DOGE is not a govt efficiency project. Firing 1 in 4 fed employees would cut govt spending by 1%. DOGE is a political control project. Firing and terrorizing public employees is a means to weakening state regulation & strengthening a personalist presidency donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...

DOGE Mismanagement Principles

Musk et al. don't know or care about the damage they are doing

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I genuinely think we should start calling businesses and schools falling to the anti-DEI movement “segregationists” because they are re-segregating. And earlier rounds of segregationists *also* explained their preferred policy in race-neutral terms (“state’s rights” and “freedom of association”).

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This is literally true. School vouchers were pioneered as a way to help white supremacists send their kids to a new wave of private "segregation academies" created expressly for the purpose. From my book WHITE FLIGHT:

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2y ago

School vouchers are a re-segregation tax, in which everyone is forced to pay the most racist white people so they can avoid sending their kids to schools with minorities. The only plus side is that the schools suck and don't help their kids get into better colleges. 🙏

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NYPD has been spending a lot of money on advanced surveillance systems for decades, and none of those seemed to help much here. I fear the post-mortem conclusion will be "see, we need to spend more on *even more* advanced tech." www.wired.com/story/nypd-s...

The NYPD Had a Secret Fund for Surveillance Tools

Documents reveal that police bought facial-recognition software, vans equipped with x-ray machines, and “stingray” cell site simulators—with no public oversight.

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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 2y ago

Notable I think that tech did nothing to provide a lead on Luigi Mangione. Facial recognition tech did not match him to known drivers license or social media photos. DNA testing would have taken a while but I see no reason to think they'd have his on file to begin with. No AI gait nonsense.

Annabel Ipsen and I co-wrote this paper on how structural precarity was central to the meatpacking business model. COVID-19 made clear the role that necropolitics played in this model. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis@kendrawrites.com · 2y ago

It lives rent free in my head. Pro publica did a longer piece on it but I can say personally it fundamentally shifted my worldview. It's beyond indifference

Ekow Yankah has a relevant paper forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review: "Deputization and Privileged White Violence" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 2y ago

“There was applause in the courtroom as the not-guilty verdict was read aloud. Penny locked eyes with members of the jury that acquitted him, nodding in thanks. A smile was visible on his face.”

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You must read this truly brilliant piece by @kmtani.bsky.social in the current Harvard Law Review. Her reflection on the Supreme Court, curation, narration, and history is one of the best pieces of scholarship that I have *ever* read. This will become a classic. I am in awe.

Curation, Narration, Erasure: Power and Possibility at the U.S. Supreme

Introduction “Dead, dead, dead.”Transcript of Oral Argument at 19, Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer, 144 S. Ct. 18 (2023) (No. 22-429) (statement of Kagan, J.), htt

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Hard not to understand this as a structure of whiteness. (Which is not the same as saying that all the perpetrators are themselves white.) ‘if you don’t like the way we violate, we will structurally abandon you instead…’

Big Ol’ Mush@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2y ago

It says a ton the police reaction to “stop targeting Black people” is “okay so we can’t do anything at all”

This is really damning. NJ State Troopers, unhappy with a report on racial bias incidents, just stopped doing traffic enforcement, and seemingly weren’t on the roads (as evidenced by a vehicle from a fatal hit and run being abandoned for hours before anyone noticed).

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2y ago

For eight months, traffic enforcement citations on New Jersey’s highways plummeted by 81% compared with the year before. The unrivaled reduction is now the subject of a criminal investigation.