Wow

Our new golden age of free speech, where opposition to immigration enforcement can trigger a federal investigation

Glad Rolling Stone published this, especially given the loud silence from the rest of the media on this grim watershed moment in US political history.

💫New research out now!💫 Hutson and colleagues demonstrate that men get hired as faculty in archaeology PhD programs more often than women, putting strain on women PhD mentors. And they have some suggestions about what to do about it, too. Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My dad passed this morning

shot/chaser in just 2 sentences

House Republicans are going on vacation and letting your health care subsidies lapse.

Centrists approve of Trump policies at much higher rates than the American public 😉

Shockingly, this bill would have failed were it not for the 3 Democrat defections.

[email protected] : Do you think you could beat JD Vance in a head-to-head race for president, as polling suggests? AOC: I would stomp him.

Meanwhile, while the far right is yelling that we're unqualified DEI, I've mentored many people from their demo who've become colleagues and friends. How many people like me have they mentored? Some of us are building a beloved community that includes everyone. They want to demand Gilead instead.

Dan Bongino is out at the FBI after less than a year

Making this claim from the NYT Opinion Pages Home for Bland White Guys is certainly a choice.

incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works

I did not end up wearing my colonial hat on the airplane.

I believe the Court is communicating ex parte with the White House about this case and has been for months.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr: Dems said we explicitly threatened to pull a licence if Kimmel wasn't fired. That never happened. Also Brendan Carr:

It doesn't look great for actually saving coverage...yet. However, the strategy of making sure everyone knows Republicans are to blame and praying that triggers a miracle has gotten us further than I expected!

Fox is the only network that paid a billion dollars bc of their false reporting, which led to a riot in the Capitol. Fox is the only network NOT investigated for damaging “the public interest”

BREAKING on MS NOW: Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

The Great Replacement conspiracy theory has become the central organizing principle of the new right. Without it they have almost nothing to say.

The Trump cabinet next week

It’s like we’re in the last round of a game of monopoly that has lasted hours, and one person owns everything and is obviously going to win and *they are pitting all the losers against each other so we don’t notice them taking everything for themselves*

The billionaires want you to be mad at women and minorities for not being wealthier but *that’s not it* Any “jobs taken from you” are nothing compared to the money stolen from you by billionaires. We would *all* be so much wealthier without their capturing the market

White men have been griping about the unfair advantages given to Black people since literally the day after slavery

I hear there's discourse about race and employment in the US

david duke probably wouldn't have shut down most of the CDC

And that silence relies on a shared racial understanding that doesn’t need to be spoken because it is ingrained: That white men are and have been the most qualified and the only true meritocratic hires, that their rightful place is on top. So there is no need to speak to the past.

The ONLY way this entire “exposè” works is to be absolutely silent and unquestioning about why white men disproportionately held these positio s for generations, why they STILL disproportionately hold these positions despite some minor changes in a single age-cohort. That silence is required.

That guy who wrote that thing that got pubbed today really can't stop taking L's It's like Reuters and the Guardian are conspiring to tell him, "it's not that you're white - it's that you're mid"

It’s ultimately sad because the collapse of his faith in meritocracy for himself could have led to meaningful connections and collaborations with those who’ve known it’s a lie for much longer. He could look for connections and a different future for us all. But prefered to sulk in his own illusions.

But it never reaches out to that wider history or social context. And so it can never take its own concerns seriously. There is no future proposal. Just odd, decontextualized and weirdly presented stories and data to affirm his right to be sad. And to fuel the resentment being anti-DEI measures

That obvious question has to be avoided. So data is quite selectively presented and no wider context is given. We’re just dropped into people’s lives and stories as if they were starting fresh in an ideal world as pure individuals. The whole piece at best shows there was never meritocracy for anyone

But he never asks why. And he never even comes close to offering a suggestion of what ought to have happened. What should Harvard had done in 2014 when 63% of the tenured and 43% of the tenure-track positions were filled by white men?

So what is presented as this massive loss for white men is actually a university using growth to try to balance out previous injustices. That sounds…reasonable? And that’s the other interesting thing: he cites data that shows even a decade ago, white men were disproportionately favored / represented

Look at this claim from the intro: “White men fell from 39 percent of tenure-track positions in the humanities at Harvard in 2014 to 18 percent in 2023.” Things look very different if you go by numbers: they went from 11 tenure-track positions filled by white men in 2014 to 10 in 2024. A loss of 1.

The best way to travel via plane with a colonial hat (gift) is to wear it?

TRUMP take jobs.

These aren’t leftists, they are dirty tricksters trying to divide and conquer the left with hate. I know Nate Silver and the MattYs of the world will fall for it. Don’t be like them.

They are trying to sell racism and now misogyny to the left by packaging it as class/economic warfare.

White men—30% of US population!!—are CEOs at 72% of Fortune 500 companies, direct 83% of the movies made in the US, serve as 70% of US Senators, & on & on. Their representation in key industries is at least double what their share of the pop predicts but it’s still not enough for them!

Trump take job.

PHILLIP: “Trump’s policy is we only let white people in from Africa— He knows it’s ok to say now in the Republican Party.” MOYNIHAN: “This isn’t a race issue.”🤡 PHILLIP: “I didn’t make it one. HE did.”🎯 @bomani-jones.bsky.social : “He’s forgotten the basic level of pretending”

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