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"Polarization" is simply pretending our problems don't have a clear, recognizable origin: the fascist faction coming for our freedoms.
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"Polarization becomes a way to talk about politics without talking about politics at all..."
That's it exactly. Explains why "we're so polarized" is so popular with the press. From an interview @PaulHRosenberg did with scholar @kreissdaniel.
salon.com/2023/04/29/pol
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I'm sending out the first newsletter I've sent in uh a while tomorrow morning; if you weren't signed up before you can sign up here to receive it if you want:
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Absolutely thrilled to publish these thoughts by , , , , + Chelsea T. Hicks today — on museums and the reflections on history that they inspire.
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seriously does anyone have a bluesky invite
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The time for something like this is past. What the court fails to understand, is that a statement like this only works if the public has confidence in them and their integrity. The public no longer does.
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sorry guys im leaving twitter. im going to post gleeps on frunkley.bunk with two hundred of the most 38 year old people this website ever churned out
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maybe THIS alternate platform will be THE alternate platform (that we use for 10 days and then forget about)
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in the market for a blue sky invite pls!
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The new Biden campaign store is selling Dark Brandon T-shirts. Now need a custom emoji shop.joebiden.com/dark-tshirt/
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They’re giving the blue check back to all the 1 million+ follower accounts to try to wash the stink off it but it’ll never work. No one is going to believe Beyoncé paid to have the same cursed mark as all of god’s least-loved children
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What’s funny about “JUST PAY THE $8!!!” is if platform merely introduced user fees, more people would’ve paid. But Twitter Blue was instead rolled out as an Elon fan club badge, framed explicitly as a “fuck you” to anyone left of center. Now they’re pissed that branding worked
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the check used to be a sign of elitism and now NOT having one is a sign of elitism. everything going exactly as planned
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Shout out to all the folks who promised that this outcome would never happen and implied that those of us who fought to protect working people in NYC from getting fleeced by Amazon were “economically illiterate.”
I look forward to your next analysis! 🙂
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Amazon is postponing much of HQ2 in Arlington VA and many of its new hires there are still working largely remote, yet it's about to collect its first tranch of $152 million in taxpayer subsidies from the state of Virginia. @teoarmus:
washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/
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The only realistic positions now are structural reform of the supreme court (term limits/ more justices/ etc.) or "20 years of unalterable religious fascism" and guess which one is the median position of the democratic party
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the fact that dril is doing interviews under his government name is one of the most unambiguous signs that twitter is doomed lmao
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The dignity harm of abortion bans can be hard for people to see, in part because in a sexist culture, we’re not always used to thinking of women as dignified. But the degradation of abortion bans isn’t a mere embarrassment or inconvenience; it’s an erosion of women’s citizenship.
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It’s degrading to have your government deem you unworthy of shaping the course of your own life, unworthy of controlling even your own organs. It’s degrading to have your government declare your ongoing human life less important, and less real, than a hypothetical future one.
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This is beyond party or partisanship. This degree of corruption is shocking - almost cartoonish. Thomas must be impeached.
Barring some dramatic change, this is what the Roberts court will be known for: rank corruption, erosion of democracy, and the stripping of human rights.
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NEW BLOCKBUSTER: Private jet travel. Superyacht Island-hopping. Stays at a private resort.
For decades, Justice Clarence Thomas accepted luxury gifts from a billionaire.
Appears he broke the law.
@js_kaplan & @JustinElliott:
propublica.org/article/claren
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“Chat GPT is sentient,” according to panel of guys who aren’t really clear yet on whether or not women are people
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As I’ve said before: when the director of Children of Men was asked how he made his future fascist Britain feel so grounded and authentic, he said he looked at the country in 2005 and asked himself - what would happen if it continued just like this, on this precise trajectory.
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oh no
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Today I realized that I am older than Danny Glover was when he said "I'm too old for this shit" in Lethal Weapon.
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We're closing applications for this dope job shortly. Apply (or share) if you're interested and haven't already! brooklynmuseum.org/about/careers/
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Pls share widely:
We're hiring a digital content associate at the @brooklynmuseum to help continue fleshing out our art-sharing, community-building, inspiration-giving social and email programs. Is it you or someone you know??? brooklynmuseum.org/about/careers/
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i want a mystery bus 😩
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not only is public transport free in Brussels, but they even have a bus called "Not The 48" which takes you to a mystery location if you're feeling a bit down or you just don't have anything to do that day
something for other cities to consider
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Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Mystère is a bus stop on the Route 48 bus in Brussels, named for the intersection between Av. Victor Rousseau and Rue de Mystère.
Google Maps: maps.app.goo.gl/Q9pL84VgWpPbbR…
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UPDATE: We're *also* hiring a marketing manager to help conceive and manage marketing around our incredible exhibitions + programs. Not on my team but working with one of my very favorite people at the museum. APPLY/PASS ON:
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We're hiring a digital content associate at the to help continue fleshing out our art-sharing, community-building, inspiration-giving social and email programs. Is it you or someone you know??? brooklynmuseum.org/about/careers/
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I didn’t know until my LATE 20S that the books being burned in those infamous photos were Hirschfeld’s medical and social research.
When we say anti-trans bigotry is fascism, we mean it very literally.
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Adolf Hitler declared Magnus Hirschfield "the most dangerous Jew in Germany" because he was a gay man who did extensive medical and social research based around trans people and provided them resources to transition.
In case there was any doubt who these people are emulating.
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All of the "debate" of the last few years has been a deliberate effort to distract you from the fact that the substantive case for trans rights is unassailable.
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yes, surely true. better to think of trans-persons as refugees to be welcomed, not shunned. their experiences are not identical with ours but must surely be harrowing, difficult, each in their own unique way. not long ago just to be a woman uninterested in marriage was aberrant. twitter.com/benryanwriter/…
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Truly, this man’s greatest innovation is how to be a total loser while also one of the richest people alive
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Elon Musk ordered major changes to Twitter this weekend after ... President Biden's tweet about the Eagles got higher engagement than his did.
Inside the secret system that's showing you all his tweets first, from @zoeschiffer and me. platformer.news/p/yes-elon-mus
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lost opportunity to bring Tom Holland out in a bustier
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More of the "guys who wear vests inside" part of the population represented at this table than the half of the population who lost human rights last year and helped fend off the expected midterm losses
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A photo the White House posted yesterday of the people involved in speech prep v. the speech. Could be better!
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They're going to call you socialists anyways 🤷🏾♀️
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New Dems reject socialism — period.
It’s time for House Republicans to stop playing political games and join our Members as we work to grow an economy that works for all Americans.
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hold on a sec, are you telling me the entire conservative media apparatus is controlled and propped up by billionaires who see value in targeting vulnerable groups as scapegoats for societys ills to distract from the systemic failures the rich use to enrich themselves?
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Here is The Daily Wire explaining how many billionaires have owned Steven Crowder while he's claimed to be independent.
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“The money lost from fare evasion is said to be an urgent crime problem in need of more policing & tougher sentencing.
No such framing exists for the NYPD deciding to unilaterally [take] $366 million from ‘taxpayers’ without any approval from their duly elected representatives.”
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NYPD is going $366M over its allotted OT budget this year––greater than the military budget of Albania. This has generated zero outrage in NY media which routinely gins up anger over "fare evasion" "costing taxpayers". so I wrote about the double standard thecolumn.substack.com/p/despite-cost
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what if we pause the House for two years, just spitballing
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Some GOP members telling me they don’t know how this standoff can be resolved
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lol anything bad happen after that level of dysfunction?
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MCCARTHY just said he'd be comfortable setting a record for most floor votes for speaker.
Currently, the record is from 1855, when it took two months and 133 floor votes before members agreed to pick by a plurality.
history.house.gov/Historical-Hig
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