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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24m

When she takes over CBS News, will Bari Weiss do what she has always done? Or will she do a totally different thing she has no expertise or interest in?
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/b...

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Jed Reads X-Men 🔺️ @jedreads.bsky.social · 23m

While I appreciate Claremont's queer relationships, I find it very telling that the ones confirmed to be intentional are all sapphic, while the few m/m pairings seem to be accidental. Especially given his love of writing in his own proclivities

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 7h

What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 1m

I mean at some point they need to start saying "Well, Mr. Speaker, I'm sure you don't know this..."

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Mr Handsome Boy @kaiten9653.bsky.social · 19h

At some point you’d expect a reporter to ask Mike Johnson why, as speaker of the House, he is so uninformed about something so widely reported on.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 2m

Because it's all "access journalism" and politicians throw tantrums whenever a follow-up question is asked.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20h

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 13m

Seeing the House Judiciary leader say things like this in real time on the Sunday shows last week, when confronted with actual footage of the brutality of ICE against American citizens was to feign ignorance and the conversation moved on...infuriating...

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20h

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 9h

oh hey youtube is adding unrelated AI-based context overlays to my class videos

this sucks

Thumbnail from my data visualization video about ggplot annotations with an overlay with a definition of climate change

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Mara Dolan @maradolan.bsky.social · 6m

Parker Molloy is right. It shouldn’t be rare for a candidate to defend trans rights. H/t @sulliview.bsky.social. @parkermolloy.com #lgbtq

www.readtpa.com/p/a-politici...

A Politician Actually Defended Trans People. It Shouldn't Be This Rare.

Many Democrats are treating trans people as politically toxic. NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani released a two-minute video proving there's another way.

www.readtpa.com

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🇨🇦 NanaGale @nanagale.bsky.social · 9d

If you or a loved one is taken by ICE, you can call the National Lawyers Guild federal repression hotline at 212-679-2811, for a free, privileged consultation about your rights, risks, & responsibilities, & to be connected with appropriate legal resources in your jurisdiction.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1h

The simple joys of Mute Thread

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Auriel Fournier @rallidaerule.bsky.social · 29m

I gave a talk at a conference...3 years ago titled "I wanted to study birds, where did all these people come from?"

and really it should have said people/paperwork

but yah, that is my job

and I mostly love it, but I am, admin/middle management who when I'm lucky thinks about science

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 5m

But the short of it is part of the reason the Axis lost was that it simply didn't have the labor. Germany was always going to fall apart, but it fell apart faster because the US had a much larger labor force on the homefront to tap into, and it wisely did so.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 7m

There is a very crisp parallel here, in fact, between Chump's economy and the economies of fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Again, there's a much better book on this topic, in this case "The Wages of Destruction" by Adam Tooze.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 8m

But regardless, we need everyone we can get, so any policy that discourages labor is going to be very bad for the economy. And, in fact, we are already seeing this, between Chump's attempted ethnic cleansing and the AI bubble papering over the macro situation and keeping people from acting.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 12m

You can make a pretty solid argument, in truth, that part of the reason we're going through all this bullshit is that the era of cheap labor is coming to an end, its beneficiaries know this, and they are literally losing their minds over it.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 14m

That's a continuing motif of right wing intellectual failure, it should be noted, the belief that labor is this element that exists outside political systems, there ready and waiting to be deployed. But it isn't! In fact we probably need everyone we can get in the labor force.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 16m

You can already see the problem here: The right wing wants to force a huge chunk of the labor force out of the market, because they don't understand sitcoms aren't real. So morally that's repugnant, but even if you agree with the thesis, the basic reality is: Who's gonna do all these jobs?

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 17m

(As a side note, @patrickwyman.bsky.social had an excellent interview on his podcast a while back about how "women's work" like brewing is hijacked by men, who use the levers of misogyny to force women out and make it "men's work.")

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 19m

Among Coontz' core points is that the "happy homemaker" is a middle-class/upper middle-class construction. The majority of women had jobs; in fact, the majority of women have likely had jobs throughout history, they're just not well-documented.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 22m

Stephanie Coontz' "The Way We Never Were" deals with this myth in way more detail, and I highly recommend you read it, but probably the most telling thing about it is that Coontz published that book in 1992, and she updated it in 2000, with another big update in 2016!

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 24m

I'm not going to get into the entire history of feminism here, but the right wing's understanding of the concept only starts around 1950, and is informed almost entirely by sitcoms from the era, which were criticized at the time for being unrealistic.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 28m

Every now and then somebody asks me why I'm so sure the Chump regime is going to collapse, and there's a lot of answers to that, but the most basic is that the right wing is chasing myths, and if the facts get in the way of the myth, they ignore it. Take feminism, for example.

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Damien C-C @dccc-phd.bsky.social · 32m

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 1h

But simply blaming luck can blind us from our agency. There are some things that an academic can do to improve their chances of survival (and hopefully flourishing).

The first, and most important, is to chose the right environment. And if you're not in the right environment: get out.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 34m

And they were sent after the insurrection to investigate, not before it even happened. Sheesh.

A tweet by Evan Kilgore says: “Can somebody please explain to me how ‘the Biden FBI’ placed 274 agents into the crowd on January 6th… when Donald Trump was President on January 6th? Joe Biden had no control over the FBI before January 20th. Does Trump think we’re stupid or am I missing something?”
It quotes a tweet from Donald J. Trump reading, “THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6… What a SCAM – DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT.”

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