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Ranjona Banerji
@ranjona.bsky.social
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Journalist. Print. Digital. Anti-bigot. Woman.
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Christi Belcourt, contemporary Métis visual artist known for her paintings which depict floral patterns inspired by Métis and First Nations historical beadwork art #womensart
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Karen Ongley-Snook, UK multi media artist who specialises in glass #WomensArt
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Amrita Sher-Gil,
Little Girl in Blue, 1934
Indian modernist painter
#WomensArt
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total mentions on Fox News so far today

Obama: 30
Epstein: 2
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Hillary Clinton's emails: 6
total mentions on Fox News so far today

Obama: 30
Epstein: 2
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Breaking News: Speaker Mike Johnson said he would shut down the House until September to block a vote on calling for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Trump Live Updates: Johnson Blocks Epstein Vote as Justice Dept. Seeks Interview with Maxwell
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The White House said it would ban Wall Street Journal reporters from the press pool covering President Trump’s upcoming trip to Scotland, its latest attack on the media outlet for its recent report tying the president to Jeffrey Epstein.
Wall Street Journal banned from Trump’s Scotland trip over Epstein story
The decision is the White House’s latest attack on the media outlet for its recent report tying the president to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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🧵 I’ve talked a lot about disordered discourse, conspiracies, polarisation, denialism. But maybe the better question is: why does this keep happening? Why does our shared reality keep fracturing? What are the drivers I talk about as a dimension of disordered discourse?
I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...
Belllingcat CEO Eliot Higgins, on how disordered discourse is destroying democracy
YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit
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i am tired of being told i must coddle these people. no! they are willfully ignorant! and their standard bearer, RFK, is a monstrous narcissist who is indifferent to death and suffering.
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this antivax stuff is genuinely bewildering. like what do you mean you don’t know if vaccines are safe? why exactly do you think child mortality rates have plummeted since the beginning of the 20th century? why is it that you are not worried about getting polio or smallpox anymore?
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Just look at our galaxy. We live in a magnificent place at a magnificent time.
Milky Way over the GTC and the TNG - From Ángel López-Sánchez - https://flic.kr/p/JWSpFb
Nothing new about "toxic masculinity". Just generational naivete and wilful refusal to face reality. I ✍️
Yeah, I'm angry.
www.deccanchronicle.com/opinion/colu...
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WIRED @wired.com · Apr 19
You little anarchist. They told you to switch to airplane mode, and you just … didn’t.

But does it even matter? Well, your flight probably won’t crash, but ignoring airplane mode uses up your battery and annoys the pilot.
Am I the Asshole if I Don’t Put My Phone on Airplane Mode?
If you don’t, your flight won’t crash, but ignoring airplane mode uses up your battery and annoys the pilot.
wrd.cm
Read up on it. As yet unsubstantiated, and no evidence that that substance necessarily means life elsewhere. Regardless of my pride that the study is by Madhusudhan & Co!
For women, it's all been the same. Then and now.