useful 🙂

neighbors, policy-focus (on actual impacts)

patience perseverance looking/listening more carefully

notice the gaps/breaks/discontinuities in yourself and recognize/honor them as growth opportunities

face the fears

practice engagement

regardless of the party saying that only they will save the country.
Focus on policy instead. Government exists by a group of people agreeing to sacrifice some personal freedom in exchange for services. Every law/policy costs money but also liberty. Speaking about the balance of benefit vs costs

if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal

Can’t say for sure, but something about eclecticism, bringing different discourses together in a new kind of intersectionality, is something I think about a lot creatively… which might be emergent? As in #emergentstrategy (speculation/action research)

Yes – because I recognize your suggestion above as directed towards someone who doesn’t know what to do. But for the people who know what to do, and or maybe knew it doing it or have been doing it for a long time: it hasn’t actually worked, historically. Only rarely, in exceptional cases.

THIS 👇🏻 is #courage

I agree with you, but I don’t see how this actually moves the discourse forward into a new vector. What I mean is, we are also in our own small patterns of repetition, and we carry them into activism. Maybe the question is too abstract? What’s the *different* turn at critical junctures?

The U.S. is a country that is unable to handle death but is awash in it. A country with people who often can't process grief. These are terrible things.

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

I get that we need to understand the patterns revealed by observation. But once we understand those patterns, what can we do next?

🤣

small contained pattern recognition

I have a couple of these. One on disability studies (we’re not supposed to critique anything in the framing of the authors who made the call), and one management of language difference – in which I didn’t understand how badly they needed me to toe the line. (and, to be fair I fucked up the resubmit)

STATE THE HARMS. And offer solutions.

you can log on and encounter behavior on a *daily basis* that would instantly make someone a local pariah in 95% of real world contexts, and the fact that that percentage is lower than 99.99% is itself explained by the fact that we've been running this social experiment for years now

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

White america deserves the ire the world reserves for Blackamerica.

White american culture is homophobia, pdfilia and racism. Its everywhere and permeates everything ALL THE TIME

Unlearn the white ways of this world. I thank god im not white.

500 years of pure evil cultivated and passed down

also isn’t this the same issue with Voice of America being banned from naming Reza Pahlavi

I appreciate this headline leans to the descriptive rather than the hyperbolic. It would be amazing if @anthropic.com refuses to be a pawn.

We’re the 5th generation. It’s a strong framing. Thanks for reposting @zola4b.bsky.social

Cool sunset, yellow sky with peach and pink clouds swirls

As I told my undergrads at the start of the semester, I'm not asking you to write a paper about Little Rock's school desegregation because I don't know what happened there.

Little Rock is just the topic. The act of researching, writing and editing the paper is the whole point.

Excellent thread on AI regulation 🎓

So excited for folks to read this!
bookshop.org/p/books/amer...

Video: Opinion | The Save America Act Is an Assault on Democracy President Trump would have you think that voter fraud is rampant, says the Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie. The reality? That’s just not true. So why are Trump and his allies so preoccupied with passi...

The SAVE Act would make it tougher for people to vote - especially for folks who don’t have the money to get a passport, women who have changed their names after marriage or divorce, or for people who don’t have a copy of their birth certificates. Why? www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

The only way you can think AI does lit reviews better is if you’re not interested in making an intellectual argument or building theory … which uh, is pretty key to the advancement of knowledge

More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes.

Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted.

Beautiful and devastating all at once.

Wow.

Swiss Olympic bobsled commentator broke a century of neutrality and spent the entire run of the Israeli bobsled team recounting all the pro-genocide remarks and social media posts by Adam Edelman, one of the apartheid state athletes.

Absolute legend. More of this in sports please!

What NIH Staff Can’t Tell You—And Why That Matters The people who understand most clearly what is being lost at the NIH are also the people least able to say so.

“Taken together, these two policies create a structure in which dissent becomes professionally costly, alignment becomes professionally necessary, and the space for honest scientific judgment quietly contracts.”

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