Carol Balkon
@cranescall.bsky.social
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It’s time to turn up the pressure on Republicans who are complicit in enabling the regime’s brutal lawlessness. We’re contacting voters in key states and connecting them with their GOP senators to demand ICE Out For Good.
ICE OUT For Good Indivisible Phone Bank · Indivisible
Masked federal agents are terrorizing our communities. They’re teargassing babies, kidnapping our neighbors, shooting clergy in the face with chemical projectiles, and killing innocent people.
**But ...
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February 3, 2026 at 12:50 AM
It’s time to turn up the pressure on Republicans who are complicit in enabling the regime’s brutal lawlessness. We’re contacting voters in key states and connecting them with their GOP senators to demand ICE Out For Good.
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Bellingcat founder @eliothiggins.bsky.social and Cornell University’s @cward1e.bsky.social unpack how disinformation evolved, why trust in institutions is collapsing, and what tools we all need to stay sharp in a world of misinformation. Listen back to last week's Stage Talk: rss.com/podcasts/bel...
"How We Got Here: The Rise, Backlash and Future Of Counter-Disinformation" with Eliot Higgins and Dr Claire Wardle | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
In our first Stage Talk of 2026, we were joined by Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins and Cornell University's Dr. Claire Wardle sharing their expertise on the formation of fact checking and verificatio...
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February 2, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Bellingcat founder @eliothiggins.bsky.social and Cornell University’s @cward1e.bsky.social unpack how disinformation evolved, why trust in institutions is collapsing, and what tools we all need to stay sharp in a world of misinformation. Listen back to last week's Stage Talk: rss.com/podcasts/bel...
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Man Who Bumped Tesla While Parallel Parking Sentenced To Death
Man Who Bumped Tesla While Parallel Parking Sentenced To Death
WASHINGTON—Warning that even the slightest dent, knick, or scratch would henceforth be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Tuesday that Raymond Pratt, a 5...
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April 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Man Who Bumped Tesla While Parallel Parking Sentenced To Death
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Reposted by Carol Balkon
Reposted by Carol Balkon
Poetry Foundation chose Maggie Smith's "Good Bones" (a poem whose central metaphor is a real estate agent lying to you about the state of the world) the Poem of the Day today www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
Good Bones
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children.
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January 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Poetry Foundation chose Maggie Smith's "Good Bones" (a poem whose central metaphor is a real estate agent lying to you about the state of the world) the Poem of the Day today www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...