Actual media people should probably push back against Explainers whose whole beat is “Telling well-off white Americans they don’t have to change anything: it is the Black and leftist critics on social media who are to blame.” I just see no evidence that it’s a good use of *my* time.
Muting muting muting (to the tune of Super Mario Bros underground theme)
Routine PSA: If you ever wish you could put time into directly helping out some kids who need help, I'd be happy to talk about being a court-appointed special advocate in your local foster-care system. There are a whole lot of kids—queer, trans, and otherwise—who need someone to have their backs.
This is incredible. Local outlets are doing the heaviest lifting. RE:
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Mission Local (@missionlocal.org)
ICE has been arresting asylum-seekers in San Francisco for months now—targeting immigration court & sending people to far-flung detention centers...
Could someone with the right background please explain to reporters how this is a very intentional attempt to reverse the traditionally strongly anti-tech and anti-surveillance aspects of Christian millenarianism, because I‘m afraid it may matter. RE:
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Peter Thal Larsen (@petertl.bsky.social)
New argument against AI regulation just dropped. Checkmate, atheists. https://www.wsj.com/tech/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-dd28c876?mod=hp_lead...
“What to make of the president‘s statements on Tylenol?” say the radio journalists at end of the dutiful debunking segments. If only we had context for this sort of thing. From the same guy. [www.npr.org/sections/cor...](https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/24/843571171/under-no-circumstance-lysol-maker-officials-reject-trump-s-disinfectant-idea ) ['Under No Circumstance': Lysol...](https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/24/843571171/under-no-circumstance-lysol-maker-officials-reject-trump-s-disinfectant-idea )
these boots are made for Chottin (‘)
I grew up in the “spiritual warfare” zone and let me confirm, lest you doubt the evidence of your eyes, that it is exactly as dangerously unhinged as it looks.
Welp.
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