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rabble | 5 months ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 American politics is weird and broken. We have a system that, by design, is a duopoly. If a new p...
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Joel Abrams | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The Republican Party also fought slavery! But, in the 1960s and 1970s there was a realignment in American politics where the GOP pursued white votes by opposing desegregation and civil rights legislation. 

This does not in any way mean that all Republicans are racists, or any particular Republican is racist. But most racists are Republicans
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Joel Abrams | 5 months ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 Trump’s prosecution is unprecedented in the U.S., not unprecedented elsewhere #News #Newstr

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Joel Abrams | 5 months ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 One of the smartest thinkers on #socialmedia and its evolution looks at #generativeAI generating “advice” in Facebook groups

https://njump.me/note1wuarpwnl9hkusag2f6sw8wccpyd3vv5s809rxmk4u2q9teneh5ysmfqxm8
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Joel Abrams | 5 months ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 This is such a cool story:

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Joel Abrams | 6 months ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
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Joel Abrams | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I know, I could have looked it up, but I’m an experiential learner when it comes to social platforms
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Joel Abrams | 6 months ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 I scored 88% on The #Boston News Quiz! wbur.org/quiz
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Joel Abrams | 6 months ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 Excited to be guest quizmaster this week for The Conversation’s news quiz https://theconversation.com/the-conversation-u-s-weekly-news-quiz-189437
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Joel Abrams | 6 months ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 👋 So my first question: is it pronounced noss or nose?
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c4afb692 | 6 months ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 Billions of cicadas are about to emerge from underground in a rare double-brood convergence  #Cli...
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Joel Abrams | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 If I comment here on NOSTR, does it go out into the Fediversr?