Neil Lewis, Jr.

Neil Lewis, Jr.

@neillewisjr.bsky.social

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Behavioral Scientist & Science Communicator.
Associate Professor of Communication, Medicine, and Public Policy at Cornell.

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Part of the challenge is that the postal reorganization act restructured the postal service to run like a corporation, and so they need to make money. One of the big ways they make that money is by partnering with marketers to send us junk. More on this here: www.vice.com/en/article/8...

This website is helpful for unsubscribing from a bunch of junk mail. Ironically, you have to pay to *not* get that mail, but the cost has been worth it in my experience. www.dmachoice.org

DMAchoice is a mail preference service offered by the ANA.www.dmachoice.org DMAChoice is the only reasonable way to get rid of Junk Mail. The US post office (USPS) is no help when it comes to stopping unwanted mail. Register now to stop junk mail and emails, as well as regi...

How We Ended Up With All This Junk Mailwww.vice.com The mind-boggling volume of junk mail is the product of consensus politics that the postal service should have to pay for itself.

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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

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"Why I don't lie" By Donald J. Trump

"Why I don't fly" By Orville Wright

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It is actually not great when wealthy elites try to have this much influence on the nominee, whether or not you think Biden is fit to serve.

Many wealthy Democratic donors are trying to pressure President Biden to abandon his re-election campaign and help lay the groundwork for an alternate candidate.

Major Democratic Donors Devise Plans to Pressure Biden to Step Asidewww.nytimes.com The president appears intent on remaining on the ballot, while wealthy donors are discussing plans to put their money elsewhere.

"Why I don't fly" By Orville Wright

“Why I don’t drive” By Mario Andretti

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Holy moly. What is going on over there is grim.

Lmao they just changed the title of the piece from “Why I don’t vote” to “Why I won’t vote” rather than tell readers that the guy actually does vote

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Gave proof through the night That our flag was still there 🫡

Thread. Scroll down.

When I was a teenager, I organized a protest with a couple of friends after Michael Griffith was killed in Howard Beach. Almost no one showed up. I think we had 6 people [including us 3 organizers]. I was crushed. I cried to my dad & he asked: "what did you say to the three people who joined you?"

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I’m sorry, I don’t mean to offend, but I really deeply dislike Mastodon’s vibe. It’s like being trapped at a party with two other people: one who demands you debate them on whether Dick York or Dick Sargent was the better Darrin, and one who becomes irate that you said the word “Dick.”

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For those of us in the US, let's not limit our envy to just the UK.

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's federal police indict ex-President Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association, source confirms.

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Among the many, many issues here, it's clear that ICE has way too much money to play with.

ICE created a fake university in order to defraud, rob, and deport students. The depths of depravity there know no bounds. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

Students at fake university in Michigan created by ICE can sue US, court ruleswww.freep.com An appeals court ruled in favor of students who said they were tricked by ICE into enrolling at a fake university in metro Detroit.

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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.

Reports: Brazil police have indicted Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association

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honestly hate that every time there's an industry bad actor, lists of "works by marginalized authors to support instead" start circulating like it's a moral obligation to be done out of guilt, & it's crickets every other day of the year. my art is not to be taken in as a reactionary measure

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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason) Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us

Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

As someone who writes a fair amount of public facing articles that are always rigorously fact-checked prior to publication (something I greatly appreciate), I'm always amazed to see how many articles get through the publication process with seemingly no fact-checking at all.

CNN fact checked whether I in fact caught walleye while wearing a specific hat more thoroughly than the NYT checked whether the “I dont vote” guy actually voted.

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CNN fact checked whether I in fact caught walleye while wearing a specific hat more thoroughly than the NYT checked whether the “I dont vote” guy actually voted.

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Relevant to that NYT piece that's going around...if your vote didn't still matter, they wouldn't be trying everything to convince you it was worthless.

He voted in both 2020 and 2022.

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Getting in with fascists because a sitting president doesn't do what you want.

I’m not saying the paper of record is trying to hound the president from office out of a fit of pique because he won’t sit down for an interview, but if it were, how different would things look? www.politico.com/news/2024/04...

NYT blasts Biden for avoiding interviewswww.politico.com The Times in a statement called it “troubling” that Biden “has so actively and effectively avoided questions from independent journalists during his term.”

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As a constitutional scholar, I am well aware of the serious headwinds and challenges facing the US on the nation's birthday. It will be bad, whatever happens in the Fall elections. But I also know enough US history that resistance is not futile and we have many historical models of it.

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Dedicated to the proposition that all people are created equal. Birthright citizenship Equal protection of the laws Due process of law No race or sex description in voting No titles of nobility No insurrectionists in office No cruel and unusual punishment Happy Birthday America!

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Cause this is too much of a white people website

Wait, why am I just now learning about this?

"On the other side of honesty is the possibility of change. For me, telling the truth is the most hopeful form of patriotism...It is the truest form of patriotism, a love that isn’t complacent, one that demands more than crumbs from justice’s table."

Happy 4th - gifting this to all of you who quit NYTimes. I'm hanging on. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

Opinion | Loving America Means Expecting More From Itwww.nytimes.com On the other side of honesty is the possibility of change.

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All of DC (and Pentagon, Arlington Cemetery & Reagan National airport - DCA) are currently under a boil water advisory. Check for updates, Tell your people. www.dcwater.com/about-dc-wat...

DRINKING WATER ADVISORY: DC Water Issues Boil Water Advisory for All Customers in the District of Columbia, the Pentagon, Arlington National Cemetery and Reagan National Airport | DC Waterwww.dcwater.com

This should go without saying, but just in case: please check local drought conditions before setting off fireworks. The country is already on fire; no need to add additional flames. 🙏🏿

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THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."

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truly the best at what they do

On behalf of all my friends at NHC, NOAA, and the whole weather enterprise, I would like to point out the accuracy of this 5 day forecast. @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social

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Could you show us the actual words in the Constitution that say the president is immune from criminal law?

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Seattle scene report 👏👏👏