Nicole B
@saltydogmom.bsky.social
“ … there exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one … we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together. We are each other’s destiny.” - Mary Oliver
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"The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term..." meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...
February 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term..." meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...
There’s a long way to go between now and the midterms. And maybe our government will look drastically different. But as someone looking to make a difference with a lot of pent up anxiety, this group was a great place to start swingleft.org
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February 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
There’s a long way to go between now and the midterms. And maybe our government will look drastically different. But as someone looking to make a difference with a lot of pent up anxiety, this group was a great place to start swingleft.org
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I finally launched my own newsletter! I'm happy to be albeit write what I want when I want. And to put a lot of short in-the-moment essays that used to be on FB at this site instead. Please subscribe! meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/welcome-to-m...
Welcome to Meditations in an Emergency
We are very clearly in a lot of emergencies right now. They demand action. But action demands thought and thoughtfulness: who are we, what are our values, our goals, our allies, our possibilities, and...
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February 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I finally launched my own newsletter! I'm happy to be albeit write what I want when I want. And to put a lot of short in-the-moment essays that used to be on FB at this site instead. Please subscribe! meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/welcome-to-m...
Those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it. My a mother grew up in WWII Germany. She never talked about it; I taught myself about Nazis and concentration camps. I hold the responsibility of remembrance. It’s not something to shed, no matter what Elon Musk tells the AfD.
Third of young adults in UK ‘unable to name Auschwitz or any Nazi death camps’
Third of young adults in UK ‘unable to name Auschwitz or any Nazi death camps’
Lack of knowledge about Holocaust identified as well as level of denial and disinformation seen on social media
A third of young adults in the UK are unable to name Auschwitz or any of the other concentration camps and ghettoes where the crimes of the…
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it. My a mother grew up in WWII Germany. She never talked about it; I taught myself about Nazis and concentration camps. I hold the responsibility of remembrance. It’s not something to shed, no matter what Elon Musk tells the AfD.
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The fact that NIH grant-making has been switched off so haphazardly, for reasons that remain unclear, and despite the scope of troubles it creates, suggests that higher ed will be profoundly vulnerable during the second Trump era, writes @ibogost.bsky.social:
The Chaos in Higher Ed Is Only Getting Started
Grant reviews have been suspended at the NIH. This could be an omen.
www.theatlantic.com
January 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The fact that NIH grant-making has been switched off so haphazardly, for reasons that remain unclear, and despite the scope of troubles it creates, suggests that higher ed will be profoundly vulnerable during the second Trump era, writes @ibogost.bsky.social:
It might be more convenient, but Amazon is hoovering your data and its billionaire owner has sold his humanity and morality to the highest bidder. How critical is convenience in the face of oppression … and is it more important than freedom?
I finally stopped using Amazon a few months ago, and it's been so much easier than I imagined
Hey while megaretailers profiting one of the richest men in world are out here doing this shit www.advocate.com/news/amazon-...
maybe it's a fun time to switch to @librofm.bsky.social for audiobooks. Select the indie bookstore you'd like to support, listen away. Comp prices to aforementioned jerks
maybe it's a fun time to switch to @librofm.bsky.social for audiobooks. Select the indie bookstore you'd like to support, listen away. Comp prices to aforementioned jerks
January 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
It might be more convenient, but Amazon is hoovering your data and its billionaire owner has sold his humanity and morality to the highest bidder. How critical is convenience in the face of oppression … and is it more important than freedom?
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Krugman says the editors at the Times editorial page were increasingly trying to water down his columns and arguments www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...
Paul Krugman on Leaving the New York Times
The paper wanted to take away his newsletter or make him write less frequently, he says.
www.cjr.org
January 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Krugman says the editors at the Times editorial page were increasingly trying to water down his columns and arguments www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...
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Some hospitals are bringing in dogs to spend entire shifts with doctors and nurses. The trained canines help staff cope with the stress of their work amid high levels of burnout.
Trained dogs working inside hospitals help ease burnout among health care staff
Some hospitals are bringing in dogs to spend entire shifts with doctors and nurses. The trained canines help staff cope with the stress of their work amid high levels of burnout.
www.npr.org
January 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Some hospitals are bringing in dogs to spend entire shifts with doctors and nurses. The trained canines help staff cope with the stress of their work amid high levels of burnout.
The process to defund research that doesn’t align with this administration’s priorities starts here.
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The process to defund research that doesn’t align with this administration’s priorities starts here.
“When a newspaper decides to turn its head away from holding government and powerful people accountable, it threatens a free press and, by extension, democracy,” she said.
And WaPo’s slogan was once “Democracy dies in darkness”
And WaPo’s slogan was once “Democracy dies in darkness”
When fear spreads in a society, powerful people who know better are often the first to show their weakness. Sycophancy has momentum, @adriennelaf.bsky.social writes, but so does courage.
Capitulation Is Contagious
When fear spreads in a society, powerful people who know better are often the first to show their weakness.
www.theatlantic.com
January 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
“When a newspaper decides to turn its head away from holding government and powerful people accountable, it threatens a free press and, by extension, democracy,” she said.
And WaPo’s slogan was once “Democracy dies in darkness”
And WaPo’s slogan was once “Democracy dies in darkness”
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I always loved this image of Barack Obama looking at the statue of MLKJr.
January 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I always loved this image of Barack Obama looking at the statue of MLKJr.
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I post about politics, climate, feminism, but also poetry and beauty because we have to remember what we're for, as well as what we're against.
November 19, 2024 at 7:00 PM
I post about politics, climate, feminism, but also poetry and beauty because we have to remember what we're for, as well as what we're against.