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Equality. Multi-discipline arts, with academic exp. Personally stuck in 🇨🇦🇺🇸 cross-border battle vs cocky white-supremacist criminals & those (the complicit, the corrupt, & the embarrassedly defensive) who protect & further enable the criminals
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I am very sympathetic to the constraints teachers work under, but there are examples in the article that amount to giving up on teaching students to write (and read) and it really worries me. This is what I'm fighting against in More Than Words. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-...

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ICYMI, all technology is a surveillance tool

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If you haven't read @sarahkendzior.bsky.social yet, now is the time. "There is a reason that the Trump administration is banning study of historically targeted groups — Native Americans, Black Americans — and it is not “DEI”. substack.com/home/post/p-... #academicsky 🧪

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Happy Black History Month

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"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

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Kendzior wrote this in 2019

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To understand Trump's trajectory and the lack of prosecution, you need to understand the trajectory of Meyer Lansky. From THEY KNEW (2022):

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

"History was written by the winners, and the winners were assholes." --THEY KNEW (2022)

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

The official White House account just referred to Trump as a “king” and posted an image with a crown on his head. They’re not even hiding it.

submitted 3 days ago • 1183 comments

What if I told y’all that race is, in fact, not an immutable characteristic? It is a construct created to parce power, opportunity and economic advantage. A person racialized as Black might be 10% African or 100%, but regardless of genetics, they share a common history of exclusion.

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

“Google deleted Black History Month and other cultural items without disclosure, and it did so not only for 2025 and beyond but also for previous years retroactively. It feels a bit Orwellian, as if the past was erased, and the erasure forgotten.”

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

Way deep into Dear Leader territory.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

It should go without saying, but perhaps not: Removing uncomfortable histories because they fail to glorify the dominant group in power is not the sign of a healthy and free society.

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.

submitted 7 days ago • 262 comments

the power consolidation threat of AI is no longer academic

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

absolutely wild. i went to youtube to watch a video and the autoplay ad was an AI fake of tom hanks spouting fake diabetes cures. google is making money off this???

submitted 9 days ago • 79 comments

“The collapse of democracy, rule of law, and climate at once leaves us with one lesson: the truth may hurt, but the lies will kill you.” — They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent by Sarah Kendzior a.co/2lzKZ4h

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

It’s almost like “ai” is a massive scheme to devalue, and destabilize labor while shifting power back into the hands of corporations.

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments