Super happy to see Jaime Seltzer in the #timemagazine 100 Health List. Used to occasionally interact with her on the bird site about #MECFS She is always generous with likes, shares & comments. The information she posts is the advice I trust most. One of the first to discuss #LongCovid in 2020. Congratulations Jaime! #meawarness#chronicillness
"What’s most striking in the interview is that Trump, even after four years as president, has virtually no grasp on any policy issue beyond empty talking points, most of which are lies. When asked how he will implement his plans, he waffles, obfuscates, and delivers a stream of non sequitur boasts about how great he is or about how other people have said that he’s great."
"He lies all the time, but many of his statements on core policy issues are so garbled and gassy they don’t even qualify as lies. It’s like interacting with a chatbot programmed by a fascist parrot.
Trump’s blank, aggressive ignorance shouldn’t be a comfort. He has shown, over and over, that incompetence doesn’t have to undermine evil intent; often it can exacerbate it."
"It’s like interacting with a chatbot programmed by a fascist parrot": that's a fine line.
"As part of an extensive interview with Time Magazine, former President Donald Trump expanded on what abortion access would look like in the United States in a potential second term. Trump laid out a dystopian vision where pregnant women could be placed under state surveillance and then subjected to criminal punishment for any transgressions."
"Trump’s own words prove the truth of what careful observers have been saying about his plans based on their examination of MAGA Republicans’ speeches, interviews, Project 2025, and so on, often to find themselves accused of a liberal bias that makes them exaggerate the dangers of a second Trump presidency."
"On a day of many important stories, the most important news came from Donald Trump's interview with Time Magazine. See Donald Trump on What His Second Term Would Look Like | TIME. In the interview, Trump confirmed that he will attempt to exercise dictatorial powers in a second term.
We have been warned.
We ignore Trump's threats at our peril and the peril of our democracy."
"Trump made some of his most ominous noises yet about what to expect in 2025 in an interview with a publication close to his heart: TIME magazine.
He said it was up to the states to monitor pregnant women for abortions, promised mass immigrant deportations, declared he’d prosecute Biden if the Supreme Court didn’t grant him full immunity, mulled pardons for January 6 rioters, and speculated about violence if he doesn’t win."
The Israeli and Palestinian Women Calling for Peace [Yasmeen Serhan]
[...] “We said all the time that we have to solve this conflict as soon as possible because it’s a ticking bomb—it will kill all of us, [...] Now when you see the crisis, this terrible war, how can we suffer it and continue on this path?”
On October 4th. 2023, days before the Hamas massacre, 1,500 members of "Israeli Women Wage Peace" and "Palestinian Women of the Sun" gathered to demand an end to violence and resumption of negotiations. Their optimism, as we now know, was short-lived.
Since then, the situation has severely deteriorated. But the groups still believe a mutually agreed resolution is urgently needed to prevent further suffering, though political solutions seem increasingly remote.
Despite the challenges, they remain committed to women's participation in the peace process. Their joint Mothers' Call advocates this view, and seem to be gaining momentum. They were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and invited to speak to the French Parliament.
On the other hand, the short piece focuses on the growth of "transformative agreements" when the growth of OA has many other unmentioned paths and causes.
The guy who fought Ticketmaster (and should be the cover of #TimeMagazine instead of the girl that dresses cute and is a size 0), and the band that played for hours in many countries 🫶♥️🫶
It has come to the attention of Cat News that Time Magazine has announced their person of the year, and it is a cat that is on the cover! Congratulations to Benjamin Button (USA) for your great achievements and representing the photogenic nature of all cats everywhere.
I mean, I like Taylor. She seems like a nice person who does good things and works hard and has some good tunes. But "Person of the Year" is supposed to go to "a person, a group, idea, or object that for better or for worse... has done the most to influence the events of the year". Taylor seems conspicuously underqualified. And Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is likely fuming at the oversight. #TimeMagazine#PersonOfTheYearhttps://www.timesofisrael.com/irans-khamenei-lauds-hamas-attack-on-israel-again-denies-involvement/
"...The star, whose Eras tour broke box office records and provoked an inquiry into #Ticketmaster's sales practices, follows the likes of Barack #Obama, #GretaThunberg and Volodymyr #Zelensky...
"...Its shortlist... included Xi Jinping, Vladimir #Putin, #Barbie and the striking #Hollywood actors and writers.
TIME has announced its shortlist for Person of the Year 2023. The team at the magazine will select the winner — "the person, group or concept that most shaped the headlines this year, for good or ill." Here's the full story; which of these would be your pick?