Jessi

The whiplash…

Reminder: On August 6, 2020 Trump signed an executive order to ban TikTok.

Reading War & Peace. Can’t stop thinking about how Pierre & Co. drunkenly tied a policeman to a literal bear and dropped them in a river.

House Ethics Panel Was Set to Vote to Release Report Critical of Matt Gaetz The committee has been investigating allegations that Mr. Gaetz, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for attorney general, engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use.

The House Ethics Committee…was prepared to vote to release a highly critical report about Mr. Gaetz on Friday, according to a Republican official familiar with the matter

Gaetz abruptly resigned from his House seat late Wednesday, ending the investigation

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/u...

Just a reminder that “underage girl” means CHILD.

people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙

The big question I’ve heard is, how do we keep the dems from learning the exact wrong lesson from this?

I must be missing something too…

The word "belief" always gives me pause. Beliefs can be tricky and have the potential to become hard, unwavering and metastasize in unhealthy ways. Sounds like you have a more expansive view that starts with potential and leaves the rest open

if orwell had put a ministry of efficency in 1984 and given it two co-bosses, his editor would have been like, c'mon george

Curious what you would replace "believes" with

Recently jumped up in my TBR

oh no! I thought the alt.gov accounts were on the level?

That feeling when you’ve been knitting along on a mindless project and you’re almost done but then you see a different pattern you think will look better with this yarn and you contemplate frogging it all and starting over…

Definitely following - have to make sure DeSantis doesn’t turn our parks into golf courses!

I’ve seen several posts quoting this book, but none giving info on the book itself. It’s short (126pages), digestible and full of valuable information.

I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how. Sometimes it's healthy to do something you love less, and differently.

I'm doing a number of these things too.

"I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how."

www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/im-a...

A tale of two platforms:

BlueSky user numbers have hit a new record high in recent days, while the number of people deleting their accounts on X/Twitter has rocketed 🚀