Dr Jennifer Jones

Missouri Officials Seize Control of St. Louis Police, in Latest Bid to Shutter Local Reforms - Bolts The takeover returns St. Louis to a Civil War-era arrangement of state control. A local official calls the move "a clear gesture of white men wanting to control urban areas."

While you were doing laundry….it was already happening elsewhere.

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The Obedience Trap: How Power Weaponizes Human Nature...and How You Fight Back A field guide to resisting threats, bribes, and manufactured fear...without losing your job or your nerve.

'You already know what happens if we freeze…normalize…obey…scapegoat…collaborate…or splinter. History has run that simulation for us. The only new thing we can add is the choice to act differently…louder…clearer…together.'

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RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’ HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

ack Hopkins Now (jackhopkinsnow.com). He’ll also give you practical tips for managing your own reaction so you can stay focused on resisting, not reacting.

Remember to breathe, and stay safe.

Letters from an American (heathercoxrichardson.su…).

If you want to understand the psychology behind what’s happening (it’s more than just a power grab, though it’s also that), read ...

ears. It was their final, most essential command’ (Nineteen Eighty-Four, p. 84).

Since you can’t trust what they’re saying, try to step away from the news for a little while today.

If you need well-researched, well-documented facts that are situated in history, read Heather Cox Richardson’s ...

– Crime in DC is at a 30 year low; only Republicans engaging in performative hysteria claim to feel unsafe there.

Their justifications for what they’re doing in DC aren’t founded in fact. As Orwell wrote: ‘The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ...

They want us to be stressed and distracted. But we need to be focused and organised.

It’s still our job to resist.

Resist their narrative:

– Being homeless isn’t a crime; the crime is creating a system that renders people homeless.

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Been stressed since yesterday’s announcement? Me, too.

Try to make a conscious effort to unclench your jaw and lower your shoulders – they don’t actually belong up there around your ears.

Now, take a few slow, deep breaths.

Feeling a little better? 🧵

‘Increasingly, it looks like members of his administration are using Trump in order to create a system that will respond to whoever is in charge, making it possible for today’s leaders to retain control over the country even without Trump there to mobilize MAGA voters.’

Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office. 

Illugi Pétur Ágústsson þjóðhetja

When you register your name in the Icelandic phonebook you can choose to state your profession. And they have a pretty loose definition of what exactly a profession entails.

This person for example has opted for „þjóðhetja“. It means „National Hero“.

Electricity bill going up?

One study found that AI data centers were responsible for 63% of price hikes for customers of PJM — the nation's largest electric grid.

Meanwhile, Trump is pushing for more private-sector usage of AI and fast tracking permits for more data centers.

Trump wants us to forget his Epstein files cover-up so badly that he’s invading Washington D.C.

it's pretty frustrating how republicans can just spew endless lies about city life with zero repercussions but the moment a dem disparages a pickup truck it's open season

Puzzling as to how the US Veep can feel safe bringing his family to a riot torn hellhole country without any freedom of speech.

Obviously he has security, but could it be just possibly that those claims are on closer inspection almost complete nonsense.

The military takeover of Washington is not a “distraction” from Epstein. It’s a military takeover of Washington, which is an even bigger deal, and those of us who kill brain cells reporting on this stuff knows it’s been an explicit goal since before the election.

YouTube video by University of Portsmouth Why study English Literature? | University of Portsmouth

#Clearing season is here again, so here I am explaining why you should do English Literature at Portsmouth. Warning! Contains my moving face.

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The law specifies a census every ten years, not whenever you feel like it could help your party.

DC statehood shows Dem weakness goes back a while.

Occasional lip service, but barely even that, and effectively took the stance that hundreds of thousands of US citizens should be disenfranchised because it’s unfair that they’d elect Dem Senators, which would make the Senate less disproportionate.

I talk about Missouri so often because I’m from here, but also because I recognize what the Republicans have been able to do here is what they plan to do nationwide.

DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black.

Do you understand?

Doesn’t deploy federal troops to stop a Capitol invasion or save children from a Texas flood or clean up debris from a StL tornado.

Deployed federal troops to disperse people in sleeping bags.

Got it.

What we see happening in real time is actually part of Martial Law. Oh, it hasn’t been officially declared, but his federal takeover plans for cities across the nation…under the cloak of “attacking crime,” is pre-positioning for when he does. It will happen prior to the November elections. Watch.

Every news broadcast should run the facts split-screen in real time while Trump spews his lies.

Nice work, @msnbc.com — every network had time to prepare because they knew what was coming.

this dc situation looks pretty horrible. i wish i had more to say except that autocracy is always mundane and petty and vicious and encourages you to look away and be safe. and you can live quite normally under it until you're a direct target

We no longer have White House Press Corps. We have Trump stooges…pretending to be reporters and journalists. Trump got rid of the real folks.