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Erin Fornoff

@erinfornoff.bsky.social

Poet, writer, mountain girl from western North Carolina, currently in east County Clare. 08 Obama campaign staff, Ashoka. Books: Hymn to the Reckless, Folk Heroes. Play: We Are An Archipelago, due to be published June 2025. A real trouper

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Jim Small@jimsmall.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"Donald Trump’s disgusting racism is what he uses to convince his supporters to ignore his pathetic job performance. And it works. Trump is objectively bad at running the government, but he’s objectively good at running a Klan rally." @elienyc.bsky.social nails it here

Nothing Works in Trump’s America—Except for Racism

In this week’s Elie v. US, our justice correspondent explores Trump’s stunning incompetence. Plus: baseball is back—for now.

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My Password is Louvre@bmceuen.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Once again, one of the most consistently replicated findings in the history of experiments is that giving people cash with zero strings attached has massive social benefits for those receiving the cash as well as the community around them

Street Roots@streetroots.bsky.social · 11mo ago

An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

The Poetry Society@poetrysociety.org.uk · 11mo ago

🕰️ With the year coming to an end, we asked a selection of Poetry Review contributors to give us their favourite poetry books and pamphlets of 2025. Next is Chris Arning's pick: High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett (Banshee Press). Thank you, Chris!

Chris Arning recommends High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett and says: I just thought - what an audacious conceit to pattern a whole volume on the concept of the high jump. There is a lot of daring work in it.
Darach Ó Séaghdha@darach.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I'm sure that Jimmy Wales has many bad opinions. But Wikipedians aren't a pro-Wales cult. He's not growing rich off clicks. Some very rich, very awful people are determined to discredit the last mega-website that isn't run for profit and being actively made worse in the pursuit of that objective.

Roxane Gay@roxanegay.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

Patrick Freyne@patrickfreyne.bsky.social · last yr.

We need to treat social media as humanity's demented id - which is pretty much what it is - and stop feeling like everything on here is a thought out policy position that requires a response. Everyone on the internet is basically mad & drunk & has a real job/family somewhere they're neglecting.

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · last yr.

Verification means we can establish what is true in ways we can trust, through journalism, science, courts, audits, transparency. Deliberation means we can reason together across differences, in parliaments, the press, social movements. Accountability means power can be held to account.

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · last yr.

To expand on some of the points I make in this, we often talk about democracy as if it lives or dies on elections. But elections are just one part of the picture. At its core, a healthy democracy depends on three functions working together: Verification, Deliberation, and Accountability, aka VDA.

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · last yr.

Here's my interview with Amol Rajan on BBC Radio 4's Radical about what's going wrong with democracy and how we can fix it www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · last yr.

Again, why critical thinking skills are crucial in education. If people are bombarded with a constant stream of algorithmically selected content that engages them emotionally and we aren't equipping them with critical thinking skills from an early age then things like this are the inevitable outcome

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · last yr.

think this is sort of interesting as actually.....no you probably didn't need to do "more research" into it? you just had to trust the state and local authorities to know better than you when it came to vaccinating your child? not good that the internet has killed faith in institutions!