clearandbright.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Good mini-thread 🧵

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

"We are supposed to treat the worst people in the world as good faith actors, in defiance of logic or compassion or history, and deny the obvious grim conclusions." -- THEY KNEW (2022) sarahkendziorbooks.com

submitted 6 hours ago • 7 comments

Once again, WHAT ARE YOU DOING, @markwarner.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Repeating something many Black journos have said already, but never underestimate how much white journos+editors willingness to play nice w/ varied iterations of “anti-wokeism” was b/c they got really uncomfortable from 2012 to 2020 when called to account for racism w/in their outlets/profession.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

i say this as someone who does research in this field: is it that "no one has any good idea of what to do about it" or that the people with good, effective ideas are ignored and drowned out by people with terrible ideas?

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

Again: I don’t think the primary goal of the anti-D.E.I. authoritarianism we’re seeing is re-segregation. It’s TOTAL human enslavement to corporations. Re-segregation is just a stop on that train. Explicit white supremacy and patriarchy are being used to make techno-fascism seductive to the masses.

submitted 20 days ago • 34 comments

It is so weird living in a new reality that most people can't even see. Million of people think they're still living in a world that no longer exists. Wildly disconcerting times.

submitted 5 days ago • 31 comments

I’m begging the media to call Nazi salutes … “Nazi salutes.” You can write “he gave a Nazi salute.” That’s the proper journalism. Describe things as they are even if people get mad.

submitted 5 days ago • 46 comments

Vance and others close to him are setting up the intellectual basis for American withdrawal from and hostile rivalry towards the EU based on the claim that a democratic Europe has betrayed an authoritarian vision that Vance presents as the epitome of "Western" civilisation.

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

The Southern Baptist Convention is a white supremacist sex abuse network founded by slaveowners, this is who they've always been and they will never change

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

fantastic thread (scroll up)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

(If you have a Kindle, plug it into your computer and copy the DOCUMENTS file to your hard drive. Then relabel that folder. They’re doing away with the ability to back up your legal purchases in >10 days.) (Don’t pirate. But save your stuff.)

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

joanna is gilde age historical romance author, and she's been doing a great series talking about the 1920s robber barons. everything old is new again. www.tiktok.com/@joannashupe...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

My third book is out a week from today! It is deeply informed by my love of romcoms (my most meet-cute-y meet-cute). But it’s also very much about doing work you care about, hanging on to yourself inside large organizations, and people being complicated. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/720444...

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

There’s a GoFundMe for the family of Sam Nordquist—the Black trans man who was brutally murdered by five people in New York— to travel there to collect his body, and for funeral expenses. gofund.me/3dacca50

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

more and more these days, I find myself thinking that you can accept the discipline of your political goals or you can accept the discipline of your resentments.

submitted 9 days ago • 61 comments

In the coming weeks, a lot of slow-on-the uptake folks are going to begin belatedly realizing Trump is both an inept moron and a dangerous autocrat. Our great civic challenge in these trying times will be calmly welcoming them aboard instead of primal-screaming in their faces.

submitted 20 days ago • 415 comments

For what it's worth - and this is meant to be a bribe, not a brag - as a person who wears masks any time I am inside and out of the home, I haven't gotten a cold, flu, or other seasonal illness in five years. This could be you!

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

Water is life. Help this family find a sustainable way to access it.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

submitted 16 days ago • 724 comments

read the whole thing (attn: everyone but especially funders)

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

five years ago in a red state during trump's presidency this guy couldn't sit in a restaurant for maybe 45 days, so guess what it's fuck you science time

submitted 19 days ago • 23 comments

Just look at how they talk about medications and “natural” shit. Hell, most transphobes are virulently anti hormonal birth control

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Marching also works

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

i mean this so seriously. if you are transgender. please be safe. do not get caught commiting crimes. do not get caught by the state. do not sacrifice yourself, we will survive

submitted 20 days ago • 103 comments

Everyone keeps leaving out that it's not D.E.I. it's D.E.I.A. the accessibility bits are being scrubbed too.

submitted 20 days ago • 14 comments

1. I keep saying this, but it’s important to try to slow things down. It’s something that the Democrats really don’t get. You can win a war by losing every battle slowly.

submitted 21 days ago • 109 comments

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

Together

submitted 22 days ago • 25 comments

I haven't found corroboration of this exact list yet, but this does appear to be legitimate, per Nature. Apparently "around 10,000 research grants have been flagged for review and distributed to various programme directors"--in OTHER directorates. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Today’s dose of what the fuckery, bought to you by the US National Science Federation a government body who fund research grant applications. But now, if the application includes the words female and woman, it won’t. Trans people have repeatedly warned transphobia was a gateway drug. Here we are.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

“AP: Rubio says El Salvador offers to accept deportees from US of any nationality, including Americans” Honestly still just staring at my phone in disbelief. apnews.com/article/migr...

submitted 22 days ago • 145 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 22 days ago • 1329 comments