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Debbie Seltzer@dlseltzer.bsky.social |
473 followers 469 following 598 posts
historian & philosopher of education (incl environmental studies), lover of cats and orchids, foodie
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
@thielman.bsky.social
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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler
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rahaeli
@rahaeli.bsky.social
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Remember: Texas is not a red state. Texas is a massively voter-suppressed state, with a lot of people working very hard and very thanklessly to fix that.
16 replies 200 reposts 570 likes
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Joe Katz
@joekatz45.bsky.social
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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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an entire movement of wicked people who celebrate wickedness
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naylandblake
@naylandblake.bsky.social
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My snobbery: Rhubarb can easily carry a pie by itself whereas strawberry cannot. Strawberry should stick to its lane, which is shortbread, and stop butting into pie.
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Sinclair Lewis
@sinclairlewis.bsky.social
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Laundering reputations appears to be the main job of the entire national press.
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The New York Times
@nytimes.com
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The Kansas Supreme Court reaffirmed abortion protections in the state’s Constitution on Friday. It struck down Republican-backed laws that banned a common second-trimester abortion procedure and that created new licensing requirements for abortion clinics.
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Justin Mikulka
@justinmikulka.bsky.social
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We are poised to make the same mistakes with carbon capture storage that we made with fracking. Did you know they are passing laws in states to exempt oil and gas companies from future liability for injected CO2?
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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A. G. Sulzberger, New York Times publisher and chairman, is an evil enemy of democracy and the American people. Yank the fucking choke chain on this rabid cur.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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And at the very least, tell everyone you know to stop giving money to the New York Times, a newspaper run by elitist ghouls who want to kill us.
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Paris Marx
@parismarx.bsky.social
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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾
@blackamazon.bsky.social
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So we ever have a discussion about how they depend on the stochastic terrorism and racism To both get free advertising , and terrify marginalized by presenting this shit with no plan to fight it And sucking up the air that could be used to us know fight this
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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If you think that we actually just need a civil war to settle this once and for all: 1. No, you don’t. 2. No, you don’t. 3. You are an idiot.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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I love how he's like "i don't know her, and tbh she sounds wild; real out of pocket. …Hope she wins tho! (Still don't know her)." (Image reposted to add alt text)
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason)
Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
@kendrawrites.bsky.social
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Anyway journalism is supposed to be the fourth pillar of US democracy. And theres evidence that where theres good journalism there's less governmental corruption. Kind of interesting that NYT has openly positioned itself as anti- democracy imho.
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Melissa Gira Grant
@melissagiragrant.com
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If you hear next week that the RNC has "moderated" on abortion by dropping a 20-week-ban from the platform or somesuch, here's me telling you now that it doesn't mean anything close to "moderation" when it's these guys running the show.
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Extremely frustrating to hear legal experts analyzing the SCOTUS ruling on immunity like just another case - it's an inherently normalizing act. People need to stop playing constitutional Calvinball and treat them like political actors.
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Susan Rinkunas has a newsletter
@susanrinkunas.com
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If people don't understand how crucial local abortion funds are to folks actually getting their procedures or pills, here's the latest example: National Abortion Federation and Planned Parenthood are slashing patient grants from 50% to 30% of what callers need. Thirty percent.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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UK politics can be grim, but election night there with constituencies being largely ungerrymandered, losers standing next to winners of podiums, and the "election season is 6 weeks, not 2 years" default is incredibly wholesome
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Luna
@lunalore.bsky.social
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It was 25 minutes of sheer joy 😍
youtu.be/Vrk2Q9AZrYI?...
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Chris Geidner
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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My three immunity-related SCOTUS stories at Law Dork this week:
1. The ruling: www.lawdork.com/p/robertss-m...
2. The conservatives: www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-dec...
3. The chief justice: www.lawdork.com/p/the-spinel...
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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It's pretty interesting what the media decides is front page news and what they don't decide is front page news! Trump being a child sex abuser with close connections to Jeffrey Epstein somehow doesn't merit the same coverage as "unnamed Dem insider has concerns about Biden's age"
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Gregory Hays
@aristofontes.bsky.social
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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.
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Daniel Radosh
@radosh.bsky.social
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And I’ll add for the millionth time that one of the reasons the times said it didn’t need a public editor anymore was because it was now responsive to readers on social media — and then immediately began categorically dismissing any criticism on social media
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Jeff Lazarus
@jlazarus.bsky.social
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Goddamn it it’s a great 5 minutes for other countries doing things that we ought to but can’t.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)
@shengokai.bsky.social
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War is a mass disabling event and any approach to disability justice should demand an end to war and a free Palestine, full stop.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki
@wagatwe.com
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"Unfortunately, the abusiveness and impunity of policing are not some accident or oversight that can be corrected with a few tweaks to training and oversight. These are features, not bugs..."
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BlueSnowflake
@bluesnowflake.bsky.social
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🫶🫶🫶
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Emily J. Edwards
@msemilyedwards.bsky.social
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it is really… something… that tech bros have completely given up on slow and steady market growth that built pretty much every other profitable company ever in favor of fleecing VCs and hedge fund investors and running away from burning industries like the hamburglar
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Opinion | Why I No Longer Subscribe to the New York Times
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Ethan “κακοθερής” Harfenist
@harfenist.bsky.social
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Instead of focusing on imaginary Biden problems, the @nytimes.com should ask its publisher to resign.
Also, here’s a reminder of the pettiness that greases the wheels of a lot of the paper’s White House coverage (not sure if that’s an apt metaphor but I’m going with it)
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Debbie Seltzer
@dlseltzer.bsky.social
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Yup, exactly.
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dbstewart_tn
@adavelikeanyother.bsky.social
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1/ They. Don't. Care. About. The. Constitution. Or. Rule. Of. Law. Period. Hand-in-hand with the clowns of the 118th Cirque Du Congress, SCOTUS is intentionally and maliciously stalling and starving the ability of the Constitutional government to function. By doing so, they enable ...
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)
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Memento Morty 🌙
@mortythenurse.bsky.social
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they suck and they're dangerous and as a healthcare professional who wants to do as little work as possible this week please keep your dumb fingers to yourself like a lite brite is brighter than whatever you spent hundreds of dollars on
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Debbie Seltzer
@dlseltzer.bsky.social
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I think he stopped really absorbing new information--and especially new frameworks for understanding international and domestic relations--long ago. Like, in the mid-1990 when he was in the Senate with his GOP besties.
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
@diplomatofnight.com
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It boggles my mind that the only national newspaper opinion columnist to say the truth about the president's complicity in the intentional and criminal starvation of over a million people is fucking Nicholas Kristof.
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Brendel
@brendelbored.bsky.social
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What gives me hope are the normal people trying to save things. People running for school board against moms for liberty freaks, college kids protesting, local newsrooms investigating corruption etc. They inspire but also make me pissed off at the powerful people/institutions that won’t defend them
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Brendel
@brendelbored.bsky.social
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College kids trying to stop innocent people from dying as their college president puts snipers on the roof to watch over non-violent protests, a reporter getting sued as Maureen Dowd plops out another editorial comparing Bill Maher to James Dean. Just a ruling class that does not give a shit.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"Goldman Sachs has recently attributed the US economy’s recent exceptional performance...almost entirely to adding imported labor. High rates of immigration, however, are sure to prove unviable in political environments shaped by robust populist movements..."
brooklynrail.org/2024/07/fiel...
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Ada Palmer
@adapalmer.bsky.social
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first cohort of the American Climate Corps has been sworn in. 9,000 people will be deployed in the coming weeks to restore landscapes, erect solar panels, and work on environmental projects across America. #ShareGoodNewsToo grist.org/solutions/am...
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Meg
@megt.bsky.social
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This resonates with some of the research I did ... repression of a nonviolent protest ends up building support for the protesters and thus more attention to the issue. Summed up in the protest sign: "screw us and we multiply." #polisky
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Puff the Magic Hater
@mskellymhayes.bsky.social
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Some thoughts on how to navigate this moment.
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Bart Bonikowski
@bartbonikowski.bsky.social
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An aspiring dictator & convicted felon w history of treason may win the presidency. Profoundly corrupt SCOTUS justices undermined the constitution and gave him immunity from prosecution for past & future crimes. This is all political journalists should be writing about 24/7. We’re at the precipice.
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Gravel Influencer
@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
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Overhead as a woman in a car stopped to let pedestrians cross: "Walk, don't run! You have the right of way!" More of this and less of everything else.
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Debbie Seltzer
@dlseltzer.bsky.social
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Exactly--we have no options that don't involve rolling a loaded set of dice.
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Wendy Sparrow
@wendysparrow.bsky.social
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Also, if you happen to join the vulnerable and then are reinfected with COVID, there is not a planned protocol in place for you that will give you the best chance to survive in time to manage it. Studies haven't been done. Vaccines are a gamble. It's all case by case and changing constantly.
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Debbie Seltzer
@dlseltzer.bsky.social
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I hear you. I'm also in the forever masked/isolated category--alhough less severely immunosuppressed and disabled than you, despite the devastating consequences of the vaccines for me. I'm also very lucky to have a spouse who will live like this with me.
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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Just a jaw-dropper from the state whose attorney general is currently trying to execute an innocent man.
innocenceproject.org/missouri-cir...
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