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It's no coincidence that, whenever we give Eric meaningful minutes, he's responsible for the opponent's best chances. #Barça #LPABAR

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“He also agrees I’m very handsome.”

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@reuters.com should sue Musk now. @pastpunditry.bsky.social and others have neatly documented the right’s history of attacks on the mainstream press. One reason the attacks work is that the press’s standard response is to do nothing about them. Defamation law exists for these occasions. Use it.

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“At a minimum, 300 babies that wouldn’t have had HIV, now do.” Send him to the fucking Hague

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f*ck from Zeke @hausfath.bsky.social on The Climate Brink www.theclimatebrink.com/p/january-se...

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Jaylen Clark ... #Wolves #Aroo #Don'tLetUsGetHot

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Something I keep thinking about these days:

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Spags is a FREAK for that

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Highly necessary. That a concept - even a foundational one - had broad appeal in the past doesn't guarantee it'll retain that appeal. Proponents need to keep reminding the general public why the concept is good, or else it gets stale.

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"Maybe Trump's advisors and appointees will spend all their political capital and risk their careers to protect renewables" is peak Grumet. Scientifically impossible to get more Grumet than that.

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NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

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Thought this was incredibly clear and incisive. Highly recommend it.

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I would guess that most (not all!) 1A academics become 1A academics because they reflexively prioritize speech above competing interests. Cases like this suggest why that might be a problem for academia and 1A scholarship.

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The stories coming out of Miami make it sound like the Heat acquiesced without even getting Jimmy’s A material. Talk to me when he publicly humiliates your GM while simultaneously crippling the entire roster’s morale for years to come. #Wolves #Nostalgia #HeatCulture

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reupping my @heatmap.news story from the end of the year about how a vaccine “skeptic” in michigan is now using disinfo about solar panels and health care to try and shut down renewables development for an entire county heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...

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this is the opposite of agreeing

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This is good. H/t @jvl.bsky.social Journalism's fight for survival in a postliterate democracy open.substack.com/pub/mattdpea...

submitted 66 days ago • 60 comments

This is the best thing I’ve heard in a long time on climate-related conspiracism and disinformation. Bravo @jkingy.bsky.social.

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WOW. Third Circuit nominee Adeel Mangi's letter to Biden (but, really, to all) is today's required reading: "I have battled for justice, even if it meant there would be none for me." And, though unnamed, Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto, Jacky Rosen, and Joe Manchin get their earned response.

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Gabe is absolutely right about this. Unfortunately, this place is loaded with very loud, very self-certain speech fundamentalists, so I expect he’ll be a lonely voice of reason in whatever discussion this precipitates here.

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Pretending that ABC just settled an easily winnable case is ridiculous. First, as a factual matter Stephanopoulos did make false statements ten times about what the jury did. So there is a good chance ABC loses at trial. Second, juries are unpredictable. It's risky. cases.justia.com/federal/dist...

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Big day for #KerkosHive. Sending Robbo into retirement would be a mercy at this point.

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Good to talk with @heatmap.news about what conspiracism and disinformation are doing to the renewables sector. The law can help, but businesses and industry need to be strategic and deliberate in deploying it. (@americancleanpower.bsky.social, let me help you and your membership!)

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My cat, an idiot: Those ornaments look exactly like my toys. Why can’t I play with them? Me, pinnacle of animals: That felt frog wearing a top hat is to celebrate The Lord

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🚨New WP🚨 We examine news sharing on 7 platforms: 1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news 2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning 3)But low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE, even BlueSky! osf.io/preprints/ps...

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There are lots of good reasons not to file a defamation lawsuit over a deepfake video. Most of them are glaringly absent here. For all its limitations, the law can be a valuable tool for vindicating truthfulness, but it only works if people actually use it when the right circumstances arise.

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I see that being able to credibly sell a piledriver is no longer a condition for leading DOE. We used to have standards in this country.

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Love this painting 😍 – from Masterpieces of Japan (@JapanTraCul on x-Twitter) Myoko, by Kawai Gyokudo, ca. 1938 #nihonga

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Trump nominating RFK Jr as Secretary of HHS is the EXACT reason why proposed laws like Klobuchar’s medical misinformation bill — which let the HHS Sec define what “misinformation” fell outside Section 230 immunity — were terrible, terrible ideas. www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index...

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“raw milk is a reasonable choice for some people” is a good example of being so open minded your brains start to leak out of your ears

submitted 102 days ago • 281 comments

Really loved this. Typically insightful from @evelyndouek.bsky.social and @genevievelakier.bsky.social . Structural limitations matter, y'all!

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This is HUGE! @canishoopus.bsky.social being here is the surest sign yet this place has the juice. Give me all the Wolves content!

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The trouble with making “heterodox” part of your identity is that it very easily slides into a kind of adolescent rejection of whatever the mainstream view is, even when the view is mainstream because, boringly, it’s so clearly correct.

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Brought to you by the modern interpretation of the First Amendment. It doesn't have to be this way.

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Years of academic and pundit "debates" about whether 45 is a fascist.... just completely useless.

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