Michelle Solomon

Michelle Solomon

@michellesolomon.bsky.social

Overeducated bookish photo studio manager in Savannah, GA. Sometimes I make good trouble, but I'm tired.

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We’re in another Middle East war. I’m reflecting on the fact that it’s easy to start a war, difficult to end it. There’s often war optimism, so it’s unlikely to end with bomb strikes today. Lastly, I’m troubled that Trump’s national security team is who we have running this war.

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The honorable hero Senator Cory Booker yields the floor at 25 hrs 8 minutes. Final list of Senators who asked questions so Booker could pause his voice. Amazing display or oratory, skill, personal Discipline and heart. Booker Holds The Floor! ⛓️‍💥

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Sen. Ossoff tonight announced he will oppose cloture and, if it comes to it, final passage on the partisan House budget proposal and issued the following statement —

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The entire conversation around government funding is Washington at its worst. I cannot in good conscience vote for a bill that increases costs for Georgians, defunds care for servicemembers, and slashes investments in education and health care. I am voting NO on the partisan funding bill.

<<His other worry was that the corporations in control of chatbots had an “unprecedented power to influence people en masse. It could be used as a tool for manipulation, and that’s dangerous,” he warned.>> For an exploration of this idea check out "The Verifiers" - near future sci fi by Jane Pek.

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Trump's pick to lead NASA is Jared Isaacman, friend of Elon Musk, whose online payment company has extensive financial ties to SpaceX. If confirmed, Isaacman would oversee billions of dollars in government contracts awarded to SpaceX.

npr.orgTrump chooses billionaire astronaut Jared Isaacman to run NASAEarlier this year, Isaacman became the first private citizen to conduct a spacewalk. But his longstanding ties with Elon Musk's company SpaceX raise possible conflicts of interest.

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New today: The Texas Observer has identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that regularly share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content on X. Three of the operators appear to live or have claimed to own property in Texas.

texasobserver.orgRevealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X AccountsAnonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseudonyms.

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Hegseth is a member of a Tennessee congregation affiliated with Christ Church, a controversial congregation in Moscow, Idaho, that has become a leader in the movement to get more Christianity in the public sphere. From Heath Druzin: idahocapitalsun.com/2024/11/21/t...

idahocapitalsun.comTrump’s Defense secretary nominee has close ties to Idaho Christian nationalists • Idaho Capital SunPete Hegseth, president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of Defense, has close ties to an Idaho-based Christian nationalist church.

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Doug Burgum, Trump’s nominee for Interior Secretary, is the same guy who set up the meeting at Mar-a-Lago where Trump reportedly promised environmental regulation cuts for $1 billion in campaign contributions from Big Oil execs.

theguardian.comEnvironmental groups alarmed as Doug Burgum picked for US interior secretarySeveral groups say North Dakota governor will sacrifice public lands on the ‘altar of the fossil fuel industry’s profits’

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the system preceding race and gender integrated education and DEI was not even facially "meritocratic" - elite higher ed served as finishing schools for rich failsons, half of admissions criteria were invented to keep out Jews. the naked cronyism is the America they wanted to return to "greatness"

Republicans Against Trumpism@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social

Meet Trump’s new Secretary of Education nominee Linda McMahon

I am working out an entire dissertation in my head on what is wrong with the college experience for Gen Z - it ranges from too many dining outlets encouraging isolation to Rate My Professor reviews that focus on whether you "have to do the reading" discouraging intellectual curiosity.

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