hollysbirds.bsky.social
Retired social historian. Lifelong learner and Dem politico. Lover of dogs, liker of cats. X escapee.
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Manufacturing consent. He may not be perfect, but he sure as hell got that right
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Never watching you again after your parent company fired Bill. You need to speak up all of you.
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Seriously? She’s the only Republican to speak out about what Trump is doing. Why in the hell would you criticize her?
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Most of the irregular low information voters who elected Trump rarely vote in mid terms but it would be far better if they did and skipped the presidential years
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I get that sources seem dubious for this, but we all know a coordinated effort like this against Trump will not be officially acknowledged or advertised by any governments involved.
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Good for the planet, but problematic for US, EU, etc who rely on population replacement and growth for tax base to supports aging populations, social safety net, and basic government goods and services, infrastructure, etc. The global religious repopulation rivalries are also in the mix.
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Such a wonderful little film, my introduction to both Stephen Frears and Daniel Day-Lewis.
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Women voters vote more democratic so they’re targeting them and if they win there, they’ll go onto the next group that isn’t them
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Fuk
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A huge swath are fundamentalist Christians, many of these are basically theocrats and some are Christian nationalists. They see secularism as the greatest threat, which they often conflate with popular culture, so that they can blame the woes of our society on Democrats and Europeans.
Horrifying.
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Hey, if you can’t control him, others will
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I know, it’s just unbelievable
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He’s really good friends with Lidia Bastianich, that wonderful Italian American chef from PBS. They met when she got a job as a teenager, at his father’s bakery in Astoria, Queens.
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11/ The tariffs aren’t economic policy. They are political weapons.
But as long as we see this clearly, we can stop him. Public mobilization is working. Today, a few Republicans joined Democrats to vote against one set of tariffs.
The people still have the power.
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Yes, I agree, just brought up the bipolar piece because he clearly seems manic and has spoken openly more than once about his depression and how he microdoses with ketamine to help deal with it.
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Musk disclosed in 2017 when he was 45 that he had Asperger’s and was probably bipolar, not uncommon for mental health issues to onset at midlife. Harvard history professor of technology Jill Lepore has another podcast out about Musk, it’s definitely worth a listen
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/x...
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Yes, and social psychology should be required study now. Escape from Freedom, about the authoritarian personality, written by a Jewish psychoanalyst who fled the Nazis would be a very good book to start with.
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Small victories
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Small victories
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Glad you’re on the mend. That sounds really scary.