I hope the UT students are fighting for their right to learn about gender and race. Their voices carry the most weight.

Yes, and let's also remember #YourSlipIsShowing, the Black women activists who predicted all of this first and received no credit. "Before Gamergate, before the 2016 election, they launched a campaign against Twitter trolls masquerading as women of color... If only more people had paid attention."

Years Ago, Black Feminists Worked Together to Unmask Twitter Trolls Posing as Women of Color. If Only More People Paid Attention.

The fake accounts had handles like @NayNayCantStop, @LatrineWatts, and @CisHate, and bios like “Queer + black + angry.”

slate.com

Taylor Nichols, MD MS@tnicholsmd.com · 10mo ago

Everything is Gamergate. If you do not understand what Gamergate is or how that has not only shaped the internet but our entire current reality. Keep this in mind, and protect yourself accordingly. www.cnn.com/2025/03/23/u...

#NoKings

BOOM! After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe, UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH! ✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾 M.I.T. ☑️ BROWN ☑️ PENN ☑️ USC☑️ UVA ☑️ This is People Power in Action. #DefendHigherEd

Remember when i said we're living in the scariest parts of a Gibson novel thanks to a bunch of dudes who misunderstand Gibson's novels? Well now I want to discuss the verified govt accounts spewing rightwing propaganda— possibly via a bot-run troll farm— & why you should block them for your safety.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Here’s a block list: bsky.app/profile/did:...

A lot of y’all are not arguing about whether or not violence, in and of itself, is right or wrong, you’re arguing about when YOU believe the violence is justified. Y’all love violence. You soak in it like bath water. And while water comes in different forms, some you may dislike, it’s still water.

For what it's worth, this is precisely the reason the Klan wore hoods when they terrorized communities and disappeared unfavored minorities. Historically, it wasn't called doxxing it was just recognizing a fascist community member.

Roy Edroso@edroso.bsky.social · last yr.

A land of contrasts

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

A lot of people don’t really understand what this means but no matter where I live I will always be ride or die for the place and people that made me

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · last yr.

I was made by and will always be for East L.A. and over the last few days have watched from afar as barrios like mine have faced an invasion perpetrated by racist militarized thugs, sent by the pinche gringo in the White House. I am full of grief and also have one message: CHINGA LA MIGRA

Some of the most chilling 2 minutes you've ever seen. Look at what's being said, openly, on one of the most popular TV channels in Israel. History is happening in front of our eyes. Don't look away. Please help share this widely. Read the full story here: zeteo.com/p/inside-the...

Unfortunately, I actually did have them calling for a White Supremacist International on my bingo card.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last yr.

This post on the State Department's substack could've just been 14 words.

"We are willing to sacrifice these people's rights" is not a compelling campaign slogan (and it's already taken by the people we are supposed to oppose). You do not defeat fascists by becoming them.

Politico@politico.com · last yr.

Opinion: The debate over transgender rights is a liability for Democrats. Here’s how to neutralize it, writes @thirdway.bsky.social think tank co-founder Jonathan Cowan.

Me, a former New Yorker, looking at this from my country home..

Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · 2y ago

This is exactly what the NYC subway is like, and it's beautiful (trimmed video by Ian O'Connor via instagram.com/p/DAbHW7txiiv)

This is trivial but the way the Trump administration communicates basically everything is incredibly rudimentary. It’s written like none of them have any formal education and they want that for everyone. Sigh

For the second year in a row, college graduation season is being marked by student activism in solidarity with Palestine, and consequent backlash.

Students Are Protesting For Palestine — And Being Punished — At Graduations

“There was just never any point where I was not going to say something,” one punished student told their student paper.

teenvogue.com

The USA is barely recognizable after 4 months; if you think you can sit on the sidelines and it will be handed back to you in four years you are out of your mind.

The weather is so bad it looks like we are under attack in #AustinTX

The weather is so bad it looks like we are under attack in #AustinTX

If you want to understand what’s going on in the United States today, and why everything seems so vindictive, deliberately cruel, and inhumane, read Carol Anderson’s “White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide”

A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to shut down the Education Department and ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs.

Judge blocks Trump administration’s mass layoffs at the Education Department

A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to shut down the Education Department and ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs.

chicagotribune.com

The International Sociological Association (ISA) has been concerned for some time and condemned the acts of violence that have occurred in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

My first GRA (now a prof at Depaul) bought me this shirt in 2019 because I would always tell my students numbers are tools not truth. It was quite literally my stats mantra. I say it so often that my research team adopted it as our lab motto. #Numbers4Justice #QuantCrit #CiteBlackWomen

Yasmiyn Irizarry@dryasmiyn.bsky.social · last yr.

"Numbers are tools not truth" is the motto for my lab. I literally branded it. Yet I am not cited in the book being promoted with my tagline. On a subject I have been published on since 2011. #CitationalJustice is #QuantCrit #EduSky #StatsSky #AcademicSky #Blackademics #CiteBlackWomen

They keep saying the quiet part out loud and still there are “reasonable” colleagues, not to mention the whackos, who will do the whole “wellll” frown thing if you call it a genocide.

Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · last yr.

Moshe Feiglin on Channel 14: "Every baby in Gaza is an enemy" www.maariv.co.il/news/politic...

This slide and section of the book is based on an exchange Castillo and I had on Twitter. I am one of the "advocates" who called her in bc of how her Brookings article dismissed Afro-Latinos' concerns re antiblack erasure. I have also published extensively on the topic. Guess who was not cited?

Just found the slide where Castillo and Strunk use my motto to summarize someone else's QuantCrit Framework. Guess who is no where to be found in their presentation?

"Numbers are tools not truth" is the motto for my lab. I literally branded it. Yet I am not cited in the book being promoted with my tagline. On a subject I have been published on since 2011. #CitationalJustice is #QuantCrit #EduSky #StatsSky #AcademicSky #Blackademics #CiteBlackWomen

Lori Skibbe@loriskibbe.bsky.social · 2y ago

Numbers are tools not truth. Enjoying the How to QuantCrit webinar by Castillo and Strunk (hosted by SREE). The whole series is freely available to the community here. sree.mclms.net/en/package/1...

Being reskeeted by Piplup! #AcademicSkyGoals