This is a letter I received TODAY, February 11, 2025 Please don’t expect Josh Shapiro to emerge as a leader for us. That’s a hopeless cause and should be dismissed outright. He is complicit. He’s not a solution, he’s part of the problem. How many Republican governors have said this about Barack Obama or Joe […]
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American medical science journal now ruined and untrustworthy.
The Donald, being completely senile at this point, will probably believe they can pull one over and replace it with the recently debuted Brownturd Journal of Great Barrington Bullshit.
Tycoons are again making company towns, and they’re even more dystopian.
There’s no way I want to live as some dystopian feudal subject…
Multiple motivations behind atrocities.
“She labels those who killed ‘joiners’, because they were motivated not primarily by a desire to kill Tutsi but by a desire to be fully part of the group that was taking part in the killing (Fujii, 2009).”
Politicians are out of touch.
Politicians are in info cocoons, just like we all have a tendency to be these days, and they’re not listening, or maybe not hearing enough from enough of us.
Why do people just accept putting up with contaminated information?
I’m not against media literacy education, but that’s not going to solve everything because it’s just too time consuming to research everything yourself.
Don’t listen to bad advice on civic engagement.
If you want to engage in democracy, consider carefully about where you get advice.
Gaslighting & manufacturing normal to minimize concerns is not the right direction to go in.
The coverage of threats by the media and the statements from community leaders are an exercise in elite panic, and that’s certainly not what we need.
Trump & Elon downsizing the government.
Trump administration offers all federal workers Elon Musk Twitter styled job buyout framed as a way to avoid Return To Office mandates.
Trump administration attempts to impound appropriations under the responsibility of Congress.
The odd memo out of the White House that started freezing access to Medicaid portals and threatened to shut down daycares is some pretty wild overreach…
Bizarre RFKJR confirmation hearing.
RFKJr is a terrible anti-vaxxer. But there are so many other problems as well with him taking over the entirety of the federal healthcare in the US. The threat can’t be overstated.
No social media platform is a safe space – people need to diversify.
I’ve been saying this for years, that people are foolish if there’s only one social media platform where they say something or publish important information. But even among the people who’ve heard me, most have never listened to me. I think mainly because people fall in love with a platform, they are habit forming. They […]
Deregulation is another way of saying buyer beware.
I’ve also heard it said a few times that it should just be called “re-regulation” because in fact what so-called deregulation does is just switch the regulation from protecting consumers to protecting bad actors.
Tiktok is dead, long live tiktok.
All the platforms with their black box manipulative algorithms are problematic.
Pro-Trump Pastor: “We drank the kool-aid and it’s orange.”
Shane Vaughn claims “They” (whoever that is), forced him into the Trump cult.
Community notes is not freedom and social media algorithms do not make for a community center.
Almost any flawed org, coffee klatch, or chat group is going to have more social ROI and less disinformation than mixing it up with fake accounts and targeted marketing on the big platforms.
Even Trump voters didn’t sign up for invading Greenland, right?
The whole Greenland thing should be dropped. Nobody voted for this.
Far from being satisfied, winning just emboldens the violent Trumpies.
The idea that you can satiate people determined to create havoc and harm is ridiculous on its face. In the wake of the election in 2016 I witnessed harassment myself almost immediately.
Stephen Miller behind a lawsuit for an anti-vax activist seeking to silence internet researchers.
“a remarkably unprecedented state of affairs like that is an astonishing breach of norms”
The problem with going to social media for “information”.
Yes, this is something I hear about regularly, people saying how they’re relying on social media sources for “good information” and seeking it nowhere else.
Hinting atrocities.
I just keep racking up instances where I see things going on in the US that are eerily familiar to things I’ve read about Rwanda. Seems problematic.