Justin S. Casey

Email from the "PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE" to Kate Starbird asking for all emails from Jan 1 2021 through July 30 2025 with any of the following keywords: "diversity and inclusion" "DEIA" "DEI" "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging" "DEIB" "gender identity" "racial preference" "ESG" "organizational equity" "intersectionality" "anti-racism" "critical race theory" "LGBTQ+" "transgender" "cisgender" "gender ideology" "white privilege" "privilege walk" "cultural humility" "equity audit" "restorative justice" "racial equity" "implicit bias" "microaggressions" "inclusive pedagogy" "identity-based oppression" "systems of oppression" "queer" "non-binary" "sexuality" “Trump” “fascist”

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

A meme with a bunch of drawings of people with Samus Aran arm cannons with the trans flags that says “Repost this is trans people should have Samus Arm Cannons.”

I’ve been having a few too many conversations like this. Them: Hi Kate, how are things with your work, with the world? Me: the university is under attack, democratic norms being broken in half, so, pretty bad. Them: But everything is going to come back and be okay after the midterms. Me: Uhh, no.

It’s perfectly possible to have an authoritarian leader within a democratic system. However, ultimately, one of the two will have to give…

Overseeing a directed reading on cyberwarfare, subversion, surveillance, private firms, and so on by Israel. Send source recs!

a man with a beard is laying in bed with his eyes closed . ALT: a man with a beard is laying in bed with his eyes closed .

getting a rejection on the same day that I need to finish my next submission

"Only a man who is serious about arms control could make that joke!"

I really love my archival papers from USIA/VOA about how to spin this positively

Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up to $500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute

I see the brave defenders of the American democratic system are all caving. Maybe they think Trump will be gone in a few years, and they'll have Democrats again. And that Democrats will continue to play nice. And that no GOP president will ever do this stuff again.

In other words, they're idiots.

So Long, Tom :(

Sadly I'm gluten free :(

looking forward to checking this out!

Hi folks,

My new article looking at what happens to digital diplomacy after Elon Musk’s transformation of Twitter is now published at JIRD.

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If you’re interested in reactionary politics, digital diplomacy, and aesthetics, here is a short thread…

“In today’s networked world of instant information, global publics are smarter, more engaged, and likely to dismiss propaganda when they see it.” (McClory 2019, 12)

Really don't understand why this was ever a common sense view among soft power people

just die with the rest of us you dorks

America can do better and is worth fighting for

Replacing rural hospitals with rural concentration camps. In other words, populism.

Legacy media are not a solution to the problem of democratic erosion.

Legacy media are part of the problem of democratic erosion.

This might actually be the most relatable Trump has ever been to me.

Trump to all the Restrainers who backed him

VOA's Persian Service did not carry live President Trump's speech about bombing Iran. The few remaining staffers describe a catastrophic failure due to Kari Lake's removal of most of their colleagues. The video of the speech could not be uploaded to the VOA Farsi website for 12 hours.

so brave so true 1 like = 1 eagle 1 comment = MAHA

Some of you are insufficiently guided by the beauty of our weapons and it shows

Sounds like someone isn't very guided by the beauty of our weapons

Virtually every MAGA Republican will now fall in line, and there won't be a passing second of introspection or contrition among those who credulously adopted the "Donald the Dove" nonsense, who, it should be said, helped bring us to where we are today.

sorry i knew i wanted to be a writer since i was six and could physically write and sometimes it's hard and shitty as i work through my ideas and sometimes it's the purest narcotic joy of finding the right words and you want me to involve a lying theft robot? what's wrong with you?

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