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nualkris.bsky.social@nualkris.bsky.social |
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Lisa Schmeiser
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I read the sentence "child care has become a market-based system captured, to an increasing degree, by private-equity firms, which now own eight of the 11 largest chains" and -- knowing how private equity firms operate -- the hair on the back of my neck stood up.
www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
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The Washington Post
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More than 300 House lawmakers were reimbursed at least $5.2 million for food and lodging while on official business in Washington last year under a new, taxpayer funded program that does not require them to provide receipts.
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Don Moynihan
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Wilhoit’s Law: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
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Ed Burmila
@edburmila.bsky.social
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Remember when Obama decided to get “tough on immigration” in 2014 to win over voters in the center and his own staffers were like why did we do that, it won us zero votes and alienated some of our base? Reposting for no particular reason!
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Manu 🌊🐳🐦⬛🏔️🌎
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The hunt is on! and it’s a wide one 😂!
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Manu 🌊🐳🐦⬛🏔️🌎
@manelcamacho.bsky.social
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There are many ways to make AI useful and attractive, yet they keep doing some very weird things with it... I would like to be mistaken but OpenAI and Google are just beating the bush at this point!
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Josh Rosenau
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Maybe in state legislatures, but generally elected officials DGAF about petitions because most signers aren’t constituents, and also because petitions are low commitment actions. Phone calls, individual letters, or office visits, faxes all matter. Petitions…meh.
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Chris Geidner
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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BREAKING: Justice Sam Alito refuses to recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases or Trump cases in letter to Congress.
"My wife is fond of flying flags. I am not," he writes.
Background at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/sam-alito-...
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
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There are no practical actions that can be taken by people in power to limit the damage of Alito (and Thomas), but politically, they can use hearings and spectacle to deny consent. And that is actually an extremely potent rebuke in a government that runs on popular consent!
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Popehat
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On further reflection, I guess there’s more than one way to look at the stories about Martha-Ann Alito.
One way is she’s the spouse of, and very possibly influential over, a Supreme Court justice, using their home to convey political messages, and that’s news. /1
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/u...
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Bennett Tomlin
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If I had a nickel for every time a Supreme Court Justice said, "sure my wife is an insurrectionist and I am fully aware of it, but there's nothing I can do" I would have two nickels
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
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The reason why we need other branches of government to actually exercise their powers to check the Court is some of these mfers do not have the capacity for shame
edition.cnn.com/2024/05/29/p...
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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alito is playing in our faces because he knows there’s nothing we can do about it and he has total contempt for the idea that he might be accountable for anything he does
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Manu 🌊🐳🐦⬛🏔️🌎
@manelcamacho.bsky.social
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Not endorsing to have them in a security advisor position but adding a bit of context:
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Terry McGlynn
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Perhaps the best thing one gets from higher education is understanding that a lot of questions don't have clear answers, and a lot of problems lack clear solutions. It follows that those who are trying to dismantle higher ed gain power by providing wrong answers and fake solutions.
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The New York Times
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Some 300,000 Palestinians in southern and northern Gaza are being forced to flee again, according to the UN, as Israel issued wider evacuation orders on Saturday. Many are unsure where to go, given that the UN has said that nowhere in Gaza is safe.
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CNN
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Former President Donald Trump could owe more than $100 million in taxes as a result of a yearslong Internal Revenue Service inquiry into claims of huge losses on his Chicago skyscraper, The New York Times and ProPublica reported
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The New York Times
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Leading Republicans, including several of Donald Trump’s potential running mates, have refused to commit to accepting the results of the presidential election, signaling that the party may again challenge the outcome if its candidate loses.
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The New York Times
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Justice Clarence Thomas denounced on Friday “the nastiness and the lies” that have shadowed him in recent years as he faces public scrutiny over his wife’s efforts to subvert the 2020 election and revelations that he had failed to report lavish gifts from wealthy conservatives.
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CNN
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Protesters took to the streets of several cities across Israel on Saturday, demanding the release of all hostages held in Gaza ahead of Israel’s Memorial Day.
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Ars Technica
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Texas Observer
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"fasten the firearm and firm the foundation for a bloodbath"
Sarah Bawany's poem, in our latest magazine, is a heartbreaking indictment of our culture of gun violence:
#poetry
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@nualkris.bsky.social
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and racism, and poverty.
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Django Wexler
@djangowexler.bsky.social
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Lex Luthor: AND THEN I WILL DESTROY THE WORLD! NYT: Luthor Lays Out Unorthodox Plan For Global Governance
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@nualkris.bsky.social
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It is still sad that for many, it has to "happen to them" before they can find empathy.
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POLITICO Europe
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If the US and its allies can rush to Israel's defense in the skies, shooting down drones and missiles fired by Iran, why can't they do the same for Ukraine? That's the question Ukrainians and their staunchest backers in the West were asking today.
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States Newsroom
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Maine is the 17th state to ratify the national popular vote agreement, giving the compact a total of 209 electoral votes out of the 270 needed for enactment.
Via Maine Morning Star @statesnewsroom.com
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maura quint
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my fave continues to be -- if you were handed $1000 every single day, every single year since AD 1 and saved every single penny of it, you still wouldn't be a billionaire.
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Kate Starbird
@katestarbird.bsky.social
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It’s called “fog of war” for a reason. Uncertainty drives the rumor mill. Online sensemaking during crisis events and conflict is extremely vulnerable to manipulation. The clout chasers, political point scorers, and disinformation agents are all out in full force. Consume (and share) with care.
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Jon of The North
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Mark Joseph Stern
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One of Trump's top lawyers has already said the plan is to stay quiet on abortion through the campaign—then use the Comstock Act to impose a nationwide abortion ban in 2025. Not only a ban on medication abortion, but ALL abortions, in all 50 states. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/u...
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Robert Reich
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Amazon and Space X are fighting in court to have the National Labor Relations Board declared unconstitutional. This means the two richest men on earth want to dismantle the agency that holds them accountable for union busting. Nothing terrifies them more than worker power.
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Helen Kennedy
@helenkennedy.bsky.social
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From Andrés
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skelly
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what's driving me up a wall about the whole "vote for Biden" debate on the left is we already had this conversation in 2016. Trump won, and it turned out it was not only as bad as the electoralists warned, it was worse. It was so bad we cannot risk a second term. This is not an open question
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Jay Rosen
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It's been four years since I was asked for three or four changes in political journalism that might begin to right this ship. (Emphasis on "begin to...") Here is what I came up with.
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kilgore trout
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dunno anything about this guy and baltimore’s track record with mayors is ummm but this is a great example of cutting through the bullshit and saying exactly what’s going on here
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David_j_roth
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Incredible post from the best writer on Boeing that we've got. The level of willful negligence from executives on something that carries human beings through the sky is astonishing and should be a crime. Sorry I forgot to make a joke. prospect.org/infrastructu...
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Grumpy
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Look familiar, Aotearoa? We're being played.
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Sarah J. Jackson
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Been thinking a lot about how conservatives and capitalists have been jamming ideas about free markets down our throats forever but can’t understand that academia is a market place of ideas where with study and investigation outmoded and bad ideas are replaced with newer, better ones.
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Amy A
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Using “DEI” as pejorative is just the newest work-safe slur replacement for bigots to use to get off on the privilege of fake plausible deniability, tale as old as time
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Tim Onion
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Reposting this for no particular reason.
twitter.com/oneunderscor...
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC
@mattnegrin.bsky.social
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Chuck Todd invited Ron Johnson onto Meet the Press three days before January 6th to rally insurrectionists
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Mark Harris
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I think the hiring of Ronna McDaniel will probably be rescinded, but either way, it reflects a profound misunderstanding of the job of journalism that's pervasive in TV news. If you don't know that you shouldn't hire a proven liar for "balance," you have no business running a news division.
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Ian Muller
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“To declare embryos children is to dismiss what people go through to hold a baby in their arms,” said Veronica Wehby-Upchurch, 41, who has one son and two frozen embryos in storage. “An embryo in a dish is not even the start line, and a pink line in a pregnancy test isn’t the finish line.”
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Sarah K
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Ah god. What an amazing person. “Sadly assisted dying isn’t an option in this country. With something that will affect 100 per cent of the population, regardless of wealth, intelligence or ethnicity, it’s amazing how such little value is placed on the act of dying.”
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DemocracyEditor.bsky.social
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By looking at the stories Tucker Carlson did in Russia, you can learn the difference between journalism and propaganda. Carlson didn't produce journalism, writes Michael Socolow theconversation.com/how-you-can-...
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Gregg Gonsalves
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@donmoyn.bsky.social at Georgetown has talked about how you bring down the administrative state--it is also a template for how to destroy public health in America. Delegitimize. Deconstruct. Control. 3 horsemen of our slow motion public health catastrophe in the US. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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