@dannagal
Professor of Communication & Political Science. NH to PHL. Improv comedian. Author: “Irony and Outrage” (OUP 2020), “Wrong” (JHU 2023). My views and mine alone. WEBSITE: https://sites.google.com/view/dgoldyoung/home
This was a very hard piece to report out, but an important and urgent one. If you care about the safety of women and girls online, I hope you’ll read it and share it with others.
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I guess we will see but I think actually they’re sick of hearing about it and are going to be annoyed with Collins if that’s all she’s got
there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).
the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.
How odd that so many military veterans who saw their friends get killed in the last stupid in the Middle East feel compelled to speak out against this stupid war in the Middle East.
Imagine serving as a Marine and then being injured at home, on purpose, by a sitting Senator while exercising your constitutionally-protected rights.
mom’s dad: school principal who championed education for all his offspring
Dad’s dad: farmer 1920s-1960s when severe draught in MA forced him to sell part of the land. He went to work at a paper mill where he lost his pinky finger but was always chipper, faithful, and creative.
Trump 2016: The Iraq War was stupid
Trump 2026: And we’re going to do it even bigger
OTOH: I have always said Dunkin coffee must be laced with crack cause there’s nothing else that does what Dunkin does. Signed, a native New Englander
“Report the reality:” The reality is that this admin has given no coherent evidence-based reason for this war in the first place
I hear you! I am biased bc I met him last June at a small event where I talked about the need for leaders to tap into moral values and intuition, instead of just data. He approached me afterwards to say he agreed &discuss what it means to be in seminary school and a 3rd generation (i think) pastor.
AI health #misinformation is getting harder to spot. Canadians are falling for it, expert warns www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic... via CTV News
Me: “And very recent studies tell us that when AI images are included in content, we’re more likely to fall for misinformation.”
true! Leaders like Mamdani illustrate this every day. I think that that requires a really thoughtful person with full confidence in their moral values, and willingness to pursue a vision without always poll testing every message. Talarico’s moral clarity happens to come from his Christian Faith.
Don’t worry Phil they’re only being used to determine if we should drop a nuke or not
fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this
Lots of talk about Talarico Representing a “bigger tent” approach to the Dems. This is true. And he also represents a leader with a moral vision driven by his faith… He speaks with a moral clarity that many Dems don’t (or can’t) because they are either too cautious, too cynical, or to factional.
I feel like we typically see these sorts of completely outraged opinions from federal judges a couple times a year across the whole country, maybe a little more often in last few years. Now, in cases stemming from Trump's immigration crackdown, judges are ringing the alarm bell several times a week.
“In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive...[T]he trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man."
-- James Madison
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[adding to list if things I must do to understand the world around me] 😂
😂 is “Babette” a term of art? Or like slang for Barbara Streisand? Help me, Colin!!!
I’m just wondering why the OP used “Babette“ instead of “kitchenette” or perhaps “dinette”
The New American Dream
All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.
Ban Polymarket.
It’s immoral and will corrupt our foreign policy decisions and likely has already.
This seems like it will end well.
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WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?
NOEM: Yes
WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?
NOEM: No.
