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Joined our president, VP and others making the Xodus to Threads, where I'm more active now: threads.net/@alan.stamm
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RT @HillaryClinton: Eighty years ago today, thousands of brave Americans fought to protect democracy on the shores of Normandy.
This Nove…
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16 Nov 2023
One of the good things about paying freelancers is you're not responsible for their politics! Holding freelancers to staffer standards for public speech is a great way to make your publication worse hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-dont-…
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20 Nov 2023
The @nytimes "that landed on our driveway in a plastic bag once a week [felt], in some ways, like a more robust connection to the outside world than a 24-hour cable network or the entire universe of news on an iPad. ... Perhaps solid still means something after analog's twilight"
20 Nov 2023
From @anthonyted, an avid digital media subscriber, a reminder what we’ve lost by “washing our hands” of newspaper home deliveries. open.substack.com/pub/unsort…
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16 Nov 2023
"Every time an employer tries to attach conditions to freelance work that extend beyond the quality of the work itself, they are trying to snatch something that they have not paid for. They are trying to shoplift your life." From @hamiltonnolan hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-dont-…
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Alan Stamm (alanstamm on Bluesky) retweeted
16 Nov 2023
Companies that want to impose conditions on what workers say or do should make those workers employees. Otherwise they should fuck off.
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19 Nov 2023
Kerning (letter spacing) matters.
h/t @ericseals, who posts this on Facebook and comments: "It's important to select the right kind of font and the right amount of spacing between letters when selling flickering Christmas lights."
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17 Nov 2023
They need to create a Pulitzer category for headlines just for whoever wrote this.
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Quote of the day:
"There is no law that says you have to serve turkey [next Thursday]. It's usually dry and always boring. There are plenty of other options: duck, lamb, goose and roasts, to name a few." -@JRubinBlogger in her @washingtonpost column today
[We'll steam lobsters]
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17 Nov 2023
"What will it take to make a difference -- before it's too late? ... Will we be able to drink our morning coffee on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, the day after the national elections, and say that we did everything we could?"
-- @StevenBeschloss at @substack america.substack.com/p/what-…
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17 Nov 2023
"If there is a path forward toward peace — whether in two states or one state — it will begin with all of us moving beyond stereotypes. Israelis are not the same as Netanyahu, and Palestinians are not the same as Hamas." -- @NickKristof
16 Nov 2023
In Opinion
"One myth about the conflict in the Middle East is that there is right on one side and wrong on the other," writes Nicholas Kristof. "Life isn’t that neat." nyti.ms/47id8qA
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Alan Stamm (alanstamm on Bluesky) retweeted
16 Nov 2023
I can confirm AIPAC officials visited Metro Detroit last week to discuss potential candidates to replace Rep. Rashida Tlaib. The PAC is expected to spend at least $100 million in Democratic primaries to knock out the seven “Squad” members, Slate reports. slate.com/news-and-politics/…
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"I'm all for surgical strikes against Hamas & I'd be delighted if Israel managed to end extremism in Gaza. ... I'm afraid that the ferocity & lack of precision in Israel's attack has fulfilled Hamas' goal of escalating the Palestinian issue....In that sense, Hamas may be winning"
16 Nov 2023
Three myths of the Middle East, by @NickKristof.
Read: nyti.ms/3SGRqYS
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16 Nov 2023
"Whichever side you are more inclined toward, remember that the other includes desperate human beings merely hoping that their children can live freely and thrive in their own nation. ... If you weep only for Israeli children or only for Palestinian children, you have a problem."
16 Nov 2023
In my new column, I outline what I see as three myths inflaming the debate about the Middle east. nytimes.com/2023/11/15/opini… I welcome your thoughts.
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Alan Stamm (alanstamm on Bluesky) retweeted
16 Nov 2023
wait until tiktok finds out about the Unabomber Manifesto
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16 Nov 2023
"This is a clash of right versus right. That does not excuse Hamas' massacre and savagery or Israel's leveling of entire neighborhoods in Gaza, but underlying the conflict are certain legitimate aspirations that deserve to be fulfilled."
16 Nov 2023
If you're struggling to understand the Middle East conflict, here's my column on three myths that inflame the conflict: nyti.ms/3ui6SR9 Hope it helps.
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Roy: One thing. I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing. One. That I can go campaign on and say we did. Anybody sitting in the complex, if you want to come down to the floor and come explain to me, one meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done
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Groaner of the day:
"Both countries said that whatever happened, both Biden and Xi would not put out a joint statement after the meeting. So it's just going to be a case of 'He said, Xi said.'" — @StephenAtHome
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"Even hyperlocal issues like parking & water mains & whether restaurants should go here or there will become death struggles rather than opportunities for compromise & consensus problem-solving.All will be dropped into the great centrifuge, whipping us to opposite sides to yell."
16 Nov 2023
Local politics are polarized and mean, too, says @nnall freep.com/story/opinion/cont…
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15 Nov 2023
🔹"I never imagined antisemitism would get this bad." -- @deborahlipstadt, historian and U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism
🔸"The antisemitism in this sub is insane" -- Reddit comment this week under a link I posted to a @nytimes article on Rep. Rashida Tlaib
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