Ruth Warkentin

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Fan of Star Trek, cats, the Dodgers, old-fashioneds, romance novels, and democracy. Long Beach, CA.
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The 1619 Project was not a legal claim. It did not declare that the nation was born in bondage. What it said—plainly—was that America’s founding ideals were inseparable from its founding crimes. Black Americans were not passengers. They were agents. Not beneficiaries—Builders.

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#history #blackmastodon #histodons #blackandwhite #photography #photo

Image: The book by Nikole Hannah-Jones at a bookstore on November 17, 2021 in New York City (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images).

"I was fine with the rape and the fraud and the endless lies and the misogyny and the racism and the homophobia and the transphobia and the corruption and the police brutality and the caged babies and the terrorism and the attempted coup and the autocracy and the ending the rule of law and the threats to invade neighbouring countries and the building-a-golf-resort-on-top-of-a-genocide, but now he's giving Wall Street the jitters, so I'm not so sure about this guy any more." #USpol

Have you had that "Upcoming price change for your Microsoft 365 subscription" email yet? They want to charge you an extra 50%ish for AI features, and they do *not* make it easy to find the way to turn it off. It took me minutes of searching - this is a particularly evil dark pattern.

"Switch plan" just lets you pick between annual and monthly billing. You want "Turn off recurring billing" and then "Current subscription without AI".

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The only thing Jeff Bezos‘ editorial in the Washington Post convinced me is that we need a steep wealth tax and that the existence of billionaires is a public policy failure.
The only sentence that seems on point in this No Shit Sherlock piece: “When it comes to the appearance of conflict, I am not an ideal owner of The Post.” You think? Appearance of conflict of interest is kinda the ball game. While I appreciate a response finally, this seems awfully grumpy & overly concerned with podcasts & social media smacks he has to take given how thoughtlessly, this was handled. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-trust/
The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media

A note from our owner.

The Washington Post
The Washington Post just published this cartoon by Ann Teinaes in the opinion section.
On this day in 1981, Fernando Valenzuela led the Dodgers to a win in Game 3 of the World Series against the Yankees with a complete game performance.

"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored… the first thought forbidden… the first freedom denied – chains us all irrevocably...

The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged."

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