Dr. David King
@drdavidking.bsky.social
PhD in Psychology. Writer. Lecturer @ UBC
Nature Lover 🌱 & Dog Dad 🐾 Pro: Democracy, Science, Planet, & Social Justice 🏳️🌈💙✌️
Blog: https://www.thestateofus.net
Nature Lover 🌱 & Dog Dad 🐾 Pro: Democracy, Science, Planet, & Social Justice 🏳️🌈💙✌️
Blog: https://www.thestateofus.net
“They sell us individualism because we can’t defeat them alone.” 💙
November 8, 2025 at 3:57 AM
“They sell us individualism because we can’t defeat them alone.” 💙
“When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.”
— Lin Yutang
— Lin Yutang
July 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
“When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.”
— Lin Yutang
— Lin Yutang
It’s sadistic at this point. There’s no way around it. Implying that Americans can find pleasure in watching people be deported in shackles is next level cruelty…
www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/02/...
www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/02/...
White House posts video of immigrants in shackles, calls deportation footage 'ASMR'
President Donald Trump has made the crackdown on undocumented immigrants living in the United States a priority for his second term in the White House.
www.cnbc.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
It’s sadistic at this point. There’s no way around it. Implying that Americans can find pleasure in watching people be deported in shackles is next level cruelty…
www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/02/...
www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/02/...
It’s all SO reckless…
February 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It’s all SO reckless…
You’ve gotta be kidding…
February 13, 2025 at 4:55 AM
You’ve gotta be kidding…
This is what I find so unsettling: waiting until it mounts to a more extreme level is when it’s going to be too late. We should be responding to any little hint of #fascism as it arises. As time passes, more power will be accrued and the worst-case scenario will only become more likely…
January 31, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This is what I find so unsettling: waiting until it mounts to a more extreme level is when it’s going to be too late. We should be responding to any little hint of #fascism as it arises. As time passes, more power will be accrued and the worst-case scenario will only become more likely…
Anti-fascist all the way…
January 28, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Anti-fascist all the way…
“The professors are the enemy,” according to them. Of course they are. Education broadly is the enemy when you seek unmitigated power…
January 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
“The professors are the enemy,” according to them. Of course they are. Education broadly is the enemy when you seek unmitigated power…
This...
January 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
This...
So, just to be clear, one of his PRIORITIES this time around was to roll back decades-long protections against discrimination on the basis of sex, race, nationality, religion, and sexual orientation…
Trump Just Revoked Anti-Discrimination Rules Enacted By LBJ In 1965
The new president just unwound a landmark anti-discrimination measure implemented amid the height of the Civil Rights Movement.
www.huffpost.com
January 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
So, just to be clear, one of his PRIORITIES this time around was to roll back decades-long protections against discrimination on the basis of sex, race, nationality, religion, and sexual orientation…
Whether or not it was intentional is sort of beside the point. If I were to make a gesture like this "by accident" in the classroom, I would still be held accountable. In part because I'm white, in part because I'm in a position of authority. Musk should know better. We should all know better...
Musk's straight-arm gesture embraced by right-wing extremists regardless of what he meant
Many social media users noticed that the gesture looked like a Nazi salute. Musk has only fanned the flames of suspicion by not explicitly denying those claims.
apnews.com
January 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Whether or not it was intentional is sort of beside the point. If I were to make a gesture like this "by accident" in the classroom, I would still be held accountable. In part because I'm white, in part because I'm in a position of authority. Musk should know better. We should all know better...
It’s crystal clear at this point…
January 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It’s crystal clear at this point…
