Katie Kaufman Rogers, PhD
@drkatierogers.bsky.social
sociologist, critical criminologist, ethnographer 🏔️ Asst. Professor @Regis Univ. 🌱 Book-writing: How Gender & Race Shape the Cannabis Industry 🏳️🌈 she/her
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📌 On why media literacy must go beyond "is this a legitimate outlet, are any of these 'facts' true?" and into why and how specific things are thrust before the public eye. Short 🧵
Bonus: the many people in the replies demonstrating why this kind of literacy is desperately, desperately needed. 👇🏽
Bonus: the many people in the replies demonstrating why this kind of literacy is desperately, desperately needed. 👇🏽
This is a great example of the need for us to collectively develop critical water media analysis:
a) Why was this segment produced
b) why now
c) who came up with the idea
d) who is the “bad guy” in this take
e) who does that make the “good guy” (extra points if the answer is same as c)
a) Why was this segment produced
b) why now
c) who came up with the idea
d) who is the “bad guy” in this take
e) who does that make the “good guy” (extra points if the answer is same as c)
A cheeseburger uses a lot more water than a ChatGPT request 🍔
Actual farms, not the data center variety, are sucking up groundwater more quickly than surface water, explains @markgongloff.bsky.social 🎥
Actual farms, not the data center variety, are sucking up groundwater more quickly than surface water, explains @markgongloff.bsky.social 🎥
August 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
📌 On why media literacy must go beyond "is this a legitimate outlet, are any of these 'facts' true?" and into why and how specific things are thrust before the public eye. Short 🧵
Bonus: the many people in the replies demonstrating why this kind of literacy is desperately, desperately needed. 👇🏽
Bonus: the many people in the replies demonstrating why this kind of literacy is desperately, desperately needed. 👇🏽
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“Protecting migrants also means confronting whorephobia, racism, and criminalization... Defending the rights of migrant sex workers is essential to a broader movement for immigrant justice.”
- Kate Zen & @chanellegallant.bsky.social
truthout.org/articles/sex...
- Kate Zen & @chanellegallant.bsky.social
truthout.org/articles/sex...
Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics
Sex workers targeted by ICE need the migrant justice movement’s full solidarity.
truthout.org
July 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
“Protecting migrants also means confronting whorephobia, racism, and criminalization... Defending the rights of migrant sex workers is essential to a broader movement for immigrant justice.”
- Kate Zen & @chanellegallant.bsky.social
truthout.org/articles/sex...
- Kate Zen & @chanellegallant.bsky.social
truthout.org/articles/sex...
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Keep reminding folks of this.
The Senators that voted 'yes' on this disastrous bill represent more than 30 million FEWER Americans than the Senators that voted 'no.'
July 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Keep reminding folks of this.
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I know it seems obvious to a lot of people that an academic department without many majors must be struggling so it makes sense to cut them. But that's just not how it works. The people in that dept are the only people who can teach the classes they teach - a dept is struggling if no one takes those
July 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I know it seems obvious to a lot of people that an academic department without many majors must be struggling so it makes sense to cut them. But that's just not how it works. The people in that dept are the only people who can teach the classes they teach - a dept is struggling if no one takes those
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*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*
July 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*
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Because Black people know that there is no such thing as “identification” or “identifying yourself”. They aren’t saying Padilla didn’t identify himself as a U.S. Senator. They are saying that there is only one acceptable identity — credential — being white and, in these times, being pro-Trump.
June 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Because Black people know that there is no such thing as “identification” or “identifying yourself”. They aren’t saying Padilla didn’t identify himself as a U.S. Senator. They are saying that there is only one acceptable identity — credential — being white and, in these times, being pro-Trump.
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This is why so many of Trump’s public interpreters are young white women. They bring this to his toolkit.
Did anyone else read Jeff’s piece on this re: Noem? It is in the pocket.
religiondispatches.org/dont-take-th...
Did anyone else read Jeff’s piece on this re: Noem? It is in the pocket.
religiondispatches.org/dont-take-th...
June 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This is why so many of Trump’s public interpreters are young white women. They bring this to his toolkit.
Did anyone else read Jeff’s piece on this re: Noem? It is in the pocket.
religiondispatches.org/dont-take-th...
Did anyone else read Jeff’s piece on this re: Noem? It is in the pocket.
religiondispatches.org/dont-take-th...
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As you see officers brutalizing pregnant citizens and detaining high school volleyball players and shooting at international journalists — remember these 58 Democrats who voted with Republicans for the Laken Riley Act, enabling Trump's ICE and empowering it to detain people without any due process
June 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
As you see officers brutalizing pregnant citizens and detaining high school volleyball players and shooting at international journalists — remember these 58 Democrats who voted with Republicans for the Laken Riley Act, enabling Trump's ICE and empowering it to detain people without any due process
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*looks directly at camera*
President Trump says he plans to start “phasing out” FEMA after the hurricane season, and that he also plans to distribute disaster relief funds directly from the president’s office.
Trump says FEMA to be wound down after hurricane season
Trump also said he planned to distribute disaster relief funds directly from the president’s office.
nbcnews.to
June 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
*looks directly at camera*
Appalled, disturbed, furious, but unsurprised (given her record) to see that my rep. Brittany Petterson @pettersen.house.gov joined more than a third (!!!!) of House Democrats & the GOP in voting to "express gratitude" for ICE & its violent terror campaign against immigrants & the antiwar movement.
June 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Appalled, disturbed, furious, but unsurprised (given her record) to see that my rep. Brittany Petterson @pettersen.house.gov joined more than a third (!!!!) of House Democrats & the GOP in voting to "express gratitude" for ICE & its violent terror campaign against immigrants & the antiwar movement.
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"Would the situation somehow be less violent were ICE left to snatch and disappear people without impediment?" interc.pt/4kT2vku
June 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"Would the situation somehow be less violent were ICE left to snatch and disappear people without impediment?" interc.pt/4kT2vku
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The Los Angeles Protests Are an Act of Self-Defense newrepublic.com/article/1963... via @newrepublic.com
The Los Angeles Protests Are an Act of Self-Defense
Residents of L.A. aren’t merely protesting ICE; they’re attempting to protect their communities from ICE’s raids.
newrepublic.com
June 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The Los Angeles Protests Are an Act of Self-Defense newrepublic.com/article/1963... via @newrepublic.com
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The level of surveillance and policing demanded by transphobia will always be more disruptive to your life than the rights and demands of trans people ourselves
This is going to be an absolute car crash, the Supreme Court verdict looks more absurd by the day
www.thetimes.com/article/86fb...
www.thetimes.com/article/86fb...
May 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The level of surveillance and policing demanded by transphobia will always be more disruptive to your life than the rights and demands of trans people ourselves
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One of the more frustrating things about the way many think about racism is that unless someone uses slurs, mainstream outlets and some academics give the benefit of the doubt.
You can resegregate schools, lie and claim that it’s about “markets” or “choice,” and get invites in polite society.
You can resegregate schools, lie and claim that it’s about “markets” or “choice,” and get invites in polite society.
May 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
One of the more frustrating things about the way many think about racism is that unless someone uses slurs, mainstream outlets and some academics give the benefit of the doubt.
You can resegregate schools, lie and claim that it’s about “markets” or “choice,” and get invites in polite society.
You can resegregate schools, lie and claim that it’s about “markets” or “choice,” and get invites in polite society.
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When I wrote that these folks were segregationists, the response from some quarters was that I was exaggerating or missing the bigger picture.
But they are literally segregationists and increasingly open about that fact.
But they are literally segregationists and increasingly open about that fact.
Some Republicans Push to Put School Desegregation Officially in the Past
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 10:06 AM
When I wrote that these folks were segregationists, the response from some quarters was that I was exaggerating or missing the bigger picture.
But they are literally segregationists and increasingly open about that fact.
But they are literally segregationists and increasingly open about that fact.
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Reuters: Food rations that could feed 3.5 million people for a month are rotting in warehouses around the world because of U.S. aid cuts and risk becoming unusable, according to five people familiar with the situation.
Exclusive: US aid cuts leave food for millions mouldering in storage
The food stocks have been stuck inside four U.S. government warehouses since the Trump administration's decision in January to cut global aid programs.
www.reuters.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Reuters: Food rations that could feed 3.5 million people for a month are rotting in warehouses around the world because of U.S. aid cuts and risk becoming unusable, according to five people familiar with the situation.
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New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
April 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
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Racial exclusion is a thing of the past, so we are going to return to it?!?
May 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Racial exclusion is a thing of the past, so we are going to return to it?!?
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
whew—can’t wait to discuss @josephmello.bsky.social’s insightful book on the pitfalls of the United States’ prevailing profit-driven approach to cannabis legalization. Join us at his AMR next weekend at the @lawandsociety.bsky.social annual mtg!
May 16, 2025 at 12:46 AM
whew—can’t wait to discuss @josephmello.bsky.social’s insightful book on the pitfalls of the United States’ prevailing profit-driven approach to cannabis legalization. Join us at his AMR next weekend at the @lawandsociety.bsky.social annual mtg!
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Can I sue the preschooler who got my preschooler into Paw Patrol
May 16, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Can I sue the preschooler who got my preschooler into Paw Patrol
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May 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social
Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”
Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”
May 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social
Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”
Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”
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“Staffers at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts said Thursday that they plan to form a union in response to several waves of layoffs and what they describe as a lack of transparency from leaders at the arts institution, which President Donald Trump took over in February.”
Kennedy Center employees announce plans to unionize
Staffers asked the National Labor Relations Board to oversee a union vote. They criticized leaders at the arts center for layoffs and a lack of transparency under President Donald Trump.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:28 AM
“Staffers at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts said Thursday that they plan to form a union in response to several waves of layoffs and what they describe as a lack of transparency from leaders at the arts institution, which President Donald Trump took over in February.”