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I can't explain it - but this "Thursday afternoon massacre" and the principled stand taken by these prosecutors has made me feel the most hopeful I've felt in weeks.

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

How is everyone doing. ? I’m Still up and fown

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Once more, with feeling: No, your smartphone isn’t listening to you. Because it doesn’t have to.

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa. I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:

submitted 95 days ago • 1047 comments

Texas lawmakers file bills that would create new exceptions in the state’s abortion ban after @propublica.org reporting on the preventable deaths of two women whose miscarriages went untreated. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

submitted 95 days ago • 16 comments

Just wait till Joe Merica has to pay $899 for a flat screen TV and $59 for a bag of socks. I'm sure somehow it'll be Hunter Biden's fault.

submitted 95 days ago • 4 comments

Alt text ftw

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Wonder why the rule of law is failing? Here are six reasons . . . the rot at the top. This is what happens when we allow government officials to operate in an ethics-free zone with zero accountability.

submitted 95 days ago • 607 comments

Update: His health guy doesn't believe in medical science. His law guy is a sex trafficker. His intelligence gal is a Russian asset. You're all caught up.

submitted 100 days ago • 1734 comments

Keep this in mind for the road ahead:

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submitted 99 days ago • 458 comments

Morning friends. Is there anyone who thinks Trump WON'T overplay his hand? Senate Republicans already rejected Trump's pick for Majority Leader, Rick Scott, in favor of John Thune. And itlooks like they're bucking Trump on Gaetz for AG. Hang in there friends. The light WILL come again.

submitted 99 days ago • 248 comments

I'm doing a number of these things too. "I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how." www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/im-a...

submitted 102 days ago • 63 comments

Here is a guide to thousands of starter packs for BlueSky blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

submitted 102 days ago • 18 comments

Social media influencers, the far right and their potential impact on youth (radicalisation) voxpol.eu/social-media...

submitted 102 days ago • 5 comments

New: An Idaho Baby’s Unexplained Death Got No Autopsy and a Scant Coroner’s Investigation. State Law Says That’s Fine. www.propublica.org/article/idah...

submitted 104 days ago • 12 comments

This is all so predictable. Putin has Trump by the nuts.

submitted 104 days ago • 100 comments

"It seems questionable that the businesses who generate these location records would provide the location information directly to the government without a warrant, but they [sell] it to Babel Street who then sells it to us," said a Secret Service official in documents FOIA'd by 404 Media:

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

Don't tell them

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

One hundred percent.

submitted 104 days ago • 56 comments

“Freedom means you decide who you are, and then when things change around you, you continue to be that person. And in so doing, you do constructive work. You set an example for other people. You meet new people who are also trying to remain themselves.” www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

submitted 104 days ago • 167 comments

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive