Sandhya Dirks

Sandhya Dirks

@audiosand.bsky.social

Journalist, audio documentarian, writer. English professor at Dartmouth, working on a doc about the end of civil rights. Previously: NPR race and identity correspondent, “alarmingly divisive" signal: sandhya_.96 Podcasts: On Our Watch, American Suburb.

4,572 Followers 1,971 Following 1,617 Posts Joined Jun 2023
4 hours ago

"antisemitism and other forms of discrimination" lol even under these circumstances they can't quite bring themselves to say words like "racism" and "misogyny" out loud. when you're definitely beating the allegations

517 105 8 0
26 minutes ago

Subtlety is dead

51 11 1 0
24 minutes ago

This is from 2022 but it's still true.

Seriously if you cut out all police dramas from your viewing you suddenly realize how many fewer things you can watch.

148 30 9 3
2 hours ago

A week after FIU college republicans were exposed for celebrating Himmler's concept of a "Nazi heaven," UF college republicans are disbanded for doing Hitler salutes.

1,311 428 41 37
1 day ago
This spring we will make a difficult but necessary further workforce reduction of approximately 15% across faculty and staff.

The New School announces a faculty and staff bloodbath

178 76 17 13
3 hours ago
Video thumbnail

This video is a perfect encapsulation of the TPUSA world view. If you’re straight, cis, and Christian, then you are a real American, and your “civilization” is existentially threatened by Islam, LGBTQ folks, “wokeism,” and Marxism. Those last two phantoms are of course, never defined.

424 96 50 29
8 hours ago

a whole mini drama here about the role of the archive and the democratization of information for good and ill

554 125 5 1
4 hours ago
Post image

Powell has spent his career decrying the "cancellation" of race scientists, climate deniers and bigots, arguing that their substantive views were less important to the threat to free speech their punishment represented.

When it comes to Khalil, though, his (alleged) views are front and center.

732 80 16 6
4 hours ago
Preview
Trump administration finds Jeffco bathroom, sports policies for transgender students violate Title IX Athletic rosters indicate “male students occupy 61 roster positions on girls’ sports teams,” a press release says. It’s not clear how investigators reached that conclusion.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Mar 14 Chalkbeat
US DoE finds Jeffco Public Schools violate fed law by allowing 61 "male" students on female teams. Jeffco is COL's 2nd largest district and says it does not typically know students' sex because birth certificates can be legally changed in the state.

27 10 5 0
9 hours ago
Preview
PFLAG must turn over records in Texas probe tied to transgender youth care ban, court rules | Houston Public Media The Texas Supreme Court said the state only needs a reasonable belief that the group may have relevant information, not proof, and allowed PFLAG to redact identifying details about families before pro...

Horrific. Texas Supreme Court ruled that PFLAGs in Texas have to turn over records related to fleeing the state, contingency plans to get care, doctors lists, and more.

Texas has become such a terrifying place for trans people.

www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/lgb...

793 354 21 25
6 hours ago
Post image

“It’s hard for me to see it as racist because I don’t have anything like that in my heart … I don’t know the definition,” said Lloyd Frischhertz, a co-founder of Tucks. https://ow.ly/CwGt50Ys0iR

9 3 6 10
5 hours ago

There’s a lot to critically say about Habermas but his basic insight that radical democracy & a public sphere of little newspapers, cafes & zocalos (& I would add free open-access public colleges) is foundational — & the lack of which in the US is not a small part of our post-democratic crisis

24 4 3 0
5 hours ago

This is a good moment to note the power of the right wing media. It would make sure that if Hunter Biden were doing .000001% of this, every democrat alive who got within 10 feet of a microphone we have to answer for this kind of corruption, with actual follow-up questions.

103 44 6 0
11 hours ago
Post image

Here's an open call for genocide in the United States of America by Laura Loomer, who wouldn't even matter except for the fact that this is also what Randy Fine, Andy Ogles, Benjamin Netanyahu and a bunch of others with actual power want.

40 18 9 4
7 hours ago
Preview
‘Buffy’ Reboot Dead at Hulu, Sarah Michelle Gellar Says: ‘If the Apocalypse Actually Comes, You Can Still Beep Me’ The 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' sequel series 'New Sunnydale' is not moving forward at Hulu.

The reboot of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” is not moving forward at Hulu, Variety reports

305 65 29 126
7 hours ago

It’s crazy that he is negotiating on behalf of the U.S. at all. He has no government appointment and no one elected him and he has no business being in those meetings even without the grift

2,738 803 103 35
7 hours ago

racism kills, we know from data and years of evidence. but being racist kills too and white folks in this country would rather be racist than have good health care, good schools, or any public good - they'd rather be racist and dead, than anti-racist and alive.

7 0 0 0
7 hours ago

i always go back to the pandemic era study where white people were willing to mask and protect their neighbors, until they learned covid was disproportionately impacting Black people - then they stopped caring about others, which made white mortality rates spike to the top of the charts.

25 4 2 0
7 hours ago

The REAL cultural story IMHO is how many people are willing to burn down their own lives and this country so they can be bigots.

628 120 11 6
7 hours ago

You don't get to paper over the fact that they are bigots. They knowingly wanted to strip minorities and women of any historical representation. They killed projects simply because they had ethnic identities and genders attached.

2,662 629 38 10
10 hours ago

fuck me for being this person, i guess, but public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses. and if you’re going to insist on running them like so, at least do some market research. students like their professors; they don’t want MOOCs taught by ChatGPT.

1,001 217 8 13
1 day ago

Sweeping guilty verdicts in the federal Prairieland antifa cases. These cases were an effort by the Trump admin to prosecute anti-fascists as terrorists and further, prosecute dissent. This Texas trial was a test of his power. He won. This laid out the case and stakes: www.ms.now/news/antifa-...

413 231 20 19
1 day ago

The ADL has been celebrating this war and despicably connecting it to Judaism from the start.

415 115 5 4
8 hours ago
Brendan Carr tweet: Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions - also known as the fake news - have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up.  

The law is clear.  Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not. 

And frankly, changing course is in their own business interests since trust in legacy media has now fallen to an all time low of just 9% and are ratings disasters.

The American people have subsidized broadcasters to the tune of billions of dollars by providing free access to the nation’s airwaves. 

It is very important to bring trust back into media, which has earned itself the label of fake news.

When a political candidate is able to win a landslide election victory after in the face of hoaxes and distortions, there is something very wrong.  It means the public has lost faith and confidence in the media.  And we can’t allow that to happen.

Time for change!

Trump "Truth":

Yet again, an intentionally misleading headline by the Fake News Media about the five tanker planes that were supposedly struck down at an Airport in Saudi Arabia, and of no further use. In actuality, the Base was hit a few days ago, but the planes were not “struck” or “destroyed.” Four of the five had virtually no damage, and are already back in service. One had slightly more damage, but will be in the air shortly. None were destroyed, or close to that, as the Fake News said in headlines. The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal (in particular), and other Lowlife “Papers” and Media actually want us to lose the War. Their terrible reporting is the exact opposite of the actual facts! They are truly sick and demented people that have no idea the damage they cause the United States of America. Fortunately, as proven by our Great and Conclusive Election Win in 2024, the People of our Country understand what is happening far better than the Fake News Media! President DONALD J. TRUMP

FCC to journalists: cover the Iran war the way the president prefers or lose your broadcast license.

2,175 1,056 165 177
1 day ago
Preview
They Called It Conspiracy: Joselyn Walsh on Federal Charges and the Criminalization of Protest "A conspiracy charge is deeply isolating, which I think is probably part of the point from the government’s perspective," says Joselyn Walsh.

In my latest, I talk with my friend Joselyn about the federal charges against her that were dropped yesterday, today’s guilty verdict for multiple Prairieland defendants, and what’s at stake when the definition of conspiracy is stretched and distorted to ensnare activists.

130 65 0 1
8 hours ago

Like telling ICE agents you aren't mad?

362 67 16 2
10 hours ago
Post image

In honor of Habermas, a meme I made

615 142 8 15
10 hours ago

RIP Habermas, whose death follows that of his beloved Public Sphere

172 49 0 3
9 hours ago

Reading about the so-called “first fascist,” the French Marquis de Mores. A police report on his arrest in 1890s called him “a hothead & an adventurer, someone with all the qualities to reach very high or very low.” My 1st thought is: better caliber of writer amongst the cops of those days…

275 30 7 4
8 hours ago

if anyone has them, lmk?

0 0 0 0