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My favorite part of Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan interview is when he suggests there is not enough masculine energy at his company, where two out of every three employees is a man.

White people, it’s not enough to not be racist. Y’all need to HATE racism like Kendrick Lamar hates Drake. Commit to the goddamned bit.

graphs showing gaps with rows of Agriculture, mining, manufacturing, services, and "other", across columns of average, High-skilled, Medium-skilled, and Low-skilled. gaps appear in every intersection.

also:

"And this is not due to sectoral differences. It is occurring across all sectors, even as the global South's share of industrial manufacturing and high-skilled labour in the world economy has increased dramatically over this very period."

Hickel continues:

"Wage disparities are so extreme that high-skilled workers in the global South (physicists, surgeons, engineers, logistics managers, etc) receive 68% less than low-skilled labour in the global North, in terms of their command over total global output. No one should accept this."

Jason Hickel Tweet: "People often assume that capitalist globalization is closing the wage gap between workers in the global North and global South. But it's not happening. In fact, the North-South wage gap is *increasing*." tweet comes alongside a graph with average, high-skilled, medium-skilled, and low-skilled charts, all of which show a significant gap

couple notes from a Jason Hickel thread from over on Twitter:

Reject the premise; reframe the argument. Rinse, repeat.

I think it speaks volumes that right wingers criticize bluesky for being “liberal” and “left wing”, when it’s really just that hate speech isn’t allowed.

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

Don't limit the political perspectives you read, instead have an open mind and read the political perspectives served to you by the algorithm controlled by the billionaire right-hand man of the billionaire president-elect of the United States of America

Hi Bluesky friends: I wanted to share that my book, THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US, is coming out in March. Based on a half-decade of reporting, it examines the rise of America's "working homeless," following five Atlanta families desperate to secure housing in a gentrifying, increasingly unequal city.

Go baby!!!

Another show 🎨

Levar Burton's work, Aftermath, pulling no punches from page one and feeling very timely right now.

(Also, I should mention that there is a metric ton of trigger warnings for readers of this novel) 📚💙

Political players, terms, mediums have changed. The playbook for cultivating White anger to defend and extend the structure of racism has remained the same. 2/2

Remember: colonizers branded those defending their ancestral lands as hating White people, enslavers framed abolition as harmful to White people, lynchers cast Black empowerment as White disempowerment, segregationists labeled desegregation as anti-White. 1/2

people who have never experienced open racism — or open bigotry of any sort — do not appreciate the way it can be psychologically destabilizing. and on the main, it actually isn’t healthy to be so resilient and thick-skinned that you don’t react to slurs and dehumanization

sometimes, i might be
a bad version of me…

Are there any Black political historians on this app? And maybe I should be more specific: U.S. politics/political history

@joyelcrawford.bsky.social Hi there! 🖤 Pleased to be following your work.

Beautiful!

My book Show Your Ask and I were featured on @goodmorningamerica.com.web.brid.gy twice this year! 😍

White masculinity is an identity, and playing up the defense of it — via the state, via norms, via violence — is identity politics.

Post by Charlotte Clymer: Every transphobic argument can basically be boiled down to: "I actually don't know the science at all or have a good argument here, but trans people challenge my long held view of the world and it's very uncomfortable and everyone should be expected to move around my discomfort."

This…this is it. In a nutshell, yes.

Anyway, this is your reminder that any member of the Court that is signing on to the idea that “deep seated history” and “tradition” should guide our understanding of the Constitution does not want people to have any of these rights.

I don’t think people realize that almost everything that we think of when we think of our “freedoms” was not part of US history until very, very recently.

It wasn’t the Constitution that gave us these things. It was the Warren Court’s reading of the Constitution.

This is a great thread, and I want to add one thing to it: a lot of people do not recognize how significantly criminal procedure changed from 1900 to the modern day.

It’s not just democratic protections against voting that posed a problem.