We're not immune to groupthink, alas. Sorry that is happening. But I do understand why people are freaking out. It's impossible to use virtually any online tool these days without having it offer to do whatever you're doing better than you can with their snazzy AI tool. It's genuinely alarming.
Bitterzoose
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Teacher, editor, translator, alarmed about where we're headed #EduSky
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If Ukraine is not a part of peace talks, they aren't peace talks.
They are, at most, imperial outsiders trying to figure out something they like and impose it on Ukraine. Which won't work, because Ukrainians are the ones fighting.
US and Russia don't need peace talks, because they're not at war.
Russian Strikes Kill 3 in Ukraine, Which May Be Left Out of Peace Talks
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Congress should demand that the Trump admin provide the most basic of info about the conditions to which it is consigning human beings transferred from U.S. shores.
@scott-roehm.bsky.social and @becingber.bsky.social on new legislation in the Senate: www.justsecurity.org/118670/congr...
Congress' Next Step to Stop Trump’s Transfers to Torture
Six new bills demanding that the executive branch provide basic information about deportations from U.S. shores should pass unanimously.
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Five years ago, Jared Wise was filmed calling on rioters to "kill" police at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, who he said were "Nazis" and "Gestapo."
Today, Jared Wise is a senior adviser at Trump's Department of Justice.
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ON WHAT EFFING GROUNDS
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New in PN: Trump's Confederacy rises again
"The straightforward explanation for Trump’s Confederacy fetish is that he’s a virulent racist who would’ve enslaved people himself. If you think that’s hyperbolic, just listen to the man."
Trump's Confederacy rises again
The Lost Cause doesn't seem all that lost anymore.
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hmmmmmmm
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Inside Higher Education calls it: X is dead for academia, and BlueSky is where it’s at.
Can I interest you in the #CommSky feed and starter pack? bsky.app/starter-pack...
X’s Altmetric Hegemony Ceding to Bluesky
The alternative social media platform is matching engagement of Elon Musk’s X in ways that “would have seemed unthinkable until recently,” says study.
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There's money to be made, Ms. Herd!
Privatization, which proceeds apace, is great for greedy billionaires -- not so great for the rest of us.
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This is an early warning. Things won’t just go back to normal once Trump is gone. People will be unwilling to fill civil service jobs because they no longer trust the government. This was Vought’s goal.
NEW: Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejections for the same period a year earlier.
Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals
Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...
