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Chrisella Herzog@chrisella.bsky.social |
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Bluesky elder. Former journalist talking about politics, climate, and disinformation.
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jamie quinn 🏳️⚧️
@threnody.bsky.social
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in 1986—peak AIDS crisis; only 6 months after reagan admitted AIDS was real—the NYT ran a william f buckley op-ed calling for all HIV+ people to be tattooed on the arm & the ass for the greater good anyone giving the NYT the benefit of the doubt about trans coverage: this is who they’ve always been
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Chrisella Herzog
@chrisella.bsky.social
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Under their definition, "porn" includes the existence of trans people. It's a way to criminalize being LGBTQ+
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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I feel like a lot of Americans are still thinking of our current moment like its an electoral or legal contest when its probably closer to a classic Power Struggle in an authoritarian regime. Jan6 really drove that home
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jamie quinn 🏳️⚧️
@threnody.bsky.social
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boy, i gotta tell you, as an american, i’m getting real sick of seeing “6-3” on things that will dictate the way i experience the rest of my life.
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Lydia Polgreen
@polgreen.bsky.social
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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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The central thesis of the case here is just ... wrong. That's not the crux of the dispute. USG always always always maintained official acts are immune and non-official acts are not. That's the easy bit. The hard bit is deciding if an act is official, and SCOTUS just punts on that actual core
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Seth D. Michaels
@sethdmichaels.bsky.social
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the combination of Ohio, Chevron, and Jarkesy is to tell the extraordinarily rich “there’s no one who can hold you accountable for anything if you can afford a lawsuit”
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Thomas Zimmer
@thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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Two immediate thoughts: - Presidents have been able to get away with *a lot*, so to some extent, this codifies the (very, very bad!) status quo - BUT ALSO: To officially codify presidential immunity in this way, with reference to this specific situation (an attempted coup!) is utterly terrifying
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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Chief Justice Roberts decrees the end of DOJ independence in an offhanded sentence on page 20.
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The Fig Economy
@figgityfigs.bsky.social
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The presidential immunity case this morning should be galvanizing and should shut all of the "replace Biden" people the fuck up. We *have* to stop Trump, especially a Trump who will have been let entirely off the leash by this decision, and he's the vehicle we have. Don't like it? Don't care.
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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This is the ball game folks, the authoritarian green light laid out in advance. Congress will not impeach Trump. And SCOTUS now blesses him with extraordinary latitude to do whatever he wants in power. A second administration will not be constrained by Congress, the courts, the bureaucracy or law.
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Andrew Kinsey
@andrewkinsey.bsky.social
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I'm reading the opinion and it says he enjoys absolute immunity regarding threats to fire the attorney general if they don't do what he wants. So, he could easily just say "investigate or prosecute my friends and you're fired" and he's 100% immune, right?
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Gillian Branstetter
@gbbranstetter.bsky.social
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Strange quirk of history that the Court has effectively gutted Nixon's environmental legacy by kneecapping the EPA but just wrote this line into law
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Ryan Brazell
@ryanbrazell.bsky.social
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146 of 151 breast reductions performed on minors in 2019 were on cisgender boys.
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Greg Sargent
@gregsargent.bsky.social
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New pod: Under Project 2025, an army of Trump loyalists would deeply corrupt information gathering by the government and turn it into little more than pro-Trump propaganda.
We dig deep into this with @volts.wtf, who is highly illuminating on the dangers here:
newrepublic.com/article/1832...
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Rima I Anabtawi
@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
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57 percent of unhoused women report domestic violence as their immediate cause of homelessness. The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold an Oregon law could further limit their options.
19thnews.org/2024/06/ruli...
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ex-Lethality Jane
@lethalityjane.bsky.social
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Fuck all your doomposting. No one who has ever accomplished anything did it by giving up and whining that there was nothing to do, the bad guys won and we are all doomed. Defeatism is death.
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The Republic Is Ours To Save
@ejwillingham.bsky.social
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Not over. As someone alive before Chevron precedent, before legal abortion, before many things being flipped back in time existed, I can say you can fight this war&win it. Again. &this time, people have sunk costs&reaped benefits where before it was theoretical. They will feel&resent the loss.
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John Schwartz
@jswatz.bsky.social
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The biggest disaster of the last 24 hours is actually the Supreme Court ruling that overturns 40 years of deference to the expertise of regulators in cases about pollution, drug safety, food safety, climate change — you name it, the Court just gelded it. Even if Biden is reelected, we're weakened.
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Elizabeth Spiers
@espiers.bsky.social
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Weirdly Van Jones had the best summary: Biden stuttered but told the truth, Trump was confident and lied endlessly
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Paul Nadeau
@pauljnadeau.bsky.social
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Yeah even holding this debate gives Trump and his candidacy a legitimacy he doesn’t deserve
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Not long ago, one of the men on the stage tried to overthrow American democracy. And we're having a normal debate like it's 2012 about the economy, budget deficit, etc.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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So. This is literally a death threat.
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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What a great time to be trapped in outer space
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Joanne Freeman
@jbf1755.bsky.social
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This debate is a prime example of how profoundly we are ill equipped to deal w/the rise of authoritarianism. Letting blatant lies fly. Doing nothing to follow up on lies & ignoring questions. Normal rules don't apply. We need to think--CLEARLY--about the best ways to clear the air & support truth.
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Emily St. James
@emilystjams.bsky.social
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When I learned this (at some point when I worked at Vox), I became an anti-debate truther. I don’t know why we put ourselves through this, short of giving the political press something to obsess over for a few days.
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Ketan Joshi
@ketanjoshi.co
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A quick post for you: tech companies are laying the groundwork for failing their 2030 climate targets, based largely off their obscene growth in power grid demand, particularly for data centres
We know this because.....they're saying it out loud:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/tech-c...
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David Forbes
@davidforbes.bsky.social
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The modern conception of journalistic "objectivity" is a pretty recent invention, largely post-WWII. The muckrakers that defied oligarchs and forged the field didn't hide their views. At all. E.g. Ida B. Wells both investigated lynching and openly called for people to shoot the klan with guns.
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
@diplomatofnight.com
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In light of the announcement by the Israelis that they will be expanding the settlements in occupied Palestine in response to European nations recognizing Palestine, a casual reminder that every single settlement, including in East Jerusalem, violates the 4th Geneva Convention, which Israel signed.
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Kate Starbird
@katestarbird.bsky.social
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Everything is “censorship”. They demand not only that they can say whatever they want, but that platforms have to promote it, other users have to act as vectors for it to reach their audiences, and that they cannot even be called out spreading for hate and BS… otherwise it’s “censorship.”
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Kate Starbird
@katestarbird.bsky.social
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Truly fantastic article from Renee DiResta describing how she became a central villain in the fantasies of the "bullshit industrial complex" (they wouldn't let her use that title) and explaining the ties to Jan 6, other attacks on researchers, and more. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Katharine Hayhoe
@katharinehayhoe.com
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As @jonathanstea.bsky.social points out here, a strong predictor of trolling is the tendency to derive pleasure or enjoyment from being cruel or demeaning to others. By blocking, it deprives them of that pleasure.
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c0nc0rdance
@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
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I don't think I've ever talked on Bluesky about why I hate the Foo Fighters and Dave Grohl. Don't read any further unless you're prepared for uncomfortable truths about the "Nicest Guy in Rock", and his very substantial body count & subsequent cover-up.
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Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social
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I don't think this is actively rooting for Trump so much as it is pure cynicism and solipsism. Our political press is dominated by people who have no real commitment to democracy but relish conflict and feel generally irritated by the earnest progressives in their social milieu.
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious
@rachellense.bsky.social
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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️🌈💖
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
@rmcarpiano.bsky.social
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Awful. Stanford Internet Observatory, a fantastic effort studying online misinfo & related topics, dismantled after "a sustained & increasingly successful campaign among Republicans to discredit research institutions & discourage academics from investigating political speech & influence campaigns."
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man it's a hot zone,
@mobute.bsky.social
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Supreme Court Issues 'We Want Republicans To Be Competitive This November' Ruling, Uphold 'Pretend a Little While Longer' Precedent
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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A really easy thing to confirm by travelling to literally any other country is that The United States and people in it are extremely wealthy by world standards. We use our wealth very badly in terms of translating to quality of life, but in terms of absolute "do people here have lots of money" we do
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Paul Gowder
@paulgowder.bsky.social
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When even Alito is willing to join a ruling that you don't have standing to simultaneously blow up administrative law and women's rights you must have really fucked up hard
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Chrisella Herzog
@chrisella.bsky.social
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Supreme Court retains full access to abortion medication mifepristone in a unanimous decision: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Chrisella Herzog
@chrisella.bsky.social
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Here's a happy Layla getting belly rubs
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Dan Lavoie
@djlavoie.bsky.social
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I knew contempt of Congress is much more common recently, but didn't realize that it's up to the Department of Justice whether to actually prosecute. So all the contempt citations to GOP officials issued during Trump were declined to prosecute. Same for Dem officials first 2 years of Biden Admin.
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Rick Hasen
@rickhasen.bsky.social
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This is exactly right and I think lost in all the talk of revenge. As Greg argues, Trump is threatening to weaponize DOJ to pursue bogus claims, not legitimate ones.
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Chrisella Herzog
@chrisella.bsky.social
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Here's the link with the live form: hotlineform.utah.gov/equal_opport...
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Carl T. Bergstrom
@carlbergstrom.com
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Did I miss the memo redefining the term "competing interest"?
The latest Facebook/Meta-funded study on Facebook misinformation, published, in Nature Human Behavior www.nature.com/articles/s41..., acknowledges Facebook funding but declares no competing interests.
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Chrisella Herzog
@chrisella.bsky.social
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I'm physically in Utah and getting an error for this right now
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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir)
@nora.zone
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wake up bluesky a new utah snitch line just dropped (you'll need a vpn if you're outside utah for this one) hotlineform.utah.gov/equal-opport...
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Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social
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When Americans wonder how “it” could happen in other “advanced” countries, this is why and how
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Laura Helmuth
@laurahelmuth.bsky.social
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Research on news coverage of protests shows that journalists tend to follow a "protest paradigm" that is uninformative, distorted, biased toward official accounts and that limits the impact of protests. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/here...
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Chrisella Herzog
@chrisella.bsky.social
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Omg this brings back memories. The little green turtle teaching me at an early age that I'm not cut out for coding lol
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