Notices by kcarruthers (kcarruthers@mastodon.social), page 2

@micchiato @Tattered this coup is done there is no filibuster to prevent it

“The lesson of this election is that the American people aren’t worthy of their Constitution. Maybe they never were, but at the core of American exceptionalism is the belief that our nation is virtuous by design in a way others aren’t. Electing Trump once shook that belief; electing him twice has obliterated it. Those of us who clung to it, foolishly, are now strangers in a strange land, exiled inside a country many of us are destined to no longer feel fully part of."

https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/you-broke-it-you-bought-it-2/

While earlier diagnostic studies have suggested that 7% of the population suffers from long COVID, a new AI tool developed by  Mass General Brigham revealed a much higher rate of 22.8%

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/11/cutting-through-the-fog-of-long-covid/

@br00t4c this podcast with Karen Stenner on “Why some people are primed to be authoritarians” makes a similar point

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/why-some-people-are-primed-to-be-authoritarians-with/id1573552765?i=1000526591478

USA preemptive obedience

Hop to it please: The End of Term Archive (eotarchive.org) is taking nominations for websites that might be in danger of disappearing. Please submit URLs you care about here:

https://digital2.library.unt.edu/nomination/eth2024/

Via Sebastian Majstorovic (@storytracer.bsky.social) https://bsky.app/profile/storytracer.bsky.social

@br00t4c I love this stage where they turn on each other

In the west we take our postal services for granted. But they were a huge innovation that have helped make the modern world. https://infosec.exchange/@ecksearoh/113423672556537058

Still life on Pall Mall
#cats

Good luck USA: An Idaho health department isn't allowed to give COVID-19 vaccines anymore. Experts say it's a first

https://apnews.com/article/covid19-vaccine-public-health-idaho-76f1c29bf3f07a2c029175bf6c2180c4

@br00t4c it’s hilarious to discover that some people can control when they poop 💩 #IBS

@patrickcmiller can you please stop cheering us up thanks m80

Yup hard agree with @pluralistic on this one: Blue states should play “constitutional hardball”

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/18/states-rights/#cold-civil-war

404 Media found exactly how a Musk-funded PAC is microtargeting Muslims & Jews with opposing messages. Includes areas with mosques

https://www.404media.co/this-is-exactly-how-an-elon-musk-funded-pac-is-microtargeting-muslims-and-jews-with-opposing-messages/

Rasmussen Found To Be Secretly Colluding With Trump Campaign
"Leaked emails reveal the truth about Rasmussen Reports and how the Trump campaign is breaking election law."

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/09/rasmussen-found-be-secretly-colluding

Donald Trump Wants to Divide American Jews: The GOP nominee has long dabbled in antisemitic tropes & is already casting partial blame on Jewish voters if he loses again in 2024.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/donald-trump-jews-2024-election

@dansup data architecture is often a gotcha. Good luck.

@emarktaylor I only found out the other day that an inordinate number of Americans are convinced that Alaska is an island due to the way it is shown on maps

Musk’s X allowing Maga activists to earn cash from conspiracies about Harris

Pro-Trump activists and Elon Musk's social media platform X are making money from baseless conspiracies and disinformation in the run-up to the US election

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/elon-musk-x-maga-activists-conspiracies-kamala-harris-us-election-3242096

Yes.