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Screenshot of direct message conversation. Sooo something weird is going on here… when I search @PPEtoheros I don’t get results in the People tab — Image is the Twitter 404 rubber chicken, text reads No results for @ppetoheros Try searching for something else, or check your Search settings to see if they’re protecting you from potentially sensitive content.

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The Shadowbanning of Nicolas Smit

2024-03-26

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Politics isn’t a crockpot, and Trump certainly won’t save anyone.

2024-03-22

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Covid minimizers now reveal themselves to also push HIV bigoted conspiracy theories, as Brett Weinstein goes on Joe Rogan to spread AIDS denialism

2024-03-19

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Partial front page story from a December 1918 Daily Telegram: RIGID QUARANTINE ORDERED IN ADRIAN - Board of Health Says All Influenza Cases Must Be Segregated. SMALLPOX UNDER CONTROL Vaccination Continues; Cooperation of Public Is Urged by Members of Health Department Here. Rigid quarantine of influenza cases was established in Adrian yesterday by the board of health, and the same regulations now apply to those homes in which there is influenza as to those in which there are cases of smallpox.

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Everything is political.

2024-03-18

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Once more, this time with feeling, propaganda about “learning loss” is a myth.

2024-02-25

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CDC ACIP public comment by Chloe, February 2024

2024-02-16

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Project 2025: Righties ready to roll. (Heads up, yes it’s real & you might not like it.)

2024-02-02

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School voucher paradoxes

2024-01-19

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Red Flags for Disruption Perpetual brainstorming Sessions that do not lead to any specific goal or next step. Strategy meetings that merely function as historic type critiques in the contemporary. Lots of “first date” type meetings with people, not a lot of follow-ups. Investing time & energy in actions at the wrong level or directed at inappropriate targets Sending comments to an agency or civil servant, outside a comment period or recognized process. Suggestions to contact elected representatives in a state you don’t live in. Boosting and promoting items and activities that are incongruent with the group’s current goals. Engaging in “food fight” controversy that goes nowhere and may serve to boost opposition framing. Disruptors or chaos agents Ingratiate themselves with leaders, key people, or governing committee members. Disrespectful exchanges with others, including overt verbal abuse or more subtle belittling Engages in gaslighting or tone policing. Disparages the already agreed upon projects of the group or criticizes activism generally. Remains mysterious in relevant ways that raise questions. References grandiose plans or extremely unrealistic goals. Talks of violence

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Red Flags for Disruption

2024-01-19

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letters to reps Your representative’s office receives your letter and considers your position and interest in the issue as representative of some number of constituents who feel the same as you do, but did not have the inclination to write at present. They often keep tallies in spreadsheets and track issues. So it’s not just your lonely voice, each person who writes really makes a larger difference than you might expect from one person. chloehumbert.com/letters-to-reps

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Corporation’s pitches land daily in the inboxes of YOUR elected representatives

2024-01-15

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Image is the meme of the little girl in the car seat looking skeptical and disgusted and the caption reads so it’s ok if I catch covid because there’s room at children’s hospital?

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Pandemic patient displacements

2024-01-14

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The promotion of more privatization of water in Pennsylvania is unacceptable

2024-01-08

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Sedevacantism, and naming “progressives” as “the enemy”

2024-01-06

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Pennsylvania about to allow tire burning to make cryptocurrency.

2023-12-28

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Public comment to US Census Bureau on the criteria for disability

The qualifying definition being proposed is designed perfectly to undercount disabled people in America.

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Biden admin boasts more public input on rulemaking while agencies ignore key constituencies

2023-12-09

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Image text: Youth could be the answer to election worker shortage. Editor: Each election we have trouble staffing the polls. We need to expand the pool of possible workers. High School seniors need a project to graduate, maybe this could be it. Local colleges and universities are another possibility. Counties should reach out. If laws need to be changed or enacted, I see a rare issue where all political parties can come together. John Figliomeni Childs.

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Compuslory teen poll workers sounds like a bad idea.

2023-12-02

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The whole point of government

2023-12-01

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Covid contrarian trucker offers charity infection control supplies.

2023-11-18

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Accept your fate and catch covid

2023-10-31

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Hypernormalisation Documentary, 2016, by Adam Curtis. ”The liberals were outraged at Trump. But they expressed their outrage in cyberspace so it had no effect. Because the algorithms made sure that they only spoke to people who already agreed with them. Instead ironically their waves of angry messages and tweets benefitted the large corporations who ran the social media platforms. one online analyst put it simply — angry people click. It meant that the radical fury that came like waves across the internet no longer had the power to change the world. Instead it became a fuel that fed the systems of power making them ever more powerful.”

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They may hate you, but they love each other.

2023-10-27

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Public comment at PA DEP environmental justice meeting

Public comment at a public meeting of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)

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