Robin L Turner

It was wild witnessing this in my comments a few days back. I can't understand the reasoning.

The apparent strategy of Bluesky activists: 1. All the progressive Black columnists at the NYT quit their jobs 2. ??? 3. NYT trans coverage improves

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BlueSky can come up with all kinds of tools, and it should. But we can’t “technologize” our way out of white supremacy. If BlueSky wants to thrive, white liberals and progressives are going to have to interrogate and annihilate their relationship to white supremacy.

yet evidently these people experience bsky as a place where they are “swarmed by aggressive trolls” - and that sucks. we need user tools to shut that down - thanks @safety.bsky.app @pfrazee.com for prioritizing this

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"but the polls" "but nobody has ever won with" blah blah blah, there's time, and nobody in modern history has ever had to run against such a deranged view of what America will become. It's winnable. Pack up the pity party; off to work we go.

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Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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Universal school choice goes back to them actively wanting to destroy public education (remember Betsy DeVos) and that's... Jesus H. Christ if you don't understand how scary that is and how many marginalized children will be affected by that I don't know what to tell you.

It also outlines the need to cut off federal funding for any school that teaches "critical race theory," in the same breath. So, teach history the jingoistic way we demand or don't get funding. And erase queer people or we will pursue legal action.

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Hi good people. UAlbany political science is hiring an Assistant Professor of Public Law. I'm on the search committee. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetail…

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Former DCist staff launch the 51st, new local news site for Washingtonwww.washingtonpost.com The 51st is a worker-run newsroom that will attempt to fill a niche its founders say opened when WAMU closed DCist.

"A group of D.C journalists who worked at a local news site that was abruptly shuttered by NPR affiliate WAMU earlier this year are launching their own nonprofit devoted to covering community news of Washington...It will be operated as a worker-run newsroom" www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

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One more thing. This is why so many Black users have stayed on X despite, long before the discourse noticed his awfulness, having nicknamed Musk “Apartheid Clyde.” People go where their people are, they migrate for community. (I know “community” has been a hard to grasp concept on here.)

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So saying that Tressie or Jamelle leaving doesn’t “make or break this place” communicates to me that the person’s definition of success doesn’t consider Black users as a whole. Which, good luck with that given what we know about how things become widely popular 4/?

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Platform migration only works as a collective process. Entire groups and demos must move to make a place successful. Someone, usually thought-leaders and trend-setters, can sign off that a place is legit. Imagine all the users who have left or never joined b/c of the reputation being formed here 3/?

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Bouie may no longer be the “young” I mean here, but consider, when ordinary Black users see people they look up to and respect like Tressie, Jamelle, and Lydia flea because of harassment and racism, are they inspired to think this is a worthy or cool place for them? 2/?

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Saw someone’s take is “Bouie not being here won’t make or break” this site. I am happy to say some things about how platform migration works. It’s true, one user never makes or breaks anything, but for U.S. users the presence of young Black folks has driven the popularity of new tech for decades 1/?

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School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.www.propublica.org Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...

Yeah. Probably should just fund public schools.

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers' tuition that it's now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.

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20 satellites fall from sky after catastrophic SpaceX rocket failure, triggering investigationwww.livescience.com Twenty doomed Starlink satellites, which were prematurely released during a botched Falcon 9 rocket launch last week, have burned up in the upper atmosphere after falling back to Earth, new data confi...

Just a timely reminder that Teflon Mask promises a lot of things and fails to deliver on most of them. He does blow up a lot of shit and turn community spaces into nazi bars tho; he is good at that. So I guess I'm just saying, "Know what you're actually fighting."

He is not sending anybody to Mars. Ever. I mean...

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"Nobody is free unless we're all free" is one of my core values, but I've been Black this whole time and Black death and oppression is an acceptable baseline, globally. The urgency for action and solidarity never comes until our reality bleeds into yours.

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Rewriting Identities in Contemporary Germany - Boydell and Brewerboydellandbrewer.com Essays on and interviews with minoritized writers of contemporary Germany, mostly women or non-binary, whose literary interventions write radical diversity i...

Check out this book coming out this fall: boydellandbrewer.com/978164014155...

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With social media platforms trying to silence support of 🇵🇸 and 🇸🇩 they forget that crafting communities have used creativity for centuries as resistance. This cat says free 🇵🇸 In the background are some more solidarity skeins where 50% of sales goes to a Gazan family.🧶

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Affirmative Action Opponents Are Saying the Racist Part Out Loud Nowballsandstrikes.org A challenge to faculty hiring practices at Northwestern’s law school translates from legalese to “There are Black people on this faculty, Your Honor.”

Northwestern's law school faculty is nearly 80 percent white and over 80 percent male Naturally the law school is being sued by some jabronis who think white guys aren't getting a fair shake in faculty hiring I wrote about it! ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

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‘Don’t worry about electing a fascist because he won’t be able to do fascism’ is a terrible argument even if it were correct on the merits.

WSJ this morning. lol at the last bit. "Leaders on both sides need to stop describing the stakes of the election in apocalyptic terms. Democracy won't end if one or the other candidate is elected. Fascism is not aborning if Mr. Trump wins, unless you have little faith in American institutions."

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Imagine being so ignorant and privileged and that you see the rapid decline of American democracy as a “thriller.”

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Biden Facing Challenges in Two Must-Win States, Times/Siena Polls Findwww.nytimes.com The polls, taken before the assassination attempt on Donald J. Trump, found President Biden trailing Mr. Trump in Pennsylvania, a swing state critical to his re-election hopes, and slightly ahead in V...

Peak NYTimes The margin is the same in both places but Biden is "trailing" in PA and "only slightly ahead" in VA.

President Biden is trailing Donald Trump in Pennsylvania and is only slightly ahead in Virginia, New York Times/Siena College polls taken last week found.

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Dismissing a slam-dunk case against Trump on a newly invented technicality that goes against decades of precedent sure looks corrupt. But lawyers can adjudicate it. What’s clearly corrupt is acting as if the special counsel is Constitutional for months, then manufacturing delay by saying it’s not.

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Decade after decade of stochastic terror, gun rights fervor, & the foment of conspiratorial thinking by, from, on, & within the right, & yet it's somehow DEMOCRATS & the LEFT who need to "calm things down" or "lower the temperature?" Nah son. We *been* calm, and quite fucking cool and collected. …

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Comparative political scientist here. Assassination attempts are *always* bad, regardless of the target's politics.

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Staple comparative topics I’ve seen be useful in American: Electoral systems Executive regime type Overall regime type Internal violence Post-conflict reconstruction (hope not!)

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Trump rally shooter: Registered Republican, young white man, with an AR-15. That says nothing about Republicans (or young people, white people, men, or gun owners). And it clearly says nothing about Democrats, people of color, women, or other groups he wasn't a part of.

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This is something to watch out for: media becoming even less motivated to accurately describe Trump’s antidemocratic actions, or accurately describe Project 2025, because of fears of being accused of stochastic terrorism by MAGA. From @daveweigel.bsky.social www.semafor.com/article/07/1...

Senate Dems should take one of their assorted gun control bills off the shelf, rename it something like "Trump Assassination Prevention Act," and force Rs to do a talking filibuster to block it

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