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Steady in the Chaos with Carla Zanoni

@carlazanoni.bsky.social has held senior roles at WSJ, TED, and now runs the engagement journalism program at CUNY’s Newmark J School. She also went into recovery at 23 and has rebuilt her life more than once. "Steady in the Chaos" now live on The Breadwinners.

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How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.

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YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu…

In an attention economy it’s important to both withhold it from organizations that undermine freedom, and spend it on organizations that support it.

And we should choose to spend our attention in a way that tells the “people in charge” that they’re wrong.

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text from article: after a 23-year-old Coast Guardsman went overboard into the Pacific Ocean from the cutter Waesche on Feb. 4 last year, shortly after the Senate confirmed Noem into her role, according to the two U.S. officials, the Coast Guard official and the former Coast Guard official. The Coast Guard had surged ships and aircraft to the Pacific to find the guardsman. Hours into the search, Noem learned that a Coast Guard C-130 that was supposed to fly detained migrants from California to Texas was among the aircraft over the Pacific looking for the missing guardsman, and she intervened, according to the two U.S. officials and the Coast Guard official. Noem verbally instructed the acting commandant of the Coast Guard, Adm. Kevin Lunday, to pull the plane off the search and rescue mission so it would not miss the immigrant flight as part of the DHS’ so-called Alien Expulsion Operations, according to the two U.S. officials and the Coast Guard official. Lunday notified the National Command Center, which ordered the C-130 to fly to San Diego while other aircraft and ships involved in the search continued, according to one of the U.S. officials and the current Coast Guard official."

this should be a weeks-long national scandal but it turns out the the way to survive scandalous behavior is just to do a metric fuck-ton of scandals at once
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Elon Musk’s X Is A Misinformation Machine—And Black Women Saw It Coming | Essence For years, Black women have sounded the alarm about digital manipulation. X’s new policies prove how right they were.

Congrats @bridgettodd.bsky.social for getting this timely op-ed published in Essence Magazine: www.essence.com/news/money-c...

E. Jean Carroll Has Written a Secret Book — And Learned to Shoot A year and a half after defeating Trump for the second time, Carroll is showing a side of herself kept hidden in the trials.

"I asked Carroll what it feels like to be living through a backlash... We were living, she said, through the first time period 'in a hideous human history' when we had at least a small inkling of how 'chock-full of predators' the 'rulers' houses” are."

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YouTube video by More Perfect Union Oregon Residents Are MAD AS HELL About Corrupt Data Center Deals

I grew up in this area and went to high school near where this meeting took place. This is part of a longer history of tax breaks for tech companies who take up massive resources and whose contribution is said to be jobs (that can always be cut).

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Has the Internet Changed How Women Sound?

Has the Internet Changed How Women Sound?https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t-magazine/ai-female-voices.html?smid=bs-share

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