"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz

The decision to use an offensive, heavily armed paramilitary unit for street-level immigration sweeps in American cities is a first, and a bellwether of the Trump Administration’s project to militarize domestic law enforcement operations. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/border...

African American sculptor Melvin Edwards, known for his Minimalist works that incorporate industrial materials to confront and interrogate racial violence in the U.S., passed in Baltimore at 88 on March 29th. His “Lynch Fragments” are so powerful. May he rest in peace. #BlackSky #ArtSky

ACADEMICS SHOULD TALK BLUNTLY ABOUT MONEY (and should not write for free)

this is why @hypervisible.blacksky.app calls these things "technologies of isolation"

Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the #NoKings Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.

Seeing Rhiannon Giddens live tonight and it also happens to be a perfect day to revisit this #nokings #nofascists

Oooooh so excited to listen to this episode!

Remember in 2024 when there were no trans women at the Olympics to bash so they just made one up? Really indicative of the whole transphobic backlash: elite panic about a problem that couldn't be more imaginary

Incredible, sharp, critical reflection on Habermas’ legacy from Nancy Fraser. This is the postmortem I’ve been hoping would come and also sums up so much of my relationship to his work

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

Dreams DO come true: my photo of the ICE teens spread so far divorced of context or credit that Snopes dot com had to write a whole story confirming that I didn't make it with AI. 🥲

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

mainstream media outlets should probably be vocally asking who the actual President is

📣 🎉Today is the official release day of my book, even tho many of you have it in hand already. 🙏 to all who purchased. Availability: Amazon has the paper w/ discount, Bookshop/OUP on back order. Should be an e-version that is missing. I will check w/ my press. More: www.annaolaw.com/book-migrati...

Arghhhhhh

This is fantastic reporting I’m still thinking about a week after reading it

New York Man likes New York rappers. Should we be alarmed?

Something I didn’t anticipate about living under full Federal fascism is how quickly I would forget things. Things that happened a week ago are quickly memory-holed because we have to endure a daily firehose of bullshit. Yesterday, I decided to watch/listen to Bruce’s Streets of Minneapolis again.

This is hilarious. I’m sure some has already said that.

So I fell down a rabbit hole of Drew’s reporting on this and oh boy does someone have a whole dissertation here on AI, technofascism, blackfishing, and porn. Really probably several dissertations about several combinations of those.

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

Afroman's lawsuit is actually important imho -- police agencies post pictures and video of people they arrest all the time (without convictions). But somehow police feels are more important? (Law Enforcement Baronial Class) www.wcpo.com/news/local-n...

NEW: Father of service member killed in Iran war said he never told Pete Hegseth to 'finish' the job

lots of jarring statistics and heartbreaking stories I could share from this story, but this particular anecdote made me tear up when @jonathanwosen.bsky.social first shared this story with me For more details from our survey of ~1000 nih-funded researchers, read the report below

How’d they do it? Have I got a book for you: cup.columbia.edu/book/making-...

For my newsletter, I wrote about all the ways @katmabu.bsky.social's campaign challenged the conventional thinking about modern campaigning: www.burnsnotice.com/kat-abughaza...

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

Relevant to the moment. The farmworker movement is not Cesar Chavez. It was (and is) a whole community of people doing the work.

on the jim crow travesty that is the SAVE act (gift link)

Terrible.

Book launch day! “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self Surveillance” is out. Bluesky friends, I would be so grateful if you would buy a copy. And if you can’t afford it, could you at least share this announcement. Thank you. #BookSky politics-prose.com/search?q=You...

The political education mayor

You’d never know from reading the @nytimes.com that a blockade is an act of war. That this is a war of aggression. That suddenly depriving millions of people of safe drinking water is a war crime. That this unprecedented humanitarian disaster was deliberately engineered by Donald Trump for leverage.

Sitting in my office eating yogurt with a knife because I can’t find a spoon and none of my colleagues can find a spoon and there are no spoons feels a bit like the whole moment right now

Cannot wait to read this.

The Washington Post won a Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2022 for its coverage of Jan. 6. Their entry's capstone was a mammoth feature titled "The Attack," featuring reporting by 26 journalists. By my count, 8 of them are still at the paper. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Weird how every journalist writing ‘balanced’ feature stories on this issue turns out to be a deranged conspiracist and ideologue the second you hear them speak off the cuff

Also, it is just incredible how much sociopathy and bigotry the tech industry tolerates in its founders and CEOs. If Karp was the CEO of GM or P&G he'd have been canned by the board a long time ago.

fresh off the press from yours truly: oecs.mit.edu/pub/b61joemo... I offer an overview of algorithmic bias. I trace its historical roots, examine canonical scholarship and notable real-world incidents, and explore how algorithmic bias emerged as a field of study 1/

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

ugh well

Sinners is a great film. That's all.

🧵 Some personal news: My new book, ON COURAGE – with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist @juliaangwin.com – is available for pre-order NOW (out June 30). It’s a deeply reported manual with sixteen lessons for how each of us can defy authoritarianism. Pre-order: www.harpercollins.com/products/on-...

Read @sjjphd.bsky.social's brilliant book A Second Sight this weekend. With Sinners leading the Oscars with historic noms, she offers a crucial framework & context: Black mediamakers as visionaries at the vanguard of telling the true American story, pushing the nation toward its purported values.

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism Every day, every week, more textbook stuff:

I don’t think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever bsky.app/profile/cram...