Lisa Rokusek

Thank you for this perfect frame.

Recruiting is a strange mix of both. Our current ecosystem devalues the information/persuasion portion and emphasizes the symbol-generation aspects.

To everyone’s detriment.

Just coming here to say that.

anyway, looking forward to bari weiss restoring “trust in news” where “trust in news” means pumping out propaganda for your oligarch boss

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

Convinced one theme for 2025 is careful people moving w/an ethics of congruence & care for people and things other than self having to stare at the success of terrible people doing terrible things terribly & being wildly successful.

Awful.

But. Staying true to well being of the whole matters.

Part of the habits of white supremacy includes treating statements of people of color groups as less neutral, more emotional, and more violent than statements of white folks. This refusal to grant neutrality, or the benefit of the doubt, extends to other marginalized groups depending on proximity.

I want to spank.

That’s when I realized how deeply this is entrenched for me. I’d say it’s pretty central to who I am in all areas of life.

It annoys a lot of folks, lol!

It’s funny I was talking to a guy about recruiting and I ended up explaining how a power analysis is central to how I work as is centering the needs of those w/power deficit in order to navigate to a mutual win.
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The guy looked at me and said no one has ever told me that’s how they work.

Without a power analysis providing a foundation to an ethics of care and skillful action you get a bunch of self-centered wellness junkies.

Ezra Klein Just Showed Us Everything Wrong With Secularized Meditation There’s a moment in Ezra Klein’s recent interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates that’s been bugging me.

Hahahaha. The theme for me has been Buddhists dunking on Klein because of exactly what that essay covers.

Dangerous revisionist corrosive bullshit.

Jesus punched up.

1.5K views · 40 reactions | Emergency Press Conference After Alderperson Jessie Fuentes is Handcuffed and Threatened with Arrest at Humboldt Park Health Militarized immigration enforcement has occurre... Emergency Press Conference After Alderperson Jessie Fuentes is Handcuffed and Threatened with Arrest at Humboldt Park Health Militarized immigration enforcement has occurred throughout Friday on the.....

Link to the press conference after their release. www.facebook.com/26thwardchic...

Is It Legal? Deferring to power and authority leads inevitably to autocracy.

The question of legality is actually arbitrary under a fascist state, as I wrote in the early days of DOGE. As we just saw with the attacks on Venezuelan fishing boats, which are plainly war crimes, the regime simply continues its crimes & claims legal justification retroactively.

I really appreciate you calling out the difficulty of both the technical and the social. Both matter and one or the other often get erased.

We have successfully trapped the kittens who chose my car as shelter.

It was a long hard project but now they are safe and I can drive again!

I love him more and more.

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

scientists and environmentalists simply didn't use the exact right combination of magic words to take down a ruthless multitrillion-dollar global industry that's been buying governments and lying for half a century

The main reason climate policy has failed is that it's opposed by an international coalition of fossil fuel incumbents, authoritarian governments, & oligarch-owned media.

That's it. It's the people who killed it who are responsible for killing it! Not the people who supported it! FFS.

Update on "Who Goes Nazi"
"MAGA appeals to people who need to feel special, who need enemies to blame, who need simple answers to complex problems. It attracts those who mistake confidence for competence, who confuse being loud with being right, who think that admitting uncertainty is weakness."

Now I got all weird obsessive and started looking at all the .gov sites and it's fascinating to see which ones specifically call this a "Democrat" shutdown

Dept of State
White House
OPA
HHS
CDC
HUD (WOW that's a lot there)

not saying party

Interior
Medicaid
Medicare
Transportation
Defense
IRS

bsky.app/profile/mari...

Demon Slayer cartoon with the word delicious on the bottom

So wild so amazingly awful (not minimizing suffering - past current and future) but they are SO BAD AT EVERYTHING.

Carondelet you are hard to love (but I still do). Please stop kicking in our doors, okay?

Hey yo. If you can find it in your budget to give a little to this org it will make you happy I promise. Reading writing building making for girls and gender expansive kids. Shop class with a book club! Power tools and zines.
A bright light.

sigh