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Jane O'Boyle
@janeoboyle.bsky.social
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PhD, Comms Prof. Book publishing. Writer. Detroit, Ann Arbor, NYC, Charleston, Elon University #GoBlue.
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Why are credible news platforms still platforming these kinds of lies and liars who tell them?
CNN: Do you really believe that the 7 million attendees who participated this weekend hate the United States of America?

REP. LISA McCLAIN: Well, look at what they're standing for. They're standing for communism. They're standing for antisemitism.
Just gonna add a giant olive on a bamboo skewer and Jerry's all set for Halloween @darthbluesky.bsky.social
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South Carolina Democrats win nearly 45% of the vote yet hold just 1 of 7 congressional seats. That’s not balance, that’s a rigged system.

We stand with Rep. Clyburn in fighting for fair maps and fair representation.
#SCDems #SCPOL #FairMaps #SouthCarolina
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everyone on that stage went along with pardons for jan 6 participants
Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."
She was living with Warren Beatty in the San Remo during the filming. I was their downstairs neighbor. I always believed Reds was way underrated! And, damn, there was never anyone like her.
Brown pelican nests at Crab Bank Seabird Sanctuary, Charleston. SCDNR video 🐦🦉
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Understand what they are doing: using the massive power of the state - including military power and the power to imprison - to carry out a campaign to eliminate their political opposition.

It's growing in seriousness by the hour.
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“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated."

-Anne Frank
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Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl show, freighted in all manner of bracing and defiant political symbolism, was the most-watched performance in history, with 133.5 million viewers.
Democrats need to listen for the roar of the crowd.

Brilliant @mollyjongfast.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...
Opinion | What Chuck Schumer Can Learn From Bad Bunny
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Just sat down for desktop breakfast with my boo.
Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl show, freighted in all manner of bracing and defiant political symbolism, was the most-watched performance in history, with 133.5 million viewers.
Democrats need to listen for the roar of the crowd.

Brilliant @mollyjongfast.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...
Opinion | What Chuck Schumer Can Learn From Bad Bunny
www.nytimes.com
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I’m becoming more and more concerned that people at high levels of public discussion cannot identify the difference between a genuinely viral conversation vs a bunch of bots making noise.
“Bots or likely bots authored 44.5% of X posts mentioning Cracker Barrel in the 24 hours after the new logo gained attention on Aug. 20, according to research for ⁦‪@WSJ‬⁩ by PeakMetrics. That number rose to 49% among posts calling for a boycott.”
Bot Networks Are Helping Drag Consumer Brands Into the Culture Wars
AI tools have made coordinated attacks targeting corporations much more common, researchers say.
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Class is in session.

Fun fact about disinformation: In order to change actions, you don't always have to convince someone something is wrong. You might just have to convince someone that something might not be right.

The friction of uncertainty can stop someone in their tracks.
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If this deeply degrading, wasteful and dangerous stunt proved anything, it’s that the best thing Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace.

Immediately.
@nhannahjones.bsky.social: Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & racist throwback views about Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
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It is really frustrating to see these narratives develop around with the administration without people pointing at the pardons for Jan 6 and saying, "you pardoned people convicted of assaulting officers. You literally do tolerate violence."
Bondi: "Under President Trump's leadership, there is ZERO TOLERANCE for political violence and domestic terrorism. I am deploying federal agents to ICE facilities around the country. If you so much as touch one of our federal officers, you will go to prison."
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A great example of the divide in America. It seems to me that the president of the red states of America is the great divider.
Roxane Gay: I have not been able to get those words out of my head. "The world will always be broken, she sings. Repair it anyway." gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy
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