Extremely relevant to the “Is Bluesky Dying” debate.

Is social media dying? How much did Twitter change as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation?

Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has changed

Here are the key take-aways 🧵

Full paper out now in in JQD:DM!

The quote I shared was just

Translation from French: Humanity is cursed if, in order to demonstrate courage, it is condemned to kill forever. Courage today does not mean keeping the dark cloud of war hanging over the world, a terrible cloud, though dormant, which we can always flatter ourselves will break out over others. Courage is not leaving to force the resolution of conflicts that reason can resolve; for courage for all of you, courage at all times, is to endure without faltering the trials of every kind—physical and moral—that life lavishes upon us. Courage is not surrendering one’s will to the whims of circumstances and powerful forces; it is maintaining, amidst inevitable weariness, the habit of work and action. Courage, in the infinite chaos of life that assails us from all sides, is choosing a profession and doing it well, whatever it may be (…). Courage is loving life and looking upon death with a calm gaze; it is striving toward the ideal and understanding reality; it is acting and devoting oneself to great causes without knowing what reward the vast universe holds in store for our efforts, or whether it holds any reward at all. Courage is seeking the truth and speaking it; it is not bowing to the law of the triumphant lie that passes by, and not echoing, from our soul, our mouth, and our hands, the foolish applause and fanatical boos.

Your strength talk reminded me of a Jean Jaurès quote: "Courage is seeking the truth and speaking it; it is not bowing to the law of the triumphant lie that passes by, and not echoing, from our soul, our mouth, and our hands, the foolish applause and fanatical boos." www.humanite.fr/culture-et-s...

I appreciated this reflection. I keep trying to just journal my thoughts and exchanges with friends this week, but attempts are constantly interrupted by responsibilities that feel trite in this moment.

This is a great read. I wish the article was more explicit in what prompts they used since they acknowledged it gave different results. Beyond showing the methods, it would be helpful for media literacy.

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago."
If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

I miss it so much ❤️

I like to see that book in the thumbnail

Image of a book entitled End Times Fascism - and the fight for the living world. A wide burst on a yellow background with red letters.

One year after our original Guardian essay, Naomi Klein and I are excited to reveal the North American cover of our forthcoming book END TIMES FASCISM - and the Fight for the Living World. It will be on bookshelves on September 15th and is available for pre-order. More details below. bit.ly/4cbLfEr

don't really know if the millenials attempting to rise to meet the moment will actually get to take control before the boomer irreversibly blow up the entire planet, but i'm grateful for all of us who appear to actually grasp what's at stake and are acting accordingly

Terrifying, genocidal threats. How long can allies continue to treat the US as anything but criminal?

Oh wow ! Parfois, sur Bluesky, je me surprends encore à suivre les gens par réflexe, mais je suppose que je devrais être plus méfiant, comme je l'étais sur X. Merci de me l'avoir fait remarquer, Loïc !

The POW/MIA issue was used to withhold the payments. Claims that soldiers were still being held or that Vietnam had to return all the bodies. All a negotiation tactic.

In essence, and this is really important to understand, Trump and Israel's war has ended up delivering Iran de facto sanctions relief.

This means that Iran is all the less incentivized to end the war, unless the agreement provides Iran with formal sanctions relief.

It Could’ve Been Worse—But France’s Local Elections Are a Warning to the Left The French left managed to hold on to key cities, but the far right and mainstream right also won key victories—and the intra-left bickering shows no signs of subsiding.

My story for @thenation.com on France’s municipal elections. Left-wing parties had some big wins but there are plenty of reasons to be concerned. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

I don’t know when I have ever read anything so bracing. just a magnificent refusal to be distracted from the real questions. really, really, really good stuff

I don't think this stage has the "sell-outs". This is the definition of government capture by the tech industry. If anyone is the sell-out it is Trump.

Status Scoop | ProPublica's Walkout Warning: The possibility of ProPublica staffers walking off the job just got far more serious. Unionized staffers at the nonprofit newsroom voted overwhelmingly this week to authorize a strike, Natalie Korach has learned. The ProPublica Guild represents about 150 journalists, videographers, and other newsroom employees. A major sticking point in the negotiations with management has centered on the use of artificial intelligence in reporting, with the union demanding protections from having jobs replaced by the rapidly advancing technology. “We are ready to walk off the job to show management that their refusal to agree to basic protections will not be tolerated and that we will not accept anything less than a fair contract,” said Agnel Philip, unit chair of ProPublica Guild.

these are the best reporters in the country, give them whatever the fuck they want

www.status.news/p/cbs-news-l...

While I agree there are plenty of examples of this in other appeals to personal communications with Kirk, I don’t think the context and implication of what Kent was saying here is the same name dropping.

This is a constant frustration in European disinformation discourse by foreign nations. The US had a long history of this before Trump but since Trump 2.0 it is open for all to see. How can one trust the methods and urgency of the issue if the elephant in the room is repeatedly ignored

WATCH: Trump sidesteps responsibility for deadly strike on Iranian girls' school President Donald Trump erroneously claimed Monday that Iran has access to the American Tomahawk cruise missile, the weapon likely used to strike a girls' school in Iran, killing 165 people. When asked...

Bravo to this NY Times journalist asking hard questions that go against normal “national security” deference. Hopefully this will be a revival rather than a one off. This war is illegal at the root. Nuancing further potential crimes doesn’t make sense.
www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

Repeat after me Democrats: oppose the war on substance, not process.

This is a crisis moment, and any Democratic leader who won’t step up should be asking why they’re in the role. The rest of us should be asking why we let them stay there.

"Nazis were just regular people" is not a statement meant to evoke empathy or to excuse their crimes. It is a statement of warning.

The capacity to be part of and perpetrate atrocities is not limited to "monsters," it is wholly human. It is what we must always be aware of.

Isn’t this perjury?

US journalism is demonstratively weaker now than even a year ago: public media federal funding rescinded; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette closing; billionaire-owner eroding news independence (WaPo, LA Times, CBS), & now massive WaPo layoffs. Those in power know that our watchdogs are less watchful.

That Tom Llamas @nbcnews.com Trump interview was so shameful. Having the conversational filler of “yeah” as he impatiently waited to ask his never weak question. Trump gets to say lie after lie and Tom just says “yeah”. Is NBC just following CBS now?

ICE is afraid of children protesting “Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...