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Deva Woodly
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I’m sorry this happened to you but this is absolutely hilarious 🤣
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Politics Prof.
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Deva Woodly
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I’m sorry this happened to you but this is absolutely hilarious 🤣
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Joe Katz
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This is particularly important to understand because Trumpist authoritarianism is the descendent of Jim Crow far more than say Hitler or Pinochet or Orban, and it's going to look a lot more like 1930s Mississippi than 1930s Berlin.
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Prisonculture
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Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.
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Deva Woodly
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This is such an apt comparison 😂
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Deva Woodly
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Congratulations to the UK!
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Tyler King
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There is no model in which these products become profitable. The overhead is astronomically high and will require defying the laws of physics to overcome. Meanwhile, they’re fleecing gullible businesses and governments blind on false promises of an everything tech that in fact does very little.
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Deva Woodly
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😂
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Deva Woodly
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“Parents need to stay off the internet. It’s too dangerous for them. Causes them to yell into an empty room about politics. Scary stuff.”
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Deva Woodly
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😂
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Deva Woodly
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They have to gently guide us through. It’s not our fault we were born in the 1900s 😂
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Deva Woodly
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It is difficult raising parents but what can you do 🤷🏾♀️😂
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Deva Woodly
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I am sure they complain about the internet parent panics on their group chats!
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Deva Woodly
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I know! I was shocked. And then, I was impressed. And then it was obvious that misinfo is a multi way highway. It’s not just boomers and babies getting duped out in these internet streets!
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Deva Woodly
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Moral of the story: your teens are also concerned about what misinformation YOU have encountered on the World Wide Web.
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Deva Woodly
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I came to my 14 year old with a concern about social media. He literally took his glasses off, rubbed his temples, and asked: “what have the moms on the internet said now?” 😯🫤😆
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Daniel Feldman
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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US.
Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare.
The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it.
Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail.
www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...
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Anna Meier
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We don't have a crisis of attendance. We have a society-wide mental health crisis. We have a crisis of mass disablement. We have a cost of living crisis. Attendance is a symptom. Individual-level positive & negative incentives to get students to class solve nothing on their own.
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Deva Woodly
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Yep. Another world is inevitable. What will it be?
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Deva Woodly
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🎯
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Deva Woodly
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I personally think we should unsubscribe unless and until the institution can be made less partisan & less powerful.
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Deva Woodly
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Well, true. 😆 Been a bit smug about not being a constitutional monarchy but given the rouge court y’all seem to have solved for x on this one. 😐
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Deva Woodly
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Hell Nah, even.
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Deva Woodly
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And what do we call someone against whom there is NO RECOURSE or appeal to alternative authority?
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Deva Woodly
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You do not have to be a lawyer, a historian, or a political scientist or even like the U.S. very much to understand the very basic fact that the U.S. was made to be king-less & this court-who swore an oath to uphold the constitution-just gave us kings. They should be sacked. Full stop. No nuance.
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Thomas Zimmer
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America can accept this Supreme Court as legitimate and its rulings as the final word - or it can have true democracy and a functioning state. But not both.
Wrote this a year ago - and things have only gotten worse: The Rogue Court vs Modern Democracy
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Ian Boudreau
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According to my originalist reading of the plain text of the constitution, what the founders really fuckin loved was kings
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Deva Woodly
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I see what you did there. 😆
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Winifred Burton Updates
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Instead of panicking or yet another postmortem (forgive me I've been Black this whole time so not much of this is breaking for me), link up with like minded folk for practical solidarity. Shield those more vulnerable than you and figure out how you can soften structural abandonment.
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Deva Woodly
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A republic, if you can keep it.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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SCOTUS is telling us that it has completely signed on to the project of a second Trump administration, which is establishing an elected autocracy.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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i have to admit that the every four year tradition of white progressives explaining to black progressives that no one actually likes the politicians black progressives have voted for is wearing thinner and thinner with me every time
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Deva Woodly
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Aldous Huxley did it better, tbh.
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Deva Woodly
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She’s very good. I’ve read first in that series as well.
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Deva Woodly
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This. If I thought there was one jot of dexterity in the Dem leadership I might entertain changing candidates. But there is no evidence of the tiniest iota of political ingenuity or talent at any national helm right now. I do not at all trust them to roll out a new candidate.
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Deva Woodly
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That doesn’t mean you drop the slogan, it means you persuade people that the slogan they don’t like actually means the thing they do like. We do this so we can keep talking about shifting funding - a conversation that *was not happening* b4 the slogan. Meanings change over time, as you point out.
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Deva Woodly
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Yes. Being clear eyed about the terrible stuff people actually like doesn’t mean giving up support where you actually have it. People don’t like the slogan “defund the police.” People really like the idea of spending money on social support other than police.
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Popehat
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Jailing people for being homeless is a classic American policy: stupid, brutal, and very expensive.
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Star Trek Minus Context
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Deva Woodly
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This right here. They do not appear to know how to do politics. It’s astonishing.
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Deva Woodly
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I’m not advocating for compromise for its own sake or arguing moderation is a good in itself just writing against the idea that it’s radical to throw oneself against an impossible target for no strategic reason.
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Deva Woodly
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Mmmhmm. Yes, that is noted. Cops aren’t better, it’s just better for us when there are fewer of them and when people are materially investing in alternatives to policing.
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Deva Woodly
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Selfish adventurism is the perfect way to describe so much of what is taken to be “revolutionary” by a certain sector of the left. It’s like baby you’re not a hero if you’re not saving anybody or building anything.
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Yell In a War
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the planet is on fire and people can’t afford air conditioning, surely this is the time to come up with a technology nobody asked for and nobody wants then dedicate all the electricity to maintaining it
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Deva Woodly
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Of all the self inflicted wounds this is the stupidest.
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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This is why, when I got “canceled” for a tweet, I refused to affirm that “cancel culture” is a thing because the made-up moral panic around it was always obviously a stalking horse for straight-up right-wing state-sponsored censorship of the left. Dipshits who got played still won’t admit it.
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Deva Woodly
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😬
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John Rogers
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Our tech overlords would like to make clear that your fantasies of universal health care and affordable housing are childish while their fantasies of infinite energy to power their AI girlfriends are reasonable expectations and will come true imminently. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Sarah J. Jackson
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I cannot grumble loudly enough that anti-Black and anti-activist backlash will always hurt everyone, it’s just a matter of time. the center focusing on Latine, Asian and first gen student success is also being “folded” and the administrative division of DEI closed
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Deva Woodly
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Mmm. Yes. I don’t know the empirical dimensions of this sort of thing across small cities/towns of this but I do know it’s a thing.
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