Looking at the renamed gulf conversation-- this every day, all day.

a bald man with a beard is making a funny face in a dark room .

ALT: a bald man with a beard is making a funny face in a dark room .

media.tenor.com

We need major media messaging plans across the board. Where is this happening?

Moira Donegan@moiradonegan.bsky.social · 2y ago

Why aren’t Democrats doing interviews with patients enrolled in the cancer trials that Musk just cut funding for?

I went back to the bad place just to stay on top of media outside of my networks. And I am struck by the fact that for years people have said humanists are not good at helping people understand what they do. But the ignorance around the national science infrastructure is also staggering.

Is there some kind of national media strategizing I am missing or has the Right captured the media so completely we can’t get messaging out there or escape media bubbles?

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

Mónica C. Camacho@mc2x.bsky.social · 2y ago

This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake web.archive.org/web/20231206...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

democracyforward.org Donate—they brought the suit forward to block his constitutional circumvention of the congressional power of the purse.

Democracy Forward - We go to court for democracy

Democracy depends on a government that works for all people. We fight vigorously in court against abuses of power and attempts to undermine a government that works for people who need it most.

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This is not a drill. If we can't stop something so blatantly unconstitutional, I don't know how we'll fight anything at all. FIGHT. Donate to the legal organizations that will fight this. Get your representatives to yell about this. NOW.

There are many places to give money to help people in LA and I will post some other links. Here is one place to start.

Tyler Coates@tylercoates.bsky.social · 2y ago

if just 1000 of the people following me donated $10 to one of the *over 200* campaigns set up for Black families affected by the fires in Altadena, consider how much money we could raise. please consider a donation to these people in need: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Banning collaborative works—a frequent call about TV and movies that would punish all the people who worked with someone—is a bad practice.

🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃@zackdavisson.com · 2y ago

Something in comics that is so conflicting is that because they are a team, there is collateral damage from one bad actor. Putting all of Gaimen's comics out of print wouldn't hurt him; he is already rich. Who it hurts is all those artists who worked with him and depended on those royalties.

There is just one line I disagree with here—that his career has been marginally affected. The fact that adaptations—collaborations that involve hundreds of other people—is not the measure. A huge number of people will never buy his work or read his work again. For many of us—he’s done. Forever.

lila pearl@lilashapiro.bsky.social · 2y ago

I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

More than 100 years after its initial review that blamed Black men, the Dept. of Justice just released its report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”

DoJ releases its Tulsa race massacre report over 100 years after initial review

DoJ report acknowledges attack ‘was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence’

theguardian.com

Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...

So honored by this.

@nytimes.com @cnn.com @npr.org @democracynow.org @slate.bsky.social @nbcnews.com Anybody planning on covering this? This policy sure reads as if you cannot talk about being anything other than white or straight on social media or your content will be banned.

Novae Caelum@novaecaelum.bsky.social · 2y ago

Yesterday I pulled overt references of queerness off my site, my very successful store that sells my books that have queer main characters. Because a few days ago, Meta emailed saying my advertising on their platform will be restricted - my site was categorized as "sexuality and gender identity."

That “is diversity over” in Hollywood price is so ahistorical, filled with so many opinions about media production treated as fact that I wonder if anyone gave it even a cursory look for quality.

My Wicked take: 1) Ervio is fantastic; 2.) it would be great if people find the (more adult) novel; and 3.) I now appreciate that the musical does something very different and there is no need for a hierarchy.

I realized I had to stay on the horrible app for a little while longer to double check citations for my book, and when I logged back in the first three tweets I saw hoped children would not know that Wicked was a book, an antisemitic tweet about feminism, and a racist anti-DEI tweet. Sigh.

Weird how black women with Harvard degrees and twenty years of experience are called "DEI hires," but some random dude on Fox News is expertly qualified to run the Department of Whatever.

www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Texas A&M cuts LGBTQ studies and other programs

The flagship is eliminating dozens of programs, including an LGBTQ studies minor that a conservative lawmaker has criticized. He says he’ll soon target other institutions.

insidehighered.com

This.

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 2y ago

An ex-NY Times columnist and Ivy League grad interviewed a billionaire about how he, the world’s richest man, and several other billionaires helped another billionaire/Ivy League grad/real estate mogul world defeat an HBCU grad to reclaim the most powerful office in the world. The headline:

It's up!!!! My Explainer video for BlueSky beginners. I cover how to find your Twitter followers, Starter Packs, Feeds, Lists, some handy-dandy tools, and BlueSky etiquette. Please watch and/or share with any newbies you know. I think it's helpful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_V2...

BlueSky for Beginners

YouTube video by Machine Pun Kelly

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Finally got myself together to join here. Any tips on how to find community here would be very appreciated.