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Digital data analyst/Disinfo fighter in diversity, tech, media & politics 👩🏾‍💻http://digitalsista.me/about
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The thing with Trump is that he folds under the slightest pressure. Which is why it’s so infuriating that so many people make zero effort to push back on him.
August 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Outside the CDC, people are chanting “USA, not RFK.” They are fed up with having one unqualified person dictate the nation’s health. #USANotRFK
August 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Thousands of DC residents chanting “fuck Jeff Bezos” outside of the P Street Whole Foods
August 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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"Let me exercise my role as G7 chair" -- Carney steps in to stop Trump from taking more questions
June 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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I signed the final bills Melissa Hortman shepherded through the most narrowly divided legislature in the county. All of them bipartisan.

We debated, we found common ground, and we compromised.

That’s how democracy should function.
June 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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We are witnessing an epidemic of the abuse of the power of the federal government, including the criminal system, to target and intimidate Democrats and their supporters. Trump will escalate this until people stand up to him.

It is time we all have the courage to peacefully stand up and say enough!
June 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Similarly, from the "To Save Tech, Listen to Black Women" SXSW panel @digitalsista.bsky.social @safiyanoble.bsky.social and I proposed in 2018 ...

But no.

It's almost like tech doesn't want to get beyond its history of aiding hate, racists, sexists, nativists, and anti-LGBTQ+ bigots
March 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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The billionaires are SO STUPID.

How much are they responsible for how stupid this timeline is?

This is just one post of a thread.
Zuck seems to have been fed *the false narrative* that has circled around the Jim Jordan / Matt Taibbi / Elon Musk circus, *rather than* what *actually happened* at Meta by TALKING TO THE PEOPLE AT META who dealt with these issues.
January 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Remember too that a number of the people fighting those fires saving lives are incarcerated adults. Incarcerated teenagers, as well.
January 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Mental health tip: If you're suffering or dealing with chronic anxiety due to the LA fires (or intensely struggling for whatever other reason), research has shown that playing TETRIS can help prevent PTSD!

I'll repost in the am, but JUST remembered this:
Tetris used to prevent post-traumatic stress symptoms | University of
A single dose psychological intervention, which includes using the computer game Tetris, can prevent the unpleasant, intrusive memories that develop in some people after suffering a traumatic event.
www.ox.ac.uk
January 11, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed the first case of severe bird flu in the United States: A patient hospitalized in Louisiana
CDC confirms 1st case of severe bird flu in US
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first case of severe bird flu in the U.S. on Wednesday.
abcnews.go.com
December 18, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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If 77 -- SEVENTY SEVEN! --of the smartest people in the world so publicly denounced me as unfit (subtext "dummy"), I would die of shame.
Nobel laureates urge US Senate to reject Robert F Kennedy Jr’s nomination
Seventy-seven prize winners sign letter arguing Trump’s DHHS pick will put US public health ‘in jeopardy’
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2024 at 10:05 PM
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Just Elon Musk sharing an AI image of the New York Times engulfed in flame as a white nationalist Pepe mascot celebrates newfound influence.
December 10, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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This is literally true.

School vouchers were pioneered as a way to help white supremacists send their kids to a new wave of private "segregation academies" created expressly for the purpose.

From my book WHITE FLIGHT:
December 10, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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Yes! and @digitalsista.bsky.social is another one I followed from Twitter days who exposed this kind of network. So many good folks there did so much hard work on this and got ignored.
December 9, 2024 at 5:12 PM
While looking for a light skin man. He could just walk.
December 6, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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Seeing the mug shot of Nick Fuentes made my day.

🍿
December 6, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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Assigned media is great and everyone should read their reporting. They are doing good, on the ground, trans-centric journalism.
How does a transgender news outlet cover a major national story?

We center trans voices, and we tell the truth without showing excessive deference to the justices who are holding our lives in the balance.

Read Assigned Media's story on US vs Skrmetti.
Supporters of Trans Rights Rally Despite Conservative Court’s Ominous Leanings — Assigned
Outside supporters of trans rights showed their fighting spirit. While inside, questions about detransition signaled court’s openness to gender affirming care bans.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 5, 2024 at 1:15 AM
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Thanks! And for safety-related issues, social threat modeling provides a good framework for looking at how functionality's likely to be exploited -- medium.com/a-change-is-... cites
@digitalsista.bsky.social as well as Coral project, which
@blackamazon.bsky.social was involved with.
"Social threat modeling"
Structured approaches to looking at software's social risks
medium.com
December 3, 2024 at 1:48 AM
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Much of the food you eat this holiday season comes to your table from the hard-working hands of farm workers who harvest our food. #WeFeedYou
November 27, 2024 at 5:00 AM
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I was already excited to click on a news story about Rudy Giuliani having a meltdown in court today and YELLING at the judge. But nothing prepared me for the courtroom sketch
November 26, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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Drake is suing because he lost the dozens
a close up of a woman making a funny face while holding her ear .
ALT: a close up of a woman making a funny face while holding her ear .
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2024 at 10:01 PM
these yt boy narratives are always annoying to even listen to.
Progressive influencer Hasan Piker to CNN: “The Democratic Party needs to adopt real left-wing economic populist messaging, instead of purposely avoiding that stuff because they’re terrified of upsetting their corporate donors.”
November 27, 2024 at 5:06 AM
Apartheid Clyde.
"we inherited South Africa from the European countries, Britain and everything you know, they gave us all the rules"

there was really nothing to do but profit as much as humanly possible from the institutionalized racism that had absolutely nothing to do with me, a white South African
November 26, 2024 at 10:25 PM
It's interesting to me to see a title like this. But more importantly, the pic chosen.

apnews.com/article/neig...
White Florida woman sentenced to 25 years in prison for shooting Black neighbor in lengthy dispute
A white Florida woman who fatally shot a Black neighbor through her front door amid a long-running dispute has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for her manslaughter conviction.
apnews.com
November 26, 2024 at 9:35 PM