Wisdom from Schoolhouse Rock.
🔴 “Russian troops were also ordered to kill all civilian men aged 18 to 60. Women and children were to be used as human shields if necessary,” says Ukraine’s Operational Command “Dnipro” spox.
There was no legitimate reason they would inform the US regardless of trump’s devotion to putin. No need to antagonize TACO over this. Please focus on rallying further support for Ukraine.
I realized today that Trump, Musk, DOGE, Vance, Miller, Vought and their many collaborators have broken so many laws already that they know they have to destroy our government and entire way of life to stay out of jail. This is all or nothing. We should respond accordingly.
Wild that anyone would make a comparison to those trump pardons
Kleptokakistocracy: a regime where rulers plunder with impunity, wealth trumps democracy & the press bows to billionaires. Soon-Shiong's LA Times exemplifies this decay, stifling criticism of Musk & Dump while undermining journalistic independence.
Russia has a long tradition of killing Ukrainian writers - from the Soviet times till nowadays. We prepared an article with key info on writers' generations murdered by Russia.
This is the most-read piece on @theatlantic.com. It should be the most-read piece. You should all read it, even though it may make you sad. Here’s a gift link so you can read it.
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Bluesky (i.e. you, us, our reposts), as other people have said, is doing very well at surfacing on-the-ground reporters and experts in Korean politics, for people like me who 1) know nothing 2) want to understand.
Twitter used to do this and it was important. I'm glad Bluesky is doing it now.
"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"
Trump has made it ABSURDLY easy to buy influence. Here's a guy under SEC investigation who just happened to buy $30 million of Trump's new crypto token
Syrian opposition factions in front of the historic Aleppo Citadel
SOS!!! This is absolute savagery!!! Look how the police knocked out a person that had already fallen down!!!
Sanction this Russian regime NOW!!!
PLEASE SHARE this video! EVERYONE needs to know what’s happening in Georgia! #GeorgiaProtests
RFK has already killed children in Samoa. Now Trump wants him to do that in America.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/o...
1/ With more users joining Bluesky, we know how important it is to identify which accounts are real. Users deserve confidence that the accounts they interact with are authentic.
Sharing some details about our impersonation policy 🧵
I wish I could tell you that winning a war is a straight line but anyone who studies even a little history knows there are setbacks and defeats along the way. Our Revolution was 7 hard years and it was all but lost many times. We kept fighting then and we must now. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
New paper out in @ScienceMagazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ @killianmcl1 @Klonick @mollycrockett 🧵👇
When I was having conversations at this time last year about starting @americansunlight.org, I kept getting asked “what’s your risk mitigation strategy?”
My visceral reaction as someone who has faced threats for my work in disinformation was: what a privilege it is to play it safe. 1/
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We wanted to understand why so many working class voters in the Midwest have become Republicans. So we talked to three wealthy Atlantic contributors at a bistro in Brentwood.
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Everyone is focusing on the more infamous cabinet picks by Trump
But please pay attention to ALL of the choices
Because even if you're a megadonor to Trump
If you have exactly zero experience with the Navy
You have exactly zero business being Navy Secretary www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
A quick PSA for people who are still doing "link in replies" on Bluesky: you don't need to do that. You can add the link, Bluesky will generate the link card, and then you can delete the link in the text of the post. That way you don't have to worry about the URL cutting into character counts. E.g.:
What is the future of news?
Want to build a news org that withstands the triple menaces of authoritarianism, oligarchy and Big Tech; *AND* also supports #democracy?
The brilliant @mariaressa.bsky.social & @rappler.bsky.social are doing this.
Spread the word.
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