Uscitizenandcoffeelover

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Professor, coffee lover, reader and resister. Not necessarily in that proffer. Newly migrated from the bird app where disinformation amd ugliness is flooding my feed.

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It’s easy to be pessimistic about the United States’ future if you focus (as the news media tends to do) on our dysfunctional political scene. But if you look beyond politics to science and technology, the news is far more encouraging. https://wapo.st/3QKiLXn

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MaxBoot/status/1615678571065868290

U.S. politics is awful — but our science and technology offer hope for the future

To stay ahead, we must give our innovators the support they need.

The Washington Post

House Intelligence Cmte. chair: “There are election deniers on both sides of the aisle.”

There really aren’t. Election denialism is a problem, but it’s not a bipartisan problem.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/election-denialism-house-intelligence-committee-rcna66987?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma&taid=63cf1b6a324392000126a029&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Election denialism is not a ‘both sides of the aisle’ problem

When House Republican leaders announced their slate of committee chairs for the new Congress, too many of them had something unfortunate in common.

MSNBC
“The refusal of Kevin McCarthy to push back against George Santos is just one more sign that the Grand Old Party has no morals, stands for nothing, and will only reach its justifiable demise when voters decide they’ve really had enough. In the meantime, newly installed Congressman Santos is the GOP’s lying face.
https://america.substack.com/p/lying-for-the-win
Lying for the Win

George Santos proved he'd say anything to dupe voters to elect him. His party's leader doesn't care—in fact, Kevin McCarthy is all in on the jaw-dropping liar.

America, America
The number of journalists killed in 2022 increased sharply. https://cpj.org/reports/2022/12/number-of-jailed-journalists-spikes-to-new-global-record/
“Jill and I are praying for those killed and injured in the latest tragic shooting in Half Moon Bay, California. For the second time in recent days, California communities are mourning the loss of loved ones in a senseless act of gun violence,” says President Biden in a statement. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/01/24/statement-from-president-biden-on-the-shooting-in-half-moon-bay-california/
Statement from President Biden on the Shooting in Half Moon Bay, California | The White House

Jill and I are praying for those killed and injured in the latest tragic shooting in Half Moon Bay, California. For the second time in recent

The White House
“Classical fascist form" of antisemitism appearing again in US society, including among young people, according to ADL survey.
https://www.adl.org/resources/report/antisemitic-attitudes-america-topline-findings
Antisemitic Attitudes in America: Topline Findings

In our topline findings, data shows widespread belief in antisemitic conspiracy theories & tropes nearly doubled since 2019 & the highest levels in 30 years.

ADL
Paul Klee, Intoxication (Im Rausch), 1939 #paulklee #museumarchive http://www.moma.org/collection/works/34149
President Biden honoring those heroes who stood up to Trump and the GOP’s attempted coup and Jan 6 terrorist attack. In any other country trump would be in jail and the GOP would be labeled a terrorist group. #January6th
When #ElonMusk fired half of #Twitter's #workers on November 4, he promised they would receive three months of #severance. But two months later, none of the laid-off staffers have received the money, according to #bloomberghttps://boingboing.net/2023/01/06/two-months-later-laid-off-twitter-staffers-havent-received-promised-severance-pay.html #SocialMedia #LaborLaw
Two months later, laid-off Twitter staffers haven't received promised severance pay | Boing Boing

When Elon Musk fired half of Twitter’s workers on November 4, he promised they would receive three months of severance. But two months later, none of the laid-off staffers have received the m…

Boing Boing
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The New York Times Declares War on LGBTQ People With Hire of Anti-Trans Columnist

Hello, readers, Back in November, I wrote a piece explaining my key takeaway from the midterms: the press is out of touch with the public. After 2016, pretty much every mainstream media outlet took a few big steps to the right in hopes of not being called “fake news” by the new president, and then kept moving to the right in response to Democrats winning the House in 2018, and Democrats winning the House, Senate,

The Present Age