The Republic Is Ours To Save

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I have occasionally angered famous men. Author, PHALLACY+THE TAILORED BRAIN. Journalist, words at SciAm+++. Frequent gremlin. Biologist of embryos, gonads, genitalia. Educator. She/her/y’all. V Texan 🤠 https://sites.google.com/view/emilywillinghamphd/home

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My brain hasn’t been this scrambled wrt to my writing work since the first year of Covid. Do not miss the brain blender feeling AT all

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Twelve (12) articles about Biden's age on the NYT home page. Scroll down for a good while and at the bottom of the right column you can find just two (2) articles about the Supreme Court's immunity decision, neither of which state in the headline that the president is now a king.

Case name is super accurate, pretty much says it all.

I’ve been in shock since Monday AM. The fact the Supreme Court didn’t simply affirm the lower court’s ruling & dismiss Trump’s absurd claims of absolute immunity was appalling, given trial delays — but this is calamitous for democracy writ large. Like Dred Scott, “Trump vs U.S.” will be infamous.

www.supremecourt.gov

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One thing you can do to resist this is to get on the board of your local public library. For most municipalities it's an appointment, not anything elected. Commitment averages an hour or two per month. I'm a former library director. Happy to talk to people about it.

I fact checked this before reskeeting because I did not want to believe it was real. Needing identification to enter a library? Keeping kids out of the public fucking library? Libraries are for everyone, all ages, no papers required. They are a cornerstone of democracy.

A handsome lad

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March 23 1933, the Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.

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Sotomayor's dissent is chilling: "When [the president]...orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune."

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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?

If you’ve been dithering about whether or not to become a radical and behave openly as one, now is well past the time to stop dithering.

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Finally. Look, I’m a medical historian. The ‘thin means health’ buzz is recent. Less than 100 years old, in fact. 🩺🧪🗃️ “research has found that being a bit overweight is not as dangerous as previous guidance suggested and may even be protective.“ www.scientificamerican.com/article/peop...

People Who Are Fat and Healthy May Hold Keys to Understanding Obesitywww.scientificamerican.com “Heavy and healthy” can be a rare or common condition. But either way it may signal that some excess weight is just fine

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in practice, presidents have been enjoying a lot of immunity. This codifies it in a way that's quite alarming in the abstract, but even more alarming in the case considered. The decision references Trump's discussions with Pence about trying to interfere with the EC vote counting as "official"

❌ Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. ✅You have to read this book to see if I’m the hero or not.

❌ It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. ✅ A guy with money needs to get married. Everybody knows this.

Got to see this soon-to-be Olympian at the NCAA Championships. So excited to be seeing her and the other two who will run the 200m in Paris for Team USA

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I’ve been ranting & raging for years about predatory journals publishing bad & fake research, then ranting & raging for years about AI generated papers with more fake articles, authors, journals in citations. People using AI to generate fake publications & pass it as ‘research’ deserve all the hells

Recently, I was peer reviewing a paper, and it cited one of my papers. Except... it wasn't anything I had written. The title sounds like something I'd write. It included coauthors I work with, and was in a journal I've published in. But it wasn't real. AI is not good for science.

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For the good of the country, Donald Trump should drop out the 2024 presidential race.

Donald Trump Should Drop Out | Washington Monthlywashingtonmonthly.com We’ve had months of calls for Joe Biden to drop out because of middling poll numbers. The grounds for a Trump withdrawal are far firmer.

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Inspired by the NYT regional dialect quiz What's your word for an object you don't know the name of, or can't immediately think of the name of? Reply with the number & where you're from 1. Whatchamacallit 2. Doodad 3. Thingy 4. Whatsits 5. Dingus 6. Thingamabob 7. Doohickey 8. Other (tell us!)

Believe us: “In 2021, Gligor’s second wife sought a protective order against him, alleging his behavior was unpredictable and scared her. The request was denied by a Court commissioner bc there was “no reasonable grounds to believe that abuse occurred.”

The arrest of Eugene Gligor in the killing of his ex-girlfriend’s mother has forced friends to reckon with the man they thought they knew. “It was almost impossible to believe — like, Eugene?” said Jordan Weiers, Gligor’s mentee at a real estate company. wapo.st/4cKmVs3

Gregarious, ‘Zen’ and, police say, a killerwapo.st The arrest of Eugene Gligor in the killing of his ex-girlfriend’s mother has forced friends to reckon with the man they thought they knew.

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The school censored a student, and now everything they tried to stop her from saying about them has become national news. How, in the year of our Lord 2024, do people still not know about the Streisand Effect?

Abbotsford student's speech about accessibility challenges at her school censored by administratorsbc.ctvnews.ca As part of her Grade 12 art activism class, Lexis De Meyer was tasked with investigating accessibility challenges faced by people with disabilities in her community of Abbotsford.

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WIRED: More than a dozen men threatened, assaulted, tortured, or kidnapped 11 victims in likely the worst-ever crypto-focused serial extortion case of its kind in the US.

Inside a Violent Gang's Ruthless Crypto-Stealing Home Invasion Spreewww.wired.com More than a dozen men threatened, assaulted, tortured, or kidnapped 11 victims in likely the worst-ever crypto-focused serial extortion case of its kind in the US.

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it feels like the whiteness of big political media spaces right now is having a big effect on how people are thinking about the debate. eg I have seen relatively little discussion of trump's "black jobs" comment, which immediately exploded on black twitter

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See this? I engaged with their whining about rich people not going to prison. (vis-a-vis Trump) C'est moi. Je suis the sucker for engaging with this person. Don't make the same mistake!

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Imagine going back in time and telling someone that the day this economic data dropped, most NYT columnists wanted the Democratic incumbent to step aside

Not over. As someone alive before Chevron precedent, before legal abortion, before many things being flipped back in time existed, I can say you can fight this war&win it. Again. &this time, people have sunk costs&reaped benefits where before it was theoretical. They will feel&resent the loss.

The war is over. The bad guys won.

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I'm just saying: if all we ever do online is dissect the shitty actions of the 8 worst guys, and draw from this that humanity is terrible, and then use that conclusion to give up all hope for the world, & meanwhile a huge community of activists is desperate for our help... this is bad

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I guess the sad thing about all this is the realization that not only is the media not a defense against fascism but with its current incentive structures in 2024 is actively helping to usher it in

Journalism nowadays is like “sure he lied, but did he do it EFFECTIVELY”

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The biggest disaster of the last 24 hours is actually the Supreme Court ruling that overturns 40 years of deference to the expertise of regulators in cases about pollution, drug safety, food safety, climate change — you name it, the Court just gelded it. Even if Biden is reelected, we're weakened.

Live Updates: Supreme Court Overrules Chevron Doctrine, Imperiling an Array of Federal Ruleswww.nytimes.com The foundational 1984 decision required courts to defer to agencies’ reasonable interpretations of ambiguous statutes, underpinning regulations on health care, safety and the environment.

Isn’t that always the way 🪿

The Magic 8 Ball has spoken

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fuck you, Spotify. fuck you so much. i guess deaf people aren't allowed to enjoy music like the rest of y'all. new disabling unlocked.

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WIRED caught an AI company scraping its articles w/o permission. Turns out, Amazon was hosting the machine doing the scraping, even though that violates Amazon's terms of service. Oh! And the AI company is funded by Jeff Bezos. wired.com/story/aws-perplexity-bot-scraping-investigation/