Jessica Mecham
@humanisttraveler.bsky.social
Fed up with the misinformation landscape. PhD Humanities prof. Fights propaganda. Book addict. Art and music lover. ❤️ National Parks. Major wanderlust.
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Trump Unable To Focus In Meeting As Pressure Of Booking Kennedy Center Summer Jazz Series Looms
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Trump Unable To Focus In Meeting As Pressure Of Booking Kennedy Center Summer Jazz Series Looms
WASHINGTON—Amid efforts to prove himself as an effective chair of the performing arts organization, President Donald Trump was reportedly unable to focus in a national security meeting Friday, distracted by the pressure of booking the Kennedy Center’s upcoming Summer Jazz Series. According to sources, the sound of his Cabinet members’ voices was essentially white noise […]
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February 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Trump Unable To Focus In Meeting As Pressure Of Booking Kennedy Center Summer Jazz Series Looms
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"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.
February 20, 2025 at 12:57 AM
"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.
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Here's what current Secretary of State Marco Rubio had to say about USAID in the past.
February 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Here's what current Secretary of State Marco Rubio had to say about USAID in the past.
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JFK on why he founded USAID.
“The economic collapse of those free but less-developed nations which now stand poised between sustained growth and economic chaos would be disastrous to our national security, harmful to our comparative prosperity and offensive to our conscience”.
“The economic collapse of those free but less-developed nations which now stand poised between sustained growth and economic chaos would be disastrous to our national security, harmful to our comparative prosperity and offensive to our conscience”.
February 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
JFK on why he founded USAID.
“The economic collapse of those free but less-developed nations which now stand poised between sustained growth and economic chaos would be disastrous to our national security, harmful to our comparative prosperity and offensive to our conscience”.
“The economic collapse of those free but less-developed nations which now stand poised between sustained growth and economic chaos would be disastrous to our national security, harmful to our comparative prosperity and offensive to our conscience”.
If you have lots of tedious stuff to do, that perhaps you don’t want to do, and really all
you want to do is make cookies and stare and your Christmas tree, may I recommend this album to help you stay zen and focused.
you want to do is make cookies and stare and your Christmas tree, may I recommend this album to help you stay zen and focused.
December 5, 2024 at 4:47 PM
If you have lots of tedious stuff to do, that perhaps you don’t want to do, and really all
you want to do is make cookies and stare and your Christmas tree, may I recommend this album to help you stay zen and focused.
you want to do is make cookies and stare and your Christmas tree, may I recommend this album to help you stay zen and focused.
-last book you read: Doppelgänger by @naomiaklein.bsky.social
-your current read: The Changeling by Victor Lavalle
-last book added to your TBR: The (Dis)information Age: from Post-Truth to Post-Modernism by Jonathan Austad
-your current read: The Changeling by Victor Lavalle
-last book added to your TBR: The (Dis)information Age: from Post-Truth to Post-Modernism by Jonathan Austad
- last book you read: Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward
- your current read: The Rediscovery of America by
Ned Blackhawk & A House Full of Females by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- last book added to your TBR: Good Soil: the Education of an Accidental Farmhand @byjeffchu.com
- your current read: The Rediscovery of America by
Ned Blackhawk & A House Full of Females by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- last book added to your TBR: Good Soil: the Education of an Accidental Farmhand @byjeffchu.com
- last book you read: Ingrained by Callum Robinson
- your current read: By the Fire We Carry by @rebeccanagle.bsky.social
- last book added to your TBR: Big Chief by Jon Hickey
- your current read: By the Fire We Carry by @rebeccanagle.bsky.social
- last book added to your TBR: Big Chief by Jon Hickey
November 19, 2024 at 6:44 AM
-last book you read: Doppelgänger by @naomiaklein.bsky.social
-your current read: The Changeling by Victor Lavalle
-last book added to your TBR: The (Dis)information Age: from Post-Truth to Post-Modernism by Jonathan Austad
-your current read: The Changeling by Victor Lavalle
-last book added to your TBR: The (Dis)information Age: from Post-Truth to Post-Modernism by Jonathan Austad
Feeling rebellious so I decorated my computer. My kids said GenX is too mature for that but I didn’t listen.
November 18, 2024 at 4:46 AM
Feeling rebellious so I decorated my computer. My kids said GenX is too mature for that but I didn’t listen.
Tried this pear rosemary honey cake and I’ve made it twice more since then. Perfect fall dessert. Baking is a perfectly legitimate coping mechanism. 😅
November 17, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Tried this pear rosemary honey cake and I’ve made it twice more since then. Perfect fall dessert. Baking is a perfectly legitimate coping mechanism. 😅
I was up all night with intense aches, chills, and 101 fever. Why? Because I got the shingles vaccine yesterday. Why? Because I don’t want shingles. Simple as that. Even a complication free infection is miserable, but complications can be life altering. If you’re eligible, get the shot!
a cartoon of a bear laying in bed with a thermometer and a bag of ice
ALT: a cartoon of a bear laying in bed with a thermometer and a bag of ice
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November 17, 2024 at 3:14 PM
I was up all night with intense aches, chills, and 101 fever. Why? Because I got the shingles vaccine yesterday. Why? Because I don’t want shingles. Simple as that. Even a complication free infection is miserable, but complications can be life altering. If you’re eligible, get the shot!
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This is a great community ethos. Did you know there’s also a “Newskies” feed with first posts from new users? I sometimes go in there and say hi to new folks coming on.
I think all of us should spend five minutes doing this each day:
👉 Search Bluesky for “first post”
👉 Filter by “latest”
👉 Like and welcome at least 10 new people
It makes a big difference and it could just make you a new friend!
#FirstPostChallenge
👉 Search Bluesky for “first post”
👉 Filter by “latest”
👉 Like and welcome at least 10 new people
It makes a big difference and it could just make you a new friend!
#FirstPostChallenge
November 17, 2024 at 5:45 AM
This is a great community ethos. Did you know there’s also a “Newskies” feed with first posts from new users? I sometimes go in there and say hi to new folks coming on.
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I’m down about 15,000 followers on the other site in a week. The migration over here is real!
I want to rebuild my audience as best I can. Help me out by liking and sharing this post, then responding with a 💙?
I’ll follow back as many of you as I can.
I want to rebuild my audience as best I can. Help me out by liking and sharing this post, then responding with a 💙?
I’ll follow back as many of you as I can.
November 15, 2024 at 3:49 PM
I’m down about 15,000 followers on the other site in a week. The migration over here is real!
I want to rebuild my audience as best I can. Help me out by liking and sharing this post, then responding with a 💙?
I’ll follow back as many of you as I can.
I want to rebuild my audience as best I can. Help me out by liking and sharing this post, then responding with a 💙?
I’ll follow back as many of you as I can.
“Philosophy teaches us to feel uncertain about the things that seem self-evident. Propaganda, on the other hand, teaches us to accept as self-evident matters about which it would be reasonable to suspend our judgment or to feel doubt.”
—Aldous Huxley, “Propaganda under a Dictatorship,” 1958
—Aldous Huxley, “Propaganda under a Dictatorship,” 1958
November 16, 2024 at 8:10 PM
“Philosophy teaches us to feel uncertain about the things that seem self-evident. Propaganda, on the other hand, teaches us to accept as self-evident matters about which it would be reasonable to suspend our judgment or to feel doubt.”
—Aldous Huxley, “Propaganda under a Dictatorship,” 1958
—Aldous Huxley, “Propaganda under a Dictatorship,” 1958