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ZhiZhu

@ZhiZhu@newsie.social

"All mimsy were the borogoves..." Avid reader, occasional world traveler, raises chickens in Texas.
Interested in #Journalism #News #USPolitics #Books #SFF #Photography #Travel #Nature #Science #Ukraine #Etymology and other things.

I create threads of news articles I find interesting, and occasionally share a #GiftArticle so those without subscriptions can read the whole article.

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realjuddlegum, to random

The guy who is in charge of Threads admits that it is actively suppressing accounts, like mine, that post political content.

Don't let his measured tone fool you.

This is an outrageous and irresponsible decision.

And it is a POLITICAL decision. One that favors the status quo.

RE: https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C7hoA8ayaZe

ZhiZhu,
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@realjuddlegum

Judd Legum had an account in the @juddlegum with 106K followers (the Fediverse has no algorithm to promote or suppress posts), and instead chose to focus on his account on Threads @realjuddlegum with 77K followers. Now, he complains about the Threads algorithm which is suppressing his posts?

He should have stuck with his account.

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Greg Sargent:

Plainly worse than "deplorables," but to my knowledge, not one major news organization has taken note of it: https://newrepublic.com/article/181973/trump-media-attacks-media-dangerous-turn

Via Patriot Takes:

Posts Unhinged Video Promising to “Get Rid of All You F*cking Liberals”

Trump amplifies a vulgar, verbal attack on Joe Scarborough

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@GottaLaff

"There is a mini cottage industry of punditry that is forever on the lookout for the merest hint of disrespect toward voters, particularly & working-class ones. But the fact that the nominee for president approvingly posted a video that declares a large ideological subgroup of “done” & “gone” if he is elected... appears to have garnered almost no headlines."
https://newrepublic.com/article/181973/trump-media-attacks-media-dangerous-turn

ZhiZhu, to vexillology
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"Alito’s misconduct also brings Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who heads an entire branch of government, to an inflection point. If he does nothing, Roberts is complicit in the destruction of the court’s reputation. Such spinelessness might even snatch from Roger B. Taney, the author of the majority opinion in Dred Scott, the title of “worst chief justice ever.”"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/26/alito-durbin-supreme-court/

#SCOTUS #Corruption #Alito #Thomas #Roberts #Jan6 #flags #Trump #Politics #USA #News

foser, to random
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A brief history of Sam Alito https://www.findinggravity.net/p/a-brief-history-of-sam-alito

ZhiZhu,
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"That helps explain how #Republicans have held a majority of seats on the #SupremeCourt for 55 consecutive years despite losing the popular #vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections: The #Republican majority on the Supreme Court interceded in an election to put a Republican loser in the White House where he could appoint two more Republican Supreme Court justices, perpetuating the Republican majority on the Court."

#SCOTUS #Alito #Corruption #USA

ProPublica, to news
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For the Women Who Accused the Campaign of Harassment, It’s Been More Harassment

Trump is well known for publicly bullying his rivals, but the former president’s campaign has also used similar tactics to launch private, relentless attacks against some of its own workers.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-campaign-harassment-bullying-lawsuits

ZhiZhu,
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"Trump’s campaign used similar #bullying tactics against its own workers. These fights have been waged out of the public eye against #women with few resources to stand up against the campaign’s battery of #lawyers, paid from a seemingly bottomless trove of #campaign #money...

Supporters are giving him money earned with “blood, sweat a& tears,” Denson said. “And it is being turned around to terrorize people.”"

#Trump #MAGA #Politics #USPolitics #USA #News

ZhiZhu, to journalism
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"“when I WIN the Presidency of the , they and others of the LameStream will be thoroughly scrutinized for their knowingly dishonest & corrupt coverage of people, things, and events,” Donald posted on Truth Social last September in an attack on NBC News...

What could Trump do to the media and its ability to inform the American people?

Judging by what he did in his first term, plenty."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/21/trump-second-presidency-news-media/

ZhiZhu,
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"He called for of organizations and changes to laws to restrict critical on figures, including himself...

He tried to deny credentials for and whose stories he disliked... Federal departments scrubbed from their websites and about , the and , among other subjects."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/21/trump-second-presidency-news-media/

ZhiZhu, to ilaughed
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"Israeli officials seized equipment from the and shut down its long-standing feed of northern on Tuesday...

The move was quickly denounced by free advocates, who portrayed it as an escalation of an effort to restrict coverage of the Israel-Hamas war...

In a statement, the Associated Press firmly condemned the government’s move...

The also called the action “concerning.”"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/05/21/israel-seizes-associated-press/

taylorlorenz, to random
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"Dr. King said that in the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Sadly, medically vulnerable people are under no illusion that the Democrats are any kind of friend. But their silence is surely loud and clear." https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/biden-cdc-silent-as-north-carolina

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@Grant_M @GreenFire

Looks like
@taylorlorenz has succumbed to Murc's Law.

"These journalists seem to believe (perhaps unconsciously) that have so little control over their own behavior that they cannot be held accountable for their own actions.

So, instead of blaming Republicans for the political difficulties they cause, they blame for failing to control Republicans’ bad behavior."

ZhiZhu, to MIguns
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"Republican Gov. Greg Abbott... pardoning Daniel Perry, the former Army sergeant convicted in the fatal of a protester during a march...

After Perry’s conviction, unsealed court records revealed that he regularly shared memes &threatening content in private messages & posts, including descriptions of killing protesters & minorities."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/16/abbott-daniel-perry-blm-protester/

ZhiZhu, to Humor
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"State laws measure if a woman is close enough to death for an abortion"
By Ann Telnaes
Editorial cartoonist
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/03/ann-telnaes-cartoon-abortion-laws/

GottaLaff, to random
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FYI, someone just asked me, "Could you please put a CW on those US politics posts?"

I said no sorry,, just mute me.

I don't understand CWing political posts. And that doesn't mean you need to @ me explaining why. I know THEIR reasons, I just disagree with them and won't do it.

I respect CWs for other things, but not politics. Politics is news and people need to be aware of what's happening. It's not gory or violent, it's politics.

Kthxbye.

ZhiZhu,
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@timecraft @GottaLaff

"Politics is not marriage.

You don't have to love the candidate you vote for.

Politics is public transportation.

If you don't vote, you are allowing those who DO vote to choose where you are going."

And if you don't pay attention to politics, you'll have no idea where the bus is going or where it can go. You're just letting those who do pay attention and vote control where your life goes.

ZhiZhu, to tech
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"Return-to-office mandates at some of the most powerful companies — , and — were followed by a spike in departures among the most senior, tough-to-replace talent...

What they found was a strong correlation between senior-level employees departing directly after a mandate was implemented... and in many cases, they went to for direct competitors."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/12/rto-microsoft-apple-spacex/

ZhiZhu,
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“We find experienced impacted by these policies at major companies seek elsewhere, taking some of the most valuable human capital investments and tools of with them,” said... one of the study’s authors.

“ leaders should weigh carefully employee preferences and market opportunities when deciding when, or if, they mandate a return to office.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/12/rto-microsoft-apple-spacex/

ZhiZhu,
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"“Our findings suggest that mandates cost the company more than previously thought... These attrition rates aren’t just something that can be managed away.”...

A spike in departures of senior employees... could reflect the “double-pinch” they inflict on managers, who have to deal with the policy’s effects on the teams they lead & in their own lives...

it’s also just a hit to morale...

Maybe managers leave shortly after mandates... “because it’s easier to manage a team that’s happy.”

ZhiZhu, to nature
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"Bishop’s story, from birth to presumed death, shows the extreme danger facing right #whales, which could be #extinct in three decades if they continue to disappear at the present rate.

Bishop’s species is not doomed to #extinction, advocates say, but time is running out."
#GiftArticle #GiftLink
https://wapo.st/4dDItaQ

#Nature #Wildlife #Animals #Marinelife #Oceans #EastCoast #Florida #Virginia #Massachusetts #USA #News

ZhiZhu,
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"“As we watch this #species go #extinct one by one, the solution sits idle in the hands of the administration”...

this year, a dead female turned up off #Virginia with a dislocated spine, a calf was discovered in #Georgia with head lacerations, & a young female was found — again in Georgia — with a fractured skull. All the injuries are consistent with vessel strikes.

“It’s only #humans that kill right #whales”"

#GiftArticle #GiftLink
https://wapo.st/4dDItaQ

#Nature #Wildlife #Animals #News

w7voa, to random
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WABC Radio cancels Rudy Giuliani's daily talk show for violating station policy by repeatedly trying to discuss on air discredited claims about the 2020 presidential election. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/nyregion/giuliani-radio-suspended.html?unlocked_article_code=1.q00.od1Q.mEE5vfRSIMeU&smid=url-share

ZhiZhu,
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@w7voa

Free Speech
by
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1357:_Free_Speech

"The 1st Amendment doesn't shield you from criticism or consequences.

“If you’re yelled at, boycotted, have your show canceled, or get banned from an internet community, your free speech rights aren’t being violated.

It’s just that the people listening think you’re an asshole,

and they’re showing you the door.”

ZhiZhu, to Israel
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“Israel should not launch a major ground operation in #Rafah, where more than a million people are sheltering with nowhere else to go,” said a senior administration official, explaining the #US decision to pause the #weapons shipments. “We are especially focused on the end-use of the 2,000-pound bombs and the impact they could have in dense urban settings as we have seen in other parts of #Gaza.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/05/07/biden-delays-weapons-israel-rafah/

#Israel #Palestine #War #Netanyahu #Biden #USA #News #WorldNews

ZhiZhu, to Women
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"“We are horrified at details emerging from mass graves recently unearthed in the #Gaza Strip. Over 390 bodies have been discovered at Nasser and Al Shifa #hospitals, including of #women and #children, with many reportedly showing signs of #torture and summary executions, and potential instances of people buried alive,” the experts said.

...as of 29 April 2024, of 34,488 #Palestinians killed in Gaza, 14,500 have been children and 9,500 women."
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/05/onslaught-violence-against-women-and-children-gaza-unacceptable-un-experts

#Palestine #Israel #War

ZhiZhu,
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"Over 8,000 others are reported missing or under the rubble – ...at least half of them can be assumed to be #women and #children... an estimated 63 women, including 37 mothers are being killed daily and 17,000 Palestinian children are believed to have been orphaned since the war on #Gaza began.

1.7 million people are internally displaced, and 1.1. million are projected to face catastrophic levels of #food insecurity."
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/05/onslaught-violence-against-women-and-children-gaza-unacceptable-un-experts

#Palestine #Israel #War #Genocide #WarCrimes

ZhiZhu,
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"the direct bombardment of #hospitals & deliberate denial of access to #health care facilities by #Israeli snipers... placing an estimated 50,000 pregnant #Palestinian #women & 20,000 new-born babies at unimaginable risk. Over 183 women per day are giving birth w/out pain relief, while hundreds of #babies have died because of a lack of electricity to power incubators... increases in miscarriages by up to 300%. 95% of pregnant & breastfeeding women face severe #food poverty”

#Gaza #Israel #War

foser, to random
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New from me and Will Royce in @theprospect on a SCOTUS corruption angle that often goes overlooked in coverage of decisions: https://prospect.org/justice/2024-05-02-covering-friends-of-the-court/

ZhiZhu,
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"The flagrant #corruption of the #Court has received a great deal of media attention & public scrutiny in recent years. But that scrutiny has been largely siloed away from coverage of the Court’s substantive deliberations & #decisions. It’s time to break out of those silos.

The story of the justices’ lucrative relationships with #right-wing #billionaires is inseparable from those billionaires’ judicial shadow-lobbying via amicus briefs."

#SCOTUS

Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random
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I just learned that Jed Shugerman wrote a piece for the New York Times evaluating Bragg's case.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/opinion/bragg-trump-trial.html

Edited: I have now read it, thanks Joel.
As I have done, Jed leaves open the possibility that the prosecution may develop the case better.

@joelman in the comments offered a gift link. Thanks again.

My weekend blog post should help anyone with questions.

ZhiZhu,
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@Teri_Kanefield

What do you think of this explanation of Trump's crime?

"And while there’s nothing illegal about catch-and-kill per se, when these payments become unreported campaign contributions, it crosses over from shady to illegal. And then when you tried to hide those through falsifying your records, it becomes a felony.

That’s what’s happened here, and it won’t be hard for the prosecution to point out the difference."
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-defense-strategy-is-risky?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random
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If you read my weekend blog post, you know that I've been pointing out that the predicate crime in the Trump trial is not clear.

(For what I mean, see my weekend blog post).

Here is what the Washington Post reported.

See screenshots #1 and #2.

Here is the law: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/ELN/17-152?utm_medium=email&wpisrc=nl-nationalpopup&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=wp_the_trump_trials

To be clear: I have no idea how this trial will turn out. I cannot substitute my judgment for the jury because I am not seeing what they are seeing.

1/

ZhiZhu,
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@Teri_Kanefield

What do you think of @jaykuo 's explanation of Trump's crime?

"And while there’s nothing illegal about catch-and-kill per se, when these payments become unreported campaign contributions, it crosses over from shady to illegal. And then when you tried to hide those through falsifying your records, it becomes a felony.

That’s what’s happened here, and it won’t be hard for the prosecution to point out the difference."
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-defense-strategy-is-risky?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

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