Auburn Scallon

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Moon Guides Czech Republic author. I’m into pop culture, performing arts, politics, critical travel writing, & conscious language. she/they.
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Ed Yong

I’ve got a feeling… this month’s gonna be a good, good month! 📸🕊️🐘🐆🦏

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From America's hardest-hitting investigative journalists at @teenvogue.bsky.social, a BEAUTY of an introductory piece (I've gifted annual subscriptions to random small-town libraries; you can, too!) www.teenvogue.com/story/everyt...

Every Gen Z Issue JD Vance Is Againstwww.teenvogue.com From guns, and climate change to abortion and LGBTQ rights, the Republican VP is being called “Anti-Gen Z.”

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Hey media folks, please spread far and wide: The Boston Globe is hiring a TV critic. Probably doesn't need to be said but these job openings are hella rare these days. Heartening to see this gig is available, pls let folks know TVsky! : bostonglobemediapartners.applytojob.com/apply/OLsbys...

TV Critic - Boston Globe Media Partners - Career Pagebostonglobemediapartners.applytojob.com The Boston Globe seeks a full-time TV critic to join our staff

Link to primary source: www.axios.com/2024/07/15/t...

Behind the Curtain: "Getting shot in the face changes a man"www.axios.com Advisers tell us Trump plans to seize his moment by toning down his Trumpiness, and dialing up efforts to unite a tinder-box America, when the Republican convention opens in Milwaukee.

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Defector

This Tony-awards performance was pure magic

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Rep. Rashida Tlaib: “There is so much anti-Palestinian racism in this chamber that my colleagues don’t even want to acknowledge that Palestinians exist at all—not when they’re alive, and now, not even when they’re dead.”

In the US, counting the dead in Gaza has become a gruesome political gamewww.motherjones.com The House passed a ban on citing the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty counts, saying the numbers are pro-Hamas “propaganda.” But researchers say the Ministry is not even counting all deaths.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis

Totally! I survived many NY summers in the No-A/C minority as well—partially from not having the default option ingrained, and partially for fear of exploding my energy bills. Definitely not always comfortable, but a ground-floor, old brick building did some serious heavy lifting.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis

This stat just made my head explode after growing up in one of the outlier states! www.eia.gov/consumption/...

Nailed it.

I’d listen to a podcast of their inner monologue?

And it’s ridiculously fun! 👇

am seeing some confusion and continued bafflement so i just want to make sure to be very clear: my lady jane, the amazon prime show, is lady jane grey but also shapeshifters. it's a tudor animorphs show. hope this is helpful

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Nina Metz

This was a great read!

This letter is such a powerful, thoughtful response, and I really hope it lands on eyes (or ears) willing to listen.

Trans healthcare saves lives. America's trans & nonbinary legislators are calling on the Biden Administration to oppose any attempt to ban puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy, & surgery for young trans people, and to follow medical best practices as set out in WPATH.

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I want more folks to know about libro.fm as an alternative to Audible or Spotify or other shady corps. It’s 100% employee-owned and works like Audible, except your credits support an indie bookstore of your choosing instead of Amazon. Go listen to a disabled author for Disability Pride Month! 💙📚

Same audiobooks. Different story.libro.fm Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through local bookstores.

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If this resonates with you as an expert in your field, please feel free to hit me up on how to pitch an op-ed to MSNBC dot com

Where are the columnists who are experts in specific fields, breaking down what the Heritage Foundation + Trump want to do to each individual federal agency? E.g. I read the section dedicated to our intelligence agencies, and had to stop, since I was starting to feel a little nauseous.

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Nearly 2 million people have been displaced in Gaza – almost the entire population – after the Israeli military last week ordered a further 80,000 people to evacuate parts of Gaza City amid a renewed ground operation, the latest UN figures show.

Almost entire population in Gaza now displaced amid fresh Israeli offensive | CNNwww.cnn.com Nearly 2 million people have been displaced in Gaza – almost the entire population – after the Israeli military this week ordered a further 80,000 people to evacuate parts of Gaza City amid a renewed ...

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IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN! If you're a U.S.-based comics creative - aspiring, working, or otherwise - and you do ONE thing to help out your fellow creators this year, let it be filling this survey out!

It's time for the 2024 Comics Worker Survey for US workers! Pay transparency is crucial to uncovering patterns in pay inequity & learning what publishers and clients can ACTUALLY pay us. Submit your info and encourage your peers to do the same! cartoonist.coop/2024USsurvey (art by Phil McAndrew)

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If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again. anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...

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This is exciting

“…Proton is launching the ability to create, edit, and collaborate on end-to-end encrypted documents within its online file storage systems.”

Proton Is Launching Encrypted Documents to Take On Google Docswww.wired.com Proton is adding an end-to-end encrypted documents editor to its privacy tools, boosting its competition with Google’s suite of productivity apps.

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Remember that Native nations don't conform to US colonial borders. The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) are split between NY and Canada. The Tohono O'odham and Yaqui are split between Arizona and Mexico. To be Indigenous predates and is beyond the 4th of July

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“A document signed by the head of Israel’s internal security service, Shin Bet, in late June—and viewed by The Wall Street Journal—warned that the conditions in which Palestinians were being held could violate international humanitarian law.”

Palestinian Doctor Says He Was Beaten During Seven Months in Israeli Custodyapple.news The director of Al-Shifa Hospital was released without charge, sparking criticism from both Palestinians and Israelis

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it's gita time

It’s always nice to scroll across a bit of good news these days — thank you for sharing!

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Academic paper: “Recent studies have shown that well over 50 % of people, in some reports 70 % or more, who have contracted SARS-COV-2 suffer damage to their organs” Seems like we should be doing our best to prevent infections in the first place

Review of organ damage from COVID and Long COVID: a disease with a spectrum of pathologywww.degruyter.com Long COVID, as currently defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other authorities, is a symptomatic condition that has been shown to affect an estimated 10 %–30 % of non-hospitalized patie...

On top of blowing through unnecessary energy while we’re in a climate crisis, AI is bad for society at large (say researchers at a company currently pushing AI products… 🙃) 👇

So. Google just released an internal paper about the epistemic, ethical, and sociopolitical threats of generative "AI," and golly gee whiz if that doesn't sure as shit sound familiar. 🤔🧐😒🙄 www.404media.co/google-ai-po...

Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bugwww.404media.co “While these uses of GenAI are often neither overtly malicious nor explicitly violate these tools’ content policies or terms of services, their potential for harm is significant.”

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Nina Metz

*nodding in agreement* that’s how I described my impressions of this season to a friend: “A lot of time on people/situations I didn’t care about—leaving less time for those I want to spend time with and know more about!

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Covid infections are on the rise nationally “Cases are most likely increasing in 39 states and aren’t declining anywhere in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — evidence that an anticipated summer wave is underway”

The Covid summer wave is herewww.nbcnews.com Infections are most likely rising in at least 39 states, driven in part by a trio of new variants.

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Preeti Chhibber

100% and plenty more lessons from the excellent source material: bookshop.org/p/books/on-t...

On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century a book by Timothy Snyder and Nora Krugbookshop.org NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyder's lessons for surviving and resisting America's arc toward authoritarianism, featuring the visual storytelling talents of reno...

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Nina Metz

Related: This is one reason I encourage folks to include a link when screenshotting an article ... doing so means you respect the demands many journalists are working under in order to get those quotes you find so interesting and worth sharing! www.allyourscreens.com/latest-news/...

I’m there!

Done and looking forward to the Zoom!