📌 On why media literacy must go beyond "is this a legitimate outlet, are any of these 'facts' true?" and into why and how specific things are thrust before the public eye. Short 🧵 Bonus: the many people in the replies demonstrating why this kind of literacy is desperately, desperately needed. 👇🏽

“Protecting migrants also means confronting whorephobia, racism, and criminalization... Defending the rights of migrant sex workers is essential to a broader movement for immigrant justice.” - Kate Zen & @chanellegallant.bsky.social truthout.org/articles/sex...

Keep reminding folks of this.

I know it seems obvious to a lot of people that an academic department without many majors must be struggling so it makes sense to cut them. But that's just not how it works. The people in that dept are the only people who can teach the classes they teach - a dept is struggling if no one takes those

*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*

Because Black people know that there is no such thing as “identification” or “identifying yourself”. They aren’t saying Padilla didn’t identify himself as a U.S. Senator. They are saying that there is only one acceptable identity — credential — being white and, in these times, being pro-Trump.

This is why so many of Trump’s public interpreters are young white women. They bring this to his toolkit. Did anyone else read Jeff’s piece on this re: Noem? It is in the pocket. religiondispatches.org/dont-take-th...

As you see officers brutalizing pregnant citizens and detaining high school volleyball players and shooting at international journalists — remember these 58 Democrats who voted with Republicans for the Laken Riley Act, enabling Trump's ICE and empowering it to detain people without any due process

*looks directly at camera*

Appalled, disturbed, furious, but unsurprised (given her record) to see that my rep. Brittany Petterson @pettersen.house.gov joined more than a third (!!!!) of House Democrats & the GOP in voting to "express gratitude" for ICE & its violent terror campaign against immigrants & the antiwar movement.

"Would the situation somehow be less violent were ICE left to snatch and disappear people without impediment?" interc.pt/4kT2vku

The Los Angeles Protests Are an Act of Self-Defense newrepublic.com/article/1963... via @newrepublic.com

The level of surveillance and policing demanded by transphobia will always be more disruptive to your life than the rights and demands of trans people ourselves

One of the more frustrating things about the way many think about racism is that unless someone uses slurs, mainstream outlets and some academics give the benefit of the doubt. You can resegregate schools, lie and claim that it’s about “markets” or “choice,” and get invites in polite society.

When I wrote that these folks were segregationists, the response from some quarters was that I was exaggerating or missing the bigger picture. But they are literally segregationists and increasingly open about that fact.

Reuters: Food rations that could feed 3.5 million people for a month are rotting in warehouses around the world because of U.S. aid cuts and risk becoming unusable, according to five people familiar with the situation.

New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths

Racial exclusion is a thing of the past, so we are going to return to it?!?

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

whew—can’t wait to discuss @josephmello.bsky.social’s insightful book on the pitfalls of the United States’ prevailing profit-driven approach to cannabis legalization. Join us at his AMR next weekend at the @lawandsociety.bsky.social annual mtg!

Can I sue the preschooler who got my preschooler into Paw Patrol

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Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”

“Staffers at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts said Thursday that they plan to form a union in response to several waves of layoffs and what they describe as a lack of transparency from leaders at the arts institution, which President Donald Trump took over in February.”

These fascists are quite literally pitching the Hunger Games for immigrants.

Just finished reading Samantha Simon’s excellent book, Before the Badge. It offers deep insights into the construction of police violence and provides insights into a socialization process to which few of us have access. Highly recommend ✨ Don’t miss her AMR at @lawandsociety.bsky.social!

Politicians across the country are looting from us to give even more funding to cops. They say we can’t afford to invest in more housing, health care, food, or infrastructure in our communities—but cops get raises and more tech and weapons to punish, harm, and kill us.

At some pint, many many people are going to have to ask themselves why they’re so obsessed with punishment, what is the goal, and has that preoccupation made them feel any better or safer.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

A federal judge Friday afternoon temporarily blocked the Trump administration from invalidating union contracts for hundreds of thousands of federal employees, the latest in a string of legal setbacks for the president this week.

No matter how you voted in last year's election, no one voted to destroy the Postal Service. But the new administration plans to break up the Postal Service and sell it off to private corps. Here's what you need to know + how you can help save the public Postal Service.

I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.

Has anyone ever said "My rights are a distraction?" It's always someone else's rights, right?

What to do when the US gov pulls your research funding? @phillevin.bsky.social on having work on the National Nature Assessment abruptly ended by the Trump administration and then forming their own group United by Nature to finish the assessment of nature in the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...

No one deserves detention. No one deserves deportation. No one deserves prison. No one deserves to be separated from their loved ones. No human is illegal. Free them all.

unparalleled epigraph game 😹

"American rightwing transphobia was only able to roar into life after the infusion of radical-feminist language, framing, support and vocabulary."

Anarcho-capitalism has finally arrived! Time to see how all those libertarian thought experiments about radical free markets actually work in practice.

Black Americans make up 13% of the population. But as federal government employees, Black employees are: 20% of the Dept. of Health & Human Services 24% of the Dept. of Veterans Affairs 26% of postal workers, 30% of the Dept. of Education That's the "swamp" Trump is draining.

i can't believe this is real but it is

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

What everyone seems to be letting the Trump propaganda machine get away with is that it DOES. NOT. MATTER if he was a nice guy or not. The point is he was legally allowed to be here, was grabbed by mistake and deported sans due process as part of a vast illegal rendition scheme. That’s what matters.

Hey you know what I don't support permanent exile to a foreign death camp for criminals either.

Oh my god you want me to find "evidence" before putting someone in jail? Every time?? Do you have any idea how long that would take

This is how every member of Congress should be acting right now. Bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back.

🚨Students are protesting today at Oregon State University after 13 International students had their visas revoked by the Dept. of Homeland Security. More info on visa revocations at Oregon universities here: www.opb.org/article/2025... 📹 shared w/ me by an OSU student

As a biologist, I'm appalled at pride the White House takes in willful ignorance. In yesterday's executive order about NPR and PBS, their first example of "the trash that passes for `news' at NPR and PBS" is the statement that "banana slugs are hermaphrodites." But this is unequivocal fact.

Just so we’re clear, everybody calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “terrorist” or a “gang member” are lying, and they know they’re lying, and they repeat it for purposes of confusing people who don’t follow this stuff closely into accepting what was done to him.