On This Day In HistoryToday in 1992, 31 years ago: The United States officially establishes diplomatic relations with Russia.
KayJayBee
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lover of words, finding my voice. Twitter refugee. concerned citizen & unraveled Christian. here to learn and vent and laugh. Ukraine has my heart. 🌻 
Spokane, WA, USA
@jackmjenkins Not tweets, apparently!
@jayinkyiv Can you translate it for us? I don’t see it on Twitter anymore. Did he delete it?
@emilylhauser don’t know how she managed to chat with them so calmly
Rod In BoiseJo-Ann: what’s the difference between COVID and Southwest Airlines? COVID is airborne.
@mattsheffield Things worked out pretty well for Alyssa Farrah too from her Trump adjacent gig, all things considered
Dare ObasanjoThis is a great story of how Barnes & Noble’s new CEO who was hired in 2019 has turned around the company. Sales are up, it opened 16 stores this year and plans to open more next year.
The secret is the CEO really likes books and readers. So he stopped doing deals with publishers to promote their latest books & NYT best sellers and encouraged individual stores to promote books they found most interesting.
So simple yet…
https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-and
@tiffanycli So true! I love train travel. This week has been a great example of why we need alternatives to flying and driving!!
Seth CotlarI have many thoughts about that podcast that I'll save for later...but one key insight that emerges is that the media (& also the January 6 committee) has been woefully underprepared to understand & talk knowledgeably about the religious dimensions of the MAGA movement & its profound radicalism. We can't let people who glory in the thought of Washington DC being demolished by God get away with calling themselves "Christian Patriots" without any pushback. These folks hate what America has become.
Erin KissaneLast boost (linked below) provides excellent examples of the stories we are missing when major papers focus on ”holdouts” or frame caution as more unusual than it actually is, in many places.
There are a lot of exceptionally talented journalists at the NYT and I can’t help imagining a beat that relentlessly humanized and (sorry) normalized communities/families/ individuals who have adapted and worked hard to protect each other and continue to do so.
Cap'n Mastodon (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image This writer spent a year lurking in the FB group she mentions (of which I am a member), never participating until the end when she posted asking for interviews. She must have seen countless threads sharing scientific articles and members helping each other find reliable information. She must have seen the anguish of parents watching teachers, friends, and family members refusing to mask to protect a child with a life-threatening condition. She must have seen much discussion about disinformation and the conflict between what scientists say and the CDC guidelines. She must have seen stories of immune-compromised people being forced back to work in order to pay the rent. She must have seen many, many people mention the disabilities and deaths their families have experienced due to COVID. She must have seen many, many comments of people who had been lied to about precautions by family members who insisted on seeing them, sometimes resulting in hospitalizations. She must have seen stories of people whose masks had been ripped off, who had been spit upon, because they were masking. She must have seen a rich, supportive community trying to help one another through with scientific resources and solidarity while facing injustice and hatred. But she didn't write about that. She wrote about those worried weirdos who don't know that COVID is over. It seems to me she missed a lot of real stories on her way to write this. @[email protected] #CovidIsNotOver #COVID