Jade McDowell

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

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Carbon Monoxide From Generators Poisons Thousands of People a Year. The U.S. Has Failed to Force Safety Changes. Portable generators are among the deadliest consumer products. Two decades after the government identified the danger, and as climate change leads to more power outages, people are left vulnerable by ...

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Preventable carbon monoxide deaths follow every major power outage.

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He is, instead, a 59-year-old Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio, who merely responded to an email from a journalist seeking his views on Democrat Zohran Mamdani’s policies. “I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio,” DeBlasio said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida. “I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor,” DeBlasio told Semafor Wednesday evening. “So I just gave him my opinion.”

I’m crying

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As a copywriter who does a lot of long form writing for clients' websites it's so depressing knowing that I'm mostly writing to give AI bots something to summarize instead of people actually clicking on the site and reading the article.

The adamant elite refusal to call bullshit is a big part of How We Got Here.

The prevailing cultural attitude for years is you must not, under any circumstances, treat anything as bad faith. You are obligated to find some reasonable idea and engage with that, even if you distort to get there.

This is again a reminder that college isn’t supposed to just teach you a job but is supposed to teach you how to think, because that job you’re training for might not exist when you graduate

Utah’s Senate president prompted law change that helped a teen charged with child rape An 18-year-old high schooler was facing potential prison time and having to register as a sex offender until help came from a powerful ally — Senate President J. Stuart Adams.

Wow. Stuart was upset his 18-year-old relative was facing years in prison for sex with a 13-year-old and now the 18 yo is just getting house arrest and community service (no sex offender registry) thanks to a law the legislature "just happened" to pass on his watch.

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We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death

I am so stressed out over waiting for my 4-month-old niece to be old enough to finish all her vaccinations so she doesn't catch anything from all the dummies in Utah who don't vaccinate.

Hey fellow male high school teachers: let’s really go out of our way to model positive behavior for our male students this year, and also correct them quickly when they say demeaning things about their female peers and teachers.

This has been my contribution to the manosphere discourse.

i think the correct way to think about the lonely boy question is not "how do we reach out to incels?" but "how do we make sure that a teenage boy looking for romantic advice isn't flooded with right-wing propaganda?"

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I can’t stop thinking about how the Access Hollywood tape came out before the election even happened, yet suddenly we have people concerned that the President might have lied about being a sexual predator who were totally fine with it when he told the truth about being a sexual predator

very grim

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“I debated Mehdi Hasan and got fired for it” is going to turn into a viable grift for several of these fascist douchebags.

This is why you don’t platform fascists.

what the fuck is this shit

Constitutional crisis is here

Donald Trump, who I do not support, had no more of a friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, who I do not support, than he does with Vladimir Putin, who I also do not support.

by Glenn Greenwald

Getting rid of PBS is also meant to clear the field for Prager U to be the place for children programming.

The skills and priorities that make for a good journalist and a good business-runner are very different and I think a lot of outlets have been hurt by a business-first mindset running the newsroom or a journalism-first mindset running the business.

I hope the FCC blocks the Paramount merger anyway because maybe at some point people will learn that when you bow down to a fascist once it's never enough.

I've been saying to friends for a few months that the more I study authoritarianism in other countries, the more concerned I become that the CBS story is the sleeping giant here. The process has been a simmer (people inside the network have spoken out in real-time) but don't mistake slow for safe.

New books in a series need the literary equivalent of when a TV show that's been off the air for two years starts the new season with "Previously on..."

Funding cuts to PBS and NPR, attempts to stop the Wall Street Journal from publishing, Colbert canceled.

Do not take a free press for granted. We need to fight for it.

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“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

Stop what you're doing and read this extraordinary essay by Rümeysa Öztürk: "I am free, but my true freedom is interlinked with the freedom of many women I lived alongside in ICE prison."