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Margaret Morris@marmorr.bsky.social |
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American immigrant living between the Netherlands and France. Teach academic writing at a small liberal arts college in the Netherlands.
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Margaret Morris
@marmorr.bsky.social
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Providing safe and efficient bike lanes, pedestrian streets, and solid public transportation systems removes car-reliance, and Paris is an excellent model for that!
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Joe Katz
@joekatz45.bsky.social
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Full quote from ex-ICE director Tom Homan: "Trump comes back in January... I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen. They ain’t seen shit yet. Wait until 2025.” Tonight in Florida Trump pledged to bring Homan back. Homan, BTW, is a listed Project 2025 contributor.
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Margaret Morris
@marmorr.bsky.social
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Bravo. Keep this up.
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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On a whim, I started doing some database searches for the unusual phrase "Christ-hating Communists" and you'll never believe where it turned up.
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geoffrey
@parsnip.bsky.social
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there really is an incredible meme within the right that every time they lose politically it's only due to underhanded and unethical [checks notes] organizing, coalition-building, and voter turnout premised explicitly on how much people don't want them elected
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Richard Carter, FCD
@friendsofdarwin.bsky.social
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I love it when the far right are ‘sad and disappointed’. 🇫🇷
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Charles Johnson
@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com
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When fascism comes to America, Americans will think they’re still free.
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background
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Melissa Gira Grant
@melissagiragrant.com
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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins...
www.mediamatters.org/project-2025
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Justin Hendrix
@justinhendrix.bsky.social
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"Academics researching online misinformation in the US are learning a hard lesson: Academic freedom cannot be taken for granted." @rcalo.bsky.social & @katestarbird.bsky.social:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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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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Margaret Morris
@marmorr.bsky.social
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Clear answers to good questions about voting in France and the UK.
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Margaret Morris
@marmorr.bsky.social
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Small edit for accuracy: "What wine goes well with doomscrolling and watching democracy collapse in real time." As to the wine question : they all pair well. Drink up America.
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Elad Nehorai
@eladn.bsky.social
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Yep. One of the biggest blind spots people have is assuming that underneath, others share the same basic values as them. They have trouble imagining an ideology that is completely misaligned with theirs.
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KJ Charles
@kjcharleswriter.com
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I trust Brits thinking 'it's a foregone conclusion so why bother to vote' are watching events in France and the US. It is *never* a foregone conclusion and you *always* have to vote against the bad people because they will sure as shit vote against you.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Living under authoritarian regimes is both relatively boring and normal AND incredibly corrosive to the human soul. These things can absolutely co-exist. This is why everyone needs to resist authoritarians, even people who privately assume they’ll be just fine.
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Taniel
@taniel.bsky.social
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JUST IN: Polls closed in first round of France elections. Two main French TV estimates (combines early results & exit poll) show strong far-right. Far-right bloc: ≈34% Left bloc: ≈28-29% Macron bloc: ≈20-22% What does this mean? What'll happen? Follow this thread ⬇️
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Margaret Morris
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Excellent piece by Elie Mystal on the overturning of Chevron. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Jamison Foser
@jamisonfoser.bsky.social
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Trump, Who Incited Insurrection After Losing In 2020, Refuses To Say He Will Accept Outcome of 2024 Election there's your fucking headline.
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Allie Alvis 🌷
@book-historia.bsky.social
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I just came across a listing for a rare book described as “a somewhat tortured copy, surviving, with all faults” and bitch SAME
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Q. Pheevr
@qpheevr.bsky.social
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Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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Holy shit this is embarrassing. Five points of "evidence," none of which are evidence.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Margaret Morris
@marmorr.bsky.social
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"The irony of Europe’s obsession with the upcoming election is that the people who will decide its outcome aren’t thinking about Europe much at all." Excellent piece on Europe's focus on US presidential election.
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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man it's a hot zone,
@mobute.bsky.social
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Ron DeSantis's fascist goons have spent the last year trying to stomp the left out of New College. I went to hear Masha Gessen address a student-organized secret graduation to see how things were faring at my alma mater, ground zero for a right-wing campaign against colleges spreading nationwide.
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Margaret Morris
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No surprise here that in this survey "43% of women compared with only 23% of men" understood how a pregnancy is dated. No surprise either that male dominated legislatures across the country, like Florida, are voting in these strict abortion laws.
theconversation.com/confusion-ov...
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Laura Seay
@texasinafrica.bsky.social
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I've studied the eastern DRC since 1997. Three things to know about war deaths: 1) They are extremely difficult to accurately count, 2) What counts as a "war death" is complicated,* & 3) It is not evidence of a cover-up or subterfuge if the count changes dramatically over time. *more in thread
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Almost seems like police only willing to use force when it’s peaceful protestors or 60 year old faculty. When it’s masked guys swinging metal poles they are nowhere to be found
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Ellen Kushner
@ellenkushner.bsky.social
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Oh, this is lovely! An interactive, step by step vision of what happens when you let your lawn grow out even a little. Best seen scrolled on smartphone. GIFT TO YOU, NO PAYWALL
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Erin Biba
@erinbiba.bsky.social
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To be clear, antisemitism is happening at protests and on campuses. But...antisemitism is literally happening everywhere all the time and nobody gave a fuck about it until it was a convenient narrative to blow out of proportion and call in the fascist police state. None of this is about antisemitism
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Margaret Morris
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For more on this "pay to stay" scheme: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
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Margaret Morris
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Among young people in the Netherlands, condom use decline --->STDs increase.🤔
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Margaret Morris
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Anyone...? Anyone...?
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Margaret Morris
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Interesting study showing name bias in grading.
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Gillian Branstetter
@gbbranstetter.bsky.social
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Reading this story about anti-vax pet owners and was not prepared for their belief in dog autism www.usatoday.com/story/news/h...
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peter smith
@peterandreysmith.com
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where moral absolutists see a firehose of addictive content, others see a case study in “how to avoid making up stories by simply looking at trend lines” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Assigned Media
@assigned.bsky.social
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I feel the mainstream of the country has memory holed so much horror, but I have never forgotten the way a movement to reform racist policing was beaten back, literally, with police violence, including violence targeting the journalists who tried to cover it.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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This is a witch hunt targeted primarily at scholars of color who study race. Chris Rufo now going after Christina Cross for "plagiarism" - his go-to example is *descriptions of data that are similar.* There are only so many ways you can describe data!
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Nicholas Grossman
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
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Tired: TikTok is a massive data harvesting and propaganda delivery system, and America can't tolerate the Chinese government having that much power in the US. Wired: TikTok is a massive data harvesting and propaganda delivery system, and right-wing rich guys want it for their own purposes.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"In the days before his death, he had been giving evidence in a whistleblower lawsuit against the company...The Charleston County coroner...said the 62-year-old had died from a "self-inflicted" wound on 9 March and police were investigating."
www.bbc.com/news/busines...
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Taniel
@taniel.bsky.social
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things Louisiana just did, all within days:
—speed up executions
—expand qualified immunity
—end mechanisms to release people from prison
—move all 17-year olds into adult courts & detention
—jail people for technical violations of prob
and more...:
boltsmag.org/louisiana-sp...
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Margaret Morris
@marmorr.bsky.social
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Sobering statistics in this article. The link between abortion bans, liberal gun laws, and domestic violence.
www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-...
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Shana Gadarian
@sgadarian.bsky.social
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Just a reminder, you don’t need to defeat Nazis in a marketplace of ideas. We’ve already done that. Fought a pretty big war over it. You now say, those aren’t acceptable ideas and we don’t want them in our party. You push them out. You don’t have to accommodate. preview.redd.it/the-woman-wi...
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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"wow its a huge burden to require kids to quarantine for 21 days to avoid spreading measles" is accurate and a good reason to mandate universal vaccinations against measles, not for ending quarantine requirements.
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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It’s important to understand that religious freedom is a very important value and the actual way it is understood by the conservative movement is “sectarian exemption from the law for right wing christianity” bsky.app/profile/josh...
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Betty C. Jung
@bettycjung.bsky.social
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High-profile cases merely tip of iceberg. A deeper pool of unreliable research has gone unaddressed for years, shielded in part by powerful scientific publishers driven to put out huge volumes of studies while avoiding reputational damage of retracting them publicly.
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Colleen Theisen
@librarycolleen.bsky.social
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I need to start a new "Library of Things" thread.
Wedding dresses is one I haven't seen before.
www.nj.com/bergen/2024/...
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cait
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just laughed myself to tears at whatever demonic AI colorized this photo and thought the covers of her headset were her ears and colored them accordingly
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Margaret Morris
@marmorr.bsky.social
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I hadn't known how much I needed this today. Beautifully written essay .
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Margaret Morris
@marmorr.bsky.social
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Wondering who/what is behind that Jesus ad with those surreally unsettling AI generated images of foot washing shown in quick succession to a cover of INXS's "Never Tear Us Apart"?
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Margaret Morris
@marmorr.bsky.social
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With people having less sex, according to studies, "le temps de l'amour" appears to be waning, even beyond western borders. This article explores some of the reasons why. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02...
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