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The Republic Is Ours To Save@ejwillingham.bsky.social |
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I have occasionally angered famous men. Author, PHALLACY+THE TAILORED BRAIN. Journalist, words at SciAm+++. Frequent gremlin. Biologist of embryos, gonads, genitalia. Educator. She/her/y’all. V Texan 🤠 sites.google.com/view/emilywillinghamphd/home
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My brain hasn’t been this scrambled wrt to my writing work since the first year of Covid. Do not miss the brain blender feeling AT all
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Dumas, TX White Settlement, TX (no shit) Plainview, TX (not wrong), Flatonia (also not wrong) And others: Gun Barrel, Cut n Shoot If you heard a Texas say "Mexia" for the town, you'd think that was pretty strange, too.
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Greg Pak
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Twelve (12) articles about Biden's age on the NYT home page. Scroll down for a good while and at the bottom of the right column you can find just two (2) articles about the Supreme Court's immunity decision, neither of which state in the headline that the president is now a king.
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Case name is super accurate, pretty much says it all.
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You don’t say
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The law prohibits any under age 18 from *using the computers/internet* in the library as well
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Jessica Zellers
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One thing you can do to resist this is to get on the board of your local public library. For most municipalities it's an appointment, not anything elected. Commitment averages an hour or two per month. I'm a former library director. Happy to talk to people about it.
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A handsome lad
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We used to have it in public HS, or at least mine, but that was a loooong time ago. I just took my sons w/me a few weeks ago when I got my cert reupped so they could get certified. I have used CPR more than once and everyone should have this basic training+AED if possible. Also narcan certified.
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Vince Mpls
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March 23 1933, the Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.
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James Downie
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Sotomayor's dissent is chilling: "When [the president]...orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune."
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Lydia Polgreen
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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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If you’ve been dithering about whether or not to become a radical and behave openly as one, now is well past the time to stop dithering.
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Brandy Schillace
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Finally. Look, I’m a medical historian. The ‘thin means health’ buzz is recent. Less than 100 years old, in fact. 🩺🧪🗃️
“research has found that being a bit overweight is not as dangerous as previous guidance suggested and may even be protective.“
www.scientificamerican.com/article/peop...
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Julia Azari
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in practice, presidents have been enjoying a lot of immunity. This codifies it in a way that's quite alarming in the abstract, but even more alarming in the case considered. The decision references Trump's discussions with Pence about trying to interfere with the EC vote counting as "official"
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I know! And so many others, too. Going to the NCAAs was just incredible.
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❌ Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. ✅You have to read this book to see if I’m the hero or not.
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Got to see this soon-to-be Olympian at the NCAA Championships. So excited to be seeing her and the other two who will run the 200m in Paris for Team USA
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Prof. Farhana Sultana
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I’ve been ranting & raging for years about predatory journals publishing bad & fake research, then ranting & raging for years about AI generated papers with more fake articles, authors, journals in citations. People using AI to generate fake publications & pass it as ‘research’ deserve all the hells
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Bruno J. Navarro
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For the good of the country, Donald Trump should drop out the 2024 presidential race.
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cagey ratfish 🐟🐈⬛🎨🏳️⚧️
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Inspired by the NYT regional dialect quiz What's your word for an object you don't know the name of, or can't immediately think of the name of? Reply with the number & where you're from 1. Whatchamacallit 2. Doodad 3. Thingy 4. Whatsits 5. Dingus 6. Thingamabob 7. Doohickey 8. Other (tell us!)
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1, 3, 6 mostly, although elders also would use 7 (I can't stand that word). All Texas, mostly central/east TX (which have their own distinct differences).
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Believe us: “In 2021, Gligor’s second wife sought a protective order against him, alleging his behavior was unpredictable and scared her. The request was denied by a Court commissioner bc there was “no reasonable grounds to believe that abuse occurred.”
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Mary Gillis
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The school censored a student, and now everything they tried to stop her from saying about them has become national news. How, in the year of our Lord 2024, do people still not know about the Streisand Effect?
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Dell Cameron
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WIRED: More than a dozen men threatened, assaulted, tortured, or kidnapped 11 victims in likely the worst-ever crypto-focused serial extortion case of its kind in the US.
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Quinta Jurecic
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it feels like the whiteness of big political media spaces right now is having a big effect on how people are thinking about the debate. eg I have seen relatively little discussion of trump's "black jobs" comment, which immediately exploded on black twitter
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Eileen Clancy
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See this? I engaged with their whining about rich people not going to prison. (vis-a-vis Trump) C'est moi. Je suis the sucker for engaging with this person. Don't make the same mistake!
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I don’t want to fight any wars but people are gonna people
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This is a good point and I do not know but you know what would be great? A plan that foresees these issues and addresses them
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I don't view this is hope, just facts. People like what they are used to, have sunk costs into, have reaped benefits from& they don't like having that taken away. When these battles were fought before, benefits were theoretical. They aren't now. I dread the process but don't despair abt the outcome.
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I cannot say. My sons are 23, 21, and 17 and I am sure have the same questions. Does it mean that we don't try to plant the tree?
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But the flaws that facilitated it are pretty obvious&can be targeted&addressed w/time, otherwise we cannot leverage the experience to do better. I am a systems thinker w/3 draft-age sons. I am looking at the near-midrange future w/nausea&dread. But I can’t just throw up my hands, &I won’t.
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Well, no. If it were, we wouldn’t be in this situation
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Yes
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No, I am stating facts. Again, you do you.
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Yes. So much hard shit ahead
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I think there was a lot of complacency, like dusting off hands, all done. But the machinations from the other side were still going full tilt
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They will feel it in reality bc they have been living with the benefits on several fronts&will feel the pain of their loss. No one is pretending anything here.
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I just don’t underestimate the amount of self interest that has built up around some of these issues among even the most die-hard conservative electorate&how motivating that can be once they feel the pain themselves. It is tragic that anyone has to feel the pain, esp those who didn’t bring this on
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Yes, it’s not going to be the work of a moment. But that’s why I mention sunk costs/reaped benefits. People have experienced these effects now, are invested. It’s not theoretical. So there may be a source of will of the people that has been overlooked that will emerge as the reality of losses hits.
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Feel free to think that way and act or not act accordingly if you’d like.
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Matthew Downhour
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Imagine going back in time and telling someone that the day this economic data dropped, most NYT columnists wanted the Democratic incumbent to step aside
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I remember seeing pictures of those on the news and thinking what a disaster LA sounded like. And then there’s the ozone and CFCs!
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We pack the court. We don’t sit around and hand wring about a bad debate performance against a convicted felon. We vote to have someone in the executive branch who makes appointments that forward our nation’s progress. We don’t give up. And it’s not instantaneous so we also have to accept that.
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Same. Even Loving vs Virginia had just been decided. No ADA. No EPA. No protections against being fired for pregnancy. No no-fault divorce.
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I mean, why not both? Just mostly fight, take a few whinge and cry breaks as needed. It is fucking demoralizing to see Good Things be taken away. Cry and whinge and mourn and then claw those mother fuckers back.
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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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Rosemary Mosco
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I'm just saying: if all we ever do online is dissect the shitty actions of the 8 worst guys, and draw from this that humanity is terrible, and then use that conclusion to give up all hope for the world, & meanwhile a huge community of activists is desperate for our help... this is bad
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Brendel
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I guess the sad thing about all this is the realization that not only is the media not a defense against fascism but with its current incentive structures in 2024 is actively helping to usher it in
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John Schwartz
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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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