@profsanchez
Sociologist, Public Voices Fellow with the Op-Ed Project, and dog enthusiast. Views are my own and do not represent my institution. Re-posts do not automatically imply endorsements. Research Interests: Disability, Identity, Belonging, and Politics
Trump is kicking off his second term with a flurry of executive actions. Here's a look at the three main types — orders, proclamations and memorandum — and how they typically work.
ADL is a deeply compromised organization
President Biden delivered a 17-minute farewell address to the U.S. on Wednesday.
Here is a full transcript of his speech.
As of today, the incoming Trump Administration has hired over 1,000 people for The United States Government. They are outstanding in every way, and you will see the fruits of their labor over the coming years. We will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and it will happen very quickly! In order to save time, money, and effort, it would be helpful if you would not send, or recommend to us, people who worked with, or are endorsed by, Americans for No Prosperity (headed by Charles Koch), “Dumb as a Rock” John Bolton, “Birdbrain” Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, disloyal Warmongers Dick Cheney, and his Psycho daughter, Liz, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, General(?) Mark Milley, James Mattis, Mark Yesper, or any of the other people suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, more commonly known as TDS. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Trump thanks "Birdbrain" Nikki Haley for her endorsement
BREAKING: President Joe Biden’s administration is considering ways to keep TikTok available in the U.S. if a ban that’s scheduled to go into effect on Sunday proceeds, according to three people familiar with the discussions. (NBC News)
I knew Trump was racist, but I didn’t care until I learned he was racist against people like me.
Zuckerberg is deeply committed to free speech
About Mark Zuckerberg’s ludicrous claims: “Facts are not censorship. Fact-checkers never censored anything. And Meta always held the cards. It's time to quit invoking inflammatory and false language in describing the role of journalists and fact-checking."
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Lots of thoughts. Lots of considerations. The expectation that we balance these realities and remain productive at work is bizarre.
They’ve been re-socialized to eschew every cultural ideal associated with being an American, and instead are at this point anti-American.
It’s like knowing that domestic terrorists are congregating and allowing them to do so. To plot the overthrow of our nation unashamedly in our faces.
And now I wonder if analog technologies can replace it. I don’t think so - losing touch with family alone would be a big deal.
Also is it dangerous to leave the nut jobs congregating while we are blissfully unaware? They’re not saveable - that much is clear.They’ve lost touch with reality,
Which is perhaps what these billionaires want. The treasonous militias will be able to communicate via social media, without moderation, domestic terrorists, everyone except the intellectuals and other rational Americans who will have signed off on principle.
Social media was a place of such hope
It feels bizarre, as a millennial, to have seen the rise and fall of social media in my lifetime. To contemplate abandoning it altogether when it consumed so much time and energy. It would be easy if I thought we could maintain communities and social action without it.
The handwringing lectures about how the left has no choice but to stay on Twitter are even more ridiculous when you remember that the far right used a series of alternative media — from direct mail to talk radio to Fox News to Breitbart to Gab, Parler and Truth Social — as their path to victory.
We asked journalists around the world who have endured attacks on press freedom what advice they would give their American colleagues. We have collected their wise and remarkable responses in a special issue of @niemanreports.org. “Dear America,” they wrote.
The new red scare is coming. The election will not stop it. Only solidarity and self-organization can keep us safe. They will call us terrorists, a mafia, foreign agents. Do not think that your collective is safe when others are under attack. No need to fear. Keep building.
Israel has killed three World Central Kitchen aid workers and at least two others in an air attack on Gaza's Khan Younis, in the third deadly attack on the aid group this year.
So to summarize, according to #maga, any Black, gay or trans person who achieves any position, no matter how degreed or credentialed they are is an unqualified #dei hire. And any white person, however unqualified or even sketchy is inherently qualified when they get a job. Do I have that right?
Our only hope is that the NYT editors are obsessed with the Department of Defense just one thousandth as much as they were obsessed with Harvard and oh no we are screwed
Great point from @sulliview.bsky.social: Cancellations of WaPo subscriptions and slide in MoJo ratings show that news consumers have real power to force media institutions not to buckle to Trump.
On the pod, she's brilliant on the future of the media in Trump era:
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With a fully remote team of just 20 employees, Bluesky has surpassed 20 million users in its first year since opening to the public and is stealing thunder from rivals hundreds of times its size.
At a time when conventional wisdom among bosses is that workers must be in-person to be productive.
When businesses talk about ending government “overreach” they’re usually talking about screwing their customers over
Since Nigel Farage has just sided with Russia again, and said “the idea Ukraine is going to win, frankly, is for the birds,” it’s time to re-ask those five questions he’s never asked about his support for Vladimir Putin 1/6
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When we think about it Musk and extremists more generally have thrived by corrupting the brains of children - particularly young boys. Implementation is important, but the idea behind it makes complete sense. We have to protect society from aberrant socialization.
Trump Tells Republicans to ‘Kill’ Reporter Shield Bill Passed Unanimously by House (gift link)
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