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Mass Comm. Journalism, PR, Strategic Communications. Made in Costa Rica. Opinions are MY own. I block trolls and bots.
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Quebrar al SINART a punta de malas decisiones disfrazadas de «democratización» suena más a ensayo que a otra cosa. www.nacion.com/politica/sin...

Just a casual busking day and this …

🚨BREAKING: Third Count a Charm: Riggs Wins North Carolina Supreme Court Race! www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

If we all find 100 posts to like every day, engagement and good will on @bsky.app grows exponentially. Is it worth a few minutes to make the platform stronger ?

Fascinating (and depressing) NBER study: Integrating women into the military had no *actual* impact on men (promotions, etc.), but men still *perceived* negative impacts (esp. when women were in charge). I'm sure this happens in other boys' club professions too. www.nber.org/papers/w3323...

Most rural hospitals and about a third of urban hospitals no longer provide obstetric care, leading to a maternal mortality crisis. Thanks to GOP religious zealots, dogma-based abortion bans are poised to kill even more women and harm the babies the religious right claims to care so much about.

BREAKING: In an unprecedented move, more than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. It's the first time in history that Nobel laureates have come together to oppose a Cabinet choice.

Sold.

FACT: The United States is the only developed country in the world without universal health coverage for all of its citizens - and that's absolutely shameful, especially for the most wealthy nation on the planet. #HealthCareForAll

Assad is now in Moscow, so Tulsi can visit all her friends in one place.

The birthright citizenship portion of the US Constitution is totally, inarguably unambiguous. No wiggle room. If the supreme court agrees to throw it out they are explicitly throwing out the entire document and our entire system of government.

Markwayne Mullin on Hegseth’s drinking: TAPPER: Drinking at 10 in the morning, that’s a drinking problem. MULLIN: Yeah & there’s probably a lot of media that has a drinking problem too. TAPPER: A drunk reporter who is drinking at 10 AM…is not in charge of the 3 million person defense department.💥

Viktor Orban must be looking at Assad and wondering if he’s next.

Trump says he’s going to send children who were born to undocumented immigrant parents “back” to where they are from. But those children are FROM here. They were BORN here. He’s not going to be sending them “back” to anything. He will be sending them AWAY from their home. And it’s fucking evil.

Yum yum. "The raw milk producer at the center of several bird-flu recalls says RFK Jr. has encouraged him to apply for a position at the FDA. "The recalls were the result of positive tests for H5N1 bird flu among his cows. His farms have since been quarantined...” www.latimes.com/environment/...

Thoughts?

Section 1, of the 14th Amendment:

So, we’re going to ask Tulsi Gabbard all about her support for Bashar al-Assad, right? She’s not going to cruise through confirmation without the world knowing why the hell she ever backed him, right?

When she’s right she’s right

In the spirit of government efficiency, we could skip Tulsi Gabbard's nomination and DM our intelligence directly to Vladimir Putin.

Sickening hypocrisy.

Remember, Tulsi Gabbard claimed Assad didn’t use chemical weapons, it was “the rebels.” Her confirmation hearing will be brutal, if she even makes it to there

I wrote this piece a little over a year ago, analyzing the purpose of Trump’s attacks on the military. I noted that subverting the armed forces from the inside out would require undermining (or eliminating) its diversity, professionalization, and loyalty open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

Reading the pardon coverage...I don't think the significance of the Gaetz/Patel/Bondi nominations has sunk in. People still aren't getting what a politicized DOJ and FBI, with the power to arrest/bug/harass anyone for any reason, would be able to do.

Please.

BREAKING: Joni Ernst having multiple meetings with Pete Hegseth, appears to be leaning toward caving and confirming him. If she votes to confirm him — with all the credible allegations of sexual predation and alcoholism — then the good people of Iowa should VOTE HER OUT in 2026.

This is an oligarchy. The founders never intended people to have this much power… EVER Stop the oligarchy

There’s no such thing as working productively with MAGA nihilists like Elon, Vivek and RFK, Jr. They want to bring down our Republic. Don’t normalize them by pointing out a few of their good ideas. You can’t play nice with the leopards. Let them into your house and they will eat your face.

It's clear enough to me. Musk is not a conservative. He is a far-right extremist shaped by apartheid, infantile and fascistic fantasies of dominating the universe and an authoritarian family culture & personality.

pete hegseth doesn't want women to serve in combat roles yet he has his mother out here fighting his battles....

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Do I have this right that there’s a segment of the population who are simultaneously eating caveman diets to get in touch with “the real” while also investing heavily in a currency that uses massive amounts of energy to produce something of no tangible use and whose value is entirely imaginary.

When fascism comes to America, it’ll be because the richest men in America chose it over paying slightly higher taxes.

Scoop: After the LA Times published a piece about Elon Musk that carried a headline owner Patrick Soon-Shiong didn't like, a new rule was implemented: Prior to publishing opinion stories, headlines must be emailed to Soon-Shiong, where he can then choose to weigh in. www.status.news/p/los-angele...

Elon Musk and Pete Hesgeth are the kind of tough alpha males that America needs, according to their mommies

Are you fucking kidding me?! www.asahq.org/about-asa/ne...

Legacy media.

“The 93-minute documentary forensically details how the first Trump administration’s policy of family separations was deliberate, systematic and intentionally inhumane, leaving children in wire-mesh cages with feelings of fear and abandonment.“ theguardian.com/film/2024/de...

HEGSETH MARRIAGE SUMMARY 1st — he has 5 affairs in 4 years 2nd — his own mother said he “belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego” 3rd — prior to marriage but after she gave birth to their child he cheats on her with a woman who claims it was sexual assault

Fear of books is fear of ideas. It's fear of democracy itself. Let's ban that!