Francis Brodsky
@diamantes.bsky.social
Clinical Psychologist, Brooklyn
TV people can make anything sound reasonable, even the most ridiculous and harmful ideas, even authoritarian attacks on a marginalized and vulnerable demographic.
May 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
TV people can make anything sound reasonable, even the most ridiculous and harmful ideas, even authoritarian attacks on a marginalized and vulnerable demographic.
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Happy 75th Birthday, Stevie Wonder. 🎉
To celebrate, here is a list of the soul visionary's best 50 songs
To celebrate, here is a list of the soul visionary's best 50 songs
The 50 Best Stevie Wonder Songs
The 50 Best Stevie Wonder Songs
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May 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Happy 75th Birthday, Stevie Wonder. 🎉
To celebrate, here is a list of the soul visionary's best 50 songs
To celebrate, here is a list of the soul visionary's best 50 songs
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This is the non-profit South Seattle hospital that fired my wife's whole team a month ago because Trump stopped providing medicaid reimbursements at the beginning of the year, throwing them into financial chaos.
The word medicaid isn't mentioned once in this article on more layoffs:
The word medicaid isn't mentioned once in this article on more layoffs:
Valley Medical to close hospital units amid financial woes
Valley will close two hospital units and five clinics, as well as shift most staffing models to full-time instead of part-time.
www.king5.com
May 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is the non-profit South Seattle hospital that fired my wife's whole team a month ago because Trump stopped providing medicaid reimbursements at the beginning of the year, throwing them into financial chaos.
The word medicaid isn't mentioned once in this article on more layoffs:
The word medicaid isn't mentioned once in this article on more layoffs:
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Driving through rural North Dakota, barn side painted white with giant blue letters: FREE KILMAR.
May 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Driving through rural North Dakota, barn side painted white with giant blue letters: FREE KILMAR.
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Left: Trump state department appointee Chris Landau greeting white South Africans whose immigration to the United States was expedited by Trump. Right: The apartheid flag of South Africa.
May 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Left: Trump state department appointee Chris Landau greeting white South Africans whose immigration to the United States was expedited by Trump. Right: The apartheid flag of South Africa.
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Yes, this is a genuine 1949 DC Comics illustration printed on book covers distributed to schools in the US.
May 1, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Yes, this is a genuine 1949 DC Comics illustration printed on book covers distributed to schools in the US.
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"Our parent company, Paramount, is trying to complete a merger. The Trump administration must approve it. Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways"
And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
April 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
"Our parent company, Paramount, is trying to complete a merger. The Trump administration must approve it. Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways"
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On AI hallucinations and in-built biases: Terri Morgan asked Copilot to generate a photo of a nurse, first in French then in Spanish and then in German.
The results are weird to the point of disturbing. #mojofest2025
The results are weird to the point of disturbing. #mojofest2025
April 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
On AI hallucinations and in-built biases: Terri Morgan asked Copilot to generate a photo of a nurse, first in French then in Spanish and then in German.
The results are weird to the point of disturbing. #mojofest2025
The results are weird to the point of disturbing. #mojofest2025
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Hey you know where else DMS has been spotted? The very very dead comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. @elisecutts.bsky.social covered for @science.org last year.
How could stories today not note this?
How could stories today not note this?
What is a presumed sign of life doing on a dead comet?
Touted as a “biosignature” on an alien planet, dimethyl sulfide also seems to arise in banal ways
www.science.org
April 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Hey you know where else DMS has been spotted? The very very dead comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. @elisecutts.bsky.social covered for @science.org last year.
How could stories today not note this?
How could stories today not note this?
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Héroïne d’un documentaire sélectionné à Cannes en mai prochain, Fatima Hassouna, photojournaliste palestinienne, a été tuée aujourd'hui par l'armée israélienne
www.humanite.fr/culture-et-s...
www.humanite.fr/culture-et-s...
Guerre à Gaza : la photojournaliste Fatima Hassouna assassinée dans le bombardement de sa maison par Israël - L'Humanité
La photojournaliste palestinienne, héroïne d’un documentaire sélectionné à Cannes en mai prochain, a été tuée le mercredi 16 avril dans le bombardement de sa maison familiale...
www.humanite.fr
April 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Héroïne d’un documentaire sélectionné à Cannes en mai prochain, Fatima Hassouna, photojournaliste palestinienne, a été tuée aujourd'hui par l'armée israélienne
www.humanite.fr/culture-et-s...
www.humanite.fr/culture-et-s...
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As reported last week, Trump is going to kill Head Start, utterly screwing 750,000 children who rely on it for child care and preschool and a million parents who count on it to stay in the workforce.
April 17, 2025 at 3:01 AM
As reported last week, Trump is going to kill Head Start, utterly screwing 750,000 children who rely on it for child care and preschool and a million parents who count on it to stay in the workforce.
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
April 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Must-read / must-listen interview with Chris Murphy. www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...
We Are Sleepwalking Into Autocracy
Senator Chris Murphy, of Connecticut, describes how free and fair elections might end in America as soon as 2026.
www.newyorker.com
April 6, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Must-read / must-listen interview with Chris Murphy. www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...
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📌So for the fuck of it, I tuned into Fox and Newmax the past hour to get their take on this financial suicide today, and neither of them had their market tickers on. I swear to God, you'd think everybody struck gold today.
NONE of this would have happened to America without this hideous propaganda.
NONE of this would have happened to America without this hideous propaganda.
April 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
📌So for the fuck of it, I tuned into Fox and Newmax the past hour to get their take on this financial suicide today, and neither of them had their market tickers on. I swear to God, you'd think everybody struck gold today.
NONE of this would have happened to America without this hideous propaganda.
NONE of this would have happened to America without this hideous propaganda.
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This is part of what’s so insane. As they talk about re-shoring and manufacturing they are actively trying to destroy an entire us manufacturing industry that already exists.
Billions of dollars in clean energy projects have been canceled since Donald Trump took office again — leaving thousands of jobs and the shift to clean energy in doubt.
A stunning number of electric vehicle, battery factories are being canceled
Billions of dollars in clean energy projects have been canceled since Donald Trump took office again.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This is part of what’s so insane. As they talk about re-shoring and manufacturing they are actively trying to destroy an entire us manufacturing industry that already exists.
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Good morning from France ☀️
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”
- Thomas Jefferson
April 5, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Good morning from France ☀️
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”
- Thomas Jefferson
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1272 protests listed for tomorrow. THAT is BIG. 686 were counted in the US for the January 21, 2017, women's march, in which 1% of the country marched. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Protests April 5 to 11
docs.google.com
April 5, 2025 at 5:24 AM
1272 protests listed for tomorrow. THAT is BIG. 686 were counted in the US for the January 21, 2017, women's march, in which 1% of the country marched. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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NEW 🧵
A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:
1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.
These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:
1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.
These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
April 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
NEW 🧵
A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:
1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.
These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:
1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.
These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
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It is very possible there will be more than a million protesting tomorrow.
Find your local march: www.mobilize.us/handsoff/
Find your local march: www.mobilize.us/handsoff/
Hands Off! Join the National Mobilization to Fight Back · Hands Off on Mobilize
Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, fundraisers and more with Hands Off.
www.mobilize.us
April 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
It is very possible there will be more than a million protesting tomorrow.
Find your local march: www.mobilize.us/handsoff/
Find your local march: www.mobilize.us/handsoff/
The U.S. government has banned American personnel in China from any romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citizens, AP has learned. The ban extends to family members of US personnel and contractors with security clearances, sources added.
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US bans government personnel in China from romantic or sexual relations with Chinese citizens
The U.S. government has banned American government personnel in China, as well as family members and contractors with security clearances, from any romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citize...
justsecurity.us7.list-manage.com
April 5, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The U.S. government has banned American personnel in China from any romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citizens, AP has learned. The ban extends to family members of US personnel and contractors with security clearances, sources added.
justsecurity.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?...
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Orwell’s memory hole in action: Control of the past is a totalitarian priority.
"Diversity is not our strength" is manifestly bullshit, so they are erasing the history of our heroes to try to make it seem true
Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order
March 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Orwell’s memory hole in action: Control of the past is a totalitarian priority.
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“Almost all the prominent Nazis came from middle-class families with right-wing values—patriotism, antisemitism, fear of ‘Bolshevism’—for whom righteous violence seemed a sign of manliness.” —Neal Ascherson
Ordinary Germans | Neal Ascherson
We know who the Nazis were and what they did. In Hitler's People, the distinguished historian Richard J. Evans seeks to explain what what made them capable of doing it.
buff.ly
March 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
“Almost all the prominent Nazis came from middle-class families with right-wing values—patriotism, antisemitism, fear of ‘Bolshevism’—for whom righteous violence seemed a sign of manliness.” —Neal Ascherson