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There are 3,300 fewer newspapers across the U.S. and 45,000 fewer journalists than there were in 2005, which means more secrecy across the country, according to a new study from @brechnerfoi.bsky.social.
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freedom.press
September 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
There are 3,300 fewer newspapers across the U.S. and 45,000 fewer journalists than there were in 2005, which means more secrecy across the country, according to a new study from @brechnerfoi.bsky.social.
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As someone noted, one big reason Brazil survived Bolsonaro was that it had a functional, uncorrupted Supreme Court
Kavanaugh's statements make the problem worse, not better. If the reason SCOTUS is using cryptic shadow docket orders is because "five" of them can't "reach a consensus or a compromise on a particular issue that might be difficult," then that order should not be precedential —there's no majority.
Brett Kavanaugh says there’s a good reason Supreme Court rulings can sometimes be so cryptic
In remarks to a judicial conference, Kavanaugh also defended Chief Justice John Roberts.
www.politico.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
As someone noted, one big reason Brazil survived Bolsonaro was that it had a functional, uncorrupted Supreme Court
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Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr.
Scientific American has published a guide to the EVIDENCE-BASED vaccine recommendations in place BEFORE ACIP members were removed by the administration.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr.
Scientific American has published a guide to the EVIDENCE-BASED vaccine recommendations in place BEFORE ACIP members were removed by the administration.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults
www.scientificamerican.com
June 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr.
Scientific American has published a guide to the EVIDENCE-BASED vaccine recommendations in place BEFORE ACIP members were removed by the administration.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr.
Scientific American has published a guide to the EVIDENCE-BASED vaccine recommendations in place BEFORE ACIP members were removed by the administration.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
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No argument here: “Jordan Peterson is a bad and lazy thinker, and an even worse writer,” writes Luke Savage in @thewalrus.ca . “But he is also symptomatic of a more generalized decline in the quality of public intellectuals.” #Canada #criticalthinking thewalrus.ca/is-jordan-pe...
Is Jordan Peterson Just Making It Up as He Goes? | The Walrus
The culture war’s favourite prophet can’t finish a straight thought
thewalrus.ca
June 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
No argument here: “Jordan Peterson is a bad and lazy thinker, and an even worse writer,” writes Luke Savage in @thewalrus.ca . “But he is also symptomatic of a more generalized decline in the quality of public intellectuals.” #Canada #criticalthinking thewalrus.ca/is-jordan-pe...
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In an era where truth is treated as treason, NPR dons its armour and goes to war against Trump's executive order. A lawsuit not just for funding, but for the freedom of the press. A battle waged not in ink, but in principles. The pen mightier than the sword, indeed. #3E
June 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
In an era where truth is treated as treason, NPR dons its armour and goes to war against Trump's executive order. A lawsuit not just for funding, but for the freedom of the press. A battle waged not in ink, but in principles. The pen mightier than the sword, indeed. #3E
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Anything that criticizes Trump should be criminalized according to him. This is the operating principle of fascism!
Trump: "These newspapers are really no different than a highly paid political operative. And it has to stop. It has to be illegal ... it just cannot be legal."
March 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Anything that criticizes Trump should be criminalized according to him. This is the operating principle of fascism!
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At the protest for veterans in DC.
March 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
At the protest for veterans in DC.
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The boycott is strong and getting stronger every day.
March 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The boycott is strong and getting stronger every day.
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Jamie Raskin:
"Given that I was marching at age 3, you know I’m not letting any coup-plotting, election-denying, insurrection-supplying autocrat, kleptocracy, plutocrat or theocrat, or any techno-feudalist Silicon Valley broligarchs aspiring dictator, turn me around now.”
Amen!!
"Given that I was marching at age 3, you know I’m not letting any coup-plotting, election-denying, insurrection-supplying autocrat, kleptocracy, plutocrat or theocrat, or any techno-feudalist Silicon Valley broligarchs aspiring dictator, turn me around now.”
Amen!!
February 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Jamie Raskin:
"Given that I was marching at age 3, you know I’m not letting any coup-plotting, election-denying, insurrection-supplying autocrat, kleptocracy, plutocrat or theocrat, or any techno-feudalist Silicon Valley broligarchs aspiring dictator, turn me around now.”
Amen!!
"Given that I was marching at age 3, you know I’m not letting any coup-plotting, election-denying, insurrection-supplying autocrat, kleptocracy, plutocrat or theocrat, or any techno-feudalist Silicon Valley broligarchs aspiring dictator, turn me around now.”
Amen!!
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“The truth is the United States is a net exporter of crime, of guns, of drugs to Canada. So what are we asking for them to do on their side of the border? Is anybody asking them for reciprocal hardening, in terms of security, of their side of the border?”
-Rob Russo,The Economist
#Canada #US #border
-Rob Russo,The Economist
#Canada #US #border
February 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more.
- US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID
- $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes.
- Food stranded in Houston
- Aid stopped in transit.
The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.
- US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID
- $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes.
- Food stranded in Houston
- Aid stopped in transit.
The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.
Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses
U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more.
- US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID
- $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes.
- Food stranded in Houston
- Aid stopped in transit.
The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.
- US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID
- $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes.
- Food stranded in Houston
- Aid stopped in transit.
The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.
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Spot on from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Spot on from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
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Who will enforce the law?
BREAKING: Federal judge in Rhode Island formall blocks the Trump spending freeze, saying the actions likely "violate the Constitution and statutes of the United states."
Judge cites @PressSec statement as primary cause for concern:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Judge cites @PressSec statement as primary cause for concern:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Who will enforce the law?
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre spent Monday evening at his $1,750-per-plate fundraiser hosted at a mansion so large it has its own postal code.
Oh, and the guy who owns that place?
Yeah, looks like he profits from privatized healthcare facilities in the United States.
Let's talk about it:
Oh, and the guy who owns that place?
Yeah, looks like he profits from privatized healthcare facilities in the United States.
Let's talk about it:
Pierre Poilievre's lavish evening with a private healthcare profiteer? Uh oh
YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore
youtu.be
January 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Trump is so blinded by hatred for California that he’s considering eliminating an agency that overwhelmingly helps red states.
January 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Trump is so blinded by hatred for California that he’s considering eliminating an agency that overwhelmingly helps red states.
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Don't let Elon Musk interfere in our elections.
Here is my letter to Elections Canada to protect our electoral process from interference by the X algorithm.
www.charlieangus.ca/_files/ugd/5...
If you are worried about Musk's extremism
please send an email to:
Stephane.Perrault@elections.ca
Here is my letter to Elections Canada to protect our electoral process from interference by the X algorithm.
www.charlieangus.ca/_files/ugd/5...
If you are worried about Musk's extremism
please send an email to:
Stephane.Perrault@elections.ca
January 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Don't let Elon Musk interfere in our elections.
Here is my letter to Elections Canada to protect our electoral process from interference by the X algorithm.
www.charlieangus.ca/_files/ugd/5...
If you are worried about Musk's extremism
please send an email to:
Stephane.Perrault@elections.ca
Here is my letter to Elections Canada to protect our electoral process from interference by the X algorithm.
www.charlieangus.ca/_files/ugd/5...
If you are worried about Musk's extremism
please send an email to:
Stephane.Perrault@elections.ca
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Look, if Russia is investing millions of dollars and dozens of troll farms to oppose and smear a candidate in your country, then that’s the fucking person you need to elect.
January 18, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Look, if Russia is investing millions of dollars and dozens of troll farms to oppose and smear a candidate in your country, then that’s the fucking person you need to elect.
Now let’s see if Elon complies.
The European Commission has ordered Elon Musk to hand over documents on X's algorithm.
X must hand over internal documents on its recommendation algorithm and comply to a retention order for related materials, and provide details on content moderation and amplification practices.
X must hand over internal documents on its recommendation algorithm and comply to a retention order for related materials, and provide details on content moderation and amplification practices.
Brussels orders X to hand over documents on algorithm
Request follows complaints from politicians about Elon Musk’s platform boosting far-right AfD party
www.ft.com
January 18, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Now let’s see if Elon complies.
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Elon Musk is promoting Conservative Pierre Poilievre and will ramp up the rage algorithms for the upcoming Canadian election.
My FB feed is filling with political hate and AI disinformation.
Parliament is shut as Canada sleepwalks into an election that will have unprecedented interference.
My FB feed is filling with political hate and AI disinformation.
Parliament is shut as Canada sleepwalks into an election that will have unprecedented interference.
January 13, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Elon Musk is promoting Conservative Pierre Poilievre and will ramp up the rage algorithms for the upcoming Canadian election.
My FB feed is filling with political hate and AI disinformation.
Parliament is shut as Canada sleepwalks into an election that will have unprecedented interference.
My FB feed is filling with political hate and AI disinformation.
Parliament is shut as Canada sleepwalks into an election that will have unprecedented interference.
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Pierre Poilievre, who is clearly taking cues from Trump, is trying to radicalize his supporters into thinking they live in an authoritarian dystopia. It's kind of sad, tbh. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Justin Ling: No, Pierre Poilievre, Justin Trudeau isn’t forcing us to eat bugs
Watching the party leader debase himself with bug-brained conspiracy theories is embarrassing. But this is, unfortunately, a core part of the Conservative party strategy these days.
www.thestar.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Pierre Poilievre, who is clearly taking cues from Trump, is trying to radicalize his supporters into thinking they live in an authoritarian dystopia. It's kind of sad, tbh. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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An Israeli tank killed Reuters reporter Issam Abdallah in Lebanon last year by firing two 120 mm rounds at a group of "clearly identifiable journalists" in violation of international law, a U.N. investigation into the Oct. 13 incident has found.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com
March 13, 2024 at 9:43 PM
An Israeli tank killed Reuters reporter Issam Abdallah in Lebanon last year by firing two 120 mm rounds at a group of "clearly identifiable journalists" in violation of international law, a U.N. investigation into the Oct. 13 incident has found.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
www.reuters.com/world/middle...