Looking at the renamed gulf conversation-- this every day, all day.

We need major media messaging plans across the board. Where is this happening?

I went back to the bad place just to stay on top of media outside of my networks. And I am struck by the fact that for years people have said humanists are not good at helping people understand what they do. But the ignorance around the national science infrastructure is also staggering.

Is there some kind of national media strategizing I am missing or has the Right captured the media so completely we can’t get messaging out there or escape media bubbles?

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

democracyforward.org Donate—they brought the suit forward to block his constitutional circumvention of the congressional power of the purse.

This is not a drill. If we can't stop something so blatantly unconstitutional, I don't know how we'll fight anything at all. FIGHT. Donate to the legal organizations that will fight this. Get your representatives to yell about this. NOW.

There are many places to give money to help people in LA and I will post some other links. Here is one place to start.

Banning collaborative works—a frequent call about TV and movies that would punish all the people who worked with someone—is a bad practice.

There is just one line I disagree with here—that his career has been marginally affected. The fact that adaptations—collaborations that involve hundreds of other people—is not the measure. A huge number of people will never buy his work or read his work again. For many of us—he’s done. Forever.

More than 100 years after its initial review that blamed Black men, the Dept. of Justice just released its report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”

Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...

So honored by this.

@nytimes.com @cnn.com @npr.org @democracynow.org @slate.bsky.social @nbcnews.com Anybody planning on covering this? This policy sure reads as if you cannot talk about being anything other than white or straight on social media or your content will be banned.

That “is diversity over” in Hollywood price is so ahistorical, filled with so many opinions about media production treated as fact that I wonder if anyone gave it even a cursory look for quality.

My Wicked take: 1) Ervio is fantastic; 2.) it would be great if people find the (more adult) novel; and 3.) I now appreciate that the musical does something very different and there is no need for a hierarchy.

I realized I had to stay on the horrible app for a little while longer to double check citations for my book, and when I logged back in the first three tweets I saw hoped children would not know that Wicked was a book, an antisemitic tweet about feminism, and a racist anti-DEI tweet. Sigh.

Weird how black women with Harvard degrees and twenty years of experience are called "DEI hires," but some random dude on Fox News is expertly qualified to run the Department of Whatever.

This.

It's up!!!! My Explainer video for BlueSky beginners. I cover how to find your Twitter followers, Starter Packs, Feeds, Lists, some handy-dandy tools, and BlueSky etiquette. Please watch and/or share with any newbies you know. I think it's helpful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_V2...

Finally got myself together to join here. Any tips on how to find community here would be very appreciated.