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6 Tactics From Domestic Abusers’ Litigation Playbook

Published by Jenni Sidey

This piece is co-authored by Lisa Aronson Fontes, Ph.D., and Jenny Wiggs, Ed.D. When they leave an abusive relationship, domestic violence survivors believe the hardest part is over. They expect family court will protect them and their children. It can be a shock to discover that the abuse dynamics have morphed but not ceased. Domineering tactics now unfold through pleadings, motions, custody evaluations, discovery, and courtroom proceedings. Across jurisdictions, survivors report similar litigation narratives that undermine their credibility, cast doubt on their parenting, diminish their finances, and distort the past. Recognizing these patterns can help survivors and those who work with them respond strategically instead of reactively. 1. Pathologizing the Survivor: “Crazy and Addicted” Abusers and their attorneys try to pathologize the survivor as mentally ill, substance-abusing, or both. Abusers often describe survivors as anxious, unstable, depressed, paranoid, dysregulated, irrational, and incapable of making sound decisions. Courts focus on the victim’s alleged shortcomings and away from true abuse. Abusers, their attorneys, and the mental health professionals they hire often apply serious psychiatric labels to victims. …

Tyrants have a playbook for avoiding blame. Trump follows it

Published by Sam Flores

In my decades as a cultural anthropologist studying authoritarianism in Russia and the United States, I’ve learned that one of power’s most useful tricks is making responsibility vanish. Autocrats convince people that the harms they create are someone else’s fault — or no one’s fault at all. I first thought about this sort of doublespeak in an ordinary situation. In the 2000s, as I completed my doctoral research in northern Russia, an older friend tried to teach me a lesson about dressing warmly. She stopped in the middle of the woods during a walk, looked with disapproval at my light jacket, and threw her hands up in mock confusion, surveying the snow-encrusted pines. She said, “I seem to have lost my way!” I stared, knowing she could find her way home easily. My friend continued, “I hope we don’t freeze to death!” (Having grown up during Joseph Stalin’s dictatorship in the 1940s and 1950s, when authorities sometimes took relatives away for criticizing the regime, she had learned to talk about human missteps as if they …

The Old Campaign Playbook Is Dead

Published by Daniella Wilson

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube How do you build a winning campaign for the era of AI? In the aftermath of the 2024 race, Democrats have been struggling to adapt to the new logic of the attention economy. On this episode of Galaxy Brain, Rob Flaherty, the deputy campaign manager for Kamala Harris’s campaign, joins Charlie Warzel to talk about what went wrong and how Democrats need to embrace a new theory of attention. They discuss AI’s collision course with electoral politics ahead of the midterms and how to identify candidates who can use the internet to their advantage. The following is a transcript of the episode: Rob Flaherty: Digital content is how people consume the brand of your campaign. And I think people in politics traditionally—establishment politics—miss that all the time. [Music] Charlie Warzel: I’m Charlie Warzel, and this is Galaxy Brain, a show where today, we’re going to talk about how to win elections in the attention economy. In the aftermath of the 2024 election, during their online victory lap, …

How this travel company’s AI rollout drove a 73% satisfaction boost: A 5-step playbook for your business

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Agentic AI is often more about talk than production services. Smart professionals focus on use cases and supporting tech. They test processes, refine the approach, and seek new opportunities. Conversations with digital and business leaders about agentic AI often revolve around a similar sentiment: we’ve explored agents, but there’s nothing in production yet. But while everyone talks about AI experimentation, no business can afford to run endless pilots without creating business value. And with experts suggesting professionals who fail to exploit AI risk being left behind, there’s an imperative to deploy successful agents sooner rather than later. Also: How to build better AI agents for your business – without creating trust issues At online travel specialist Booking.com, Huy Dao, director of data and machine learning platform, is charged with delivering value from AI, including agentic services. He has produced results by taking a structured approach to service rollout, creating targeted solutions to the challenges customers face today and tomorrow. Dao referred to this …

A Must-See Lotty Rosenfeld Retrospective Is a Playbook for Fighting Fascism

Published by Jenni Sidey

In the 1980s, two women—a German Jew and a Palestinian—met in Chile, where they were both born to families of immigrants. Together, they crafted some of the most powerful antifascist art of the era, collaborating on installations and documenting one another’s performances. One of those women, the artist Lotty Rosenfeld, is the subject of a revelatory retrospective at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery, on view through March 15. The other, her close friend, the writer Diamela Eltit, is present throughout. Highlighting female friendship was a feminist intervention on the part of the show’s curators, Julia Bryan-Wilson and Natalia Brizuela, but it would also have been difficult to tell Rosenfeld’s story any other way. Working in Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship (1973–90), Rosenfeld forged a community through art at a time when simply gathering was illegal and many artists were forced into exile. Source link

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