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Joseph Galbo @josephgalbo.bsky.social · 2d

Put it in the papers - America persists because 700k civil servants have no quit in them.

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Magdalena Michalowicz @magdalenam.bsky.social · 6d

Great visual metaphor, no notes

Valorie Bridges Fant * Author of * Go Back to Your Country * @vrfant1.bsky.social · 6d

JUST IN: The Trump administration has begun DEMOLISHING portions of the East Wing of the White House to build Trump’s $250 million ballroom — despite earlier claiming it wouldn’t “interfere” with the existing White House structure. (Washington Post)

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Magdalena Michalowicz @magdalenam.bsky.social · 9d

My partner was one of the researchers on this lost wallet study. Turns out people suck less than we expect. www.npr.org/2019/06/20/7...

What Dropping 17,000 Wallets Around The Globe Can Teach Us About Honesty

Scientists used "lost" wallets to test whether people are more likely to be dishonest when they might profit. The results were puzzling — so they put more money in the wallets.

www.npr.org

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Micah @rincewind.run · 9d

we are not having a lot of luck with institutional pushback - everyone who does is fired and replaced

we are definitely not having any luck with “norms”

what we are having luck with is ordinary people looking at the incompetent bullshit put in front of them and going “absolutely not”

David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 9d

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro lost 3x in a closely watched case that arose during the transfer of detainees to ICE outside of the D.C. jail.

~three grand jury no bills;
~one acquittal by the judge;
~one acquittal by the petit jury.

Juries are doing their jobs.

talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Jury Acquittal Hands Jeanine Pirro A Big L

Three-Time Loser In a closely watched case, a federal jury acquitted a...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Magdalena Michalowicz @magdalenam.bsky.social · 14d

chatGPT just hallucinated an article with a title that's my own working title for a project and attributed it to a random person in 2023, so that's fun.

Magdalena Michalowicz @magdalenam.bsky.social · 16d

Yes. And anything that scratches an itch a little too well. Sometimes the karma/schadenfreude is perfect and true, but often it's engineered for get you to bite.

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Magdalena Michalowicz @magdalenam.bsky.social · 17d

Tell any activist/interested friends if you're so inclined!

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Magdalena Michalowicz @magdalenam.bsky.social · 17d

I need someone(s) to start making stickers that say "[State's name for Medicaid] is MEDICAID" and tag them all over red states.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 23d

The reason a lot of white people can operate in the privilege of a comment like “we used to be able to have dissenting opinions & now they break friendships” is because the people of color in the room had to be silent in order to remain in the room safely.

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Colleen Theisen @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 27d

Well, this is delightful news. 📚
bookriot.com/new-host-of-...

Meet the New Host of Reading Rainbow: Mychal the Librarian

After 20 years, Reading Rainbow is back! The new host is Mychal the Librarian, who has been spreading library joy online for years.

bookriot.com

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 28d

There is a difference between righteous anger, directed at injustice, and hateful anger, directed at those who are different. Authoritarian regimes deliberately conflate the two to silence criticism and create false equivalence. It's important we don't let those in power succeed in this endeavor.

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Magdalena Michalowicz @magdalenam.bsky.social · 28d

Having read the full Coates/Klein transcript now, it's striking how much Klein seems to want One Weird Trick to fix things. I think Coates has the right idea here.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 28d

of all the things about ta-nehisi coates’s philosophy i wish people would internalize the main one is: sometimes you lose

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Magdalena Michalowicz @magdalenam.bsky.social · Sep 26

I showed this Substack from a virologist to an actual epidemiologist, and she agreed this is probably the end game. His post this morning follows her logic/theory. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-poison...

The Poison Pill to End the MMR is Tylenol

If you think Tylenol is bad for babies, wait until you hear about rubella virus

rasmussenretorts.substack.com

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Magdalena Michalowicz @magdalenam.bsky.social · Sep 24

I will get back to you in a few months! It’s early days.

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Magdalena Michalowicz @magdalenam.bsky.social · Sep 24

Writer with a media background here that went back to get my MPP/MPH. Literally writing my policy capstone about this. We gotta be interdisciplinary and meet the moment.

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · Sep 22

This is Rubicon crossed. Never has elected official or appointee interfered with drug oversight like this. It has implications for public health, national security, and economic implications. They’re not good. You can’t invest in something when you think FDA is drafting policy from tweets.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Sep 18

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

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Magdalena Michalowicz @magdalenam.bsky.social · Sep 16

Cringing in class because someone behind me is coughing/congested. Then I turn around and see their KN95. Public health classes ftw

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · Sep 13

praise for Kirk from liberal pundits is one of the clearest distillations of how ill-equipped they are for this fascist moment, & how devoted they are to a West Wing fantasy of a respectable right/conservative movement that does not exist, and which - like Kirk - almost never operates in good faith

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Magdalena Michalowicz @magdalenam.bsky.social · Sep 9

It's almost like there have been specific policy and social choices to ensure women's incomes are smaller!

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · Sep 9

It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Aug 29

politics is conflictual; a reality you cannot poll, focus group, or message your way out of.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · Aug 28

If you want to build a society around solidarity & non-zero-sum cooperation, you have to find a way to go around these folks, to deny them power, to develop social norms that marginalize them. You're not going to persuade or convert them.

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · Aug 24

Mississippi banned abortion and refused to expand Medicaid. This isn't complicated. This is a policy choice. 'Pro-life' politicians would rather babies die than their mothers receive health care. www.waaytv.com/news/nation-...

Mississippi declares public health emergency over rising infant mortality rate

(CNN) — The Mississippi health department declared a public health emergency Thursday over rising infant mortality rates in the state.

www.waaytv.com

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Sophia Florence @sophiaflorence.bsky.social · Aug 17

Laura is one of the most brilliant brains in journalism these days, and I honestly can't think of a more essential article. This is a set of LEGAL and reasonable things you can do to keep the entire country from escalating into the police state that it's becoming in so many places.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · Aug 14

America is no longer descending into fascism. We are seconds away from impact

Military occupation has come to DC. If and when military occupation comes to where you are, there are things that you can do. This article outlines some of them

How To Fight A Military Occupation

Friction. Obstruction. Demoralization.

www.bannedinyourstate.com

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