jrriver.bsky.social
@jrriver.bsky.social
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Retired English professor. UT Austin and URI. Currently living in a rural red state and trying to be loud against the fascists. I read history.
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Class action law suit against this is needed.
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Apparently, Florida’s school voucher program wasn’t meant for everyone after all just Christians. Who knew? Muslim families trying to use the program for their kids’ education have apparently committed the unthinkable: exercising the very freedom the vouchers are supposed to guarantee.
Florida Republicans are furious that Muslims are using a voucher program meant to boost Christianity
The same lawmakers who voted to send taxpayer funds to private Christian schools are panicking now that Muslim schools are participating in the program
www.friendlyatheist.com
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Judges are the last line of defense for truth, especially in a political environment where disinformation is a tool to amass power. Former federal judge @judgeluttig.bsky.social joins us at 11 a.m. EST. #Velshi
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‘It’ always starts with words. We can track the genesis of genocide in similar ways. First they stereotype and discriminate. Then they become prejudicial. From there it’s ‘easy’ to dehumanise, divide, and attack. Once there is an ‘us’ and a clearly stigmatised ‘them’, then persecution is fair game.
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I’ve spent the last 3 days tracking right-wing influencers morning and night. What I found is a machine, not a movement. Every day follows the same rhythm of fear, outrage, and punishment. It’s emotional conditioning disguised as news. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
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“A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”

-John Adams

People should sit with this.
Because the warning wasn’t about kings in 1776.
It is about us, and what happens when we decide one man is above the law.
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For the past 10 years, the right wings have owned the narrative on social media. The democrats lost contact with the ground especially the young generations by being way too conventional.

Mamdani and AOC are breaking that wall and challenging them on their field.

U-turn starts today! ↩️🇺🇲🌍⚖️
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This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.

I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
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It’s worth remembering that Nigeria has a population of 233 million in a country about 1.5x the size of Texas — up about 50 million in the past 15 years. Roughly 1 in 4 black Africans is Nigerian. It contributes about 10% of the sub-Saharan African economy.
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20 police officers across the state of Mississippi, including TWO elected sheriffs, were just arrested on charges of providing police escort for drug and weapons trafficking across state lines in exchange for bribes

“Most are still employed today” - the DA IN this presser youtu.be/tzuGfqdQvjs?...
'Monumental betrayal of public trust' Mississippi officers arrested
YouTube video by 16 WAPT News Jackson
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PSA if you're out there with the means, ability, and willingness to donate to food banks to help people during the ongoing food emergency

DO NOT BUY FOOD TO DONATE!

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Give the same money you would spend buying that food directly to the food bank
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I cannot emphasize this enough! To explain;
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Trump, Hegseth, and senior military commanders murdered 3 more people last night and the homicides near 100 people, and they expect you to take their word for it that they were transporting drugs and accept it. They murder whoever they want whenever they want.
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Fwiw Nigeria has a functioning if flawed democratic government recognized as legitimate (US included) isn't under major UN or US sanctions or any other way considered a 'rogue state' or failed state or other typical justifications for the use of armed force. Nor is the US being attacked.
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“Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it’s because it is hard.”
William Zinsser #NationalAuthorsDay
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“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. . .Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

— Carl Sagan
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Court records obtained girls as young as 11 were procured for Epstein, most were 13 & 14..KKKrumpf needs to be in prison for the rest of his MISERABLE life!
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The president does not have authority to set tariffs by abusing an emergency power. 200+ members of Congress filed an amicus brief in our tariffs lawsuit, agreeing.

We’ll be at the Supreme Court next week making the case for why the court needs to hold the president accountable.
Impulsivity is a major aspect of increasing dementia. F47 must be removed now!
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These two morons have us gearing up for war in Nigeria and Venezuela after previous strikes on Yemen and Iran and intervention in Gaza, we are beginning nuclear testing for the first time in 33 years, and all this comes after threatening Greenland, Panama and Canada.