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Madame Beloved Dictator
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Jackson, Mississippi. Democracy is the most important thing. No sugar in my cornbread. Thatā€™s not a metaphor.
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A jockey who is paralyzed from the waist down lost his ability to walk after a small battery for his $100,000 exoskeleton broke and the manufacturer refused to fix it because it was more than 5 years old www.404media.co/paralyzed-jo...

Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton
Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton

Michael Straight learned to walk again with the help of an exoskeleton. After an accessory to the device broke, the company refused to fix it.

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"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups. The police who investigate crime and the former police who commit themā€

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Lilliana Mason makes a great point that one of the lasting effects of Trumpism is the erasure of shame as a tool that can rein in really hateful, violent speech. (Via @onthemedia.bsky.social)

Lilliana Mason: There's the norms against crass rhetoric. For that one, I think of George Allen, who was running for Senate in Virginia. He famously called someone "Macaca" and that was it. He lost the election. People turned away from him immediately. He clearly knew that he had done something wrong. That was, "Yes, you mess up and you're finished." Everyone thought that would be the case with Trump, for example, with the Access Hollywood tape. He basically just said, "No, I'm not embarrassed. I'm not ashamed."

It's really important to remember that shame can be very bad, but it's a really powerful emotion precisely because it's the only way that our norms are enforced. We enforce laws with law enforcement. We enforce norms with people and feeling shame and feeling like, "Oh, I went too far. I did something wrong." That's how we police ourselves in our language and each other and what we consider to be normal. When our leaders are providing us an example of shamelessness, then it ope
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This is something I have believed for a long time. I know some people feel like ā€œitā€™s better if people show you who they are,ā€ but I think itā€™s better if people are too ashamed of being hateful bigots to spew their vile in public.

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Rep. @DebDingell: Buried in Project 2025 is a plan to eliminate overtime pay. It is a generous gift to corporations and an insult to the American worker. Under Trump's Project 2025, employers could force workers to work more than 40 hours a week without paying them time-and-a-half. In other words,

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Hello, Bluesky! Join me and fellow Star Trek ladies on October 3rd for a virtual event, Women of Star Trek for Kamala! We are supporting the Harris/Walz campaign as we look toward a brighter future - one that we need to start building today at the ballot box. šŸ—³ļø #HarrisWalz2024#Kamala2024

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Not hyperbole.

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ā€œAll journalism should be tabloid journalism.ā€

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Madame Beloved Dictator
@susanm.bsky.social
Jackson, Mississippi. Democracy is the most important thing. No sugar in my cornbread. Thatā€™s not a metaphor.
173 followers339 following456 posts