GFJacobs Is Still Masking

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The scourge of rwnjs.
Reality bites cultists when they are exposed to it. I intend to make reality bite alot.
GFJacobs Is Still MaskingSep 3
JamesWNealSep 3
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis said Wednesday he would not consider a nominee to replace ousted Fed Gov. Lisa Cook until the legality of President Donald Trump’s move to fire her has been determined in court, signaling that the Senate is unlikely to approve a new nominee for her seat while the issue is being litigated. https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/03/congress/tillis-lisa-cook-replacement-legal-dispute-fed-trump-00541969
GFJacobs Is Still MaskingAug 27
The Conversation U.S.Aug 27

With misinformation nearly everywhere, one professor tested a simple fix of 150 minutes of fact-checking homework – and it worked, boosting the students’ ability to spot misinformation by nearly 20%.

https://theconversation.com/college-students-are-bombarded-by-misinformation-so-this-professor-taught-them-fact-checking-101-heres-what-happened-262409

College students are bombarded by misinformation, so this professor taught them fact-checking 101 − here’s what happened

Just 2½ hours of online instruction made students a lot better at identifying misinformation on YouTube and TikTok.

The Conversation
GFJacobs Is Still MaskingAug 24
Ilias 🎄☃️Aug 24

Bluesky creates the world's weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause via @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/15/dogs-breakfast/#by-clicking-this-you-agree-on-behalf-of-your-employer-to-release-me-from-all-obligations-and-waivers-arising-from-any-and-all-NON-NEGOTIATED-agreements

Pluralistic: Bluesky creates the world’s weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause (15 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

GFJacobs Is Still MaskingAug 24
Kim PeralesAug 24

“In the coming months, my health insur premium is going to spike -it’ll more than double.

In their BBB, Rs in effect repealed the subsidies in the IRA. They’re set to expire at year’s end, at which point I’ll face a kind of Sophie’s choice: Either I pay impos rates or I just go w/o health insur.

“Nearly all of the🚨 ~24M Americans enrolled in #ACA exchgs will face massive prem hikes -in many cases, 3-4X higher than what they’re paying now.”
#Protest #Stagflation #USPol
https://www.editorialboard.com/trump-is-taking-my-healthcare-away/

Trump is taking my healthcare away

I need your help.

The Editorial Board.
GFJacobs Is Still MaskingAug 24
grrlpupAug 23
I try to hew to this rule while biking: if a flower makes me say “wow” out loud, stop and take a picture. #bloomscrolling
GFJacobs Is Still MaskingAug 24
MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦Aug 24

🇺🇦 Zelensky: Today Ukraine celebrates Independence Day – fighting. Defending. Under blows and with anxiety. But strong. Not alone. And every day more and more returning this war to where it came from: to the Russian sky and to the Russian land.

And with every step of this war there, with pressure on Russia, with its real losses, we know that peace for Ukraine is getting closer. This is what we are fighting for. And we will get.

GFJacobs Is Still MaskingAug 24
RonSupportsYouAug 24
Anthony Coley: "The difference between Trump 1.0 (his first term as president)and Trump 2.0 (his second term as president) is that in Trump 1.0 he had principled conservatives working for the Trump Administration who had lines that they would not cross for Trump." Trump 2.0 has blindly loyal appointees who will do whatever Trump wants them to do, for example have the FBI investigate John Bolton for no good reason and have the Marines patrol Los Angeles.
copy: @renewedresistance #politics
GFJacobs Is Still MaskingAug 24
Show threadNonilexAug 24

Before continuing, it is important to pause a moment & state this directly: Donald Trump, the current #president of the #UnitedStates, believes that the #Smithsonian is failing to do its job, because it spends too much time portraying #slavery as “bad.”

#BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #USHistory #museums #Trump

GFJacobs Is Still MaskingAug 24
Show threadNonilexAug 24

He took to Truth Social to complain that the country’s museums “are, essentially, the last remaining segment of ‘WOKE.’ The Smithsonian,” he wrote, “is OUT OF CONTROL.” Then #Trump wrote something astonishing, even for him. He asserted that the narrative presented by the Smithsonian is overly focused on “how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, & how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been.”

#BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #USHistory #Slavery #museums #Smithsonian

GFJacobs Is Still MaskingAug 24
NonilexAug 24

#GiftArticle

Actually, #Slavery Was Very Bad

Trump’s latest criticism of #museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase #Black #history.

In what looks to be an intensifying quest to reshape #AmericanHistory & scholarship according to his own preferences, #Trump this week targeted the #Smithsonian Institution, the national repository of #USHistory & #memory. Trump seemed outraged, in particular, by the Smithsonian’s portrayal of the Black experience in America.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/trump-attack-smithsonian-slavery/683969/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxaaL95f_SfJXcsRtHcJHwD8

The Meaning of Trump’s Attack on the Smithsonian

The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

The Atlantic