Tag: maga

don't wait for everybody - Chloe Humbert

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The grass is not that much greener on the blue sky.

Don’t Wait For Everybody – Episode 013

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Thoughts on the Scranton Times-Tribune newspaper.

2024-10-17

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Anti-vax covid contrarian right-wing event in DC.

2024-10-12

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Disinformation on FEMA is so costly.

Absolutely egregiously bad and heartbreaking.

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Granovetter, M. S. (1973). The Strength of Weak Ties. American Journal of Sociology, 78(6), 1360–1380. doi:10.1086/225469 Imagine, to begin with, a community completely partitioned into cliques, such that each person is tied to every other in his clique and to none outside. Community organization would be severely inhibited. Leafletting, radio announcements,or other methods could insure that everyone was aware of some nascent organization; but studies of diffusion and mass communication have shown that people rarely act on mass-media information unless it is also transmitted through personal ties (Katz and Lazarsfeld 1955; Rogers 1962)

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PR saturation and you.

2024-10-04

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Luzerne County manager makes it harder for the elderly and disabled to safely vote by mail in some Pennsylvania towns.

2024-09-22

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Stanford University to host right-wing trucker convoy adjacent political event.

2024-09-08

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Does CDC HICPAC want to make a mockery of infection control in healthcare?

2024-08-21

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I wouldn’t cite Dr. Robert Redfield if he said blood is red.

2024-07-08

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Maga is pro mail ballot this time around.

2024-07-04

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Learn nothing and accept poor treatment isn’t good advice.

2024-06-21

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Don’t wait for vaccines to be restricted to speak up.

2024-06-16

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Anti-mask was always a dark money campaign. Mar 28th, 2024 wat3rm370n on tumblr Image Alt Text: The disinformation didn’t just happen, it was deliberate. Teams Human. State Government Leadership Foundation openly bragged on social media about an advertising campaign that specifically targeted liberals to persuade them of the lie that masks supposedly do more harm than good.16 There is evidence that mask requirements are beneficial. But the State Government Leadership Foundation appears to have used old school advertising and simple repetition that uses the mere exposure effect, where people come to believe something simply because it seems familiar after hearing it a lot.17 teamshuman.substack.com/p/anti-mask-woke-washing Dark money from big corporations funded a right-wing think tank to do a deliberate advertising propaganda campaign to convince liberal Democrats that masks are bad. ProPublica headline: Buying Your Vote Big Corporations Put Up Seed Funding for Republican Dark Money Group IRS files show that some of the biggest companies in the country provided more than a million dollars a decade ago to launch a Republican dark money group. by Justin Elliott Feb. 14, 2013, 8 a.m. EST Tweet from State Government Leadership Foundation brags about an anti-mask advertising campaign targeting liberals.

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The pandemic era is now, and mask bans are unethical.

2024-05-17

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Image is a screenshot of a youtube video called Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson April 7, 2024 — COVID Concerns, the transcript is to the right of the screen and some of the text is highlighted with marker in yellow that says quote “Together, Doctors Vaughn and Kory” and there’s a red marker arrow pointing from their names to two people on the video being interviewed by Attkisson in a room with lights on a boom, and a lamp on an end table lit in the corner. Jordan Vaughn is seated at the left with his hands folded, wearing a sport coat and light color pants and he’s watching Pierre Kory’s face as Kory is speaking. Kory is dressed in a dark black suit jacket with prominent shoulders, and black pants.

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Vaughn, what team is he actually on?

2024-05-08

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Bassist leaves The Pixies under cloud of gossip about supporting an anti-vax covid denier who attended Jan. 6th.

2024-05-07

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The Trump & Republican Project 2025 agenda is to dismantle public health.

2024-05-06

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Granovetter, M. S. (1973). The Strength of Weak Ties. American Journal of Sociology, 78(6), 1360–1380. doi:10.1086/225469 Imagine, to begin with, a community completely partitioned into cliques, such that each person is tied to every other in his clique and to none outside. Community organization would be severely inhibited. Leafletting, radio announcements,or other methods could insure that everyone was aware of some nascent organization; but studies of diffusion and mass communication have shown that people rarely act on mass-media information unless it is also transmitted through personal ties (Katz and Lazarsfeld 1955; Rogers 1962)

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Journalist thinks covid is no longer political — just “trusts” right-wing covid denial.

2024-04-03

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Photo by Chloe Kaczenski Humbert. A tent lit in pink and another lit in red under a tree line silhouette under a starry sky showing a portion of the Milky Way seen in a night sky at Cherry Springs State Park in Pennsylvania. July 1, 2019.

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It’s Dark Sky Week & there’s a light pollution debacle in Scranton Pennsylvania.

2024-04-02

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Disease denialism is cognitive warfare.

2024-03-23

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Infectious disease is surely a national security threat at the White House.

2024-03-21

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CDC made medical guidelines please Delta Airlines, and now lots of people work sick and contagious in every industry - Image is the letter from Delta Airlines to the CDC Director asking for shortened guidelines because of the impact on their business caused by 10 day isolation.

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The CDC, Media and PR: a public health disinformation campaign.

2024-03-04

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Anti-Science MAGA CDC: “It’s like the flu”

2024-03-02

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