jswahutu
@jswahutu.bsky.social
Media/journalism (mostly African)| Genocide | Mass Atrocity | Knowledge production
old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
I haven't changed my tone on crypto from day one. This reserve is the Big Scam(tm). I don't argue with y'all. I don't pretend that my decades of academic and lived experience are equal to your 2 second searches and misplaced confidence. I'm not here to make you feel more knowledgeable than you are
The silencing of victims is sadly a global phenomenon: #media #oscars #rapeculture journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The Silencing of Rape Victims in Readers’ Comments on Serbian News Websites - Jasmina P. Đorđević, 2025
Based on Framing Theory and Sociocognitive Discourse Studies, the study analyzes 1,010 comments following 15 news articles on four Serbian news websites about a...
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Dr. Daniela Dimitrova@profdimitrova.bsky.social · last yr.
This struck me as the perfect distillation of JD Vance. He is a shockingly incurious and unserious guy who has faked his way into the center of power and now thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room.
Matt McDermott@mattmfm.bsky.social · last yr.Still processing the fact that Zelensky asked Vance “Have you ever actually been to Ukraine?” and his response was that he’s watched and seen some videos.
www.propublica.org/article/geor...
White Parents Rallied to Chase a Black Educator Out of Town. Then, They Followed Her to the Next One.
Cecelia Lewis was asked to apply for a Georgia school district’s first-ever administrator job devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion. A group of parents — coached by local and national anti-CRT gr...
propublica.org
A week ago, Pam Bondi went on Fox News claiming the files were sitting on her desk. Now, in a fabricated letter to Kash Patel, she insists she never received them. Congrats on shifting the news cycle. Lie better.
lol this take is DRENCHED in privilege. Marginalized people cannot afford to be apolitical because our very identity IS POLITICAL. Activism isn't some cute hobby folks are engaging in. People are advocating for their SURVIVAL. bsky.app/profile/stev...
steven monacelli@stevanzetti.bsky.social · last yr.This isn't meant to be a dunk, but I'm genuinely surprised when people don't understand that journalists generally cannot take part in activism if they want to be taken seriously as journalists
Fantastic read.A compelling behind the scenes look of realities that scholars based in Africa face when collaborating w colleagues based in the Global North. Also offers advice on building more ethical collaborations. For everyone in global collaborative research. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“My Flight Arrives at 5 am, Can You Pick Me Up?”: The Gatekeeping Burden of the African Academic
Over the past decade, there has been increased awareness and discourse around the inequalities which structure North–South academic collaboration. The purpose of this discussion is to look at the o...
tandfonline.com
Next year, the EU will require cars to have buttons & dials -- not just touchscreens -- to get a top safety rating. This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens. (Even better: Tesla will hate this)
Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn five-star safety rating in Europe
Euro NCAP will release new testing guidelines in 2026.
theverge.com
Seems like a good time to tap the sign once again: would strongly recommend supporting non-billionaire owned news media - especially the independent, local, worker-run and/or reader funded variety
Ben Mullin@benmullin.bsky.social · 2y agoSCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."
I see that bald headed man has decided to finally stop pretending that he cares about the newspaper. This was always going to happen once orange man won the election. www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/medi...
niemanlab.org
They allowed for this to happen the moment they kept quiet about @apnews.com being denied entry.
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2y agoWhite House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announces that the White House Correspondents' Association will no longer choose the pool reporter. "Moving forward, the White House press pool will be determined by the White House press team."
The wages of the WHCA’s public silence on the White House’s unlawful retaliation against the AP are even bolder encroachments against the free press’s prerogatives.
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2y agoWhite House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announces that the White House Correspondents' Association will no longer choose the pool reporter. "Moving forward, the White House press pool will be determined by the White House press team."
this is a damn good way of putting the James Carville phenomenon in perspective
ThePundick@thepundick.bsky.social · 2y agoImagine in the 1920's if you kept hearing from Grover Cleveland's campaign strategist about needing to do what worked for them in 1892
Maddow: I think it is a bad mistake to let Joy Reid walk out the door. It is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two nonwhite hosts in primetime, both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. I do not defend it.
The best way to confront a bully about the misinformation he is spreading is to confront him in front of everyone. Macron just did that.
NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...
I was pretty skeptical of Amazon taking control of the Bond franchise, but if this is the direction it's going, I'm pro.
"You can purge a website of the words climate change, but that doesn’t mean climate change goes away." (Good NYT story about one of two legal actions we filed this morning.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/c...
Farmers Sue Over Deletion of Climate Data From Government Websites
The data, which disappeared from Agriculture Department sites in recent weeks, was useful to farmers for business planning, the lawsuit said.
nytimes.com
Just an unbelievable own goal that the party—and specifically Pelosi, who had great strengths as Speaker—put an ancient and not nimble messenger in this key public committee spot instead of @Aoc who is absolutely one of the best comms people in entire party.
Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 2y agoAsked what he recommends federal workers do, Gerry Connolly says: "I guess if you can, cover yourself and do the five things you did last week"
I just wish that we actually cared about antisemitism in this country. But instead yall had congressional hearings vilifying students and faculty (of all races & ethnicities) protesting genocide and silence with actual sieg heiling by white suprmacists.
The thing about swastikas spray painted on the side of a cybertruck is there’s a 50/50 chance the owner did it.
Molly Ploofkins@mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 2y agoSeen today in Lower Manhattan...
People who were willing to risk their job security and literally everything tied to being able to live, just to go vote ? And yall expect them to do more after failing them? Yeah nah
