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Mark Jacobs
@sixonedude.bsky.social
That Tall Nerd 👓 on TikTok posting about the news, geo-politics 🌐, urbanism 🏙️, economics, and other geeky things (#AvGeek, science, etc.). Former editor working in tech, I’m a #globalcitizen ⭕️ and US-based 🇺🇸 … for now

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The bigger risk is from PM 2.5, CO and NO2 on the ground from car exhaust and cigarettes (but #maga would never want to give those up, so they have to blame planes instead!)
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
November 17, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Well that was quick. I guess we know now which constituency was served when Schumer caved

I think I see where the “moderate” in “moderate Senate Democrats”comes from 🥂🤑

#shutdown #billionaires

www.fastcompany.com/91437451/faa...

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Shutdown sees FAA ban most private jets from landing at nation’s busiest airports
The ban on private jets at a dozen major airports follows restrictions placed on commercial airlines, impacting the public at 40 major airports
www.independent.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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I call it woke culture 2.0, or woke rebooted. We don’t abandon our values, but we definitely needed to reform our methods (the method to the madness!). Truth is on Democrats’ side, but we need to explain more and cancel less

couriernewsroom.com/news/thomas-...
Thomas Ogorzalek: To Win, Democrats Must Do Identity Politics Smarter
The evidence is clear: average voters tend not to make cold calculations about the national interest based on policy papers and projections of the future.
couriernewsroom.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Politicians can only do so much to educate from “the bully pulpit.” Elections are mostly won on slogans, not careful explanations or detailed policy proposals. After “a vibe election,” change starts with us

#election2026 #election2028 #campaignstrategy
This particular debate is less about excusing any political ideology, but avoiding anything becoming so doctrinaire that we shut out people’s reasoning or points of view (“hear me out”). Building that #resilience is healthier in any politics

www.vox.com/even-better/...

www.npr.org/2023/04/13/1...
“Protecting your peace” can kill your friendships
Frictionless relationships are just a fantasy.
www.vox.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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We can’t always find compromise with racists, it’s true. America’s founding error is coming back to bite us lately. I can’t imagine why the GOP would want to starve their fellow Americans … or why they looked the other way when it first happened in Gaza

www.politifact.com/article/2025...
Fact-checking a chart of SNAP recipients by ethnicity
A viral chart on X titled “Food Stamps by Ethnicity” showed that most people receiving SNAP benefits are non-white and noncitizens. But U.S. Agriculture Department data shows that the largest group of...
www.politifact.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:44 AM
No political movement is sustainable that can’t tolerate internal constructive criticism. Let’s help the good guys win 🫶🏼
November 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
It’s also called good-faith debate, something I haven’t been seeing a lot of on social media. I believe this conversation was needed no matter who won the presidency—and politics, democracy itself is about more than that

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

(PDF) www.cato.org/sites/cato.o...
Can Democracy Still Make a Comeback?
Hope for a freer future is dimmed but not lost.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Part of kindness is avoiding prejudice, holding space for honest communication to inform assumptions before sitting in judgment

There is a difference between niceness and kindness. I think we are on the same side; it’s just a question of messaging

hbr.org/2025/07/why-...

iai.tv/video/how-wo...
Why Kindness Isn’t a Nice to Have
Organizations that neglect kindness face significant consequences, including employee turnover, absenteeism, eroded trust, poor communication, and customer dissatisfaction. Conversely, workplaces that...
hbr.org
November 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
In politics, “if you’re explaining you’re losing,” but that’s for candidates. Each of us can be an ambassador for our side’s values to promote a healthier debate: not tone policing, but clearing the air

#communication #ethics

www.numberanalytics.com/blog/rhetori...

academic.oup.com/book/58644
Political Persuasion: The Use of Values in Communication
Abstract. Values are fundamental to political attitudes. Ideals such as freedom, equality, democracy, and fairness provide the standards to judge whether c
academic.oup.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I call it woke culture 2.0, or woke rebooted. We don’t abandon our values, but we definitely needed to reform our methods (the method to the madness!). Truth is on Democrats’ side, but we need to explain more and cancel less

couriernewsroom.com/news/thomas-...
Thomas Ogorzalek: To Win, Democrats Must Do Identity Politics Smarter
The evidence is clear: average voters tend not to make cold calculations about the national interest based on policy papers and projections of the future.
couriernewsroom.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The loneliness crisis contributed to our terrible #politics, and cancel culture made it worse. I saw it 1,000 times on social media: a person who needed educating was excommunicated instead based on an unspoken religion —dressed up as “empathy” but misplaced

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
Opinion | How an Empty Internet Gave Us Tradwives and Trump
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
White folks especially struggle with prejudice: the colonial history and binary thinking of Protestantism. Calvinism invoked predestination to harden that binary into the “deserving and undeserving”

You hear it in the rhetoric of #maga. Mutual understanding is not agreement or endorsement
November 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This particular debate is less about excusing any political ideology, but avoiding anything becoming so doctrinaire that we shut out people’s reasoning or points of view (“hear me out”). Building that #resilience is healthier in any politics

www.vox.com/even-better/...

www.npr.org/2023/04/13/1...
“Protecting your peace” can kill your friendships
Frictionless relationships are just a fantasy.
www.vox.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
If you read the article, it references the Baghavad Gita. As Americans we can’t tell people which values to follow, but we can give you examples to find your own

New Statesman recommends cultural Christianity, but take your pick

www.vox.com/the-highligh...

www.newstatesman.com/politics/rel...
You don’t need better boundaries. You need a better framework.
“Setting boundaries” is broken — but there’s a different way to think about caring for yourself and others.
www.vox.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM