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Amy Jussel, @ShapingYouth

@shapingyouth.bsky.social
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Founder: ShapingYouth.org Passionista, media literacy educator, youth advocate, former ad agency pro, author of new Digital Dogs kidlit series using storytelling as applied science for media literacy and critical thinking: DigitalDogsBook.com

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Laura Veldkamp @laura-veldkamp.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
When I feel powerless amidst all the crazy, it's helpful to me to just do something. My something was taking the time to talk to NPR about why we should not cut federal data collection. I realize it won't change many minds. But it was something: www.marketplace.org/episode/2025... #econsky #dataecon
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What if government data becomes untrustworthy?
It won’t be good for businesses that need to predict tomorrow’s economy. Plus, the warehousing sector, hard versus soft data and Utah’s booming culture of entrepreneurship.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/06/2025
Margaret Brennan totally exposes FDA Commissioner Makary for making it up as he goes and making conflicting recommendations in order to cast doubt on covid vaccines. He's so terrible during this interview that Brennan is left shaking her head as she wraps it up.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 03/06/2025
Proposed Federal Budget Could Lead to Over 51,000 Preventable Deaths, Researchers Warn in Letter to Senate Leaders [PS: that's 51k every year] ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Proposed Federal Budget Could Lead to Over 51,000 Preventable Deaths, Researchers Warn in Letter to Senate Leaders
In a letter to ranking Senate leaders, public health and policy researchers at Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania warn that provisions in the
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 04/06/2025
“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ
A chart showing cancelled NIH grants
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Amy Jussel, @ShapingYouth @shapingyouth.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
He couldn’t spell “emoluments” if he tried…Disturbing that the #NatSec implications are off the media radar w/the grift being a wrist slap to boot. Taught HS this week and OH youth ask “how can he keep doing this stuff when it’s against the law? I get busted for not having a hallpass!” Um… Anyone?
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Amy Jussel, @ShapingYouth @shapingyouth.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
💯 AND…today in teaching HS English as a substitute the curriculum calls for .edu and .gov to be deemed “reliable sources” for research use vs using the CRAAP detection critical thinking/ sources rubric. Um…Invalid in this propaganda/whitewashing/data wiping admin, folks! 🆘 #medialiteracy
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Amy Jussel, @ShapingYouth @shapingyouth.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Random thought for the day after looking at my newsfeed sigh... (from tech bro titans to our kakistocracy clown cars at every single level of governance) 😢
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 18/04/2025
the united states—the most powerfulcountry in the world—has now become the most dysfunctional, kleptocratic, and unfree political system of the advanced industrial democracies. by far. www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-a...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 02/04/2025
Trump’s legacy is one of broken promises—bankruptcies in business, betrayals in politics. Now, he’s wrecking trust in America’s alliances, economy, and government. Once trust is gone, it takes generations to rebuild. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
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The Trump Doctrine: Breaking Trust at Home and Abroad
How Betrayal and Chaos Are Redefining America’s Role in the World
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Amy Jussel, @ShapingYouth @shapingyouth.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
How would you answer youth who can’t yet vote and feel their future is fodder for a greedy gerontocracy destroying their country, democracy, and their ability to travel abroad without shame? The stain of betrayal, belligerence, and misguided bravado has trashed our reputation worldwide forevermore.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."
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Amy Jussel, @ShapingYouth @shapingyouth.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
#MoreLikeThisPlease I’m so ashamed by the sophomoric behavior and infantile tantrums of those occupying our nation’s Oval Office as they side with aggressors and denigrate our democracy with their reality tv show antics as self serving shills for oligarchs and autocrats. Citizens Arise!
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com
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Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...
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Brian J. Karem @briankarem.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 26/02/2025
Q: how to 6x DOGE savings ($2.5b)? A: Cut subsidies to Tesla ($15b)
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/02/2025
The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.
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Amy Jussel, @ShapingYouth @shapingyouth.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
“We the people” (especially youth) are asking what we can do as individuals to halt the massive grift and dismantling of our nation, given we are battling grenades with butter knives in this fight for freedom. Pls. share productive action steps and recommendations?! Anyone?
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 22/02/2025
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 23/02/2025
Is Donald Trump going to respond to Musk’s email and report on what he did last week? To help, I’ve gone ahead and done it for him. A thread:
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Amy Jussel, @ShapingYouth @shapingyouth.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
A bit of #edu #medialiteracy sunlight in an otherwise dismal cloudy trajectory of our nation's lawless autocratic grifting rogue 'leadership' www.teenvogue.com/story/media-... #misinformation
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How Students Are Learning Not to Believe Everything They See on TikTok
“I feel like I should look up if it’s true or not before I start spreading it.”
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Tris @trisresists.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I repeat…
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.
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Amy Jussel, @ShapingYouth @shapingyouth.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Insane. Way past time to mobilize as a nation. #edu
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This is so smart. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , thoughts ? And if you see this. A reminder. This is not Twitter. You can engage here and have thoughtful discussions ! We all look forward to reading your thoughts
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
every day I think about the comms strategy of the korean opposition party in the wake of the coup and I get so burningly resentful that other countries have legislators who are awake
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Amy Jussel, @ShapingYouth @shapingyouth.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Noticing patterns in my keyboard strikes and relating it to patterns in everyday life, from politics to media and education. How can we best shift our lens and our actions to make change? As a nation, and as a planet we keep seeing the same mistakes being made, and then act surprised. Thoughts?
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Amy Jussel, @ShapingYouth @shapingyouth.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Ok, press people...if you try to water THIS absurdist nonsense down, 'we the people' will know exactly how far the USA has fallen. Policy demands by autocrats for media to change content is an unconstitutional blight on a free democracy. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...
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White House bars AP reporter from Oval Office because of AP style policy on ‘Gulf of America’
The highly unusual ban, which Trump administration officials had threatened earlier Tuesday unless the AP changed the style on the Gulf, could have constitutional free-speech implications
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Amy Jussel, @ShapingYouth @shapingyouth.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
At the risk of "fox guarding the henhouse" jokes about ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools) given the corporations involved, this is a huge positive on the funding front, and as Casey Newton mentions it's "long overdue!" www.platformer.news/roost-open-s... www.theverge.com/news/609367/... #AI
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Roblox, Discord, OpenAI, and Google found new child safety group
ROOST says AI has increased the need to improve online safety for children.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections. Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.
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Amy Jussel, @ShapingYouth @shapingyouth.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
In media literacy, we talk a lot about framing, narrative, critical thinking, and what’s left out of the message, as well as the background/sources, credibility and money trails … This is a fabulously candid deconstruction from the lens of a veteran w/direct experience, deconstructing fluff-n-stuff
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Amy Jussel, @ShapingYouth @shapingyouth.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This whole thread, particularly the comments about the lens on high achieving youth being treated as seasoned/savvy adults and misguided credibility doled out sans developmental impulse control etc. is not only valid but chilling. My dad was a USN counter-terrorist specialist and this is spot on.👇
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Amy Jussel, @ShapingYouth @shapingyouth.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Now more than ever, this is essential knowledge for ALL. And...The Sift has a ton of useful tools way beyond schools w/fun stuff like this simple 4 question #AI quiz to test yourself: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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The Sift®/Get Smart About News special issue: AI quiz
How sharp are your AI skills? See if you can answer these questions correctly. After you click "submit" at the bottom of the quiz, click "view score" to see the answers.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
It is astonishing that mainstream media is covering this like it is a shruggie vibe 🤷‍♂️
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stuartpstevens.bsky.social @stuartpstevens.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
This amounts to the most significant data leak in cyber history. Private individuals in the data business now have access to your Social Security information. This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
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Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 01/02/2025
I don’t love lawsuits at all, but in this case the admin needs buried in them
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Amy Jussel, @ShapingYouth @shapingyouth.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Chilling in its simplicity, this resonates along w/Bernie’s statement, “this is not time for wallowing in despair or hiding under the covers…” Robber barons and grifters are prancing amok w/unelected billionaires taking control of our data privacy, social security and Medicare systems…Arise. 👇
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I enjoyed talking with @matthewfacciani.bsky.social on his podcast about how we can recognize and defeat tactics of disinformation. You can listen here.
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Amy Jussel, @ShapingYouth @shapingyouth.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Ah, timely. Thank you @Vox www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/want... Signed up here: www.vox.com/pages/logoff... Beats mumbling to myself over how media is covering the dismemberment of law and order in our democracy writ large. 🇺🇸 #FactsMatter #WordsMatter #journo #mentalhealth
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Want a little less Donald Trump in your brain? Vox has a new newsletter that dials down the franticness
"A daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life."
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Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Here's how to cover things that are illegal: (i) this is illegal (ii) they say it's legal (iii) It's not Truth sandwich, extra mustard
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025
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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
As Trump takes office again, I’m proud to be joining @propublica.org. Read @sengelberg.bsky.social’s msg about our collective mission: “Our job is to give readers an independent, verifiable account of what’s happening, even if the president is calling us enemies of the people or bloodsuckers.”
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What We’ll Be Covering in a Second Trump Administration
We’ll be devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing what are expected to be dramatic changes in the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans.
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” - Dr. Martin Luther King
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Amy Jussel, @ShapingYouth @shapingyouth.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Heart-wrenching loss. Women and ALL #youth today have been tossed into the churn of political backwash impacting our bodies, #healthcare and rights as humans. On this #MLKDayOfService, let's double down on commitments to Planned Parenthood, choosing action over giveupitis in her honor. ⛑️ #RoevWade
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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
#MLKDayOfService
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Tim Jones @themisterlibrary.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
With #TikTok's future in the air, the recent exodus from X & Meta, social media refugees exploring BlueSky & RedNote, the suppression of fact checkers, and the rise of media conflicts of interest, #medialiteracy has never been more important. Give these accounts a follow! go.bsky.app/SBxQWE7
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