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Following on the overwhelming response to last week's column, I wrote a second dispatch imagining how the Musk takeover would be covered by the US media if it was happening overseas, and they felt comfortable calling a spade a spade.... www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/white-nati...

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Who gets the benefit of the doubt?A teenager tagged by cops as a gang member b/c he shops at a particular bodega or wears the wrong color? A Black man the NYPD decides is “furtively walking”? OR a white man from apartheid S.A. who posts antisemitic/racist stereotypes & endorses the Nazi adjacent 1/

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In 2020, I asked why so many Republicans had abandoned the values they had previously held. Still relevant. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Listen and read what @fpwellman.bsky.social has to say. He knows what he’s talking about and he says it clearly and with intent. The distraction and rage bait cycles are meant to tear and wear us down. Be smart and keep your emotions focused. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

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Mike Luckovich gets it right as he always does

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The owner of a car company is controlling the House of Representatives from a social media app.

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Trump’s Rage at Liz Cheney Takes a Dark Turn—and Wrecks a Big GOP Lie newrepublic.com/article/1895... via @newrepublic.com

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MEMPHIS @BlackClergy901 PETITION: “We call on @mayorpaulyoung to negotiate and enter a consent decree with the Department of Justice to end the Memphis Police Department's pattern or practice of violating our constitutional rights.” actionnetwork.org/petitions/si...

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The reason generative AI is banned in my classroom is both that process is part of learning and also using some programs' words without attribution is wrong, of course, AND ALSO it is a bullshit generator powered by intellectual property theft.

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...

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Women: men are easy. They always going! Men: No we ain’t. Also men:

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Nothing says “lead the Pentagon” like mommy making phone calls for her very good boy.

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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

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a man who gets an email like this from his own mother should be legally required to reveal it to every woman he ever meets ever ever

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After two families learned that they were not the genetic parents of the babies they loved, due to a mixup during the in vitro fertilization process, they faced a devastating question. Should they switch their girls?

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My latest on the blog, inspired by comments I received after my last post on HR9495. blackgirlinmaine.com/current-even...

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Good morning democracy defenders! Just a reminder that the circus Trump is creating around the cabinet nominations is a feature, not a bug. He wants to distract with chaos so you can't focus. Don't fall for it.

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This Nancy Mace thing is going to be a defining moment for the Democratic Party. Mace is deliberately bullying another person, one of their colleagues. And if House Dems are too chickenshit to defend their own colleague over this open, blatant hate, what the hell is the point of them anymore.

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Rep. Jasmin Crockett is always 🔥

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Talk about self-owns! This is rather amazing news on the abortion rights front.

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We know that for years the RW media have been demonizing Democrats as communists who literally hate our country and want to destroy it. So, what are the very few, and brief, messages that can counter that? And what is a coherent strategy for distributing those messages to a targeted audience?

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Ah, the Age of Innocence is back.

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My latest on the blog, if you exist in non-profit or organizing spaces, please read. H.R.9495 isn't dead. The GOP is trying to ram it through. blackgirlinmaine.com/current-even...

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FYI @budkennedy.bsky.social From this morning’s NYT Crossword

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I took this picture of Popocatépetl from the rooftop of our Airbnb in Puebla last October.

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