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MJ Lindberg@mjlindberg.bsky.social |
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Chicago. Progressive. Theater. Books. Art. Science. Writes sometimes. She/her/hers.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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Relatedly, please remember that a federal appeals court recently ruled that cops can compell you to use biometrics to unlock your phone. Passwords, pins, or patterns, people.
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Susan Rinkunas has a newsletter
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What an incredible life. “The Panthers’ defense was run by the New York Law Commune, a radical legal office of which Mr. Stolar was a member…Mr. Stolar helped defend the Camden 28, a group of mostly Roman Catholic war resisters who in 1971 broke into a draft-board office to destroy records.”
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MC Squared
@mcsquared.bsky.social
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Bread and circuses
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Dawn Xiana Moon
@dawnxianamoon.bsky.social
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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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Pookleblinky
@pookleblinky.bsky.social
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When the american liberals use France's election as an illustration of the need to VOTE, they ignore that people were not only voting against the far right but *for* something. They voted for a campaign which promises to: increase minimum wage, lower retirement age, pay for all childcare, etc
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EC Hamilton (Siobhan O'Leary)
@siobhanftb.bsky.social
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we're burning down the amazon for this
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Joshua J. Friedman
@joshuajfriedman.com
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"People talked about approaching 'the speed of sound' as a big achievement at one time. New York City is approaching walking speed in 2024," Schwartz said. (Call Kathy Hochul: 518-474-8390)
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hand_to_eye
@delightw2023.bsky.social
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Agro business is calling the shots. What could go wrong?
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Chris Levesque
@levesque-chris.bsky.social
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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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Melanie D’Arrigo
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If you steal $1000, you can be sent to prison. When health insurance companies steal $50,000,000,000, they get tax breaks, subsidies and government contracts, while the people they steal from die or go into debt. But keep blaming immigrants and poor people for rising crime.
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MJ Lindberg
@mjlindberg.bsky.social
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I didn't chose Biden. He was never my first choice. I voted for because he was the choice we had. I'd be more enthusiastic about someone else.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)
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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.
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DaveAnthony
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Anyway, it took 24 hours. Congrats to all the Democrats who lost their shit over this post yesterday.
nymag.com/intelligence...
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Seth D. Michaels
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the combination of Ohio, Chevron, and Jarkesy is to tell the extraordinarily rich “there’s no one who can hold you accountable for anything if you can afford a lawsuit”
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man it's a hot zone,
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every time you see a publication amplifying republican claims that biden is taking pre-debate drugs without mentioning that the trump administration went through enough speed to make secretariat run through 5,000 feet of solid granite, they are making a choice
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W.E.D.em Boyz
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NFT’s, crypto, and “AI” are all the same thing. In an economy that doesn’t produce anything anymore, all that’s left is financialization and shifting numbers around on a spreadsheet, an infinite death drive to wring out the sponge as the ship is sinking.
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall
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Authors Against Book Bans is in People magazine today!!!
Have you joined yet? Don't let the fascists win.
people.com/new-coalitio...
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Iron Spike
@ironspike.bsky.social
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The absolutely wild thing is: This goes for ALL social aid. Just *giving people some fucking money,* literally going "OK, how much did you need?", cutting checks, and waving them out the door? COSTS LESS and HAS BETTER OUTCOMES than the current system's bureaucracy and means testing, EVERY TIME.
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The Washington Post
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The Postal Service approves thousands of requests every year from police officers and federal agents seeking information from Americans’ letters and packages without requiring a court order.
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Chuck Wendig
@chuckwendig.bsky.social
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Oh hey tech firms what’s up, I found the miracle solution: throw this unwanted AI shit into the fucking trash where it belongs
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Courtney Milan
@courtneymilan.com
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At some point people are going to realize that well-spoken likeable (to other white men) white men are not necessarily intelligent or capable; they just remind the person in power (who is invariably a white man) of themselves.
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N. K. Jemisin
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It's increasingly clear that the people who make generative AI don't like films, don't like books, don't like art of any kind, and don't understand why anyone else does.
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John TImmer
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This is an excellent description of the editorial failure behind The NY Times' decision to run Alina Chan's lab leak article. What's the value proposition to the readership of presenting a one-sided argument that most scientists find lacking? Did no editor bother to ask that question?
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Andrew Hickey
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Apart from everything else, the idea of art specifically tailored "for your tastes" makes no sense because the way you develop tastes is by encountering art and having a reaction to it.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
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What the actual fuck
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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When I started at UNC in 1990, the university was ranked in the top twenty of *all* colleges nationally. And if I’m remembering correctly the in-state tuition was just $500 a semester. It was just an incalculably valuable public good, which is why the NC GOP made it their mission to destroy it.
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Aaron Cynic
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Part of the problem is that publications like The Atlantic seem to believe "working class" only means "white, leans authoritarian and harbors some or many prejudices"
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MJ Lindberg
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Great Chicago Sky game tonight. Would have been nice to get a win but some great basketball. #ChicagoSky
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Celeste Ng
@pronounced-ing.bsky.social
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Libraries are one of the most radical social institutions we have, because they’re based on the idea that *everyone* has the right to information, for free. It’s also what makes them crucial to democracy. I will never stop yelling about this!
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Emily L. Hauser
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🧵 As a former librarian, I'll add: Rich (& middle class) ppl also close libraries bc they can't conceive of the need, aka a failure of empathy. I was *constantly* asked: 1) People still go to libraries? (yes) 2) Isn't everything digitized now? (wow, no, let's examine just how how wrong that is)
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Prisonculture
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I would like to believe that more people are going to make the connection between obscene cop budgets and the fact that every other service and all other priorities will be subsumed. Hope springs eternal, I guess.
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sarah jeong
@sarahjeong.bsky.social
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Washington Post buried Alito flag story for three years - @chrisgeidner.bsky.social points out a weird graf in the wapo story that raises some questions!!!!! www.lawdork.com/p/washington...
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Gabe Ortíz
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“Where are the newspaper editorials calling on Trump to drop out of the presidential race?” @msignorile.bsky.social asks. “If this were President Biden, do you think they’d not be calling for him to drop out?”
www.signorile.com/p/trump-is-f...
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Andy Broughton
@andybroughton0.bsky.social
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“Can usually” is doing _so much_ work there.
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Courtney Milan
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Iron Spike
@ironspike.bsky.social
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Hard day to be a prison abolitionist
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Sandra Newman
@sannewman.bsky.social
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If Stormy Daniels saves American democracy and is honored for it as she deserves, we are about to enter a real golden age for statues
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Osita Nwanevu
@ositanwanevu.bsky.social
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The only people who've ever held Trump meaningfully accountable over the last nine years have been ordinary Americans and they've spent that entire time being lectured to and berated by elites who've failed to do anything.
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air budd dwyer
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it rules that a jury of rando New Yorkers is braver than several federal judges and basically every single senator
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Elizabeth Bear
@matociquala.bsky.social
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Popehat
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Anyway good luck to jurors, the judge, court staff, and prosecutors, and all their families, with not getting murdered, and thanks to FedSoc types for bringing us to the brink of fascism so you could weaken Chevron deference
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Courtney Milan
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I realize this is hard for some officials to figure out, but indiscriminate murder is not going to bring about peace in our lifetimes.
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Kelsey Atherton
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the moment at which I found mysef writing the phrase "legally killed child" I would at a minimum ask the editor to spike the story instead of having my name attached to it forever, and then I'd go take a long walk and contemplate every poor choice of mine that had led me to this point.
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MJ Lindberg
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Hasn't that been done before? "Black Like Me" published 1961?
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David Slack
@slack2thefuture.bsky.social
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No one disputes the industry is in a major slowdown. It’s a terrible time, and many of us are hurting
But this article’s claim that it was caused by the 2023 strikes is bullshit
The slowdown & strikes were caused by the same thing: bad business decisions at the top🧵 www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Bethany Albertson
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If we can have congressional hearings on university presidents, surely this warrants a little attention.
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Courtney Milan
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Just to add: the reason it’s densifying is the light rail. Housing justice and transportation justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Courtney Milan
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I’m so glad to see this.
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