There's actually research on this and it involves scrutiny. If you're Black people are going to look at your work looking for mistakes in a way they would never for white people.

Black Workers Really Do Need to Be Twice as Good

African American employees tend to receive more scrutiny from their bosses than their white colleagues, meaning that small mistakes are more likely to be caught, which over time leads to worse perform...

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Gabriel S. Jacobs@gsjphd.bsky.social · 2d ago

let's be real: plagiarism scandals in academia happen all the time (not because academics plagiarize a lot, but just because of how many millions of faculty there are around the world) and it is never general-public news unless the culprit is a member of a minority.

one of the best to ever do it. always knew when he worked on a flick. it was always bigger and crazier than anyone could imagine. practical FX will always look better than CGI or Ai slop. rest easy. so it goes

An amazing and honestly slept on artist. A real deal genius in a seemingly forgotten creative field. You could arguably say his effects were the main star in a lot of films he was involved in. My favorite movie Big Trouble in Little China wouldn’t have 2 of my fav scenes w/o him, these 2 freaks.

Stephanie Crawford@scrawfish.bsky.social · 2h ago

Completely devastated to hear about the passing of one of my creative heroes, Screaming Mad George. A genuine genius with such a vibrant, fun, and unusual lust for life… he’s immortal in innumerable ways, but man, what a massive loss. x.com/mad_screamin...

What the actual fuck is this!!! …speechless….

I wish we didn’t have to battle through the entire Democratic establishment army in order to merely reach the Republican lines.

Tim Gruver@timgruver.bsky.social · 4h ago

Would-be Speaker of the U.S. House Hakeem Jeffries and his succinct position on Medicare For All per Sunday’s Meet The Press: Kristen Welker: “Do you support Medicare for All?" Jeffries: “No."

Michele Tafoya cannot recall what she was up to on October 31, 1991

This shouldn't be happening to them or anyone else, but the fact is they were fine with it happening to other people as long it did not happen to them, and the same is true of tens of millions of other voters. It certainly says something about the American electorate bsky.app/profile/brad...

Bradley P. Moss@bradmossesq.bsky.social · 14h ago

We. Warned. You. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/u...

Plenty of countries have speed cameras without them becoming a panopticon. If you don’t believe this is possible in the US you are not a leftist! Leftism requires the belief that a powerful government can be good!

vanoreo@vanoreo.bsky.social · 2h ago

leftism is when i give the cops a panopticon

Going deep 😂😂😂

David Brauer@dbrauer.net · 2h ago

Michele Tafoya thinks Ron Gant was safe

The parasites of the Democratic Party are ruining its reputation and driving away young voters to squeeze a few elderly donors with spam fundraising. It's really depressing to see Hakeem Jeffries in bed with these scammers. We need new leadership. data4democracy.substack.com/p...

Hook and Squeeze

How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.

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I support replacing Hakeem Jeffries. NOW. Vote of no confidence. Why are @housedemocrats.bsky.social unwilling to do it? Jamie Raskin is the perfect option.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 13h ago

Jeffries stop short of committing to holding a vote to abolish ICE is he's House Speaker next January, but says he's "committed to dramatically reforming ICE ... the masks should come off, body cameras should come on, judicial warrants should be required."

@robertgarcia.house.gov You have been my representative since elected and still are with the new districts. Hakeem Jeffries can no longer be the leader of the democratic minority and cannot be the Speaker of the House. Please make it known that your constituents demand it. Lifelong democrat

Since everybody is bringing forward Hakeem Jeffries' pearls of platitude, in light of his latest interview, here is one that is his entry into Bluesky ratio hall of fame.

Hakeem Jeffries@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The Trump administration’s threat to deploy troops in Portland is unlawful. Here’s a thought. Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people.

How it started/how it’s going

The billionaire who’s hunting me for sport is mad because I’m not even trying. I’m running in slow motion making Chariots of Fire noises

“Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building.” It’s a myth, a self-affirming form of sense making: they take the action to build it, but insist on describing it as if they are passive witnesses to an inevitable force.

The System From Nowhere

When Accountability Goes Rogue 💡I recently spoke with Dr. Zena Assaad for her podcast, Responsible Bytes. Video is above, below is an essay adapted from the conversation. "The system from nowhere" i...

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Don't worry I will be hired by the next Democratic president to serve as senior White House liaison to the Is Israel Committing Crimes Committee in the State Department; where I will be very impartial in preemptively clearing Israel of all accusations.

My name is Liberal Analyst Number Three and I am being paid 250k per year as the Senior Fellow at the Defend Israeli War Crimes institute and here is my 3,000 word essay where I pretend to be befuddled that the IDF helps the settlers steal land.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 7h ago

Why does the IDF, which occupies Palestinian territory for the sole purpose of stealing it and defending the people who steal it, not remove the people who steal the land? What a hard question. I guess I have to get paid 150k per year to work for a think tank to not figure out why.

I struggle to think of another example where the US will explicitly undermine its own peace process(es) for the sole purpose of facilitating an easier electoral situation for the prime minister of one of the countries involved.

Here it is seen as unreasonable for Hamas to demand that Israel publicly commit to the deal that it already committed to and then violated ten times.

Contrary to what some people insist, the international community does actually treat Israel exceptionally, but only in the opposite direction of what pro-Israel people complain about. Few countries face so minimal of demands explicitly because a global superpower insists on coddling it like a baby.

It says a lot about how the US conceptualizes its role in the Middle East that every single administration will inevitably try to create a peace framework which does not require Israel to publicly commit to anything ever because it would be impossible due to Israeli Jewish domestic concerns.

Wow! Thank you to Bonica for publishing this. The notes here about Democratic party committees and fundraising firms trying to kill this at the Times and Bulwark are incredibly disturbing. You can not support democracy if you suppress critical reporting about your scummiest fundraising practices.

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 10h ago

The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.

This is how the worst football fans talk when their team trades a star player right before the season

Inverted Pyramid@invertedpyramid.bsky.social · 11h ago

Oh please. You have no idea what Jeffries and his leadership team have up their sleeves. Such bullshit.

$10 to any reporter who asks Jeffries or any other anti-MFA politician: “Why do you think American people deserve worse healthcare than Israeli citizens?”

Bill Corbett@billcorbett.bsky.social · 3h ago

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Without real consequences for police abuse, Flock Safety's reforms are "just a fig leaf for Flock,” EFF’s @cooperq.com told @techcrunch.com. "The best way to ensure accountability is to pass laws constraining the use of this technology and requiring a warrant for its use.”

Flock says its new tool will help identify police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works | TechCrunch

The surveillance company announced it's making a tool called "Audit Assistance" mandatory for all customers, claiming it's already helped catch abuse. But the company has yet to explain how the tool w...

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Michele Tafoya doesn't see the big deal about handing the Civil War flag back to Virginia. * this is a running joke, which may coincidentally accurately portray her opinion or might be completely wrong. But don't vote for her, regardless.

Wes Burdine@wesburdine.bsky.social · 3h ago

Michele Tafoya says “A-Y-D Mill Road”

I couldn’t stop looking at this for so long I think I frightened security a little

And you know the comms team was telling them this would just give it more traction, but I guess exposing the spam tactics pissed them off enough to go for it anyway.

uhhhhh

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 10h ago

The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.