Sarah J. Jackson
@sjjphd.bsky.social
Prof and researcher. Race, media, activism, feminism, tech and politics but not always in that order. Co-Director @miccenter.bsky.social
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Opinions definitely my own
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Opinions definitely my own
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Just in case you missed this article about the erosion of the 14th and 15th Amendments during the holiday. Important reporting by @adamserwer.bsky.social
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Just in case you missed this article about the erosion of the 14th and 15th Amendments during the holiday. Important reporting by @adamserwer.bsky.social
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No matter how you slice it, US police officers are safer on the job and paid waaaaay more than other countries' police despite doing a…less than stellar job
The question isn't more police vs. less police. It's why are US police paid so much while doing such little and such poor police work?
The question isn't more police vs. less police. It's why are US police paid so much while doing such little and such poor police work?
December 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
No matter how you slice it, US police officers are safer on the job and paid waaaaay more than other countries' police despite doing a…less than stellar job
The question isn't more police vs. less police. It's why are US police paid so much while doing such little and such poor police work?
The question isn't more police vs. less police. It's why are US police paid so much while doing such little and such poor police work?
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Ding ding ding
My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it
December 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Ding ding ding
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there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke
On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
December 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke
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"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.
December 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.
From @jticona.bsky.social and Caitlin Petre, some great insights for policy and organizing from their interviews with artists grappling with the economic and labor impacts of AI
Opinion | Will Creative Work Survive A.I.?
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
From @jticona.bsky.social and Caitlin Petre, some great insights for policy and organizing from their interviews with artists grappling with the economic and labor impacts of AI
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Let me understand you correctly, governments can care that people are being murdered?
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g
Australia announces strict new gun laws. Here's how it can act so swiftly
Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws.
n.pr
December 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Let me understand you correctly, governments can care that people are being murdered?
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Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman at Brown, had a condition as a child that required brain surgery. The experience created an unshakable ambition to become a brain surgeon, his sister said.
He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
Brown shooting victim was pursuing dream of becoming brain surgeon
Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, was one of two people killed at Brown University on Saturday.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman at Brown, had a condition as a child that required brain surgery. The experience created an unshakable ambition to become a brain surgeon, his sister said.
He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
One of the may things I now hate about Google scholar…
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
One of the may things I now hate about Google scholar…
Well anyway, if you are actually interested in the relationship between materialism and feminism and standpoint and incels (aka mad about that article Seth posted) here’s the thread you should read
Standpoint theory does not claim that suffering automatically grants political authority. Or objective truth.
Insight is situated, not infallible.
The problem here is epistemic neoliberalism. Where experience is commodified as moral capital; not feminism as a materialist project.
Insight is situated, not infallible.
The problem here is epistemic neoliberalism. Where experience is commodified as moral capital; not feminism as a materialist project.
Jacobin 🤜🤛 Rod Dreher
“What if the Combahee River Collective is to blame for Nick Fuentes?”
“What if the Combahee River Collective is to blame for Nick Fuentes?”
December 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Well anyway, if you are actually interested in the relationship between materialism and feminism and standpoint and incels (aka mad about that article Seth posted) here’s the thread you should read
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This is the exact lighting they use for the pic to accompany a profile of a professor who got suspended because he kept using slurs in class as a supposed intellectual provocation.
I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
December 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This is the exact lighting they use for the pic to accompany a profile of a professor who got suspended because he kept using slurs in class as a supposed intellectual provocation.
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I’m not making free content for a website owned by a guy who thinks my family existing is a form of genocide against white people, which is why I’m not going back to that place.
December 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I’m not making free content for a website owned by a guy who thinks my family existing is a form of genocide against white people, which is why I’m not going back to that place.
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“It can feel like ICE agents are everywhere. That, presumably, is how they want it to feel. At the same time, more and more people who have never engaged in anything like these actions before are purposefully running toward the trouble.”
At the outset of Week 3 of the MN 🧊 invasion, CAN CONFIRM
At the outset of Week 3 of the MN 🧊 invasion, CAN CONFIRM
Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance
Residents have organized a formidable network to protect immigrant communities from Trump’s brutal deportation program. Their efforts are making a genuine difference.
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“It can feel like ICE agents are everywhere. That, presumably, is how they want it to feel. At the same time, more and more people who have never engaged in anything like these actions before are purposefully running toward the trouble.”
At the outset of Week 3 of the MN 🧊 invasion, CAN CONFIRM
At the outset of Week 3 of the MN 🧊 invasion, CAN CONFIRM
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Also we've fetishized "debate” in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms aren’t organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.
"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
December 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Also we've fetishized "debate” in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms aren’t organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.
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Using AI to monitor schools for thoughtcrime bsky.app/profile/chad...
“At Texas A&M, internal emails show staff are using AI software to search syllabi and course descriptions for words that could raise concerns under new system policies restricting how faculty teach about race and gender.”
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
www.texastribune.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Using AI to monitor schools for thoughtcrime bsky.app/profile/chad...
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While researching a Revolutionary War ancestor, Jane Woolsey Gropp learned about the Marbleheaders, a diverse group of fishermen & sailors, inc free African Americans & Native Americans, from Marblehead, MA, who played a crucial role in key military operations. thebedfordcitizen.org/event/a-jour...
“A Journey to Find an Ancestor and Honor His Faith in Diversity” - The Bedford Citizen
While researching her Revolutionary War ancestor, General John Glover, Jane Woolsey Gropp of Lexington learned about the Marbleheaders, a group of fishermen and sailors from the coastal town of Marble...
thebedfordcitizen.org
December 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
While researching a Revolutionary War ancestor, Jane Woolsey Gropp learned about the Marbleheaders, a diverse group of fishermen & sailors, inc free African Americans & Native Americans, from Marblehead, MA, who played a crucial role in key military operations. thebedfordcitizen.org/event/a-jour...
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Girl in a Pink Dress
Laura Wheeler Waring
Laura Wheeler Waring
December 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Girl in a Pink Dress
Laura Wheeler Waring
Laura Wheeler Waring
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📑"On the one hand, who has a greater insight into social phenomena than those who have experienced them first-hand? But on the other, what is the role for sociologists relative to the realities we study?"
#LivedExperience #Sociology
#LivedExperience #Sociology
What social scientists talk about when they talk about ‘Lived Experience’ - Impact of Social Sciences
Paul Jones explores how 'lived experience' is used in practice by sociologists and what this reveals about lived experience more broadly.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
📑"On the one hand, who has a greater insight into social phenomena than those who have experienced them first-hand? But on the other, what is the role for sociologists relative to the realities we study?"
#LivedExperience #Sociology
#LivedExperience #Sociology
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Everytime I read something like this it makes me so angry.
The fact that a society has been letting this happen for so long and so often that there are now regularly people who live through a second mass shooting before even finishing their education is the most shocking indictment of US politics
The fact that a society has been letting this happen for so long and so often that there are now regularly people who live through a second mass shooting before even finishing their education is the most shocking indictment of US politics
December 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Everytime I read something like this it makes me so angry.
The fact that a society has been letting this happen for so long and so often that there are now regularly people who live through a second mass shooting before even finishing their education is the most shocking indictment of US politics
The fact that a society has been letting this happen for so long and so often that there are now regularly people who live through a second mass shooting before even finishing their education is the most shocking indictment of US politics
I hate this for us and them and everyone
My belief now is that my job is to get shot and try to buy my kids’ some time. Welcome to teaching.
December 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I hate this for us and them and everyone
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I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC.
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
Donate Blood
Check your eligibility to donate blood, learn about the process and why blood matters, and enroll in a RIBC Donor Loyalty Rewards programs.
www.ribc.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC.
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
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In case you have never seen this.
December 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
In case you have never seen this.
Lol.
NEW: A legal group founded by Stephen Miller filed a federal complaint this week against the NFL's San Francisco 49ers, calling for investigation into discrimination arising from DEI. The complaint names Head Coach Kyle Shanahan and says "merit is apparently tossed aside for woke ideology."
December 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Lol.
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Deeply disappointed to hear that the BBC has pushed out one of the most brilliant presenters in all of science communication for speaking with integrity and honor in support of human rights and dignity.
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Deeply disappointed to hear that the BBC has pushed out one of the most brilliant presenters in all of science communication for speaking with integrity and honor in support of human rights and dignity.