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
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hey question, is this bad?
January 31, 2025 at 10:34 PM
hey question, is this bad?
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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
January 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
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January 30, 2025
January 30, 2025
Last night, just before 9:00 Eastern time, an American Airlines jet originating in Wichita, Kansas, carrying 64 people and a U.S.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
January 31, 2025 at 3:35 AM
January 30, 2025
Just read that the President is picking a fight with Colombia. In the bigger scheme of things this is unimportant unless you drink coffee.
January 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Just read that the President is picking a fight with Colombia. In the bigger scheme of things this is unimportant unless you drink coffee.
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January 25, 2025
January 25, 2025
We have all earned a break for this week, but as some of you have heard me say, I write these letters with an eye to what a graduate student will need to know in 150 years.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
January 26, 2025 at 4:29 AM
January 25, 2025
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Bryan MacCormack, the executive director of a New York-based immigrant rights group, was pulled over by CBP with two undocumented passengers in the vehicle. He knew his rights, refused to acknowledge their "warrant", and despite CBP threatening him, the agents eventually were forced to let him go.
January 18, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Bryan MacCormack, the executive director of a New York-based immigrant rights group, was pulled over by CBP with two undocumented passengers in the vehicle. He knew his rights, refused to acknowledge their "warrant", and despite CBP threatening him, the agents eventually were forced to let him go.
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My first editor told me in 1998 the cover artist's job is to get that bookshop customer to pick up the book. The editor's job with back cover copy was to get them to open it and read the first page. My job was to write an opening to get them to turn that page to read on. Then we had a sale.
when i taught a writing workshop i told students to go to a bookstore and watch ppl browse. “what happens? you pick up a book. you read the front, the back, and a few sentences of the first page? right? that’s why. anyone can tell by the first paragraph whether the book will work for them or not."
For the writers upset that one short fiction editor can tell within the first few sentences if a story is a "no," I have even worse news for you:
This is nearly all short fiction editors.
This is nearly all short fiction editors.
January 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
My first editor told me in 1998 the cover artist's job is to get that bookshop customer to pick up the book. The editor's job with back cover copy was to get them to open it and read the first page. My job was to write an opening to get them to turn that page to read on. Then we had a sale.
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In high school, my social studies teacher took me aside and told me that "cynicism was the easy path" and that I needed to resist it. It's probably the most important thing I learned in school.
January 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
In high school, my social studies teacher took me aside and told me that "cynicism was the easy path" and that I needed to resist it. It's probably the most important thing I learned in school.
Achievement unlocked. I might be hitting social media puberty.😆
December 27, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Achievement unlocked. I might be hitting social media puberty.😆
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An interesting Op Ed about Dems becoming the Opposition party by @jamellebouie.net
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This goes along with @jbf1755.bsky.social's talk yesterday on History Matters...and so does coffee. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...
History Matters Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQv-...
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This goes along with @jbf1755.bsky.social's talk yesterday on History Matters...and so does coffee. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...
History Matters Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQv-...
Opinion | Now Is Not the Time for Surrender (Gift Article)
What do Democrats need to do? Act like an opposition party.
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2024 at 10:21 PM
An interesting Op Ed about Dems becoming the Opposition party by @jamellebouie.net
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This goes along with @jbf1755.bsky.social's talk yesterday on History Matters...and so does coffee. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...
History Matters Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQv-...
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This goes along with @jbf1755.bsky.social's talk yesterday on History Matters...and so does coffee. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...
History Matters Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQv-...
Project Russia: weird if true.
📄 EXCLUSIVE: The Kremlin's "Project Russia" poses a potent framework for mobilizing illiberal forces against the United States and its allies — and it's all but unknown to Western analysts. We must act to counter it.
america2.news/project-russ...
america2.news/project-russ...
Project Russia: The Kremlin's Playbook for Undermining Democracies
The Kremlin's "Project Russia" poses a potent framework for mobilizing illiberal forces against the United States and its allies — and it's all but unknown to Western analysts.
america2.news
December 21, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Project Russia: weird if true.
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Considering that this petition calling upon Bluesky to enforce its terms of service equally upon all users has only been up for a few hours...that's a lot of signatures! (Sign today!)
www.change.org/p/bluesky-mu...
www.change.org/p/bluesky-mu...
![The Issue
Bluesky Must Enforce its Community Guidelines Equally
Over the past week, Bluesky’s Trust & Safety team has made several moderation decisions which continue to damage the trustworthiness and goodwill of the team both as stewards of the Bluesky community and as stewards of the ATProto Network. It is the purpose of the Trust & Safety Team to enforce this platform’s Terms of Service and Community Guidelines which prohibit illegal and harmful activity conducted on Bluesky in order to maintain social and legal credibility of the platform.
By allowing such a highly visible user to blatantly violate Community Guidelines, Bluesky endangers its future by repeating the same infamous moderation mistakes that Twitter made. Bluesky PBLLC does not have the same access to the large amounts of capital that Twitter did [1][2] and Bluesky was founded in a different social media regulatory landscape than Twitter was, so Bluesky’s Trust & Safety team must act with more forward thinking than Twitter’s Trust & Safety team did. The purpose of this project is to not recreate Twitter [3][4]. That is an incredibly important mission which should be defended rather than quietly forgotten. Now is a critical moment in the growth of the Bluesky platform to avoid the clear and obvious mistakes made by other social media platforms in the past. Bluesky must not continue the legacy of ill-advised ad-hoc special policy exemptions for self-identified journalists publishing without an outlet, as this undermines the presence of reputable news agencies and accomplished journalists who utilize the platform. Bluesky’s Trust & Safety team does not have the same journalistic qualifications and established credibility to determine which self-published stories distributed through this platform are considered newsworthy enough to be exempt from the Community Guidelines. To continue to do so would be to re-implement the same infamous moderation mistakes that Twitter made…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qiknc4t5rq7yngvz7g4aezq7/bafkreifdumh2m3zexng3scsyblwva4mhecccfaosdnsfkscsetyov4meaq@jpeg)
December 12, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Considering that this petition calling upon Bluesky to enforce its terms of service equally upon all users has only been up for a few hours...that's a lot of signatures! (Sign today!)
www.change.org/p/bluesky-mu...
www.change.org/p/bluesky-mu...
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very, very sympathetic to this argument from @ryanlcooper.com prospect.org/politics/202...
Democrats Lost the Propaganda War
The party used up about $5 billion on political ads in 2024. There’s a better way.
prospect.org
December 12, 2024 at 2:47 PM
very, very sympathetic to this argument from @ryanlcooper.com prospect.org/politics/202...
This is the path forward.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-3...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-3...
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...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 1, 2024 at 5:22 AM
This is the path forward.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-3...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-3...
Yes!
Incorrect, it's blooski
I try and avoid prescriptivism but in this case I have a humble request for everyone
It’s Bluesky, not BlueSky
It’s Bluesky, not BlueSky
November 16, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Yes!
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A Hellboy sequel where he finally grows up to be Hellman so he can take over the family mayonnaise business
November 14, 2024 at 9:23 PM
A Hellboy sequel where he finally grows up to be Hellman so he can take over the family mayonnaise business