🌱 9 more little honeynut squash on the vine, hoping it doesn’t completely die before the green ones turn at least a bit orange. We lost 6 to rabbits early on and then started using Repels-All and coyote pellet things. It’ll be 2 dozen from 2 plants across the season. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreigivmmzbce7pdivys7jlacnjuyr33gkrcmm6vki4drbd4xuyz5uzq https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreigcf43xl2ed5u3tnbd4lpbwsxwfhyccfsc553zhd375f5jridf6a4
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Rachel Kleinfeld (@rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social)
Democracy & political violence expert, work globally and U.S., lover of street food, fiddle music, unforgiving landscapes, and my kiddos. All view...
 ) and I put out a provocation & set of suggestions on how influence has changed and why institutions (& funders) need to change their thinking on shaping public opinion and connecting w/audiences. The old way no longer works. [carnegieendowment.org/research/202...](
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For Expertise to Matter, Nonpartisan Institutions Need New Communications Strategies
To avoid irrelevance when they are needed most, experts and nonpartisan analysts must rethink not just their channels of communication but also the...
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For Expertise to Matter, Nonpartisan Institutions Need New Communications Strategies
To avoid irrelevance when they are needed most, experts and nonpartisan analysts must rethink not just their channels of communication but also the...
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During the decades that the House UnAmerican Activities Committee ran its witch hunts, the blacklists were self-imposed. Eventually, the Committee’s targets realized that they had to respond differently… [www.lawfaremedia.org/article/proc...](
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Process as Punishment: An American History of Political Spectacle
American political theater isn’t new. The House Un-American Activities Committee operated for decades—until targets learned to fight back.
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Jeet Heer (@jeetheer.bsky.social)
This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red...
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Arsonist raises doubts about harmful chemicals in fire extinguishers RE:
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social)
Kirk Milhoan is now describing as “telling” the fact that COVID19 vaccines are unpopular. What it is “telling” us is that misinformation ...
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At 2:30ET today there will be a hearing on “the harms of AI chatbots.”Testimonies are now up. None of these are good for the companies. Big focus on kids. (I wouldn’t let my kids use [Character.ai](
character.ai | AI Chat, Reimagined–Your Words. Your World.
Chat with millions of AI Characters on the #1 AI chat app. Where will your next adventure take you?
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Noted lib Amy Coney Barrett wrote the fking majority opinion. People don't understand what happened in Murthy bc the right treated it like a civil rights case while MSM barely paid attention. It was dismissed b/c *the plaintiffs hadn't even mentioned most of the defendants* ergo no standing. RE:
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Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
The WaPo’s law and politics columnist doesn’t understand that Murthy was a standing ruling— a decision fundamentally about states trying to i...
Matt Taibbi is incoherently bitching ab work SIO did exposing an astroturf operation that a TPUSA affiliate ran. There was nothing ambiguous ab it & Twitter actioned the org that ran it. The end. But not for Matt, who makes it a conspiracy bc some ppl who worked at Twitter once worked for the CIA 🙄 RE:
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Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social)
You will be shocked to learn that not one of the free speech warriors involved in the Twitter Files nonsense has tweeted about the Kimmel story. Ta...
This is jawboning. This is what the Freedom Caucus fascists of the Weaponization Committee and their Substack lackeys pretended was happening under some “Biden regime,” but it wasn’t. It was always projection. RE:
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Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV...
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Read the second half of your first sentence. They’re literally anti-vaxxers. RE:
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The New York Times (@nytimes.com)
CDC committee members, some of whom are vaccine skeptics, are likely to recommend restricting the use of hepatitis B shots at birth or delaying the...
Robert Malone has a book where he and his wife claim he’s being gang-stalked by deep state agents so yeah this checks. Just asking questions! RE:
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Walker Bragman (@walkerbragman.bsky.social)
ACIP member and anti-vax conspiracy theorist suggests fired CDC Director Monarez has been trained to lie by the CIA. This is so bonkers.