Laura Bridgewater
@knit1write2.bsky.social
Biblioholic, fiber enthusiast, and gardening novice. Hoarder of books, yarns, and (apparently) Bluesky accounts. 🤦🏻♀️ Working on Act III. She/her
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We have a cabinet level Secretary of State, a diplomatic corps, Special Envoys, and Defense team to do this work.
“Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.
“Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.
November 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
We have a cabinet level Secretary of State, a diplomatic corps, Special Envoys, and Defense team to do this work.
“Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.
“Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.
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Why didn’t Trump order flags to be flown at half staff for National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom like he did for Charlie Kirk? 🤔
November 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Why didn’t Trump order flags to be flown at half staff for National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom like he did for Charlie Kirk? 🤔
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Students read this shit. It's perpetuating the problem.
November 30, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Students read this shit. It's perpetuating the problem.
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I wish journalists would stop making misleading claims like: "As the technology improves, it's harder to distinguish from human work, and it's shaking academia to its core with some very big questions" - the similarity is superficial, the gulf from human work massive. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
How artificial intelligence is reshaping college for students and professors
This year’s senior class is the first to have spent nearly its entire college career in the age of generative AI, a type of artificial intelligence that can create new content, like text and images. A...
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November 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I wish journalists would stop making misleading claims like: "As the technology improves, it's harder to distinguish from human work, and it's shaking academia to its core with some very big questions" - the similarity is superficial, the gulf from human work massive. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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George Lakoff and I pushed this simple and reasonable idea years ago. When I returned to journalism, I realized the problem. Editors care more about SEO and controversy (=clicks) than about whether the headline is destroying truth. Incentive is to bait engagement at all cost.
November 30, 2025 at 1:11 AM
George Lakoff and I pushed this simple and reasonable idea years ago. When I returned to journalism, I realized the problem. Editors care more about SEO and controversy (=clicks) than about whether the headline is destroying truth. Incentive is to bait engagement at all cost.
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
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Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
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I once went to war over an editor who changed "systemic inequities" to "trapped in poverty".
he thought trapped in poverty was the more objective phrasing 🙃 ran it by the standards editor and everything
he thought trapped in poverty was the more objective phrasing 🙃 ran it by the standards editor and everything
November 30, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I once went to war over an editor who changed "systemic inequities" to "trapped in poverty".
he thought trapped in poverty was the more objective phrasing 🙃 ran it by the standards editor and everything
he thought trapped in poverty was the more objective phrasing 🙃 ran it by the standards editor and everything
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And there's no real encouragement to continue to read about journalism, like as a field of study. It's either how to report better (so techniques etc) or the business of journalism. Very little on what the fuck is our actual impact on the world? What are our norms doing?
November 30, 2025 at 10:58 PM
And there's no real encouragement to continue to read about journalism, like as a field of study. It's either how to report better (so techniques etc) or the business of journalism. Very little on what the fuck is our actual impact on the world? What are our norms doing?
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Yeah, studying the sociology of news was eye-opening.
November 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Yeah, studying the sociology of news was eye-opening.
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Would it have been a cool twist?
Yes.
Did I think it was a bad idea knowing most people don't read to the end of the story?
Yes.
He refused to let me do it my way (the ETHICALLY CORRECT WAY), so I pulled the lie.
Yes.
Did I think it was a bad idea knowing most people don't read to the end of the story?
Yes.
He refused to let me do it my way (the ETHICALLY CORRECT WAY), so I pulled the lie.
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Would it have been a cool twist?
Yes.
Did I think it was a bad idea knowing most people don't read to the end of the story?
Yes.
He refused to let me do it my way (the ETHICALLY CORRECT WAY), so I pulled the lie.
Yes.
Did I think it was a bad idea knowing most people don't read to the end of the story?
Yes.
He refused to let me do it my way (the ETHICALLY CORRECT WAY), so I pulled the lie.
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I did a story once that introduced a lie (it was relevant it was in the news a lot). I wanted to correct it right away - because I'd been trained if you have to introduce a falsehood correct it right away. My editor wanted to save it for the "kicker" as a big reveal
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I did a story once that introduced a lie (it was relevant it was in the news a lot). I wanted to correct it right away - because I'd been trained if you have to introduce a falsehood correct it right away. My editor wanted to save it for the "kicker" as a big reveal
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A lot of editors don't even know about media magnification. One of the shocking things - to me - when I left journalism school was how little editors knew about like the study of journalism as a discipline. It's a profession based in norms even if those norms are harmful.
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
A lot of editors don't even know about media magnification. One of the shocking things - to me - when I left journalism school was how little editors knew about like the study of journalism as a discipline. It's a profession based in norms even if those norms are harmful.
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This explains so much of what we are seeing.
After years of struggling to find enough workers for some of the nation’s toughest lockups, the Federal Bureau of Prisons is facing a new challenge: Corrections officers are jumping ship for more lucrative jobs at ICE.
By @keribla.bsky.social
By @keribla.bsky.social
As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE
Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.
www.propublica.org
November 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This explains so much of what we are seeing.
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the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
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this is just rank cowardice, the student very obviously disregarded the instructions and the assignment to antagonize her peers and instructors and provoke this exact reaction, society simply can’t function when the people in charge scurry like kicked dogs every time some troll bully says boo
November 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
this is just rank cowardice, the student very obviously disregarded the instructions and the assignment to antagonize her peers and instructors and provoke this exact reaction, society simply can’t function when the people in charge scurry like kicked dogs every time some troll bully says boo
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you have to be able to look bad faith in the eye and say absolutely not, even if that bad faith is coming from the highest levels of government
if you can’t, you do not - in any meaningful sense - have an institution, and all the kids who go there will learn is to weaponize bad faith themselves
if you can’t, you do not - in any meaningful sense - have an institution, and all the kids who go there will learn is to weaponize bad faith themselves
this is just rank cowardice, the student very obviously disregarded the instructions and the assignment to antagonize her peers and instructors and provoke this exact reaction, society simply can’t function when the people in charge scurry like kicked dogs every time some troll bully says boo
November 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
you have to be able to look bad faith in the eye and say absolutely not, even if that bad faith is coming from the highest levels of government
if you can’t, you do not - in any meaningful sense - have an institution, and all the kids who go there will learn is to weaponize bad faith themselves
if you can’t, you do not - in any meaningful sense - have an institution, and all the kids who go there will learn is to weaponize bad faith themselves
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Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
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the thing about unleashing endless threats of violence on people who don’t do what you want is that it works a lot of the time but when it doesn’t you end up with people extremely committed to telling you to shove it up your ass
A new post by a Republican state Senator in Indiana, saying she will "not cave" on redistricting as she shares that she was just the target of a pipe bomb threat to due "DC political pundits."
November 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
the thing about unleashing endless threats of violence on people who don’t do what you want is that it works a lot of the time but when it doesn’t you end up with people extremely committed to telling you to shove it up your ass
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We can only know what we allow ourselves to know. The problem of our politics is that oligarchs have figured out how to use identity signaling to get some people to shift their focus from their material well-being to imaginary problems such as trans existence or the collapse of Biblical literalism.
November 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
We can only know what we allow ourselves to know. The problem of our politics is that oligarchs have figured out how to use identity signaling to get some people to shift their focus from their material well-being to imaginary problems such as trans existence or the collapse of Biblical literalism.
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People do not use information to determine their social identities; they use their social identities to determine what counts as information. The climate fight is, and has always been, an identity fight. Gonna talk with @samuel-bagg.bsky.social about this soon.
The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not. | Blog of the APA
Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last decade—and it is no mystery why. Democracy is collapsing ar...
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November 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
People do not use information to determine their social identities; they use their social identities to determine what counts as information. The climate fight is, and has always been, an identity fight. Gonna talk with @samuel-bagg.bsky.social about this soon.
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Imagining that the climate battle is about *information* -- that those who have good information will act; that those who aren't acting must be lacking information -- has been utterly disastrous for decades now, but advocates & pols can't seem to break out of it.
Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Imagining that the climate battle is about *information* -- that those who have good information will act; that those who aren't acting must be lacking information -- has been utterly disastrous for decades now, but advocates & pols can't seem to break out of it.
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If you spend decades undermining a liberal arts education, you get college students who can't write a decent essay. But you also get adults who can't recognize a decent essay and sincerely think the issue is the beliefs and not that reading this is painful.
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
If you spend decades undermining a liberal arts education, you get college students who can't write a decent essay. But you also get adults who can't recognize a decent essay and sincerely think the issue is the beliefs and not that reading this is painful.
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By Dan Hollaway’s own standards, it should be acceptable to let all the air out of his tires and then drone strike him while he’s waiting for AAA
Pete Hegseth will face prosecution for real war crimes, not imagined ones, so there's no problem.
And come on, no one believes a podcaster is going to murder military police and martial court judges over one douchebag that's no longer in office.
And come on, no one believes a podcaster is going to murder military police and martial court judges over one douchebag that's no longer in office.
November 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
By Dan Hollaway’s own standards, it should be acceptable to let all the air out of his tires and then drone strike him while he’s waiting for AAA
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.