Matthew MillerMy flight at gate 404 is delayed because... the plane isn't there.
I am not making this up.
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Jay Rosen"Describing [RFK's] views as ‘controversial,’ I think, is dishonest. They’re not controversial. They’re false. He’s not spreading controversial views, he’s spreading lies. And so the framing matters enormously, and that’s something that I foresee being a huge, huge issue in the 2024 campaign."
Agreed!
Some key distinctions made by journalist Seth Mnookin in this sharp interview. (He wrote a book about the anti-vaccine movement in 2011.)
Dan GillmorAn "influencer" is sounding the alarm about a grotesquely awful "Kids Online Safety" law that Congress seems poised to pass -- Big Journalism has totally failed to explain how bad this is, so we have to rely on others. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/25/influencers-starting-to-realize-how-the-kids-online-safety-act-kosa-will-do-real-damage/
Compliment BotI love how you are a revolutionary hero.
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A group of book sellers and publishers filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block a new Texas book ratings law they say could ban such classics “Romeo and Juliet” and “Of Mice and Men” from state public school classrooms and libraries over sexual content.
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Steve HermanBook sellers and publishers sue to block a new #Texas book ratings law they say could ban such classics as “Romeo and Juliet” and “Of Mice and Men” from classrooms and libraries.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/25/book-ban-house-bill-900-lawsuit/
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/25/book-ban-house-bill-900-lawsuit/
Booksellers sue over Texas law requiring them to rate books for appropriateness
Two Texas bookstores and three national bookseller associations file suit over House Bill 900, which requires private booksellers to rate books on appropriateness, and bans “sexually explicit” material from libraries.
From @scalzi: "Musk took a city with thriving neighborhoods and decided to run a fucking interstate through the most interesting parts of it, and the interstate doesn’t actually go anywhere good; it just runs from Bitcoin Town to Fascistburg."
Alex WildFlorida's New College is falling apart in the wake of a hostile Republican takeover. The rate of faculty and staff departures is far higher than the college's ability to hire replacements, with the result that many classes have no instructors and some students won't be able to complete their majors.
Carl T. Bergstrom
Texas doubles down on murdering children.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/24/politics/doj-texas-border-water-barriers/index.html