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Rachel Klayman

@trulyvery.bsky.social

Layabout and striver. Former book editor, current bookseller. Mother. Citizen of Brooklyn. "But I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."

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Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 4w ago

This AP investigation into David Brouillette, the ICE agent who shot Durán Guerrero in Maine is genuinely horrifying. Long history of extreme mental illness, chronic violence agst spouses and kids, PTSD and heightened violence from mil service. apnews.com/article/ice-...

AP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to c...

apnews.com

Mike Drucker@mikedrucker.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It’s weird how booing AI has completely broken some commencement speakers. They’ve gone from, “You can do anything if you put your mind to it” to “Shut up and eat shit, fuckers. Being here is supposed to make ME feel good, not you.”

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“A.I. is rewriting production as we sit here… deal with it. Like I said, it’s a tool… hear me now or pay me later.” Scott Borchetta, a Nashville record label executive, gets booed by MTSU grads when he brings up A.I.

David Beard@dabeard.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The people own it. Without discussion or public review, the Trump administration is selling “the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal” to the highest bidder. www.alternet.org/trump-destro...

Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder

Painted figures haunt an empty building. A boy leaning on a pair of crutches. A father and son wandering a barren railroad track. A nuclear family at a picnic table. These poignant scenes were painted...

alternet.org

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · last yr.

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

MS NOW@ms.now · last yr.

BREAKING: California Governor Gavin Newsom delivers a 'major address' in response to the Trump admin.'s actions in L.A. "Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are least able to defend themselves, but they do not stop there," Newsom said.

Omar Wasow@owasow.bsky.social · last yr.

State repression of peaceful protests can subject activists to injury and even death but—when broadcast to the world through media—often turns mass opinion against the state. bsky.app/profile/owas...

Omar Wasow@owasow.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Article title: Agenda Seeding: How 1960s Black Protests Moved Elites, Public Opinion and Voting Article Abstract How do stigmatized minorities advance agendas when confronted with hostile majorities? Elite theories of influence posit marginal groups exert little power. I propose the concept of agenda seeding to describe how activists use methods like disruption to capture the attention of media and overcome political asymmetries. Further, I hypothesize protest tactics influence how news organizations frame demands. Evaluating black-led protests between 1960 and 1972, I find nonviolent activism, particularly when met with state or vigilante repression, drove media coverage, framing, congressional speech, and public opinion on civil rights. Counties proximate to nonviolent protests saw presidential Democratic vote share increase 1.6–2.5%. Protester-initiated violence, by contrast, helped move news agendas, frames, elite discourse, and public concern toward “social control.” In 1968, using rainfall as an instrument, I find violent protests likely caused a 1.5–7.9% shift among whites toward Republicans and tipped the election. Elites may dominate political communication but hold no monopoly.
Dr Francis Young@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · last yr.

I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing

Dr Keith Wilson 💭@keithwilson.eu · last yr.

Bizarrely framed article about the people (all women) who ‘refuse to use AI’. And a #philosophy professor who says “The moment to opt out of #AI has already passed”. Oh well. That’s that then. 🤷‍♂️ #AIEthics www.bbc.com/news/article...

Rachel Klayman@trulyvery.bsky.social · last yr.

Bracing, from Die Zeit: “Thank you for Andy Warhol. Thank you for the Big Mac and the iPhone. Thank you, too, for Francis Ford Coppola, for Stanley Kubrick and Quentin Tarantino. Thank you for Angela Davis, Joni Mitchell and Susan Sontag. Thank you….also for Levi’s 501s. And now: Goodbye.”

Europe and the US: Thanks America, That’ll Be All

Andy Warhol, Big Mac, iPhone: It was a grand American epoch. But it’s over. Europe must finally emancipate itself – just not as awkwardly as Jürgen Habermas might like.

zeit.de

Omar Wasow@owasow.bsky.social · last yr.

Keep hearing people say protests against first Trump administration were ineffective. Evidence suggests otherwise.

Omar Wasow@owasow.bsky.social · 2y ago

Many “savvy” folks argue protests can’t work. Evidence suggests otherwise. “Muslim ban set off a fury of protests across US, garnering tremendous media attention and discussion… Portraying ‘Ban’ at odds with inclusive elements of American identity prompted some citizens to shift their attitudes…”

Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · last yr.

It's late, but I was compelled to write this and share the amazing portrait: "The United States of Terror" Trump's Second Administration is transforming into a reign of terror for anyone and everyone who defies the MAGA agenda. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

The United States of Terror

Trump's Second Administration is transforming into a reign of terror for anyone and everyone who defies the MAGA agenda and refuses to bend the knee to its corrupt, authoritarian impulses.

open.substack.com

Shannon Watts@shannonrwatts.bsky.social · last yr.

A French researcher was detained on arrival in the US and his computer and phone were confiscated. Texts criticizing Trump's cuts to scientific research were deemed by DHS agents as "hatred of Trump …described as terrorism." He was deported.

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found

France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

theguardian.com