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Media literacy is the #1 21st century skill. Writer, poet, politics & soapboxes on InfodumpsterFire.com Founder of coFLOWco.com Instigator of FLOWLab5.org Designing accessible experiences & info to build awareness and shift economic power to people.

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Em @bluegirlpdx.bsky.social · Nov 17

1/ I hate to be the buzz kill but platforms that aren’t collectively owned by us will always eventually fall apart. We will forever be enticed by the next shiny thing, while staying distracted from building our own. Our labor—ALL THIS DATA—ideas, engagement, exchanges, connections—is NOT a favor.

Em @bluegirlpdx.bsky.social · Nov 16

Don’t shoot the messenger. Are we walking into a bigger fly trap?

Dave Troy notes the biggest investors in Bluesky being run by the same people who run Russian state media. My friend Joe posted about this at length. BS ties to the same type of tech bros/libertarian as E Mush.
Proceed with caution.

Mastodon post by Dave Troy posting about the founders of Bluesky and the biggest investors being run by the same people who run Russian state media.

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Milken Institute @milkeninstitute.org · 4d

By aligning health systems, public agencies, and community-based organizations with trusted local leaders, we see how relationships—not just resources—drive better outcomes. milkeninstitute.org/content-hub/...

The Power of Partnership: Community Health Workers as Catalysts for Better Health | Milken Institute

If the last several years have taught us anything, it is that trust is the foundation of health. Yet in many communities — especially Black, Brown, immigrant,

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Milken Institute @milkeninstitute.org · 4d

Trust is the foundation of health.

@ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social, Founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity writes about the power of partnerships and how community health workers act as catalysts for better health.

Photo of Uché Blackstock with a quote from a Milken Institute Power of Ideas essay. Quote is "The partnerships that matter most will be those that prioritize trust, equity, and community power."

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Em @bluegirlpdx.bsky.social · 6h

WOWWWWW

Em @bluegirlpdx.bsky.social · 6h

Just added it to 2 list in my bookshop. Looks GREAT. Can't wait to read it.
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coFLOWco Bookshop

Welcome to our Bookshop! coFLOWco's Bookshop store is one way we fulfill our mission to "achieve equal opportunity and economic empowerment by amplifying the strengths, voices, and creative ideas of d...

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 15h

"Why don't people support welfare programs?"

Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.

White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky

Race and Redistribution in the United States: An Experimental Analysis∗ Jesper Akesson, Robert W. Hahn, Robert D. Metcalfe and Itzhak Rasooly† February 12, 2022 Abstract It is often argued that many White Americans oppose redistributive welfare policies because of animosity toward Black Americans. While a host of observational studies lend credence to this view, it has not yet been rigorously tested using the tools of randomized inference. In this study, we do exactly this by conducting two incentive-compatible experiments (n = 9, 775) in which different participants are randomly given different information about the share of welfare recipients who identify as Black and White. Our empirical analysis yields four main findings. First, most respondents greatly overestimate the share of welfare recipients who are Black. Second, these exaggerated beliefs reduce support for welfare among White respondents, a causal claim that we establish using treatment assignment as an instrument for beliefs. Third, just making White participants think about the racial composition of welfare recipients––holding constant their actual beliefs––reduces their support for welfare. Fourth, providing accurate information about the racial composition of welfare recipients does not influence support for welfare (relative to not receiving any information).

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Em @bluegirlpdx.bsky.social · 6h

@monaeltahawy.bsky.social Nailed it again. 🎯
"Fascism doesn't happen overnight. Theocracy is not built in a day. White Christian nationalism is diligent and meticulous.

"Let’s make feminism even more diligent and meticulous. "Let’s make feminism dangerous again.

"Let’s terrify patriarchy."

LFG

Em (@coflowco)

@Mona Eltahawy is the GOAT. I swear if you don’t read and amplify her brilliance often, what are you even doing on Substack? Brilliant repost on Trad Wives and the threat that is dressing up this “re...

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Cold November Mar @histoftech.bsky.social · 11d

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

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Em @bluegirlpdx.bsky.social · 1d

It’s never too late to support independent journalism and New Media. And with the clocks turned back you get an extra hour!

The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 1d

Thank you so much! If you want to be like Em and subscribe, we are still giving 15% off new subscriptions: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Em @bluegirlpdx.bsky.social · 1d

Done. Excited to share that gift subscription with my friend. 💙
Also I’m adding you to the recommended list on my ghost blog. 🥂
PS it’s super easy to get your link to not be a ghost.io url to your own url. Lmk if you need help. It took me a long while to get around to it so zero shade.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 2d

U.S. 📻 played us the wrong Chumbawamba song!

🎶 The world is riddled with maggots;
the maggots are getting fat

They're making a tasty meal of the bosses & bureaucrats

They're taking over the boardrooms; they're fat & full of pride

& they all came out of the woodwork on the day the Nazi died 🎶

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Em @bluegirlpdx.bsky.social · 1d

I leave most trolls in broad daylight. Not always but usually I have a keep your enemies closer mentality about it. When you ice people out by ignoring their repeated attacks they usually go off, exposing themselves further.
As @darylperry.bsky.social
says, I prefer to keep it on the board.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1d

Sigh…

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Confirmation from TV entertainer and inexplicably Secretary of War/Defense/whatevs Pete Hegseth.

Pete Hegseth * O
@PeteHegseth
Yes sir.
The killing of innocent Christians in Nigeria
— and anywhere — must end immediately.
The Department of War is preparing for action. Either the Nigerian Government protects Christians, or we will kill the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities.

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 1d

We'll achieve East German levels of informing-on-neighbors in no time!

Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 1d

ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants by @sambiddle.com
theintercept.com/2025/10/31/i...

ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants

Companies hired by ICE would be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate — and paid cash bonuses for performance.

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Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social · 1d

Satellite images show that most of the 260,000 civilians in Sudan’s el-Fasher are likely still trapped, as mass RSF killings continue

Satellite images show most el-Fasher civilians likely still trapped

Latest images suggest that majority of 260,000 civilians still in captured city, as mass RSF killings continue

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 1d

And if you REALLY love feminist media, why not support us as a BIG CHUNGUS? For $1000, you can sponsor a freelance post. You'll be mentioned in the post you've sponsored as a thank you! Check it out:

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Feminist cultural criticism against the algorithm

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 1d

The Flytrap is a worker-owned, community-focused feminist media group founded by journalists, writers, and artists. Our motto is "fuck the algorithm." Because fuck the algorithm.

About The Flytrap

The Flytrap is bringing principled and diverse cultural criticism from a feminist perspective back to the internet.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: 20 Jeffrey Epstein victims are urging Mike Johnson to immediately swear-in Adelita Grijalva.

STOP IGNORING THE EPSTEIN VICTIMS!

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 2d

Remember when Texas Dems broke quorum & in response TX AG Paxton & Gov Abbot demanded their arrest & removal from office?

Under Speaker Johnson, Congress has been in session only 12 of last 100 days, absent since Sept 19, & he still won't swear in Rep-elect Grijalva.

Rules for thee but not for me.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

💯

Joe G @eastendjoe.bsky.social · 26d

Best 3 minutes you will spend on the internet today.

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Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · 2d

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

interior design where you're just randomly pressing buttons for yellow gold, white marble, and crystal chandelier to remind everyone you're very rich

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

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Em @bluegirlpdx.bsky.social · 2d

Touché

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

wait but Speaker Johnson said there was no contingency fund? 🤷🏼

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John Pring, DNS @johnpring.bsky.social · 2d

A cross-party group of MPs and peers has called on the government to draw up a national strategy to address the “deeply troubling” and “systemic” barriers that prevent disabled people accessing the equipment they need to live independently.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-peo...

Disabled people face ‘systemic’ barriers in accessing community equipment, parliamentary inquiry finds

www.disabilitynewsservice.com

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