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DocAley5000
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I focus on information disorder in my writing courses and seek ways to help my students recognize and avoid disinformation.
Natalie DavisBiden awards Medal of Freedom to Hillary Clinton, Soros, Messi and 16 others https://www.npr.org/2025/01/04/g-s1-41010/biden-medal-of-freedom?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Steve HermanPresident Biden today is to deliver the Presidential Medal of Freedom to:
José Andrés
Bono
Ash Carter (posthumous)
Hillary Clinton
Michael J. Fox
Tim Gill
Jane Goodall
Fannie Lou Hamer (posthumous)
Earvin “Magic” Johnson
Robert Francis Kennedy (posthumous)
Ralph Lauren
Lionel Messi
Bill Nye
George Romney (posthumous)
David M. Rubenstein
George Soros
George Stevens, Jr.
Denzel Washington
Anna Wintour
LaffyVia Kyle Griffin:
President #Biden just announced the newest recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Names include:
Hillary Clinton
José Andrés
Jane Goodall
George Soros
Earvin "Magic" Johnson
Bono
Fannie Lou Hammer
Bill Nye
George Romney
Denzel Washington
Anna Wintour
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf
Seeking to heal the country, Jimmy Carter pardoned men who evaded the Vietnam War draft https://www.npr.org/2025/01/04/1158874141/jimmy-carter-vietnam-draft-evaders-pardon?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Sheril KirshenbaumSure you’ve heard of Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig, but what about Jackie Mitchell? She’s the 17 yr old pitcher who struck them both out consecutively in 1931.
Babe Ruth was quoted saying women “will never make good” in baseball bc “they are too delicate.”
The next day, the NYTimes reported, “The prospect grows gloomier for misogynists.”
There’s far more to Jackie’s impressive baseball career https://www.mlb.com/amp/news/meet-jackie-mitchell-the-girl-who-struck-out-babe-ruth.html
#women #history #baseball #HistoryRemix
A 17-year-old girl struck out Ruth and Gehrig
It shouldn't come as much of a shock to hear that baseball in 1931 was totally different from baseball today. Just from looking at pictures from the era, you can tell. Pitchers' windups are different. Hitters' swings are different. The uniforms look thicker and baggier. But another way the game
Auschwitz Memorial4 January 1914 | Pole Stanislaw Szczepanik was born in Chybie. A football player, in 1929-37 a defender in Wisła Krakow club.
In #Auschwitz from 25 August 1943.
In 1944 he was transferred to Mauthausen, where he perished.
Paul Schoe#Asli Aydintasbas, fellow at the Brookings Institution, former journalist covering the march of state capture in Erdoğan’s Turkey: how #Democracy can come out stronger after #Trump.
1. Don’t Panic — Autocracy Takes Time
Trump only has 2 years.
2. The answer to authoritarianism is not to disconnect but to organize.
3. Make the shift to how Democracy relates to working people in the U.S.
4. Choose Charismatic Leadership.
5. Have a clear, relatable economic message.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-will-overplay-his-hand-be-ready
William GalloNot even three hours into the new year, North Korea launched its first ballistic missile.
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20230101000352325?input=tw
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20230101000352325?input=tw
