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Kim Shumway
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Update: Republican election officials block the people's ability to choose. For shame.
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Writer-human. My kingdom for a hallway set. Formerly EP on PARTNER TRACK, THE 100, pilots (rip). Currently TBD.
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Kim Shumway
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Update: Republican election officials block the people's ability to choose. For shame.
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Kim Shumway
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I can appreciate the study author appealing to higher ideals. That said, the media's incentives are misaligned with society's, that's not changing, so *we* have to account for it. We don't have to grant them credibility or the assumption of good faith. It increasingly seems like we shouldn't.
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Kim Shumway
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Here's a great thread of practical things that everyday folks can do!
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Kim Shumway
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That said, reminder: since Dobbs, Dems have consistently outperformed polling. Pollsters can't seem to fix it, so they ignore it. Maybe if we gave it a cutesy, condescending name it would land for people - the girlrage effect? - but for now, polls are a mirage. Ignore the polls. Focus on GOTV.
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Kim Shumway
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Oh, look, the debate had effectively no impact. Which is historically true of debates. Shocker. Interesting study here. They surveyed the same group, pre/post debate. Trump lost more support than Biden (though both were negligible). A whole elite manbaby tantrum over nothing. Truly incredible.
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Phil Lewis
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has introduced impeachment articles against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito
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John Rogers
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Charismatic people solving moderately difficult problems on a weekly basis is the engine of successful television.
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Kim Shumway
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I didn't suggest banning anything. I expanded upon the risks, which Airbnb tries to hide, and suggested people choose to stay elsewhere. There are use cases for it (large families, those who require kitchens), but there's also some horrific exploitation and no incentives to change. That's bad.
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Max Kennerly
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Adam Liptak should be fired for this. It's not some sort of minor technical error or a debatable issue. He's simply lying.
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Kim Shumway
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Like it or not, Americans respond to strength and certainty. They recoil from cowardice, fear, and weakness. The latter is *oozing* from wishy-washy Dems right now.
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Kim Shumway
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There is absolutely a race/class/gender divide that people on Bsky are missing. Folks on the hellsite are pretty clear on it, though.
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Kim Shumway
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Hey, we all cope in our own ways...
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Kim Shumway
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Thanks for the rec! Given the sea of sycophants, Zitron's clear-eyed disdain is refreshing.
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Kim Shumway
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That is genuinely *hilarious*. What a time to be alive...
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Kim Shumway
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Zitron?
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Stephanie
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FYI for anyone who is planning to write postcards - postcard stamp prices increase from $0.53 to $0.56 on July 14, 2024 so buy stamps now
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Andrea Grimes
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The 19th's coverage of the GOP's abortion platform is literally the only accurate news coverage I have seen in a mainstream publication in the last 24 hours
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Kim Shumway
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Same
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Amanda Smith
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Guess I should clarify: this is me. I founded an abortion activism group with three other women to fight for transparency after the city of Beverly Hills met with antiabortion extremists multiple times last summer. Check out the article:
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Gerry Doyle
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I am not the first to make this point but if the whole premise is that the president is not competent, and the president outmaneuvers you....
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Susan Rinkunas has a newsletter
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Actually, the Republican platform leaves the door wide open for a national abortion ban and people are silly to suggest otherwise. Me in Slate:
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e.w. niedermeyer
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So the more I see of this, the more I respect it. The Cybertruck is so unrelentingly and singularly absurd that the only sane aesthetic response is to heap yet more absurdity on top. This exudes a level of "you're locked in here with me" energy that you don't often get the opportunity to witness.
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Amanda Smith
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It’s Tuesday so you know what that means: call your electeds & tell them you support an investigation into the compromised SC judges and AOC’s motion to impeach them. It will take you five minutes max to make calls to both senators and your congressperson. If you can skeet, you can call or email.
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Kim Shumway
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I hope everyone's okay. My sympathies. It doesn't have to be this way.
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Adam Smith
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"Of the 38 people involved in the writing and editing of Project 2025, 31 of them were nominated to positions in Trump’s administration or transition team – meaning 81% of the document’s creators held formal roles in Trump’s presidency." www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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One helluva story on the impacts of Bitcoin on the health of people in a Texas community after a local business invested in Bitcoin farming computers that run at all hours... Sociology episky 🛟 policysky polisky lawsky 🧪 Medsky 📈🧭
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Kim Shumway
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Disruption! By which they mean "becoming middlemen who undercut safety regulations and get around unions." But I suppose "disruption" sounds catchier.
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Kim Shumway
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You'd think celebrities would have their teams do due diligence, but there's a lot going on and many people don't question things. For example, I thought everyone knew that Airbnb is problematic - it's been reported on for years! - but the reaction here tells me it's not common knowledge.
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Kim Shumway
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Glad to hear it and also, they should never have had to go through that. My sympathies to them.
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Kim Shumway
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Yeah, people have talked about how they distort housing markets. And neighbors *hate* them. This is one area where I can get on the side of HOAs that ban them. (Although, then they have to enforce that, which is another thing.)
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Kim Shumway
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It's very bad and has been so for a long time!
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Kim Shumway
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Yep.
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Kim Shumway
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Seeing some horror stories in my QTs. Gas leaks. No smoke detectors. If hotels had these failures, the *company* could be punished. But Airbnb shifts that responsibility to *individuals*. And no one checks. As an aside, this is what journalism is supposed to do: hold the powerful to account.
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Kim Shumway
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Russian roulette, but for vacations! Sounds super fun.
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Kim Shumway
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That seems super illegal! I hope your friend is okay...
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Kim Shumway
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Holy shit. That owner should be *prosecuted*. Glad you got out...
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Kim Shumway
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Probably wise
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Kim Shumway
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Getting back to the hidden cameras, the problem is so bad that there are all kinds of guides about how to detect them! They sell hidden camera detectors on Amazon! Love living in a "one tech company sells us the tools to detect abuse enabled by another tech company" kind of dystopia. What fun.
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Kim Shumway
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Airbnb later dropped its forced confidential arbitration, btw, so now you can sue them when lax safety measures leads to something horrific happening to you. What a world. Bloomberg has done very good reporting on all this. This company is bad and people should stop giving them money.
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Kim Shumway
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Good reporting on an entirely predictable problem. Fun fact: Airbnb also covers up thousands of sexual assaults every year! Its internal safety team has "cool-down rooms" to take a break from the trauma of what they hear. It's a bad company, a bad industry, and people should just stay in hotels.
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Coach Finstock
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WTF. The electric company in Texas doesn't have a map of outages so people have been using the Whataburger App to figure out who lost power. This is like when Homer was using the Krusty Burger map when they got lost at sea.
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John Rogers
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1) Losing Jane McAlevey sucks hard. 2) The "we're going to hold out until the writers lose their houses" statement during the WGA didn't just fortify the writers, it genuinely radicalized some managers and agents I know. People really do not know what capital thinks of them. To wit ... they don't.
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Dawn Xiana Moon
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There was lead in EVERY tampon they tested.
There was less lead in organic tampons, but those had higher concentrations of arsenic.
Also fun: It's 2024. This is the first ever study testing metals in tampons. Great. 🙃
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tox...
Study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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We're on like the 4th consecutive empty tech cycle - "big data" then "crypto/blockchain" then "metaverse" now "A.I." - while a huge technological revolution that will change our entire economy in the form of solar energy and grid storage happens basically unnoticed in the background.
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Ed Zitron
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Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future.
www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/
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Nina Metz
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Since I'm not seeing other news outlets writing about this, I did Column: Paramount’s new president was fired last year as CEO of NBCUniversal after allegations of sexual harassment
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Kim Shumway
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THIS. Support nonprofit journalism. Great links in the chain and comments.
ProPublica has been doing heroic work, especially on the Supreme Court's corruption. www.propublica.org
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Chris Levesque
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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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Mo Ryan
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I don’t know writer/journalist Annabel Ross personally, but what she had to say about the Gaiman situation covers a fair bit of what I think so far… now I’ll go back to trying to find an emoji that conveys “goddammit I’m so fucking furious & sad & exhausted”
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Kim Shumway
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It’s so heartening to see! Hopefully things go their way in November.
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