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USC Annenberg Journalism educator (Latino, aging, and general diversity issues), mom, gardener, wanna-be golfer, snarky optimist.
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This college class is teaching young people how to make phone calls - CNBC

Much of the chaos, lawlessness, and destruction of the past few weeks can be understood as part of the administration’s central ideological project: restoring America’s traditional hierarchies of race and gender. Call it the “Great Resegregation.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Breaking news: A federal judge in Maryland on Friday temporarily blocked key portions of President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the federal government and corporate America.

We could have had a human president right now. We could have been led by someone who went to battle for the most vulnerable and marginalized among us—and not with them. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-could-h...

Dispatch from the Northern Front.

“Fascism is here, America. May we have what is needed to drive it back to the hell it came from.” johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/fascism-is...

Project 2025 Explained in Schoolhouse Rock Style! www.filmsforaction.org/watch/projec...

“The president and the people working for him aren’t discussing a pithy acronym, but the unmaking of integration.” objectivejournalism.org/2025/02/you-...

SPJ stands up for the AP. www.linkedin.com/posts/societ...

The White House banned two AP reporters from covering two separate White House events because the AP Stylebook did not change its guidance to reflect President Trump’s order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. www.spj.org/spj-backs-ap...

Trump’s lawlessness: revoking birthright citizenship, freezing federal spending, removing leaders of other agencies, firing government employees subject to civil service protections and threatening to deport people based on their political views. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

“Journalists have a job to do and should never be attacked by high-ranking government officials for doing it,” Timothy Richardson, the journalism and disinformation program director at PEN America, a free-expression nonprofit, said in a statement.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/b...

Protect yourselves! freedom.press/digisec/blog...

Employers, take note. www.palabranahj.org/archive/the-...

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

Not an “undercurrent.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

“Musk’s lackeys have taken control of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and General Services Administration (GSA), and have gained access to the Treasury Department’s payment system … potentially allowing him access to a vast range of sensitive information…” www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Revolting. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...

Scary times for many, including the press. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“America” is a pretty big place. Check out this beer company’s tesoonsevto Trump. www.facebook.com/reel/9552699...

And I’m the Queen of California. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...

A female Bishop, telling it like it is. www.c-span.org/clip/white-h...

I hate this season of #Bridgerton

“Do not kiss the ring. Do not bend to power.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“At the urban fringes, the trade-off between housing and fire risk can be a profoundly difficult one to navigate.” calmatters.org/housing/2025...

As if officials don’t have enough to deal with! www.wsj.com/us-news/los-...

Any way to get this to Trump and his crew? As Los Angeles burned, Latino immigrants rushed in to put out fires www.npr.org/2025/01/10/n...

“The oil, gas and coal corporations have known for half a century that they were causing irreversible climate chaos, and their executives, lobbyists and lawyers chose to spread disinformation and block the transition to cleaner energy.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...

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Some ways to help during these fires. apnews.com/article/cali...

Stay safe even if you’re not near the fires. www.latimes.com/science/stor...

Anne Telnaes, Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post, has resigned. The paper censored a cartoon that criticized billionaires. Democracy dies in broad daylight, too. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

The USC administration has opposed faculty unionization, natch. But now: USC has joined anti-union corporations like SpaceX and Amazon in claiming the NLRB’s very structure is “unconstitutional”—a position that challenges not only faculty, but the rights of all workers to organize under federal law.

U.S. centenarians expected to quadruple over the next 30 years. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

And the hits keep coming. 😡https://morningtrojan.com/p/usc-cuts-national-merit-finalist-scholarship

“If USC can shell out over $28 million in one year to hire, fire and relocate its football coaches, surely it can spare a fraction of that to support the Daily Trojan.” dailytrojan.com/2024/12/20/u...

Why does President Musk hate children with cancer so much

Hoping for a solution. www.facebook.com/100051178785...

The news biz, like so many other industries, can be exploitative. www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/a-ge...

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Big news — a majority of non-tenure track full-time, part-time, and adjunct faculty at USC support forming our union, United Faculty-UAW! Together, we are committed to making USC a more equitable institution. Join the majority and sign your card today! unitedfaculty-uaw.org/card/

Hey, hey! www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2024/12/05/u...

We need journalists now more than ever. niemanreports.org/reporting-on...

So true! amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theg...

A few words about the big difference between PRIMARY and SECONDARY sources. Podcasters, TikTok stars and other "influencers" are getting all the attention right now, but for the most part they are secondary sources, talking about / riffing on / remixing what primary sources have gathered elsewhere