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Min(Distributional impacts) + max(Just transition); vibing out in Brooklyn, born x raised in Los Angeles :) probably to the left of my employer, so YMMV Sorry about the parasociality. Tricky phenomenon that one. https://readymag.website/damanfu/2503426/

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 2h

Your fight is flimsy because you don’t have values

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Concrete Cowboy @damanfu.bsky.social · 3h

An absolutely nasty hooper (complimentary)!!!! Best of luck in his next journeys…

Shams Charania Tweets @shamsbot.bsky.social · 3h

Just in: After nine NBA seasons, New York Knicks guard Malcolm Brogdon has decided to retire from basketball, he tells ESPN. Brogdon became the 2017 Rookie of the Year and 2023 Sixth Man of the Year after being drafted No. 36 in 2016.

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 3h

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 5h

One of the things that piece breaks down is how to effectively shame people and it's based on this book

Is Shame Necessary? New Uses for an Old Tool by Jennifer Jacquet

This debut from NYU Environmental Studies assistant professor Jacquet puts forward the thesis that shame can be harnessed as an ...

www.publishersweekly.com

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Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social · 8h

An insightful essay. A few years ago I wrote about the literature of shame, including questions about shamelessness, salutary kinds of shame and what shaming can (and cannot) be for:
www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/b...

But we shouldn't ignore how shame has also been used as a force for positive change, O'Neil says. She quotes what Frederick Douglass said he hoped to do for America: to use "the public exposition of the contaminating and degrading influence of Slavery" in order to "shame her out of her adhesion to a system so abhorrent to Christianity and to her republican institutions." At a time when slavery was still legally sanctioned, Douglass couldn't appeal to government authority, but he
could appeal to its ostensible ideals.

"In some cases, shaming is all we have, Jennifer Jacquet, a professor of environmental studies, writes in "Is Shame Necessary?" (2015). Shame is powerful and also wildly imprecise, meaning it must be
deployed "shrewdly," she says, with "scrupulous implementation." Overzealous deployment can backfire, making the target feel victimized and even more isolated. "As with antibiotics, if shaming is abused, we
might all end up as victims," she writes.

O'Neil and Jacquet encourage readers to try to think more deeply not just about what shame is but what it might be for. If it's for sheer punishment - for banishing someone out of the circle of concern forever — then there's no need for forbearance or mercy. But this can also sound like a nonviolent (and still extremely painful) form of sadism. Both books suggest that shame can help teach us how to live among one another, inculcate shared values and achieve mutual respect. O'Neil gives the example of Hopi "shame clowns," who poke fun at transgressors in a ritual that offers "ridicule and then redemption." The purpose of the ritual is reintegration, not ostracism: "The people they mock
remain members of the community."

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d

i will be using "battery saver mode" to describe dodgers regular season hijinks going forward, thank u for your service, brave commenter

- Mysterious Daniel

14 minutes ago
Dodgers can get 90+ wins playing the entire season on battery saver mode and then just blast through the playoffs. If I weren't a Giants fan I'd be in awe of it.

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Concrete Cowboy @damanfu.bsky.social · 8h

ICE is throwing tear gas at infants; we are long past rehabilitation.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19h

The I've Had It Podcast delivers on the title no question there

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Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 9h

Energy Department finally giving out a list of the offices getting hit with layoffs. The cuts span every office that does work on efficiency, affordability, and clean power.

No breakdown of how many people in each office. Also hearing that no one has actually been fired yet.

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Concrete Cowboy @damanfu.bsky.social · 19h

Y’all,,,,,no way…..

Katie Mummah, PhD @nuclearkatie.com · 23h

Tell us the DOE site you cowards
www.404media.co/man-stores-a...

Man Stores AI-Generated ‘Robot Porn' on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network.

www.404media.co

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Daniel Tait @taitdl.bsky.social · 22h

It’s not everyday that you see the illustrious @hankgreen.bsky.social talking about the very subject that constitutes a huge part your life’s work (and let’s be honest, half of my social feeds)…

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONS!

Hank explores key races in Georgia.

Watch here:
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I Need 1% of Georgia to Watch This Video

YouTube video by Hank Green

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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Concrete Cowboy @damanfu.bsky.social · 21h

Abolitionist except for ICE/secret police and other active agents of fascism

Concrete Cowboy @damanfu.bsky.social · 21h

I know there are many variations of "abolitionist except for" genre of skeet, and I understand that "abolitionist except" is an oxymoron,,,,,,

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Alex ITMFA @ahym666.bsky.social · 23h

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House Our Neighbors @houseourneighbors.bsky.social · 1d

The Seattle Social Housing Developer is hiring for two positions. Please share with your networks.

www.socialhousingseattle.org/careers

Careers | SSH-Site2025

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 2d

***UCLA Mapping Deportations Project***

Mapping Deportations, an educational resource uses maps, data, and a timeline to unmask the relationship between race and immigration enforcement throughout U.S. history.

mappingdeportations.com

Mapping Deportations – U.S. Immigration Control since 1790

mappingdeportations.com

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Concrete Cowboy @damanfu.bsky.social · 22h

prosecute! Throw the book at em!

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 22h

My vote in the 2028 D primary for POTUS will hinge almost entirely on the % of this Administration they promise to imprison

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 1d

No one knows how many people ICE has kidnapped, how many have been shipped overseas or how many are still detained. Many have no contact with family or any lawyers, and no one who knows them knows where they are. Many are being held indefinitely in facilities that refuse oversight

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Concrete Cowboy @damanfu.bsky.social · 1d

In brief: I’m going to keep living because of D’Angelo, despite not wanting to be here and alive without him.

Concrete Cowboy @damanfu.bsky.social · 1d

Somebody please say sike rn

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Concrete Cowboy @damanfu.bsky.social · 1d

No no no no no no no no

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 2d

the two types of racist are food racist and sex racist. all racists fall into these two categories. hitler? sex racist. mussolini? food racist.

stephen miller? sex racist. jd vance? food racist.

despite being racist about food sometimes, donald trump is a sex racist

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 2d

Food racism drives you crazy faster than most forms of racism

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1d

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

attacking and brutalizing your neighbors in the vast majority of cases for minor civil violations, menacing or brutalizing you if you get in the way, depriving you of the right to elect local leadership of your choosing, telling preposterous lies about everything. intolerable. cannot be tolerated

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