@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.
"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
Subtlety is dead
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.
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.
The New School announces a faculty and staff bloodbath
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.
a whole mini drama here about the role of the archive and the democratization of information for good and ill
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.
@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.
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...
“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
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
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.
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.
The reboot of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” is not moving forward at Hulu, Variety reports
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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-...
The ADL has been celebrating this war and despicably connecting it to Judaism from the start.
FCC to journalists: cover the Iran war the way the president prefers or lose your broadcast license.
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.
Like telling ICE agents you aren't mad?
In honor of Habermas, a meme I made
RIP Habermas, whose death follows that of his beloved Public Sphere
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…
if anyone has them, lmk?