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 1,621 Posts Joined Jun 2023
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To be clear: the SAVE Act does not simply require the identification voting ALREADY requires. It demands proof of CITIZENSHIP— a birth certificate with a name that matches yours now (bye, bye, married women), or a passport— both of which are expensive and take a long time to obtain.

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*they are BRINGING back the firing squad, but brining people is also happening if you count the botox that is propping up the rotting flesh of this administrations most public villains.

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OK, this Tucker Carlson impression on Saturday Night Live last night is uncanny! Has all the verbal tics and go-to phrases down, and nails the high-pitch cackle.

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3 hours ago

It's a deposition in a law suit? Not even a tribunal?

And one side is actually killing people in the street, brining back the firing squad, and arresting and silencing mere opposition.

it's always accusations in a mirror. (Another bingo square on the bingo game of FASCISM).

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Live PD got cancelled for like 4 months. Then they changed the name and brought it back. An actual perfect metaphor for reform in the United States

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7 hours ago

AI is the new “A Black Man Took My Job” link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Georgia Cops Ignore Precedent to Arrest Black Woman for Murder After Alleged Abortion The case is strikingly similar to a 2015 arrest where prosecutors later dropped the charges. “The law hasn't changed. It is still not a crime to take misoprostol,” a reproductive justice lawyer told A...

NEW: Georgia cops arrested a woman for murder after a hospital said she had an abortion with misoprostol.

But in a disturbingly similar 2015 case, a prosecutor said state law prohibits criminal charges—and @ifwhenhow.bsky.social tells @autonomynews.co the law hasn't changed. Both women are Black.

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2 days ago

A stunning (yet unsurprising) graph of who gets identified for special versus gifted education in Oregon. Graph reported by @mattbarnum.bsky.social.

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Israel to deport American activist who reported car hitting Palestinian girl Police Say She Clashed With the Driver Who Allegedly Ran Over a Five-year-old Girl and Disrupted Public Order; She Claims Questioning Targeted Her Politics and Social Media. She Will Be Sent to the Si...

Israel to Deport Jewish-American Activist Who Reported Car Hitting Palestinian Girl in West Bank - West Bank News www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...

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Opinion | The Erasure of Black Studies A report from the undoing of a field.

An excellent analysis of the war on Black studies that also includes a deeply perceptive critique of the neoliberal logic of valuing disciplines based on # of undergrad majors: www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

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17 hours ago

A 50-year-old woman “had never been on an airplane until authorities flew her to North Dakota last year to face charges” based solely on AI facial recognition.

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6 hours ago

There's a gofundme for Consweulo Davis, wife of Dr. Linda Davis who was killed by ICE last month in Savannah, GA. www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-...

Here's an article about Consweulo and Linda from a local publication:

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6 hours ago

All of this incredibly obvious and infuriating welfare fraud happened under the first Trump administration and I don't recall them ever threatening to block funding to the state of Mississippi as a result.

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Israeli police kill two young Palestinian boys and their parents in West Bank Mother, father and brothers aged five and seven shot in their car as they returned from Ramadan shopping trip

“Mohammed, five, Othman, seven, who was blind and had special needs, their mother Waad Bani Odeh, 35, and father Ali Bani Odeh, 37, were driving through their hometown of Tamoun late on Saturday when Israeli forces opened fire.”

Shot in the head and face. Executed with their parents. No words.

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The U.S. seized a ship from Venezuela. -- and has gotten stuck paying $47 million so far for repairs and maintenance.

The total value of the ship? $10 million.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

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6 hours ago

I agree with everything that Michael says below. But yesterday the NYT published an article on Zohran’s FATHER that pushed this same false narrative about the Mayor. 1/

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but weren't his economic "promises" also already undermined by all his other ...policies? tariffs and slashing health care and tax cuts for the rich? i know this is going to make it all worse, but the economic picture before this blunder wasn't sunny. the framing erases facts.

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"i want timmy to know it was me"

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‘We killed dogs': Israeli troops kill two children, parents in West Bank Each person shot in the head in the village of Tammun, while two other children of the deceased couple sustain injuries.

Each person shot in the head in the village of Tammun, while two other children of the deceased couple sustain injuries.

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2 days ago

I agree and for this exact reason we need to be honest about who keeps telling these people that Jews are all aligned with a violent state that keeps bombing people

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1 day ago

if the Justice Department and federal judges are willing to set the bar for “providing material support to terrorists” this low—an encrypted group chat, auto-deleting messages, wearing black, possessing zines—what the Praireland defendants have been through will likely be just the beginning

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21 hours ago

yeah the edgelord Republican candidate for governor is calling the parent college republicans organization "traitors" for not tolerating open Nazi praise

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23 hours ago

And I ask again: Where are my Harper’s letter writers at?

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21 hours ago

Please note most federal grants *required* information on how the grants would benefit underserved or understudied groups. If you applied for a grant, you *had to* include something that would speak to diversity and equity.

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23 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

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19 hours ago

Subtlety is dead

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19 hours 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.

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21 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.

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2 days 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

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