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Dan Froomkin writes,

"New York Times political reporting has become a farce, as highly-credentialed reporters tie themselves into nonsensical verbal knots trying to maintain the fiction that what the Republican Party is doing is normal – because acknowledging that it is not would be tantamount to 'taking sides.' (Read all about that here, in the Nation.)

#NewYorkTimes #BothSidesism #Republicans

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presswatchers.org/2023/02/the-

GOP Rep Paul Gosar spoke at Nazi & pro-Hitler events, doubled down repeatedly, & still fraternizes with white supremacists.

GOP Rep MT Greene cites Jewish space lasers, speaks at Nazi events, & still fraternizes with white supremacists.

And GOP continues to embrace them into leadership positions.

But please tell us more about how Rep Ilhan Omar unequivocally apologizing for her words & meeting with Jewish leaders for healing is the real antisemitism.🤔

But the sad part is this: No involved rail operator would tell you that this form of #flyingless travel is possible, let alone sell you a ticket. To find out about existing connections, your only help is bahn.de, and getting the tickets is a piece-by-piece operation, of course with no help if you miss connections.
This is as if a shop had non-polluting goods, but they would hide them from your eyes and remove most normal warranty if you still insisted to buy them.

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I gifted my 15 year old daughter ‘The Parable of the Sower’ for Christmas. I can tell that she loves it, ‘God is Change’ she told her younger sister the other day with a grin.

Octavia Butler’s books are, as Jesmyn Ward puts it, “a template for how to survive in a broken world.”.

#OctaviaButler #ClimateAction

lithub.com/how-to-survive-in-b

Recall it? An investigative reporter in Vegas, Jeff German, was stabbed. A bureaucrat was charged with his murder. German was working on a story about the bureaucrat. Thing is, was working on other stories too.

To continue German’s work, and as an act of solidarity, "The Washington Post teamed up with his newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, to complete one of the stories he’d planned to pursue."

He had heard about a Ponzi scheme. Now it's published.

washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/20

#journalism

Key to understanding power of Big Tech is that they are not very good at innovation but rather have learned how to access the capital markets and buy and extinguish potential rivals.

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic exposes the reality behind Big Tech mythology for our State of Power report. tni.org/en/article/seizing-the

Apparently JoinMastodon.org was recently attacked by a DDoS.

The Fediverse needs more than just JoinMastodon to help new people find servers. It's a single point of failure that could be crashed or bought out.

I've started an independent curated server guide at fedi.garden and would encourage others to create curated onboarding sites too.

If you run a Fedi instance (Masto or not) that complies with the Mastodon Covenant (joinmastodon.org/covenant) please get in touch.

Another example is the work of Joseph Braun at Brown Univ. He has been studying #PFAS and #phthalates - two known indoor air pollutants - for a long time. These are SVOC's - not particles. The assumption was that they would not be removed by particle filters.

He challenged that assumption and tested #corsirosenthalboxes to see if they could help. He found that the CR boxes removed 30-60% of these contaminants - a very important finding.

#CorsiRosenthal #CorsiRosenthalBox

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We often talk about how immigration is a way for people to seek a better life, but not enough about how immigrants make all our lives better. Raise your hand if your life is *better* thanks to immigrants. 🙋‍♂️🌎🌍🌏

#Histodons
On the 1st day of #BlackHistoryMonth, an ever-relevant anniversary: 158 years ago today, on Feb. 1, 1865, President Lincoln signed the 13th Amendment. It stated: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." The criminal "exception clause" fueled a ruthless shift from slavery to mass incarceration.
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A map of the approximate situation on the ground in Ukraine as of 00:00 UTC 31/01/23.

Updates:

🇷🇺 continue their advances to both the north and southwest of Bakhmut.

🇷🇺 advance further in the northeast residential area of Bakhmut.

#ukraine #russia #ukrainewar #conflict #map #europe #nato #warinukraine #mapping #news #breaking

In 1964, a white, off-duty policeman killed a Black teenager in New York. That led to the now-infamous Harlem race riots.

insider.com/harlem-race-riots-

US politics - Trump's conspiracy to overthrow the government 

When I say Trump openly plotted a coup, I mean is that he was recruiting members of the political elite to publicly endorse a coup attempt, which would lend a veneer of legitimacy of a subsequent coup. He may have never 'pulled the trigger', and it may not be possible to convict him of any crimes, but that doesn’t change the political fact that he was claiming the powers of the President despite clearly losing the election. If he had won that elite support, many of his appointees probably would have ignored legal orders from President Biden and obeyed illegal orders from Trump, leaving it to the military, civil service, and law enforcement to decide whose orders to follow; we’d be in the middle of a civil war right now. 2/8

#2024

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