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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 14d

if they say something and you say that's not true, your response is still shaped like their frame

Your frame has to *contain and explain* their frame, not just contradict it.

You have to eat their frame. Like Kirby

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 14d

i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT

"he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality

"this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening

START WITH WHAT IT IS
not what it isn't

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jeremy bearimy✨ @simplysope.bsky.social · 15d

The willful negligence surrounding COVID did untold psychic damage to people.

The idea of public good (masks, shared health behaviors, SHARED HEALTH OUTCOMES) went out the window.

It is mirrored in people’s obsession with stuff like AI. “Harmful broadly and individually pleasing to me? Yes 🥰”

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.bsky.social · 13d

I mean, it sure sounds like the title I'd give to a degree in white-supremacist Christian nationalist organizing if I didn't want to spell all that out...

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.bsky.social · 13d

I am about to go out of town and now cursing the poor timing because maybe I could have met Enzo for the first time at MAX FLUFF.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.bsky.social · 13d

Can we...dare you to hire an EIC from Baltimore City, or something? Will you do it if you can make some hay about it on the marketing side?

You're clearly trying to be the city's new "legacy paper," but you keep hiring rich outsiders to run things. I'm a transplant, and it stands out even to me.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.bsky.social · 13d

Whatever the chatty bathmat wants, the chatty bathmat gets.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.bsky.social · 13d

Petition for all mainstream journalists to attend mandatory "This is what's going on here, you fools" seminar from Dr. Williams.

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JT Hendrix @bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 14d

Want to signal boost this- this place makes a huge difference, We use all the food and it goes to good use and donations are way down so if you know any local church groups or anyone who can help- even just lunch meat and cheese, we can assemble them. Thank you for helping feed Bmore ❤️❤️

WJZ | CBS News Baltimore @cbsnewsbaltimore.bsky.social · 14d

Baltimore food pantry is experiencing critically-low supply, seeks donations

St. Vincent de Paul (SVDP) of Baltimore's Beans and Bread Resource Center is experiencing critically-low donations ahead of the colder months.

www.cbsnews.com

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.bsky.social · 14d

The whole thread. <3

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 14d

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.bsky.social · 14d

Ma'am.

Josephine Stewart @jostewart.bsky.social · 22d

Anyway, tx, all of this at least tells me I'm *basically* understanding the sentence, so I'm gonna delete so it doesn't fly around forever.

Josephine Stewart @jostewart.bsky.social · 22d

Anyway, tx, all of this at least tells me I'm *basically* understanding the sentence, so I'm gonna delete so it doesn't fly around forever.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.bsky.social · 22d

Would "matón" be the more "normal" word for that? If so, this would totally make sense as a vintage typo.

Josephine Stewart @jostewart.bsky.social · 22d

Character is Mexican, though. Layers!

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.bsky.social · 22d

Oh, interesting! I did not find that online, but I totally don't know where to look for a reliable online Portuguese/English dictionary, so...

Josephine Stewart @jostewart.bsky.social · 22d

Slight paraphrase to make the context clearer: "Did some machuteno search the room?"

I think it might be a vintage typo combining/conflating "matón" and/or "machucon," but I'm really not sure. I'm leaning that way because "thug" would be an appropriate fit there in the larger context.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.bsky.social · 22d

Is this a vintage typo? Out-of-date slang? Something else?

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.bsky.social · 23d

What a sweetheart. <3 Thank you for telling us about her, and I'm glad she had such a good life with you.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 23d

It started with Gaza under Biden. We warned you. We warned you by sacrificing with our lives and careers. You either stood up for people, en masse, who lost their job protesting genocide, or you agreed live in a society where lives could be ended for being against genocide. Now it’s anything goes.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23d

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.bsky.social · 24d

And if you have super gnarly fake-flu from both the mRNA shots, Novavax might be much kinder to you! (Downside is it's harder to access.)

For all versions, hot tip: Taking an antihistamine 15 or 20 minutes before administration can make the side effects less severe with no impact on vax efficacy.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.bsky.social · 24d

My insurance made me get a titer test, wouldn't just give me the shot—but that's not a terrible thing! Found out my titers were very good, didn't need new shot, wins all around. Ask about DTap/TDap while you're at it; you DO NOT want pertussis.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 24d

fellow olds, get your titers checked or ask about just getting an mmr booster. we don’t want fucking MEASLES to spread.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25d

this is an object lesson in why praising Dems when they do the right thing - and not just castigating them for doing the wrong thing - is good politics for those of us who want them to fight

Van Hollen raised his profile by doing the right thing and the lesson he learned was keep fighting

Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 25d

“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”

In his remarks, Mr. Van Hollen cited his involvement in fighting for the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongfully deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador in the spring. Some in his party, he said, argued that getting embroiled in a fight over a deportation was a “distraction” and potentially politically unpopular, because Mr. Trump’s hard line on immigration had resonated with voters.

Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson.

“This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style,” he said. “We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.”

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.bsky.social · 24d

We do not stan politicians in this house, but I am genuinely glad this guy is my senator. He's such a refreshing contrast to the pile of Dem power brokers who seem to believe in nothing and do less. I may not agree with his every step, but he seems to be a good-faith actor who actually TRIES.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.bsky.social · 24d

If that sounds unreasonable—hey, maybe the current situation is unreasonable, too!

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