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Our constitutionally protected free press failed the American people and will blame everyone but themselves for the consequences.

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Angie Nixon@angieforfl.bsky.social · 2d ago

Folks have insulted:  My Southern drawl.  My loc’d hair.  My clothes.  My shoes.  My intelligence.  I’ve been called a ghetto Black b!t€h. Now @JDVance says I don’t belong and should leave the very country my ancestors helped build. This is a lot y’all. It is. #AngieForFlorida

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Tom Carter@thcarter123.bsky.social · 2d ago

They are not trump judges, not Fed Soc, not originalist judges. They are Leonard Leo extremist Catholic judges. How often have they ruled against Leonard Leo track #1 far right Catholicism, or Leonard Leo track #2 anti New Deal, federal regulation Koch oil? www.newsweek.com/supreme-cour...

Supreme Court Justice most "disloyal" to Donald Trump as new term starts

The court opens its new term Monday as Trump says he regrets all three picks. Here are the justices who have broken with him most.

newsweek.com

Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social · 4d ago

We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Hegseth: "It's worth saying again so the fake news understands it. We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. Simple translation of that -- no fatties no trannies no beardos no weirdos no wimps no radicals. Just warriors."

Matthew Dowd@matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 4d ago

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 4d ago

George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"

Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try? I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided. Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.
maura quint@mauraquint.bsky.social · 4d ago

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.