Media literacy isn't merely an academic skill. It's a set of survival skills in the digital age of American polarization.
They're the difference between being informed & being manipulated; being easy targets for misinformation and political propaganda, & being harder to control, gaslight, & divide.
They're the difference between being informed & being manipulated; being easy targets for misinformation and political propaganda, & being harder to control, gaslight, & divide.
July 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Media literacy isn't merely an academic skill. It's a set of survival skills in the digital age of American polarization.
They're the difference between being informed & being manipulated; being easy targets for misinformation and political propaganda, & being harder to control, gaslight, & divide.
They're the difference between being informed & being manipulated; being easy targets for misinformation and political propaganda, & being harder to control, gaslight, & divide.
If we want to use our power and privilege responsibly and effectively, as individuals and as a collective, we need to be informed.
July 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
If we want to use our power and privilege responsibly and effectively, as individuals and as a collective, we need to be informed.
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A new study shows that a lobbying group for the private health insurance industry used Meta platforms to sow doubt about universal healthcare.
Their tactics are familiar. They are those used by the tobacco industry to convince people their products were safe and everyone else was lying.
Their tactics are familiar. They are those used by the tobacco industry to convince people their products were safe and everyone else was lying.
Generating opposition to universal health care policies in the United States: An analysis of private health industry advertising on Meta platforms
In 2019, the Partnership for America’s Health Care Future (PAHCF), a private health industry lobby group, launched a campaign across Meta platforms (Facebook, Instagram) to generate opposition to univ...
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July 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
A new study shows that a lobbying group for the private health insurance industry used Meta platforms to sow doubt about universal healthcare.
Their tactics are familiar. They are those used by the tobacco industry to convince people their products were safe and everyone else was lying.
Their tactics are familiar. They are those used by the tobacco industry to convince people their products were safe and everyone else was lying.
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The net effect of banning NIH scientists from publishing in top journals will be that scientists from other countries will have a better chance of their work being published there.
It won’t kill science.
It won’t kill ideas.
It will severely damage US science and ideas.
It won’t kill science.
It won’t kill ideas.
It will severely damage US science and ideas.
May 28, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The net effect of banning NIH scientists from publishing in top journals will be that scientists from other countries will have a better chance of their work being published there.
It won’t kill science.
It won’t kill ideas.
It will severely damage US science and ideas.
It won’t kill science.
It won’t kill ideas.
It will severely damage US science and ideas.
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This winter I finished writing a full-length choral requiem for the Sycamore Gap tree, called The World Tree.
The Finnish composer Matthew Whittall is setting it to music now.
Premieres in Helsinki in November—sung by Helsinki Chamber Choir—then 🤞 travel to UK.
www.thetimes.com/uk/arts/arti...
The Finnish composer Matthew Whittall is setting it to music now.
Premieres in Helsinki in November—sung by Helsinki Chamber Choir—then 🤞 travel to UK.
www.thetimes.com/uk/arts/arti...
Nature writer’s requiem for the Sycamore Gap tree
Robert Macfarlane’s composition The World Tree will performed by the Helsinki Chamber Choir this year
www.thetimes.com
May 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This winter I finished writing a full-length choral requiem for the Sycamore Gap tree, called The World Tree.
The Finnish composer Matthew Whittall is setting it to music now.
Premieres in Helsinki in November—sung by Helsinki Chamber Choir—then 🤞 travel to UK.
www.thetimes.com/uk/arts/arti...
The Finnish composer Matthew Whittall is setting it to music now.
Premieres in Helsinki in November—sung by Helsinki Chamber Choir—then 🤞 travel to UK.
www.thetimes.com/uk/arts/arti...
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This isn't hypothetical.
The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.
The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.
May 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This isn't hypothetical.
The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.
The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.
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Exactly: yes, money can influence elections, and yes, so can propaganda and vote suppression and gerrymandering. But amazing what you can overcome when people just show up.
BREAKING NEWS: ELECTIONS STILL MATTER!!! CUT THE NIHILISM AND GET TO WORK!!!!
April 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Exactly: yes, money can influence elections, and yes, so can propaganda and vote suppression and gerrymandering. But amazing what you can overcome when people just show up.
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Some news: I've launched a $10m challenge to develop solutions that reverse the decline of trust in American institutions.
March 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Some news: I've launched a $10m challenge to develop solutions that reverse the decline of trust in American institutions.
Opening day! ⚾️
March 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Opening day! ⚾️
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It’s the world’s most deadly infectious disease. But it strikes the world’s most downtrodden and neglected, including here at home. So we turn our eyes.
Not you, @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social. You’ve made the story of TB personal. And your vivid, moving, vital book makes us grateful you did.
Not you, @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social. You’ve made the story of TB personal. And your vivid, moving, vital book makes us grateful you did.
New review of "Everything Is Tuberculosis" in the @nytimes.com, which calls the book "earnest and empathetic," which is really all I wanted it to be. (And also all I want to be.) www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/b...
Book Review: ‘Everything Is Tuberculosis,’ by John Green
In a new nonfiction book, the Y.A. novelist describes the disease as a window into “the folly and brilliance and cruelty and compassion of humans.”
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
It’s the world’s most deadly infectious disease. But it strikes the world’s most downtrodden and neglected, including here at home. So we turn our eyes.
Not you, @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social. You’ve made the story of TB personal. And your vivid, moving, vital book makes us grateful you did.
Not you, @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social. You’ve made the story of TB personal. And your vivid, moving, vital book makes us grateful you did.
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Every single Democratic lawmaker should be calling for Hegseth's immediate resignation right now. Not just some. Not just a few dozen. Every single one, starting at the top with Mr. Schumer and Mr. Jeffries. And the fact that it hasn't happened yet is nearly as shocking as Hegseth's conduct.
March 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Every single Democratic lawmaker should be calling for Hegseth's immediate resignation right now. Not just some. Not just a few dozen. Every single one, starting at the top with Mr. Schumer and Mr. Jeffries. And the fact that it hasn't happened yet is nearly as shocking as Hegseth's conduct.
This is what happens when incompetence is rewarded at the ballot box.
From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This is what happens when incompetence is rewarded at the ballot box.
This seems like a brazen attempt to control others' thoughts, which is a classic ploy from the authoritarian playbook. Moreover, it's a clear representation of the Trump administration's contempt for knowledge, and the pursuit of it.
Librarians are raising alarm over an executive order signed by Trump aimed at dismantling the agency that serves as the primary federal funding source for libraries and museums across the US. The EO lists the Institute of Museum and Library Services as “unnecessary.” 🔥
#BookSky
#Resistance
#BlueCrew
#BookSky
#Resistance
#BlueCrew
March 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This seems like a brazen attempt to control others' thoughts, which is a classic ploy from the authoritarian playbook. Moreover, it's a clear representation of the Trump administration's contempt for knowledge, and the pursuit of it.
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For the love of God…get off Twittter.
March 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
For the love of God…get off Twittter.
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Having written a kind of first draft of that history myself, voters have even more to answer for
I feel like when the history of this time is written by intelligent and reasonable historians, traditional media and social media will have a lot to answer for.
March 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Having written a kind of first draft of that history myself, voters have even more to answer for
Excellent thread on the united judiciary vis-à-vis recent Trump cases.
1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
March 19, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Excellent thread on the united judiciary vis-à-vis recent Trump cases.
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1/ Words matter. Fascist, Nazis, and Hitler were overused and more importantly wrong. Easy to mock by the Trumpers as TDS. Now that we’re farther down the road, it’s still not 1930s Fascism. American Fascism maybe. But more accurately authoritarianism on the way to tyranny.
March 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
1/ Words matter. Fascist, Nazis, and Hitler were overused and more importantly wrong. Easy to mock by the Trumpers as TDS. Now that we’re farther down the road, it’s still not 1930s Fascism. American Fascism maybe. But more accurately authoritarianism on the way to tyranny.
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The #measles vaccine has saved an estimated 5 lives every second since 2000.
👉Prevent measles by getting vaccinated with two doses of the measles vaccine.
👉Prevent measles by getting vaccinated with two doses of the measles vaccine.
March 18, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The #measles vaccine has saved an estimated 5 lives every second since 2000.
👉Prevent measles by getting vaccinated with two doses of the measles vaccine.
👉Prevent measles by getting vaccinated with two doses of the measles vaccine.
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As long as you don’t threaten the state—or the state doesn’t decide you’ve threatened it because you’re the wrong race, religion, sexual orientation, gender presentation, or if you’re friends with or related to people who meet these criteria—you will go about your day.
March 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
As long as you don’t threaten the state—or the state doesn’t decide you’ve threatened it because you’re the wrong race, religion, sexual orientation, gender presentation, or if you’re friends with or related to people who meet these criteria—you will go about your day.
Putin and the Kremlin are celebrating this shameful moment in America's history. This meeting could not have gone any better for Russia. #Trump
you’ve never seen a public beating by the american president of a wartime ally like this before.
as stunning as the vance munich speech, but this time directly by the us president.
as stunning as the vance munich speech, but this time directly by the us president.
February 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Putin and the Kremlin are celebrating this shameful moment in America's history. This meeting could not have gone any better for Russia. #Trump
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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
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If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
December 3, 2024 at 9:02 PM
If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
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Perfect description of bsky vs twitter
February 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Perfect description of bsky vs twitter