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Median price of export goods will be a key indicator to watch as Trump's trade war kicks off - find out more how "MPREG inflation" could hit YOUR pocketbook in the new year
November 29, 2024 at 11:36 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
The degree to which none of them are asking whether they've corrected for post-Dobbs effect -- NOT EVEN in AZ where there's both a POTUS race and an abortion referendum -- is even more comforting.
swin24.bsky.social Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · Oct 20
The number of poll gurus and pollster for actual real non-piss organizations saying on the record we don’t know if we “overcorrected” for the problems of 2016 and 2020 in our methods, I guess we will, shruggie emoji, find out in a couple weeks, is… both horrifying and comforting
johnbrownstan.bsky.social JB stan account @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · Oct 20
I get that everyone is nervous and has PTSD from 2016 but we really don't know much about the state of the race right now. To the degree any poll is trustworthy these days, the pollsters currently making up the state averages are particularly untrustworthy.

I am very bullish on Harris.
October 20, 2024 at 9:56 AM
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soukatsu.bsky.social
PSA for ENG-speaking folks looking to discover JP/KR/CN accounts and having difficulty—🦋discovery settings have a sandboxing feature that defaults to languages enabled on your phone. change that by going to Settings > Basics > Languages > Content Languages and select the ones your want (or none/all)
hcnone.bsky.social hcnone | Endless Monday @hcnone.bsky.social · Oct 18
i was wondering why none of the jp/kr artists i followed recently were showing up in my feeds and it's because of this -_- ... turned it off and now everything's showing up 😬
October 19, 2024 at 5:13 AM
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numb.comfortab.ly
btw this is still available covidtests.gov
Covid test checkout - cost $0.00
October 19, 2024 at 1:16 AM
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eleanor.lockhart.contact
Sometimes you will be in subcultures that stop checking your worst behaviors and even start encouraging them, and it feels like you’re doing something righteous, even good, but even if it feels good being validated in this way is not worth the cost

You can do better
October 18, 2024 at 9:27 PM
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October 18, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
"facial recognition technology for surge pricing" is how someone at mckenzie spells "racial discrimination"
basedsocialism.bsky.social Ry 🦥 @basedsocialism.bsky.social · Oct 16
I’m sorry Kroger is doing WHAT now???
October 16, 2024 at 6:44 PM
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walterolson.bsky.social
Golly. Another case of Tim Pool and Benny Johnson promoting bogus Russian propaganda. I mean, what are the odds?
The disinformation pipeline: How Russian propaganda reaches and influences the U.S.
Storm-1516, a Russian disinformation group, aims to influence the U.S. election through viral videos that rely on fake whistleblowers and fabricated photos and documents.
www.nbcnews.com
October 17, 2024 at 12:11 PM
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mikethemadbiol.bsky.social
By way of my far-flung network of correspondents comes this piece of good news from the bad place twitter.com/keithboykin/...
The New York Times said yesterday that “Black Voters Drift from Democrats, Imperiling Harris’s Bid.” But today’s CBS News poll shows Kamala Harris getting the exact same numbers from Black voters that Biden got in 2020 (87%). And Biden won. Don’t obsess on the polls, folks. Just vote.
October 14, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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atrupar.com
Tim Walz: "He crossed a line ... Trump over the weekend talked about using the Army against people who disagree with him. Just so you're clear about that - that's you. This is not some mythical thing. He called it 'the enemy within.' And to Trump, anybody who doesn't agree with him is the enemy."
October 14, 2024 at 8:25 PM
Not an IR person by a long shot, but I do wonder if Netanyahu is threatening Biden with "let us do what we want on our borders, or we're going to send our Air Force to Iran, and good luck dealing with that"
October 13, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
This is a powerful ad that deserves to be spread far and wide.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djwp...
It Couldn't Happen Here
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
www.youtube.com
October 10, 2024 at 11:27 AM
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jaybeans.bsky.social
This an AP photo of the back of the auditorium where Trump gave his latest rally.

It only holds 7,000 people
Many empty seats at a venue
October 10, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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slangwordscott.bsky.social
October 9, 2024 at 8:33 PM
The hopeful part of me thinks that if the Facebook brain poisoned people are undecided, that's not exactly a positive sign for Trump
rickywlmsbong.bsky.social lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · Oct 8
the press loves interviewing guys named like “geoff in dayton” who is “an undecided voter who retired from the welding business and now runs a local civic organization” - and then 5 seconds on facebook tells you he’s never voted dem, was an accountant at a steel multinational and runs the local klan
October 9, 2024 at 3:17 AM
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johnbrownstan.bsky.social
Remember when Biden kept a Republican as Fed chair and he was absolutely fucking GOATed?
October 9, 2024 at 12:19 AM
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bkmacd.bsky.social
Increasingly suspect the reason there exists The Bad Dynamic where NYC and LA leftists are unable to understand national R to D vote math and coalition politics is that in their local political markets there are advantages to D base mobilization and intra coalition spoiler tactics.
October 8, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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Historically Accurate Game Takes Place Before Women Invented
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Historically Accurate Game Takes Place Before Women Invented
WARSAW — Male gamers rejoiced after upcoming historical RPG Hussar’s Quest was confirmed to contain no female characters as part of its commitment to historical…
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October 3, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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snowden.st
In spirit of encouraging better options, I have a post about effective advocacy and empathy avoidance up on my defunct Substack. Originally more for animal rights concerns, but (imo) broadly applicable. Here’s the gist of it for folks who don’t want to click thru snowden.substack.com/p/advocacy-a...
Nick Cooney*, an animal rights activist, framed the challenge of advocacy well, and it's a model that I've returned to again and again when working with a variety of campaigns. When we go out to appeal to people for change, the question we should ask is not "What feels right?" nor "what the other person deserves?" but rather "what is most effective for the cause?" As the people who often care the most deeply about a particular injustice and know most keenly the pain that is being perpetrated, activists are in a difficult position: they must bridge an immense gap between the caring and the uncaring. It can be personally satisfying to damn the world to hell for its uncaring, but that song has never been proven to draw an audience aside from the already converted. Effective ways to combat empathy avoidance include: Pointing out to a person that your suggested action is already in keeping with their values or beliefs • Showing that the action has a real positive impact on those in need • Making it clear that there's always more to be done, and that every little bit helps • Encouraging people out of their learned helplessness and rewarding their small positive steps • Pointing out the similarities between the oppressed group and your audience, rather than pointing out the oppressed group's innocence (more on this in another post). Perhaps most importantly, and counterintuitively, humanity's tendency to avoid empathy suggests that making a person feel bad about an issue is counterproductive, and making big appeals or demands before building empathy will doom a message's reception. The goal is to get our audience to empathize with the oppressed, not to have the audience self-centeredly wince at their own feelings of pain or disillusionment. Having a harshly aggressive message, or one that is built on the idea of provoking negative emotions of discomfort and dissatisfaction, will ensure that only people with highly-refined empathy instincts and great moral courage will be in our rooms, and shut out the wider world. It's not an easy task, to fight through basic human impulses to achieve a more compassionate world, and the challenge asks for us as activists to demonstrate an enormous amount of grace and self-control. Effective advocacy can be exhausting, and often gives us short-term frustration, but I've found that it is far more satisfying in the long run, and has helped me and others avoid the burnout that comes from pushing for change. *Cooney's 2010 book "Change of Heart: What Psychology Can Teach Us About Spreading Social Change" is must-read for any social justice activist, in my opinion.
July 16, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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jimbosaur.bsky.social
screenshot from The Simpsons of Lionel Hutz holding up his newspaper ad, edited to say (with the parts drawn on in red pen in parentheses): Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Esq. Rescue Hostages(?) No(,) regional war(!)
September 28, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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solarchase.bsky.social
32. Ordinary people have no idea how much progress we’ve made. Tell people at parties that UK carbon emissions in 2023 were at their lowest level since 1879, for example. Most developed economies are now reducing carbon emissions without lowering quality of life.
September 28, 2024 at 11:58 AM