I have written a couple of essays in Keeping ScOR in the past year -- see "A Man Among Men" and "Revenge of the Manbabies." Worth considering, though. Thanks for listening and writing!
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Great question. Yipes. It seems our relative optimism was misplaced -- though we did make a clear distinction between year-by-year time and "anthropological" time. Still, the backlash to feminism and #MeToo has been strong and lasting. Haven't revisited the theme on the podcast, but...
If you don’t know about this, you need to read up. It’s the single bloodiest massacre in the history of Reconstruction, and it was perpetrated to overthrow the results of an election. It was emblematic of the sabotage of Reconstruction. And SCOTUS nullified the prosecution of those responsible.
wish we were still living in a time when this picture could catalyze an entire environmental movement as humans realize all we have is this pale blue dot
This 💯. Sure, they're not gonna do it. You know why? Because they face <exactly no pressure> from anyone to do it.
Stop letting them appear anywhere in public without nonstop pressure to do it. No more free passes:
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800,000 people who died because of the lack of lifesaving food and medical aid were unavailable for comment.
Good morning!
Since Trump was re-elected, Forbes estimates—
💰His net worth is up $1.9 billion, to $6.2 billion
💰Eric’s is up 10x, to $400 million
💰Don Jr.’s is up 6x, to $300 million
💰20-year-old Barron is worth $150 million
And Jared became a billionaire last year.
Have a great day!
It is not up to Trump whether we have midterm elections. Stop granting him invincible power.
Durham, NC #NoKings
How do you fix a situation where a corrupt president can have his allies make bogus lawsuits against our own government, and then direct his corrupted "Justice Department" to settle and shell out taxpayer money to his corrupt friends?
We need to start thinking about writing laws around this *now*.
Really the best possible time, with the Strait of Hormuz closed and natural gas plants in the middle east exploding every day, to announce that you are going to pay someone $1B to STOP building renewables.
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You should know that just after the invasion of Ukraine, Russia enacted two laws that criminalized independent war reporting and protesting the war.
The laws made it illegal to spread “fake news” about Russia’s military or call for an end to its deployment.
Penalties up to 15 yrs in prison.
NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.
Truly a perfect news alert
The thing that gets me most about AI panic is that we could simply turn it off.
Every single professional journalist who uses the phrases “Department of War” or “Secretary of War” without scare quotes should be lined up on a public viewing stage and bopped on the head with a giant inflatable hammer that says DUMB DUMB on the handle and makes fart sounds.
I know we're several terrible news cycles past this, but I'm still not really over Sam Altman looking around at the broad backlash to out-of-touch tech execs and deciding to openly lament the foundations of human life as wasteful.
just immensely unremarkable and utterly incapable of shutting up
They sang “American Idiot”
Thanks 🙏🏻
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Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
Der Spiegel headline: Der ICE-Kommandant im Nazi-Look Martialisch und effektheischend, so tritt ICE-Kommandant Gregory Bovino gern auf.
I didn't say it. The Germans did.
New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
Opinion | While the end of NATO would be tragic, it's a price that must be paid so I can win my next Republican primary.
Related: This episode of Season 4 of the @sceneonradio.bsky.social podcast titled "American Empire." Essential listening on this topic.
Hey, I wrote a post about the bleak start to this new year, about one year of Keeping ScOR, and about some of the media response to the Venezuela invasion.
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"The Monroe Doctrine was a policy born of US weakness and discarded as soon as the US became a world power" should be something that all journalists know
About 230 male and female medical students from Gaza’s various colleges of medicine held a graduation ceremony in front of the ruins of the Al‑Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City on Saturday. The event was organized by Gaza’s Ministry of Health.
Video: Abdulruhman Ismail via X (@a_abdulruhman)
"None of these stories of 'apologizing for being white' involved any apology for being white, by the way—or any apology at all. The act of other people bringing awareness to what whiteness does is deemed a de facto apology for whiteness—and an obvious aggression." www.the-reframe.com/apologies-fo...
"The USPS posted a $9 billion loss" is an interesting way to phrase "The USPS cost each american $25.94 last year."
