Paul Zablotski

Not the Resolute Desk. It’s a copy

@portersqbooks.bsky.social
“I am a handmaiden of civilization. I am a bookseller.”

Joyce Carol Oates: Demonstrating the Value of the Humanities through Public Ownership of the Richest Man on Earth

This! ☝🏻 I’ve thought about this for years!

Scholars Must Recognize the Role of Affect and Emotion in Disinformation | TechPolicy.Press The tactics of digital emotional manipulation are many and varied, but many of the most prominent exploit frustration and rage, writes Calum Matheson.

Propaganda does not rely entirely on unassailable evidence and impeccable logic to discipline its targets. Neither can the response, writes Calum Matheson, an associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Progressive group MoveOn calls on Schumer to step aside "Inexplicably, some Senate Democrats, under Leader Schumer's watch, decided to surrender."

#GVerse MoveOn calls for Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov to step down from leadership.

“Around 80% of MoveOn members that the group surveyed said that Schumer should quit his leadership position.”

It is time to let someone else take the wheel & lead!

So much Lucy and the football. Consolation prize?!? Infuriating.

‘Moratorium on mischief’ - until Jan 30

Elation over big Election Day wins wearing off.. from only days earlier! What, that was just a sugar high?

Thune promising a _vote_ on ACA - “We’ll see if something lands”,with NO leverage.

Yes, and also a gong just for Schumer, yelling “step down”

Thanks to our veterans and service members who make profound sacrifices so that the rest of us can live in freedom. Happy Veterans’ Day.

If you believe it was just 8 senators I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. This was a Schumer operation.

Queen Ghislaine even has a puppy at Club Fed. This is how convicted sex traffickers are coddled by the Trump admin. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...

The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.

+1 for the long game

@shaheen.senate.gov - so let me understand. You’re saying that we should “train our fire” on @schumer.senate.gov for orchestrating this?
Despite @durbin.senate.gov claims we “need to understand how the Senate works”, we can all see that the 8 are either retiring or not up until ‘28 or ‘30.

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Timely for Nov 10, 2025

16 Thoughts On The Dem Shutdown Cave Another disgrace, and a new path forward.

Thoughts on Dems throwing a game they were winning. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...

@hassan.senate.gov
@shaheen.senate.gov
@durbin.senate.gov
@kaine.senate.gov
@cortezmasto.senate.gov
@fetterman.senate.gov
@senangusking.bsky.social
@rosen.senate.gov

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Never forget who sold us out:

Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen

@markey.senate.gov
Sen Markey - No deal!! It’s the ACA subsidies or nothing. Do NOT provide any cover for the members of the Senate Dem Caucus who want to cave. Let your peers and the public know your resolve too.
Those who want to take the GOP bait to gut healthcare must stand on their own.

Do NOT provide any cover for the members of the Senate Dem Caucus who want to cave, and let your peers know too. Those who want to take the GOP bait must stand on their own.

meanwhile, in the lower left corner..

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

This is what good journalism looks like. Go talk to the people actually impacted by all the nonsense, rather than just presenting the view from nowhere...

While Trump’s lawyers file an emergency petition with the Supreme Court tonight to do everything they possibly can to avoid paying SNAP benefits to the needy so they can starve, Trump flies to his country club for another weekend of parties and golf.

“…mysteriously missing from prison for at least the last four months.”

Are they finally catching on to his eternal grifting and gaslighting?

I realize this prediction wasn’t especially difficult. But yes, it got worse.

And it will continue to get worse. Vote every god damn enabler out of office.