@jenga9701.bsky.social
Phenomenal turnout in Jackson, Michigan #nokings
14.06.2025 20:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0You mean to tell me that Chicago gets to claim Michael Jordan, the first Black President AND the first American Pope? Good lord you ain't going to be able to tell them NOTHING.
08.05.2025 18:40 — 👍 21283 🔁 2989 💬 764 📌 404
This is what democracy looks like! #april5 #handsoff #lansing
05.04.2025 19:28 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This my friends is called engagement farming, and you're going to be seeing a lot of it. The best ways to clock it:
1. Posts about something that's already widely reported
2. Aims to leverage despair, rage and/or anxiety for an emotional response
3. Offers no actual insights or analysis
Look out!
Rest in peace ❤️
09.01.2025 21:10 — 👍 3403 🔁 352 💬 27 📌 8Top-notch photography is often about choosing the right angle and perspective.
10.01.2025 12:14 — 👍 37188 🔁 5131 💬 1308 📌 311The rhetorical move here provides a template for responding to Trumpian nonsense in the years to come:
"Trump's a corrupt fascist, & the way fascism works is by feeding you bullshit to distract you from its crimes, failures, & corruption. This [latest Trump 'controversy'] is that sort of bullshit"
Valuable reasoning here. Worth adding: when Musk and Trump make government fail, they will then try to blame and punish chosen enemies.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/o...
Such a good post today from @simonwdc.bsky.social. It is worth your time to watch the video from last night's subscriber briefing as well. If you are going to read one newsletter, this should be the one.
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/raising-ou...
Meta will also now allow users to refer to “transgender or non-binary people as ‘it,’” as well as allowing “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation.”
07.01.2025 22:25 — 👍 176 🔁 89 💬 15 📌 2
1. Hundreds of companies who pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 4 years
But we've identified 10 promise keepers:
Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
General Mills
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft
The EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, says Russia has learned how to influence elections through new technologies.
10.12.2024 22:38 — 👍 927 🔁 389 💬 55 📌 42same!
20.11.2024 14:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
At the same time, Bluesky’s exiled Trump-era Twitter resistance posters have given it something quite valuable to a new social network: a coherent identity. Bluesky users like to say that they’re having more fun than people on other networks, but my sense is that their fun comes largely from the fact that they know why they are there. It’s an environment for like-minded people to learn, to express outrage, to grieve, to support, and to plan. Given that Trump is about to give them an inexhaustible supply of (legitimate!) outrage over the next four years, that strong identity could serve as a durable engine for community building. And I think it speaks to much of the excitement we have seen there over the past few days.
Here's my best effort to work out why Bluesky blew up over the weekend. Much more than Threads, it's a network that knows what it's *for* www.platformer.news/bluesky-post...
19.11.2024 01:15 — 👍 2090 🔁 262 💬 124 📌 52"While it's an independent agency overseen by Congress, Trump has made clear he would like to bring [FCC] under tighter White House control and use it to punish TV networks that have fact-checked him or otherwise covered him in a way that sparks his ire."
18.11.2024 01:10 — 👍 57 🔁 23 💬 8 📌 1
