In our next Digital Defenders training, on May 27th at 8pm ET, we’re diving deep into meme culture: how it shapes politics, drives digital power, and how we can wield it to build feminist resistance, fight disinformation, and speak truth in the most viral format there is.

We had a blast tonight! Join us next month for Digital Defenders!

🚨 Surveillance is here — and it’s targeting us. Borders. Protests. Our phones. Our lives. We’re not backing down. We’re getting smarter. 🔥 Join us TOMORROW on Tuesday, April 29 @ 8PM ET for Digital Defenders — a crash course in fighting back: act.womensmarch.com/signup/DDApr...

New: House Democrats are threatening to kill all constitutional amendments for the rest of session unless the House votes to put school vouchers before voters in November. They appear to have the numbers to make good on that special session-inducing threat.

Remember: Republicans in Congress can put a stop to this at any time.

5.2 million people in the streets! How encouraging!!!

When I first came to my current job, I couldn’t fully understand why my favorite mentor read books in the back row of employee meetings. I get it now. That man is a legend.

Feeling personally victimized by your algorithm? We can fix that! Join us for our next Digital Defenders training tonight at 8pm ET. We’ll explore how platforms leverage algorithms to perpetuate disinformation, shape public opinion and show you how to outsmart them. Sign up here: bit.ly/3DW9I3m

Today we're standing with our partners at @genderlib.com as they kick off Trans Week of Visibility + Action (TWOVA). Join us for a national week of resistance, political education, and mass mobilization in defense of trans lives. Learn how you can take action here: www.trans-week.com

Coming up on Thursday evening. Please join us 😊

The game is rigged. Algorithms are being deployed to suppress our voices and consolidate power. Join us for a training with Dr. Heather Woods and Dr. Leslie Hahner, who will discuss how platforms shape power dynamics online and how we can outsmart them. Register here: bit.ly/3DW9I3m

Sometimes I feel like a competent person and then I have to randomly search “where does bronzer go” to do my makeup. And I’m humbled pretty quickly.

Spring is doing its thing 😊

Dr. Heather Woods and myself would love to have you join us for our next digital defenders event on March 27, 2025 at 8 pm. Come learn with a few hundred besties! act.womensmarch.com/signup/DDMar...

Education Department employees on probation were abruptly dismissed without cause across the department this morning. Staff have been warned that more layoffs are coming.

Amid Trump’s attempts to “flood the zone” with hate and disinformation to wear us down, we must cut through the chaos by grounding in community and organizing smarter. Join us for a special edition of Digital Defenders to learn how we can defend our digital communities. Register here: bit.ly/42GT5mv

Please come learn with us ❤️

Watching the news to see Project 2025 propelled one executive order at a time.

Disinformation played a huge role in our 2024 election results, and is a direct threat to our democratic system of government. Let’s talk about how to break through disinformation to build a broader movement for democracy. Sign up to join MomsRising’s first meeting of 2025. mobilize.us/s/8Whxim

We finished the first Feminist Cyber Force class tonight. Thank you to the @womensmarch.bsky.social for making it happen! And as always, thanks to Heather Suzanne Woods for her brilliance.

🧵 The Capitol Riot Map is an interactive visualization of the 1,600+ individuals connected to the events of January 6, 2021. In the coming days, the Capitol Riot Map will be completed updated, and include an new feature: Pardon Watch. Details on updates and how to support this project below 👇

I got my bulbs planted before the freeze and am ready to order wildflower seeds. If everything goes right, I should have a nice cutting garden this spring ❤️ And yes, small things are where I choose to focus my energies sometimes

Here's my TEDx Talk: "Reclaiming Opinions in the Age of Algorithms"! Let me know what you think or if you want to chat further. ☺️ #TeamRhetoric www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCFy...

Todays find for my spring class

My perfect day: Wake up and hang with fam Do some writing Brunch Nap Teaching Rain hell fire down on fascists Girl dinner Bed

Become part of the Women's March Feminist Cyberforce! We are doing mass trainings for the WM on digital defense in the coming months. These mass trainings will prepare us for the onslaught of disinformation that is ramping up--with little to no safeguards in place!

Here I go again. The rhetoric of Biden pardoning Biden open.substack.com/pub/oratoric...

Romania’s secret service has provided documents that prove Russian interference in the election through TikTok and Facebook. A special investigation is being considered and if the pro-Russian Călin Georgescu is found to have been directly involved, he faces up to 20 years in prison.

Someone in our household left a banana in a backpack for over a week and a half. After cleaning that thing thoroughly, now the whole world smells like bananas

Help us welcome @davidmcswane.bsky.social to Bluesky! He and reporter Ryan Gabrielson are behind this ProPublica classic about how a Christian health nonprofit saddled thousands with debt as it built a family empire — including a pot farm, a bank and an airline. It's worth your time ⤵️

Watching legacy media process the Biden pardon as “both sides” break democratic norms is…something

Please always read Caroline Kitchener 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Theo bros are spreading their toxic, explicitly misogynistic messages at the highest levels of government

Texas will continue to offer up more land to the incoming Trump administration to use for mass deportation facilities. www.texastribune.org/2024/11/26/t...

COMMrades - Jobs! We're hiring 2 faculty, both tenure lines, 1 in Interpersonal/Org Comm & 1 in Journalism. Reviews begin Dec 1. (Sorry for rapidity) DM or email w/Qs [email protected] Interpersonal/Org kean.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Kean/job/Uni... Journalism kean.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Kean/job/Uni...

Project 2025: When one Republican lies, it’s a joke, but when all Republicans lie, it’s a strategy.

Been thinking a lot lately about that episode of Parks and Rec where Leslie and Tom have to rebrand fluoride in the water as TDazzle in order to get the public to support it.

Texas Rep. Pat Curry, a freshman Republican from Waco, said the intent of House Bill 1339 is to make it harder for people, especially teenagers, to order mifepristone and misoprostol online to terminate their pregnancies. www.texastribune.org/2024/11/25/a...

As they seek for further restrict reproductive care, they will invoke "the health of the mother" but the reality is that people who cared about women's health would not allow these policies. www.propublica.org/article/pors...

More people are getting it.. 'If you don’t understand wrestling, you’ll never understand Trump.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you look at the most recent reports on disinformation from federal agencies, you see that AI generated content is the primary mechanism being used to create and circulate such messages. State sponsored disinformation preys on the weaknesses of the country

When in NOLA 😊

One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election. Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control

I’ve now told alot of people that I will finish these writing projects in front of me. Someone hold me accountable so I don’t make myself a fool too quickly 😂

Each conference I go to lately, I realize i am one of the old scholars at the bar. I don’t drink but I like to perform my old curmudgeon duties faithfully

NCA people! Please join us!

This section of Project 2025 features Vought going on a tirade about the accountability of the GAO and questioning the validity of high scores for ALL civil servants. He has little respect for the excellent people who dedicate their lives to public service.

If you’re going to be at NCA this week, please consider adding the following Public Address Division sponsored events to your itinerary! What is Rhetoric Enough? Roundtable Discussion Sat, November 23 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Balcony J - 4th Floor Marriott

So Trump’s Border Czar nominee wrote the section on the border for Project 2025’s manifesto and Trump’s FCC nominee wrote the section on the FCC for Project 2025. But Trump had no connection to it and doesn’t know anything about it.