It wasn’t supposed to be a big deal, just a ho-hum announcement of something not happening. Instead the greatest salesperson of the era, whose customer obsession had made #Amazon into a #colossus…, got the greatest customer #rejection of a lifetime.
A ¼M #WashingtonPost readers canceled their subscriptions….That is ~10% of the total circulation. The speed & decisive force of the cancellations was a bit of a shock but also appropriate, said Danny Caine, author of “How to Resist Amazon & Why.”
Mass #Walkout as #GlobalPariah #Netanyahu Addresses #UNGeneralAssembly
"The #publicrebuke of #Israeli PM, said one observer, "demonstrates the #international community's #rejection of #genocide." A large number of #diplomats & oth officials walked out of the #UNGA in New York City on Fri as Israeli "genocidalPM" Netanyahu prepared to defend his nation's #slaughter of more than 41,000 people in the #Gaza Strip during the past year and over 700 in #Lebanon this week" #IDF
https://www.commondreams.org/news/netanyahu-united-nations-speech
I’m just one rejection away from sending my next resume via interpretive dance. Maybe it’ll catch their attention?
And though #Vance’s journey from rural #poverty to #SiliconValley to the halls of #Congress ought to make him an adept code-switcher—a scene in the movie version of his memoir #HillbillyElegy finds him studying the right way to say the word syrup—it seems as if he’s lost the ability to #hear how he #sounds to people #outside it all. How can you put yourself in an #audience’s shoes when your #politics is rooted in a radical #rejection of #empathy itself?
Em see rup.
https://slate.com/culture/2024/08/jd-vance-trump-walz-harris-donut-shop-couch-joke-humor.html
"#Officials Voted Down a Controversial #Georgia #Election #Rule, Saying It Violated the #Law. Then a Similar Version #Passed.
The #rule, pushed by prominent #electiondeniers, changed only slightly between its #rejection in May and #approval in August, and the changes made it even less #lawful, #experts say."
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Georgia #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Racism #WhiteSupremacy #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-election-rule-violates-state-law-experts-say
#Florida is quietly #denying #transgender #residents #updated #birthcertificates
The #rejection comes without #publicnotice or new #law — even when all other government-issued #identification reflects their current #genderidentity.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://19thnews.org/2024/07/florida-transgender-updated-birth-certificates/
Another field where innovation is urgently need is antibody mediated #rejection. Here’s important news on Anti-Cd38 agent Felzartamab
Felzartamab and Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Kidney Transplants — Hope at Last? | New England Journal of Medicine
A new #study from a #journal with #poor #reputation made the rounds claiming that #transgender #surgeries increase #suicide.
#Factcheck shows #assertion is #egregiously #false. #Cureus is a #journal known for spreading #pseudoscience and #disinformation, its motto is “#peerreview, not #peer #rejection”
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/fact-check-no-a-new-study-doesnt