Max BootIt’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
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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.
MSNBCHouse 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.
Steven Beschloss“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
https://america.substack.com/p/lying-for-the-win
Steve HermanThe 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/
“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
https://www.adl.org/resources/report/antisemitic-attitudes-america-topline-findings
Paul KleePaul Klee, Intoxication (Im Rausch), 1939 #paulklee #museumarchive http://www.moma.org/collection/works/34149
DeanObeidallahPresident 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
Itamar MedeirosWhen #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 #bloomberg https://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…
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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,