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We hit 3.5%, and that's great, but other key criteria are that protests have to be sustained. It's not just one Saturday afternoon to fix all this. We have to keep doing it.

They buried the lede

Oh no, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is in the neighborhood! He might... make pupusas? Oh, the horror! 🙄

Add Stephen King's Running Man to this reading list. (Written under the Bachman pseudonym). And dont watch the movie version. It softens the ending.

This is the race/question about everything right now.

Seeing generational criticism on substack. Not having it. I've worked w people from multiple gens & the idea that gen Z has a special deficit in critical thinking... lacks same. Also, bullying is a timeless tradition in the US. It's not new. STOP 👏 MAKING 👏 IT 👏 ABOUT 👏 A 👏 DEMOGRAPHIC 👏 OF 👏 PEOPLE

Oh look, an actual leadership expert on how this new guy ain't. 🤔

"Quiet quitting" by DHS attorney due to hostile work environment? 🤔 (PSA "qq" in quotes because it is a disgusting anti-worker term blaming the worker for having an a-hole boss.)

The change theory that does apply is that when in a hostile work environment (HR term) most people will do the bare minimum to keep attention from themselves, a phenomenon recently renamed "quiet quitting" as a way of blaming the worker for the boss being an a-hole.

In fact, this vibe is so effed that change theory doesn't really apply. This is fascism studies territory, Timothy Snyder stuff.

The acting FEMA head is misusing Organization Development theory to assert dominance. The conventional wisdom is that ~20% of people are early adopters, ~20% are set in their ways. The middle ~60% will go along with one or the other 20% based on the vibe of the change. The vibe here is effed.

We're not entirely on the same page, but we're pretty close. Thanks for clarifying.

Yeah, the countries with successful bans have A. bans that include buyback and seizure measures, which our ban was not, and B. a lot less of whatever cultural feature it is that makes Americans so eager to have giant collections of weapons.

Fair enough. It does seem to me and the link I shared says this, that the ban had some effect. The since-deleted arguer asserted it was obvious that the ban did nothing. While the data is messy and politically tainted I don't think an absolute take like that is sound.

Agreed, I also think the timing feels odd, which I already said on FB.

Did the assault weapons ban of 1994 bring down mass shootings? Here’s what the data tells us Analysis of the 10 years in which the US banned sales of assault weapons shows that it correlates with a drop in mass shooting deaths – a trend that reversed as soon as the ban expired.

The account arguing with me deleted their posts, so I'm reposting my source on which I base my opinion. theconversation.com/did-the-assa...

This is a data set with no interpretation and you need an account to identify the source. Our respective graphs show essentially the same pattern if not the same numbers. My source includes an interpretation and that interpretation concludes the ban was impactful. Where are you going with this?

Did the assault weapons ban of 1994 bring down mass shootings? Here’s what the data tells us Analysis of the 10 years in which the US banned sales of assault weapons shows that it correlates with a drop in mass shooting deaths – a trend that reversed as soon as the ban expired.

The OP has a PhD. We're going to be providing citations if we're going to do this. This article, or one a lot like it, is where my opinion comes from. theconversation.com/did-the-assa...

I request you clarify, bc the assault weapons ban did matter & on the face of it, this post reads like a disinformative & reactive libertarian talking point & I'd be very surprised if you intended that. Also, this clip is not the kind of clip that deserves a WTF. I made sure to watch b4 replying.

Yay, debt bondage! We'll all get to sing 🎶I owe my soul to the company store🎶 (Sixteen Tons - look it up if you don't know.) American feudalism. Yay... <sob>

Yes, we would. That's how it's supposed to work. People in power are always irritated at the idea that they have to follow the rules. But they do. That's a major way we prevent dictatorship. #nokings

ICYMI: “Charles lies, people die!”

@climatedefiance.bsky.social crashed a Charles Koch award ceremony to shame him for being at the root of climate crisis denialism.

Accurate. ICE is shameful.

Traffic would jump because we'd all be reading the conflicting accounts as they all tell on each other. Cuz Doug has opinions about everyone on the street and he's not afraid to share.

As a legal observer also trained in workplace practices for dealing with ICE, when I read the memo, I already knew all of it. Why? Because it's just a summary of existing law. There is nothing in there that isn't just the rules and procedures ICE is SUPPOSED TO BE FOLLOWING.

As an American who is ethnically German, I fully support Germany's clapback.

When Trump tried to bully Governor Mills over [trans athletes in sports] at a White House meeting in February, she told him, “See you in court.” Today she commented: “It’s good to feel a victory like this. I stood in the White House and when confronted by the president of the United States, I told him I’d see him in court. Well, we did see him in court, and we won.”

My favorite passage from @hcrichardson.bsky.social’s latest essay.

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Ok, wtf is this farmhouse-y crematorium looking thing?

@lujan.senate.gov @governorwalz.mn.gov @govpritzker.illinois.gov @sanders.senate.gov