@meapmom.bsky.social
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Dorothy Thompson, the First Lady of American Journalism, was the first US journalist to be thrown out of Nazi Germany. She called Hitler "the very prototype of the little man."
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Dorothy Thompson, the First Lady of American Journalism, was the first US journalist to be thrown out of Nazi Germany. She called Hitler "the very prototype of the little man."
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We're doing a shutdown Q&A on our @marketplace.org podcast, "Make Me Smart" tomorrow. If you have questions about the shutdown, how it will affect the economy, its impact on you, the policies they're fighting over, or anything else related... send them our way. www.marketplace.org/shows/make-m...
Make Me Smart
www.marketplace.org
October 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
We're doing a shutdown Q&A on our @marketplace.org podcast, "Make Me Smart" tomorrow. If you have questions about the shutdown, how it will affect the economy, its impact on you, the policies they're fighting over, or anything else related... send them our way. www.marketplace.org/shows/make-m...
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Fifty years ago, on Sept. 26, 1975, The Rocky Horror Picture Show flopped at the U.S. box office — then became the longest-running theatrical release in history.
I remember doing the Time Warp: The 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' turns 50
Fifty years ago, on Sept. 26, 1975, The Rocky Horror Picture Show flopped at the U.S. box office — then became the longest-running theatrical release in history.
n.pr
September 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Fifty years ago, on Sept. 26, 1975, The Rocky Horror Picture Show flopped at the U.S. box office — then became the longest-running theatrical release in history.
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Fifty years ago, on Sept. 26, 1975, The Rocky Horror Picture Show flopped at the U.S. box office — then became the longest-running theatrical release in history.
I remember doing the Time Warp: The 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' turns 50
Fifty years ago, on Sept. 26, 1975, The Rocky Horror Picture Show flopped at the U.S. box office — then became the longest-running theatrical release in history.
n.pr
September 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Fifty years ago, on Sept. 26, 1975, The Rocky Horror Picture Show flopped at the U.S. box office — then became the longest-running theatrical release in history.
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Sending love to everyone who needs it tonight. Love and Tom Holland.
Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland
YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica
youtu.be
September 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Sending love to everyone who needs it tonight. Love and Tom Holland.
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I thought the Constitution was a thing… 🧐🤷🏻♀️🦁 #HeJustCantWaitToBeKing #parody
September 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I thought the Constitution was a thing… 🧐🤷🏻♀️🦁 #HeJustCantWaitToBeKing #parody
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“THERE ARE ways to reduce belief in falsehoods about election integrity…It IS worth applying these techniques to communication strategies both in the election context and, likely, beyond.”
— Kate Starbird, academic expert on election misinformation and rumors
— Kate Starbird, academic expert on election misinformation and rumors
New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...
Trust in elections rises after ‘inoculations’ meant to preempt false fraud claims
New U.S.-Brazil study points to ways of countering election misinformation, political scientists say
www.science.org
August 30, 2025 at 10:26 AM
“THERE ARE ways to reduce belief in falsehoods about election integrity…It IS worth applying these techniques to communication strategies both in the election context and, likely, beyond.”
— Kate Starbird, academic expert on election misinformation and rumors
— Kate Starbird, academic expert on election misinformation and rumors
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Here are some words that turned 100 in 2025:
-recycle
-group therapy
-desktop
-slumber party
-uh-oh
-woke
-freebie
-recycle
-group therapy
-desktop
-slumber party
-uh-oh
-woke
-freebie
August 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Here are some words that turned 100 in 2025:
-recycle
-group therapy
-desktop
-slumber party
-uh-oh
-woke
-freebie
-recycle
-group therapy
-desktop
-slumber party
-uh-oh
-woke
-freebie
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Most sunscreens protect skin from UV light but the tinted variety also block visible light. And that can be important for people with hyperpigmentation or melasma, especially those with darker skin.
Tinted sunscreen does something regular sun protection can't
Most sunscreens protect skin from UV light but the tinted variety also block visible light. And that can be important for people with hyperpigmentation or melasma, especially those with darker skin.
n.pr
August 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Most sunscreens protect skin from UV light but the tinted variety also block visible light. And that can be important for people with hyperpigmentation or melasma, especially those with darker skin.
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Is there a word that uses all the vowels including ‘y’?
Unquestionably.
Unquestionably.
August 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Is there a word that uses all the vowels including ‘y’?
Unquestionably.
Unquestionably.
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Ppl think every public radio station is NPR. NPR is a network that employs about 1k employees. ~1,500 US public stations employ ~19,000 people. Most of the people who work in public media, by far, don't work for NPR or PBS. They work in your community, for your local station.
cpb.org/sites/defaul...
cpb.org/sites/defaul...
cpb.org
July 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Ppl think every public radio station is NPR. NPR is a network that employs about 1k employees. ~1,500 US public stations employ ~19,000 people. Most of the people who work in public media, by far, don't work for NPR or PBS. They work in your community, for your local station.
cpb.org/sites/defaul...
cpb.org/sites/defaul...
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Legal and moral are not synonyms.
July 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Legal and moral are not synonyms.
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Until the Civil Rights movement, the majority of conservatives were okay with social welfare policy. Meaning, they were fine with food and income support, housing assistance, tuition assistance, etc, when it benefited whites almost exclusively.
escholarship.org/content/qt17...
escholarship.org/content/qt17...
escholarship.org
July 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Until the Civil Rights movement, the majority of conservatives were okay with social welfare policy. Meaning, they were fine with food and income support, housing assistance, tuition assistance, etc, when it benefited whites almost exclusively.
escholarship.org/content/qt17...
escholarship.org/content/qt17...
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Hey ding-dongs, let’s have a chit-chat about 'Ablaut reduplication.'
If you have three words, the order usually goes 'I-A-O.'
-tic-tac-toe
If there are only two words, ‘I’ is the first and the second is either ‘A’ or ‘O.’
-click-clack
-King-Kong
If you have three words, the order usually goes 'I-A-O.'
-tic-tac-toe
If there are only two words, ‘I’ is the first and the second is either ‘A’ or ‘O.’
-click-clack
-King-Kong
July 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Hey ding-dongs, let’s have a chit-chat about 'Ablaut reduplication.'
If you have three words, the order usually goes 'I-A-O.'
-tic-tac-toe
If there are only two words, ‘I’ is the first and the second is either ‘A’ or ‘O.’
-click-clack
-King-Kong
If you have three words, the order usually goes 'I-A-O.'
-tic-tac-toe
If there are only two words, ‘I’ is the first and the second is either ‘A’ or ‘O.’
-click-clack
-King-Kong
Please scratch my tummy…
July 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Please scratch my tummy…
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Please spread the word that Medicaid goes under a variety of names, depending on your state.
👇 Your state & loss 👇
👇 Your state & loss 👇
July 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Please spread the word that Medicaid goes under a variety of names, depending on your state.
👇 Your state & loss 👇
👇 Your state & loss 👇
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Alright everyone, one last push.
If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US
Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.
It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)
trvr.org/survey2025
If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US
Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.
It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)
trvr.org/survey2025
To proceed to the survey, please check off the box and click the button below.
trvr.org
June 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Alright everyone, one last push.
If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US
Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.
It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)
trvr.org/survey2025
If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US
Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.
It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)
trvr.org/survey2025
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🧵I think it’s important to understand what disinformation like Sen. Mike Lee’s tweets are trying to do, psychologically/cognitively. In my disinfo class/Substack, I talk about how disinfo often uses “moral disengagement strategies” to manipulate people into accepting harmful conduct 1/
June 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
🧵I think it’s important to understand what disinformation like Sen. Mike Lee’s tweets are trying to do, psychologically/cognitively. In my disinfo class/Substack, I talk about how disinfo often uses “moral disengagement strategies” to manipulate people into accepting harmful conduct 1/
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Sobering words but so true.
June 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Sobering words but so true.
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BELL, STORM UPDATE:
A major disaster declaration for the May 16 storms has been APPROVED. Individual assistance, under FEMA’s Individuals and Households Program, is available to eligible homeowners and renters in the City of St Louis and St. Louis County. The deadline to apply is August 11, 2025 🧵
A major disaster declaration for the May 16 storms has been APPROVED. Individual assistance, under FEMA’s Individuals and Households Program, is available to eligible homeowners and renters in the City of St Louis and St. Louis County. The deadline to apply is August 11, 2025 🧵
June 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
BELL, STORM UPDATE:
A major disaster declaration for the May 16 storms has been APPROVED. Individual assistance, under FEMA’s Individuals and Households Program, is available to eligible homeowners and renters in the City of St Louis and St. Louis County. The deadline to apply is August 11, 2025 🧵
A major disaster declaration for the May 16 storms has been APPROVED. Individual assistance, under FEMA’s Individuals and Households Program, is available to eligible homeowners and renters in the City of St Louis and St. Louis County. The deadline to apply is August 11, 2025 🧵
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This is a long thread (oh, and garbage accounts will get blocked):
This whole “men and boys are in crisis” thing is nonsense .
YES, patriarchy is destructive to everyone. That’s what many of us have been saying for some time now. You’re just beginning to notice. GOOD.
This whole “men and boys are in crisis” thing is nonsense .
YES, patriarchy is destructive to everyone. That’s what many of us have been saying for some time now. You’re just beginning to notice. GOOD.
May 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This is a long thread (oh, and garbage accounts will get blocked):
This whole “men and boys are in crisis” thing is nonsense .
YES, patriarchy is destructive to everyone. That’s what many of us have been saying for some time now. You’re just beginning to notice. GOOD.
This whole “men and boys are in crisis” thing is nonsense .
YES, patriarchy is destructive to everyone. That’s what many of us have been saying for some time now. You’re just beginning to notice. GOOD.
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Whether you get your forecast from an app on your phone, a website or a meteorologist on TV, most of the underlying information comes from the federal government.
By @rhersher.bsky.social
By @rhersher.bsky.social
Where does your weather forecast come from?
Whether you get your forecast from an app on your phone, a website or a meteorologist on TV, most of the underlying information comes from the federal government.
www.npr.org
May 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Whether you get your forecast from an app on your phone, a website or a meteorologist on TV, most of the underlying information comes from the federal government.
By @rhersher.bsky.social
By @rhersher.bsky.social