Leah

As a Sociologist, I need to tell you

the chaos cascade (200+ exec orders) isn't dysfunction — it's disaster capitalism's playbook. your confusion = their strategy.

If you have a smidge of power and you catch yourself thinking:

Maybe we'll be safe if we:
- tone this justice program a bit
- take that 'decolonization' reference off the website
- nix that grant for decarbonization...

know that you are playing your part in Trump's game perfectly.

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Tweet from Sean Gallagher @WhatAboutClass: "hard for me to see gender as biological if it requires a police state to enforce it"

This

Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

Death Toll in Gaza Likely 40 Percent Higher Than Reported, Researchers Say Analysis found that more than 64,000 Palestinians may have been killed by traumatic injury in the first nine months of the war.

"The researchers concluded that the death toll from Israel’s aerial bombardment and military ground operation in Gaza between October 2023 and the end of June 2024 was about 64,300, rather than the 37,900 reported by the Palestinian Ministry of Health." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/h...

"falling short, as we all do from time to time"

NO. Rape is not a normal act all men do. Reject that EVERY time.

Don't allow Hegseth to get the Kavanaugh Narrative Redux. If you need a reminder, here's my 2018 @truthout.org piece on this misogynist debacle in the last alleged rapist's hearings:

Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016 Analysis reveals many big producers increased output of fossil fuels and related emissions in seven years after Paris climate deal

57 companies are responsible for 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions since 2016.

These companies include fossil fuel giants like Chevron, Shell, and BP, who have been raking in record profits.

The profits of Big Oil should not be more important than the future of our planet.

Statement by Professor Katherine Franke BY KATHERINE FRANKE The following is the text of a statement issued on January 10, 2025 by Katherine Franke, formerly the James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University.  It is posted here w…

academeblog.org/2025/01/10/s...

This statement made me both immensely sad (at what happened to an esteemed scholar, activist, and ally), and outraged at #Columbia (and other universities like #NYU) for abandoning its principles and values.

remarkable to me that far from seeming cool or masculine zuck seems like an even bigger loser — the kind of nerd who preemptively gives his lunch money to the bully and thanks him for the opportunity

NILC Opposes the Laken Riley Act The Laken Riley Act exploits personal tragedy to fuel anti-immigrant rhetoric and undermines constitutional protections without improving public safety.

The Laken-Riley Act will lead to many more people being detained without access to bond and will have a disproportionate impact of Black and brown immigrants. DWN demands that Congress reject this bill. Learn more about why we oppose this bill from @nilc.org. 2/2

In blow to Democrats, federal appeals court strikes down net neutrality The Biden administration’s FCC had considered its reinstatement of the rules on internet service providers a signature accomplishment.

An accurate headline would read:

"In a blow to consumers, federal appeals court substitutes its judgment for FCC expertise and rule-making authority to allow internet providers to manipulate access to information for greater profit."

wapo.st/4gyjdnw

All she needs now is for her healthcare to be denied for surgery and it will be a great illustration of the American experience.

tweet from @nick_field90: “One last gift from Jimmy Carter, all flags will be at half-staff on Inauguration Day” plus a screenshot from wikipedia reading “The flag should fly at half-staff for 30 days at all federal buildings, grounds, and naval vessels throughout the United States and its territories and possessions after the death of the president or a former president.”

well played, sir. well played.

We are on strike in FORTY-THREE states, including both the NYC and Seattle Roasteries🔥☕️🔥☕️🔥

🪧✊🪧✊🪧THE WORKERS UNITED WILL NEVER BE DIVIDED🪧✊🪧✊🪧

At some point liberals are going to start saying, okay there was a genocide but it’s really the fault of the left for how annoying they were about pointing it out

Survivors of prison sexual abuse scandal ask Biden for clemency: ‘Give us a chance’ Incarcerated women seek relief after exposing harassment, retaliation and assault by staff

NEW: We interviewed women behind bars who exposed the widespread sexual abuse of US prison officers, but who have struggled to get relief. They are pleading with Biden for clemency.

“After everything I’ve been through, I deserve to be protected. Give me a chance … Let me see my granddaughters”

“Donald Trump’s plan for the mass deportation of undocumented people and a related expansion of US detention facilities is getting an unexpected head start from Joe Biden”

It shouldn’t be unexpected. Despite lies of “open borders” there’s been near continuity of Trump’s policies under Biden.

Once again I say to you all, as a lawyer-but-not-your-lawyer: STOP POSTING STUFF THAT COULD GET YOU IN LEGAL TROUBLE.

This goes double if you're in America or have you forgotten what's happening in January? *Especially* if you're a minority. You're already a target. Don't make yourself arrestable!

Great thread here

A version of the kermit vs darth kermit meme where good kermit tells the online academic that they should grade, while darth kermit tells them they should eat more pie.

Every academic right now

I have started teaching Sara Ahmed’s the organization of hate routinely as I deal with a decidedly more right wing student body post Covid and nothing has been more effective. To explain that love- of a sovereign community abstract, unreal and narrowly defined- is the beginning of hate is effective.

The entire interview is worth reading if you want to know where Elon Musk comes from. Part of me is surprised his father gave over these intricate details of their lives, their relationship to Nazism, and their family’s support of hate so willingly. But given the arrogance, it’s not that shocking.

Which ones?

A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments. Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

another woman is dead because doctors refused to give her standard medical care AFTER SHE ALREADY MISCARRIED. abortion bans are killing women even if they don’t need one. porsha ngumezi should be alive.

everybody knows deep down that "we need to give all perspectives a hearing" did not mean we should expect Dan Rather to interview swamp Maoists, and also that the claim the far right has to the table of decency in the US was bought, in this century as in the previous ones, with dollars and bullets

profleah

Opinion: Bluesky is a dangerous echo chamber because no one wants to hear from me, specifically 2 MINS AGO by MARY GILLIS

Perfectly executed

www.thebeaverton.com/2024/11/opin...