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Sarah Szalavitz

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Accountability Architect💡 Artisanal Database Maker🔎 đŸ§Ÿ Storyteller/Writer/ProducerđŸŽ„ Avenger, Lawyer,đŸŸâ˜­ Democrat đŸ—łïž Choice OptimizerđŸ€– Human Palantir🔼

Sarah Szalavitz's avatar Sarah Szalavitz @dearsarah.bsky.social
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Zine of the times
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Emily Gorcenski's avatar Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski
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Read this story and remember that Airbnb’s Policy Director is Mike Signer, who was the inept mayor of Charlottesville during the Summer of Hate

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Sarah Szalavitz's avatar Sarah Szalavitz @dearsarah.bsky.social
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Zine of the times
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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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It's no coincidence that the Jefferson Memorial, a creation of the New Deal, chose to highlight this particularly apt quote from Jefferson.

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Chris Levesque's avatar Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social
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What this article leaves out is that if you hand your unlocked phone to a police officer, they can legally search it. Unless companies develop a method that allows you to show officers insurance cards and driver license without unlocking the rest of your phone, don't.

www.zdnet.com/article/digi...

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Ed Zitron's avatar Ed Zitron @zitron.bsky.social
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Hi! Glanced at your post briefly and I just wanted to add I disagree and hate you

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Melissa Gira Grant's avatar Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com
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“Jane McAlevey’s biggest impact on newsroom unions was through her advocacy for open bargaining
 Most unions aren’t this transparent in negotiations. But it’s mostly a no-brainer for skeptical journalists who expect accountability in all things, including from their own coworkers.”

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Kevin Elliott's avatar Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social
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It's important for you to know that a chunk of conservative dark money has recently been lobbed at academic research on "polarization," and it bears reflecting on why a framing of the US's contemporary crisis that automatically suggests there's blame on all sides would be favored by them

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Kashana's avatar Kashana @kashana.bsky.social
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So glad that instead of state support we have random billionaire whims.

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis's avatar Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social
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Rewrite: Duly elected and nominated President dares to defy aggressive, disenfranchising pushing by New York Times to drop out.

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Sarah Szalavitz's avatar Sarah Szalavitz @dearsarah.bsky.social
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That OpenAI would try this in SDNY (with Judge Kaplan no less?) is comical
.& maybe sanctionable? Especially given that OpenAI now has licensing deals with other pubs for their copyrighted material, NYT will turn over exactly nothing & OpenAI will stipulate to the validity of NYT’s copyrights.

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L O L G O P's avatar L O L G O P @lolgop.bsky.social
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“Mom and Dad are fighting over abortion again :(” is a story that Trump and the GOP very badly want to keep in front of the American public. Staging internal party vs. Trump turmoil over abortion policy works on a bunch of fronts
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Hayes Brown's avatar Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social
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Ugh I wrote about this back in January: “There’s something particularly cruel about a decision to willfully deprive millions of parents the comfort of knowing that their child won’t go to bed hungry.”

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Spunky to my Friends's avatar Spunky to my Friends @almagirl.bsky.social
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"Weeks before his death, he was on an organizing call about defending Columbia University students who had been arrested for protesting the Gaza war." A hero for our time. I wish there were many more like him.

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Sarah Szalavitz's avatar Sarah Szalavitz @dearsarah.bsky.social
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Yes “coup” does also have colloquial uses. However, that’s not what it means in the context of an election, where a media org with a global audience certainly knows, coup has a very well-known & nearly universally understood meaning. Hence after many people complained, BBC finally changed it.

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Saeed Jones's avatar Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social
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“At least five journalists were killed in attacks by Israeli forces in the last 24 hours in Gaza as bombings and air strikes across the besieged enclave intensified.”

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Sarah Szalavitz's avatar Sarah Szalavitz @dearsarah.bsky.social
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2024:

Coup d'Ă©tat
Coup d'Ă©twit,
Coup d'Ă©tweet.

Stroke of state
Stroke of twits
Stroke of tweets.

Aside from all of us who did, who could have ever predicted this? Now that twitter poisoning is endemic, who can even tell the difference?
#loligarchy

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Sarah Szalavitz's avatar Sarah Szalavitz @dearsarah.bsky.social
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In 2024, @BBCNews asserts—without any evidence or even any such claim from the outgoing government—that the Labour’s landslide victory in the UK elections was actually “a coup”. Meanwhile, in the US, a coup is actually taking place
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Kim Shumway's avatar Kim Shumway @kimshum.bsky.social
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Organizers got enough signatures to put a measure protecting abortion on the ballot in Arkansas. In *Arkansas*. They had *no national support*. Ignore the pundits melting down over not being treated as Very Special Boys. Dobbs has fundamentally changed elections. Everything they know is wrong.

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Courtney Milan's avatar Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com
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A hill I will die on: all white-collar crimes are violent crimes. It's just that the violence is removed from the perpetrator because the perpetrator is wealthy.

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wade of mutilation's avatar wade of mutilation @waderockett.bsky.social
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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

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Dan Cerinthedark's avatar Dan Cerinthedark @etbeeegood.bsky.social
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every time you stop making sense David Byrne’s suit grows 2 sizes

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Wendy Xu's avatar Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social
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honestly hate that every time there's an industry bad actor, lists of "works by marginalized authors to support instead" start circulating like it's a moral obligation to be done out of guilt, & it's crickets every other day of the year. my art is not to be taken in as a reactionary measure

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Sarah Szalavitz's avatar Sarah Szalavitz @dearsarah.bsky.social
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These Obscure Democrats Could Soon Become Kingmakers

THIS STORY IS ABOUT HOW DNC DELEGATES UNIVERSALLY SUPPORT BIDEN—& WOULD CHOOSE KAMALA, BECAUSE PRIMARIES EXIST &, DESPITE NYT’S BEST EFFORTS, WE ARE NOT YET A MONARCHY. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/06/u...

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Sarah Szalavitz's avatar Sarah Szalavitz @dearsarah.bsky.social
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Who could Kamala choose as her VP that would make her unbeatable? Bernie Sanders? The Rock? Dolly Parton? Stephen Colbert? AOC? Sean O’Brien? Jennifer Lopez, but in 2022? Who else don’t too many people hate with the fire of a trillion suns & is eligible & potentially willing?

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OlĂșfáșč́mi O. TĂĄĂ­wĂČ's avatar OlĂșfáșč́mi O. TĂĄĂ­wĂČ @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"Irish nationalists Sinn Fein became Northern Ireland's largest party in the British parliament for the first time on Friday, capitalising on a poor election for its main unionist rival to cross another milestone in a campaign to end British rule."

wild times

www.reuters.com/world/uk/sin...

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Hemry, Local Bartender's avatar Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social
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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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Tom Scocca's avatar Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social
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Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes

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Sarah Szalavitz's avatar Sarah Szalavitz @dearsarah.bsky.social
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2024: welcome to our unconstitutional monarchy.

We Rejected Monarchy in 1776. The Supreme Court Just Brought It Back.
flip.it/m4kSLN

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Sarah Szalavitz's avatar Sarah Szalavitz @dearsarah.bsky.social
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Who could Kamala choose as her VP that would make her unbeatable? Bernie Sanders? The Rock? Dolly Parton? Stephen Colbert? AOC? Sean O’Brien? Jennifer Lopez, but in 2022? Who else don’t too many people hate with the fire of a trillion suns & is eligible & potentially willing?

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Sarah Szalavitz's avatar Sarah Szalavitz @dearsarah.bsky.social
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Texas Judge Issues Injunction to Halt FTC’s Noncompete Ban.

Welcome to the post Chevron era, where federal agencies now only exist to fight lawsuits funded by billionaires—while minimum wage workers are forced to sign noncompete agreements. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/b... #loligarchy

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Sarah Szalavitz's avatar Sarah Szalavitz @dearsarah.bsky.social
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To be clear: this is certainly not a defense of Trump or a suggestion that such ads should not be run or would not be impactful
 It was intended as an explanation
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Sarah Szalavitz's avatar Sarah Szalavitz @dearsarah.bsky.social
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Perhaps it is because the Democratic consultant class is nearly universally funded by billionaires who have far more recent* selfies with Epstein. *Unlike other for eg 1%ers & Harvard & MIT, there is no evidence that Trump ever interacted with Epstein after he became a convicted pedophile in 2008.

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Lupita Nihongo's avatar Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social
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Makes my skin crawl that these people have to spend the twilight of their lives being denied justice by people who weren’t even alive when they were brutalized and that what were supposed to be the best years of their lives was stained by an overt rejection of justice.

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Lauren McKenzie [free đŸ‡”đŸ‡ž]'s avatar Lauren McKenzie [free đŸ‡”đŸ‡ž] @themckenziest.gay
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Pure fucking evil

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Adam Bonin's avatar Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social
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There's no longer any ceiling to how wackadoodle Republican lawsuits can go. As @elliemargolis.bsky.social has flagged, the sovereign state of Missouri, being unable to invade or embargo New York, has instead sued it before SCOTUS to try to aid Trump, because ... reasons.
ago.mo.gov/wp-content/u...

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Asawin Suebsaeng's avatar Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social
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“you hysterical lib do you REALLY think — LIB (communist) — that Trump would order the shooting of a domestic political enemy? Cmon” He did already! I happened, he tried to! Sure an unarmed Black Lives Matter protester in front of the White House is a different kind of political enemy than Hillary


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Matt Salomone's avatar Matt Salomone @matthematics.com
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*dudes publish their 900-page coup manifesto and openly threaten to do a coup on national tv* Media: “how did we miss the signs????”

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N. K. Jemisin's avatar N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social
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Isn't it interesting that they're trying to frame themselves as initiating *that* war instead of the Civil War? Wannabe Confederates still don't like being called what they are. Probably because it reminds them they lost the first time.

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Seth D. Michaels 's avatar 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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