Hmm. I want a media that thinks and evaluates critically. That could lead to criticism or affirmation.
Hmm. I want a media that thinks and evaluates critically. That could lead to criticism or affirmation.
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Great advice. Too bad that award has been rendered meaningless.
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C’mon folks 19 states are facing occupation, let’s make sure this toolkit makes it around BlueSky 🤗 WE are the resistance!
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This is about more than the number of seats - though that would be enough. It is about legislatively removing an elected representative. What the Texas Legislature did was the equivalent of jury tampering. They switched out voters (democracy’s jurors) to change the verdict.
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"Defending democracy is not the work of selfless heroes. Standing up for democracy means standing up for ourselves." (Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, Tyranny of the Minority)
Talk to Putin, then fire your Russia expert. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Good point. But also because chemical engineers don’t make good scriptwriters.
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IDF strike on Gaza City bakery kills 11 Palestinians, including children, medics say - Haaretz
Now, you can’t be Israel if you are not for genocide.
It is naïve to believe that insisting on factual truth can challenge the power of lies. This underestimates the sophistication of image-makers in denigrating, mocking, and destroying factual truth.(Richard J. Bernstein, Why Read Hannah Arendt Now?)
Small or footlong?
Don’t fight disinformation with better information. Counter it by showing people how they’re being conned." (Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders)
Federal appellate court upholds ruling striking down Trump's tariffs - Axios
New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...
The Doctor Strangelove of heath.
Paxton doesn’t have a legal basis. The statute he is relying on does not apply because Beto’s activities don’t meet the definition of trade or commerce.
North Korea comes to mind.
The notion that the second amendment is foundational to all other rights, are the words of a religious- level worship of guns. It makes the second amendment the equivalent of the First Commandment.
“[T]he result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lies will now be accepted as truth, and truth defamed as lies, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world …is being destroyed ” " (Richard Bernstein, Why Read Hannah Arendt Now?)
"In fact, presenting people with information that contradicts their opinion can cause them to come up with altogether new counterarguments that further strengthen their original view; this is known as the “boomerang effect.”" (Tali Sharot, The Influential Mind)
Because blinded by the avarice.
Not cops. Secret police.
Incompetence meets and marries extremism. If this was a broom company it wouldn’t matter much.
This.
He knows what he is talking about.
From October, 2024: Everything that has happened was predictable, and indeed predicted youtu.be/pHDVpBLMiFI?...
Trump needs to get a haircut like Kim Jong Un because this is North Korea style fawning
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Slobbering sycophants.
All we are saying is give plagues a chance.
He is the President of piece as in POS.
I don’t think it will take decades.
Using race in Redistricting- which the Republicans have done consistently to water down black votes - is now “unconstitutional” when used to correct the injustice. Hypocrisy is in their dna.
Counting down to third.
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The mafia was more principled
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You nailed it
She is not fired until she is fired.
Bored?
What is being lost is freedom.
A mere formality for them.
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Israel is - to the extent it can - mimicking the actions and reflecting the immorality that led to its founding.
He is an immigrant of color. That is all the proof they need. #white-supremacy
Cruelty is the point.
I agree. The question is whether this is one of his choices.
Trump wearing an American Flag lapel pin or flying it at Whitehouse may not be desegregation but something more sinister and loathsome.
Five Journalists Among Those Killed in Israeli Strikes on Gaza Hospital www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/w...
E pluribus screw’em
WSJ really thinks this is to or will entice Putin? They know better.
How BBC listened to Hamas propaganda and agreed with Hamas.
Do you have a link?
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www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/r... Only the best in Trump's America. "They see a friend in the White House at the highest level,”
The Russians will understand they can't win when we (and Europeans) commit to giving Ukraine what it needs to keep Russia from winning.
That he was at ALEC says it all.
Agree. This is where we are. Eye for eye.
This is very royal.
Yes. But more worrisome if he is not.
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Outlaws
Let’s hope we don’t have to find out.
And it wasn’t - for them.
Former National Guard Vice Chief Major General Randy E. Manner says deploying the Guard to D.C. will ruin how the average American views the military.
“You enter legally, and suddenly, because of someone else’s whim, you’re illegal. It doesn’t make sense.” Trump is running the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.
There is no point in opposing Trump on an issue by issue basis. ( (No problem discussing them that way). The percentage of illegal, unconstitutional or undemocratic stuff is so close to 💯 that it makes sense to just oppose Trump.
"People rallied with the doctors, calling for medical professionals to be allowed inside..." www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
Stephen Miller is the declaration of a society’s immorality.
The Ukrainian children killed in Russian strikes this year - The Washington Post
A $45 Treatment Can Save a Starving Child. US Aid Cuts Have Frozen the Supply www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/h...
PS You don’t use public printers. You bring your own.
They are children playing at adult’s work.
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He is a child
Trump Bows to Putin’s Approach on Ukraine: No Cease-Fire, Deadlines or Sanctions www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...
No. There is no version of Lindsey Graham that deserved to be in the Senate. It’s the same person giving different performances. Glad you are running.
Why should we care. They are all craven. Ukraine, Gaza, immigrants, abuse of power, militarization, etc
It will all be in his new book Hillbilly Elite.
You are giving Trump too much credit.
This is what happens when you send Little Lord Fauntleroy to do an adult's job.
ICE, America's first interior police, are not being built up, at the cost of billions, just to monitor immigration www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...
Corrupt power corrupts absolutely.
Who will be fired for compiling this information?
To park cars?
Great book - I’ve read it.
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Inch by inch. Like it’s about autism. Can we put a tariff on the import of Chinese authoritarianism?
Won’t hold. DTPA doesn’t apply.
