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wdlindsy , to random
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Noting that "coverage of the presidential candidates is disparate and dangerous," Dan Rather says,

"A case study conducted by the University of Pennsylvania concluded that 'the choice of the [New York] Times to publish almost three times as many articles about Biden’s age as about Trump pulling the US out of NATO represents a clear example of biased coverage.'"


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https://steady.substack.com/p/if-you-see-crazy-report-crazy

blueQuaternary ,
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@wdlindsy they’re doing it on purpose, they’ve basically gone maga, but are still feigning a veneer of impartiality. Act accordingly, treat them like the propagandists they are.

GottaLaff , to random
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Via Democracy Docket:

NEW: Gov. Jeff Landry (R) signs two more voter suppression bills into law that will restrict voter assistance and make it harder for people to hold voter registration drives. Landry has signed numerous other suppressive election laws this month.

blueQuaternary ,
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@GottaLaff this is all just so damn frustrating, I mean it’s obvious on its face that this is voter suppression…..banning event that promote voter registration, come on…the goddam confederates doing this should be hog tied and horse whipped

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SCOTUS is salivating.

Via Kyle Griffin:

Breaking:

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Civil liberties groups file lawsuit challenging 's new law mandating display of Ten Commandments in classrooms.

blueQuaternary ,
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@GottaLaff if by “salivating” you mean tightening their cilice belts then yes….

tzimmer_history , to random
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Why the Right Has a Problem with Juneteenth

This, from last year, certainly holds up: Today’s Republican Party is dominated by reactionaries who stand in the political, ideological, and spiritual tradition of the (neo-) Confederacy.

With an added voiceover option:

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/why-the-right-has-a-problem-with

blueQuaternary ,
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@tzimmer_history it’s literally a day celebrating the ending of state sanctioned human bondage in this country. Couldn’t get more American or more drenched in human freedom. So of course they’re against it.

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“Republican senator blocked a Democratic-led attempt to pass legislation Tuesday that would have restored a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, an accessory that enables semi-automatic weapons to shoot at a very rapid pace, after last week's Supreme Court decision striking down the ban.

…Sen. Pete Ricketts, a Nebraska Republican, blocked the measure by objecting”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-democrats-to-try-to-ban-bump-stocks-after-supreme-court-ruling/

blueQuaternary ,
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@GottaLaff senate Republicans and radical right wing Supreme Court justices want to make it easier for crazy people to kill your kids.

randahl , (edited ) to random
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This is how dishonest Rupert Murdoch's New York Post is:

Picture 1: By cropping pictures so their readers cannot see the truth, New York Post makes it appear as if Biden is a senile, turning to and talking to people who do not exist at the G7 Summit.

Picture 2-4: What is really going on is, a paratrooper is landing, and there are three soldiers to the right of the politicians, and Biden walks over to applaud their work with supporting the paratrooper.

blueQuaternary ,
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@randahl it’s all projection, all the time

tzimmer_history , to random
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Sunday Reading: The Right’s Politics of Revenge

The responses to the Trump verdict offer an instructive - and alarming - reminder of what defines the American Right today: They are out for bloody retaliation, all dressed up as patriotism.

Thoughts from my new piece:

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https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-rights-politics-of-revenge

blueQuaternary ,
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@tzimmer_history the parallels in reasoning to the Nazi party rise are chilling

Strandjunker , to random
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Wealth of Elon Musk
2012: $2,000,000,000
2024: $211,300,000,000

Wealth of Jeff Bezos
2012: $18,400,000,000
2024: $204,900,000,000

Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg
2012: $17,500,000,000
2024: $178,400,000,000

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2024: $7.25

Three words: tax the rich.

blueQuaternary ,
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@Strandjunker a long time ago, in a bar bathroom in Pindale WY, “kill the rich” was scratched on the wall. Now the majority of WY voters would give their dying breath to provide these three sociopathic bums with zero tax burden?

flexghost , to random
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    blueQuaternary ,
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    @flexghost that’s an interesting suggestion for next steps?

    luckytran , to random
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    Update on the North Carolina anti-mask bill: The committee has come to an agreement on a compromise bill.

    BUT the compromise bill contains problematic language, saying you can wear a mask to "prevent the spread of contagious disease."

    This sounds like you can wear a mask if you already have COVID, but not to prevent yourself from getting it.

    Masks are a key prevention tool. People should have the right to wear them to protect their own health.

    blueQuaternary ,
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    @luckytran and NC is supposed to be the “new south”. If by that they mean idiot south, sure…

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Ahem. Attention please.

    I am now in . 🇨🇦🍁

    That is all.

    👏🏻💃🏼🥳💥‼️‼️‼️‼️

    blueQuaternary ,
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    @GottaLaff time to pick up a two four, eh

    Strandjunker , to random
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    Can we at least agree that this experiment of giving a dumb orange TV host & shady real estate developer with no government knowledge, 6 bankruptcies, 42 sexual assault allegations, 7,384 lawsuits, and $5,563,000,000 in debt our nuclear secrets did not go well at all? #TrumpTrial

    blueQuaternary ,
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    @Strandjunker why, oh why is some huge percentage of Americans going to vote for him? I know, at least I guess I know: hatred, victim hood, propaganda, and low info about him and Biden. He simply cannot assume the presidency ever again.

    GottaLaff , to random
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    🤦🏻‍♀️“New policy to stop use of gender pronouns by public univ faculty & staff in official correspondence is also keeping Native American employees from listing their tribal affiliations in a state w a long & violent history of conflict w tribes.

    Two University of SD faculty members, Megan Red Shirt-Shaw & her husband, John Little, have long incl their gender pronouns & tribal affiliations in their work email signature blocks..both received written warnings”
    https://apnews.com/article/66efb8c6a3c57a6a02da0bf4ed575a5f

    blueQuaternary ,
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    @GottaLaff but don’t you call them fascists or Tom Nichols will grimace

    luckytran , to random
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    "So this bill will protect the Ku Klux Klan to wear masks in public, but someone who's immunocompromised like myself cannot wear a mask?"
    — North Carolina Senator Sydney Batch, who is a cancer survivor

    Unbelievable.

    blueQuaternary ,
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    @luckytran public dress codes coming soon, and they’ll deploy cops in full riot gear to enforce, the white supremacist shooting up a school will get the leftover cops to clean up the bodies and gently arrest him….because you know CRT or something.

    luckytran , to random
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    "The Raw Milk Institute called the warnings "clearly fearmongering." The institute's founder told the LATimes his customers are specifically requesting raw milk from H5N1-infected cows."

    This is an example of how minimizing COVID is destructive to public health far beyond COVID.

    Source: https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/anti-pasteurization-crowd-reaffirms-love-of-raw-milk-despite-bird-flu-outbreak/

    Yet, raw milk enthusiasts are undaunted by the heightened risk. The California-based Raw Milk Institute called the warnings "clearly fearmongering." The institute's founder, Mark McAfee, told the Los Angeles Times this weekend that his customers are, in fact, specifically requesting raw milk from H5N1-infected cows. According to McAfee, his customers believe, without evidence, that directly drinking high levels of the avian influenza virus will give them immunity to the deadly pathogen.

    blueQuaternary ,
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    @luckytran I’ll bet Joe Rogan calls them wimps…..”you should be licking the infected cows faces after drinking milk from the teet”. Anything less and your a tool of the deep state and big pharma and diluting us bros collective bro powers.

    flexghost , to random
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    Did Trump do something wrong while on trial for doing something wrong?

    Probably.

    But this isn’t going anywhere. The money will be filtered through PACs and without the power to subpoena the House probe is more a hall monitor who forgot their whistle

    Nice system you got there.

    Headline House Democrats launch probe of Trump’s dinner with oil executives Lawmakers demand details of a Mar-a-Lago dinner where Trump promised to ease regulations on the oil industry while asking executives to steer S1 billion to his 2024 campaign. Kek. Ain’t nothing gonna happen. You had 4 years and public support and you wasted it. You can’t even take credit for a good economy. ‘ By Maxine Joselow May 14, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
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    blueQuaternary ,
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    @flexghost yes, but you know they could play up the political angle of this? Like go on TV and talk about how Trump is in the pocket of big oil and raising gas prices right now so that you’ll like this traitor rapist? You know do politics with ammunition that you have.

    flexghost , to random
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    “We need to move on as a party, we need to move on as a country…

    “I’m voting for Joe Biden.”

    Former Georgia Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan

    Republican.

    CNN interview with the last sane Republican Former Georgia Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan

    blueQuaternary ,
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    @flexghost this is good

    flexghost , to random
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    Um. What the hell did I just watch?

    Is this.....funny? Do you feel owned?

    Computer generated biden in a dress selling Bud Light. So not only can the right not meme but they make the same bad joke for YEARS. The uncle none of us want to have at dinner

    blueQuaternary ,
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    @flexghost somewhere there is a maga gentleman masturbating to that….or a pregnant woman dying from sepsis…there’s so many stimulating owns for them these days

    tzimmer_history , to random
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    New piece:

    America’s Elites Fear the Ghost of 1968

    Mainstream elites are adopting a reactionary tale about the “leftist” indoctrination of America’s youth that verges on the conspiratorial and is destined to give the Right a major boost.

    Some key points:

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    https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/americas-elites-fear-the-ghost-of

    blueQuaternary ,
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    @tzimmer_history this crazy Packer article that turns reality and history on its head, an utterly forgettable article on Kirn who is a vapid wanna be HST/Rand hybrid bore. What is the Atlantic up too?

    wdlindsy , to random
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    Josh Marshall reports that no clear information has yet been reported on who the pro-Israel counter-protesters violently attacking student protesters at UCLA are. He's also seen no evidence they were arrested.

    Reports uniformly say they were not students and were almost all men. They were wearing balaklavas.

    #StudentProtests #Israel #Palestinians #Gaza
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    https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/details-on-identities-of-the-violent-pro-israel-protesters-at-ucla

    blueQuaternary ,
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    @wdlindsy I’m sure from the university admin actions that exacerbated, to the cops, the the pieces of wood these rent a right wing fascists used that it will all be Bidens fault though…

    bud_t , to AcademicChatter group
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    Shared governance is important. Be engaged with it if you have the opportunity. 900 (!) faculty attended this meeting.


    Indiana University Faculty Vote No Confidence In President, Provost https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2024/04/16/indiana-university-faculty-vote-no-confidence-in-president-provost/

    @academicchatter

    blueQuaternary ,
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    @douglasvb @bud_t @academicchatter we’re losing it, or it’s becoming a mere simulacrum of faculty governance; mainly because our faculty are in part lazy, and somewhat dull. They often don’t know that they are, or should be, in charge of the curriculum. When they find out they don’t much care.

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Debunktion Junction:

    vaccines not linked to fatal heart problems in young people, CDC finds

    The new report debunks widespread misinformation that the mRNA shots were connected to sudden cardiac death in young athletes. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-finds-covid-vaccines-not-linked-sudden-death-young-people-rcna147188

    blueQuaternary ,
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    @GottaLaff the horse paste eaters won’t believe it though

    GottaLaff , to random
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    decisiondeskhq:

    According to results provided by the Democratic Party in American Samoa, Jason Palmer has won the American Samoa Democratic Caucus.

    blueQuaternary ,
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    @GottaLaff NYT is now searching for diners in American Samoa

    GottaLaff , to random
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    puts leader of member Estonia on a wanted list over removal of Soviet-era monuments https://apnews.com/article/4ca301df09eace6643be66a9a4a93fe8

    blueQuaternary ,
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    @GottaLaff funny that the only person whom Trump doesn’t forget the name of is the guy who did this

    egonw , to AcademicChatter group
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    how do other people handle this? I have so many ideas (which I think are cool, but based on feedback I get, they are cool), but not enough time to do them all. How do you select? @academicchatter

    blueQuaternary ,
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    @koen_hufkens @aeryn_thrace @egonw @academicchatter yes if everyone would just die and get out of your way things would be great…..

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Via Fred Wellman:

    He literally said that #Biden is a China plant in the same interview. He’s deranged and the right wing media is desperately trying to fool us that he’s not.

    #Trump: I want China to do great, I do. And I like President XI a lot. He was a very good friend

    Bartiromo: Well, look, covid, covid cover-up, the list is long from our number one adversary. I don’t know if he’s a friend #ClusterFox

    blueQuaternary ,
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    @GottaLaff Trump: ….and Putin, he is a friend too…and boy does he have some naughty home movies of me…naughty,naughty, naughty…youd love them Nikki

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Via Meidas Touch:

    #Biden outperforms polls and wins with over 96% of the vote in South Carolina.

    NYT: “an uncertain measure of wider enthusiasm…”

    #Trump underperforms polls and wins with just 54% of the vote in New Hampshire.

    NYT: “made history” “builds on his momentum”

    blueQuaternary ,
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    @GottaLaff It’s like their only goal is to presage NYT pitchbot.

    GottaLaff , to random
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    🤦🏻‍♀️“Rogan’s fresh deal, estimated to be worth as much as $250 million over its multiyear term, involves an upfront minimum guarantee, plus a revenue sharing agreement based on ad sales.
    Under the new licensing agreement, Spotify will sell ads for and distribute “The Experience” across several podcast platforms, including in a video format on YouTube, the company said Friday. Under his previous deal, the show was exclusive to Spotify”
    https://apple.news/ANvDNbGWMTgS0r3UKdQKs7A

    blueQuaternary ,
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    @GottaLaff I hope he will have enough time to keep giving epidemiological advice. So useful. I mean sure you could do PCR and double blind studies, but I prefer the dude bro vibes for all medical decisions.

    petersuber , to AcademicChatter group
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    From a survey of @penn_state #students: "72% …reported they had not purchased a course’s required textbook, and 33% said they had not registered for a specific course because of its cost of required course materials. In addition, 33% said they had earned a poor grade because they couldn’t afford to purchase a course textbook, and 17% dropped a course because of the cost of materials required for the course."
    https://www.psu.edu/news/university-libraries/story/students-may-avoid-paying-textbooks-expense-academic-success/

    #Academia #OER #OpenAccess
    @academicchatter

    blueQuaternary ,
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    @petersuber @academicchatter I agree, the costs of textbooks are too high, and textbook publishers are borderline cartels. For my classes I use open access or other legal ways to reduce these costs for students. If I have to, I choose an ebook semester access option that is never more than $40. That all said, the costs of textbooks are much less than tuition, most phone plans, cars, car insurance? Choices.

    ml , to AcademicChatter group
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    We're so used to this, but I would like academics to take a moment and look at how much of the official and unofficial discussion around university is about despair, imposter syndrome, stress, harassment, etc.

    What I often see in these discussions, especially the official ones, is discussion of coping mechanisms and "self-care".

    What I rarely see in these discussions is questioning why we've built an education system that treats people this way in exchange for this education. @academicchatter

    blueQuaternary ,
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    @Tee @ml @academicchatter wut?

    blueQuaternary ,
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    @ml @academicchatter I get confused by these complaints about higher ed. No one has to get schooling beyond HS. Although not always a truly free choice to attend Uni (bc of parental and peer pressure), one can simply avoid the “carnage” by not going — right? And what to build instead of the putative carnage factory we now have? I have no clue? Will that new, non carnage educational system cost more, or less? Higher education has flaws bc humans have flaws.

    GottaLaff , to random
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    🤦🏻‍♀️😂

    Via Matt Campbell @bluehogreport:

    This is the funniest thing I’ll read all day.

    blueQuaternary ,
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    @GottaLaff @bluehogreport monthly?, if ya’ll secede you’ll get checks weekly!

    GottaLaff , to random
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    How about a candidate found liable for sexual assault, fraud, defamation?

    Via Kyle Griffin:

    Just 23% of Americans say they would be willing to vote for a presidential candidate convicted of a felony crime by a jury, according to a new Gallup poll. 70% say they're not willing.

    blueQuaternary ,
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    @GottaLaff every mention of him should include the phrase “pro Putin rapist”.

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