Something we need to keep in mind as we write for a wider, and possibly uneducated audience.
https://www.al.com/news/2023/03/archibald-we-all-get-screwed-because-americans-cant-read.html
"Mr. Mamdani, since you were elected mayor of this city, many Jews no longer feel safe in New York. They talk to me, they tell me ‘this isn’t the city we remember, it changed so quickly,’” Netanyahu told world leaders during the United Nations General Assembly.
Do they all begin by saying "Sir", too? Are they the same mysterious people who keep talking to Trump?
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117322491514731892
Advocates say the Trump regime has deported Pastor Molis Augustave to Haiti:
"ICE tore this beloved husband and father from his wife Omara, children Isaac and Sofia, and the congregation he served in York, Pennsylvania.”
The #TrumpRegime launched a🚨new TV ad featuring #Trump calling out socialism, communism & marxism, appearing to use govt resources to go on air in the weeks before the #elections.
"The ad🚨began airing Wed night, & has aired on Fox News & Newsmax along with conn TV platforms. It isn’t clear where exactly the💰is coming from, but says:🚨“paid for by the U.S. govt” in a disclaimer: on the ad.
30-sec ad:🚨photos/videos of Trump,🇺🇸, aircraft over the song..."
#Propaganda #USPol
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/24/trump-administration-midterm-tv-ads-01091499
The more I hear from Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the more I want other candidates to be like him.
He says rights are rights and doctors should make medical decisions in consultation with their patients in response to a trans person's question about hormone therapy.
Abdul El-Sayed also calls for legal protections for LGBTQIA+ people.
We now know that all the years of Susan Collins concern kabuki was, in fact, just Collins hanging out a shingle, letting the world know that her vote was available for purchase.
America abandoning routine vaccination programmes and watching eradicated diseases surge back is a grim warning on anti-science populism. Allowing conspiracy theories to dismantle public health safeguards endangers children. Why let fringe ideology risk lives? (1/2) 🤔 #FBPE https://inews.co.uk/news/world/america-stopped-vaccines-diseases-back-4757248
I was astonished, yesterday, talking to a friend in Ottawa.
Me: "wait! Did you just say your daughter uses … a pencil? At high school?" 😵💫
Friend: "oh yes. The teachers are bringing pencil and paper back to counteract [other educational trends]."
😯 I admit, I didn't expect that.
Bravo! 💐
"As AI use rises, some profs go back to pens and paper"
Sorry, paywalled … Ottawa Citizen
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/pens-and-paper-carleton-professors-students
American workers need to remember that we're currently around 400% as productive as our parents' generation. We're working the same or sometimes more hours and we're not making ends meet.
Employers could have doubled our income or halved our hours while still making double the money. Instead they just hoarded it all for themselves.
Even if AI is more efficient, it's never going to help you.
… "A chatbot w. good cultural fit might reflect beliefs back sympathetically, in the user’s own vocabulary. In psychotherapy this is called collusion. … a therapist goes along with a client’s account in a way that prevents anything from changing.
Chatbots are prone to collusion b/c of how they are built & trained (ex: on human approval ratings) …"
I'm sad to see folks using ChatGPT (etc) as coaches & therapists.
We professionals are ethically constrained against this collusion.
#ethics #noAI
If elected, Brandon Herrera, "the AK guy", would represent the town of Uvalde
where, in May 2022, an 18-year-old former student killed 19 children and two teachers.
Shannon Watts, the founder of the gun safety group Moms Demand Action,
has been a target of Herrera’s aggressive use of social media.
Should he win, she says, there could be long-lasting consequences.
“His idea that somehow we should be grateful that firearms are being used in mass killings is a very cynical ploy to numb people to gun violence,
to make them expect it and even accept it.
The more Brandon Herreras we elect to Congress, the more likely that will be our destiny.”
51 UN member states issued a joint statement supporting Ukraine against Russian aggression and calling on Moscow to accept a ceasefire. “Ukraine has agreed to a full, immediate and unconditional ceasefire. We call on Russia to finally do the same,” the countries said in their joint statement at the UN. #Ukraine
MSNOW - Ford's Theatre, the playhouse where President Lincoln was assassinated, has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry Donald Trump's name. https://www.ms.now/news/trump-fords-theatre-name-kennedy-center?cid=eml_mda_20260923&user_email=1b58f056e9a32795f0c9e3c3ed07989126e27ee1d4e6b2839569e8246a0ee755
We need a full investigation and accountability but will not likely see either. Another reason we must abolish ICE.
An Iranian couple seeking refuge in the United States faces a cruel new form of family separation. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/21/asylum-iranian-couple-detention-deport
Trump is really into genocide. https://mastodon.social/@touaregtweet/117316034202637405
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