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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Sarah J. Jackson
@sjjphd.bsky.social
· Sep 11
A Second Sight
Since the nation’s founding, Black Americans have had a unique perspective on the U.S. experience—a “second sight”—that reveals the truth about the nation t...
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I know there is a lot going on but this went online last night and I am very proud it’s real. If you might be excited to find out how at every turn this nation could have prevented our current political moment by listening to Black people you can even preorder it before we get to designing the cover
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
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My public service announcement for today is that America’s Test Kitchen, which is infinitely better then NYTimes Cooking, has introduced a new gift link option that has no limit on how many you can share and each link lasts 30 days.
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
My public service announcement for today is that America’s Test Kitchen, which is infinitely better then NYTimes Cooking, has introduced a new gift link option that has no limit on how many you can share and each link lasts 30 days.
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I will say that most everyone I could want on Mamdani’s transition team from the serious NYC based scholar-activists I know *is* on the team. I lived in NY across 3 mayors and that never happened before. It’s so exciting!
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I will say that most everyone I could want on Mamdani’s transition team from the serious NYC based scholar-activists I know *is* on the team. I lived in NY across 3 mayors and that never happened before. It’s so exciting!
That’s the second empirical study I’ve seen this week that does an excellent job w/ right-wing radicalizing discourse. The other is this study on anti-immigration in France which is fantastic (and I’m not only saying that b/c they cited my and @dkreiss.bsky.social’s work on “defensive publics”)
Flooding the Feed: The Politics of Social Media Sharing Among Defensive Publics
What political significance do widely-shared sources on social media carry? Efforts at documenting media content have produced useful insights about political phenomena, including right-wing populi...
www.tandfonline.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
That’s the second empirical study I’ve seen this week that does an excellent job w/ right-wing radicalizing discourse. The other is this study on anti-immigration in France which is fantastic (and I’m not only saying that b/c they cited my and @dkreiss.bsky.social’s work on “defensive publics”)
Interesting: this study suggests that white support for anti-democratic policies targeting immigrants increases in places with increased Black pops but not increased Latine pops. Meaning at core what is activated in anti-democratic ideology is anti-Black racism even when the targets are not Black.
My piece has been published in PNAS today!!! "The importance of local racial demographic changes in democratic erosion in the mass American public" www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
A few takeaways...
A few takeaways...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Interesting: this study suggests that white support for anti-democratic policies targeting immigrants increases in places with increased Black pops but not increased Latine pops. Meaning at core what is activated in anti-democratic ideology is anti-Black racism even when the targets are not Black.
Don’t get me started on how they ruined google scholar
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Don’t get me started on how they ruined google scholar
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
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I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
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Honored to serve on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee on Technology. For too long, too many New Yorkers have been left behind. NYC deserves governance that centers affordability, equity, and the public good-looking forward to the work ahead. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announces transition committees
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Monday the creation of 17 transition advisory committees made up of more than 400 people.
www.cbsnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Honored to serve on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee on Technology. For too long, too many New Yorkers have been left behind. NYC deserves governance that centers affordability, equity, and the public good-looking forward to the work ahead. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
Ms. Fletcher, Tulsa, and America always deserved so much more
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Ms. Fletcher, Tulsa, and America always deserved so much more
I've heard highly efficient people don't read and edit every email they send six times but I wouldn't know because 😫
November 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I've heard highly efficient people don't read and edit every email they send six times but I wouldn't know because 😫
Oh sure, I tell the kids the same thing every day but this guy is some kind of saint for saying it
Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth reut.rs/48tKTYY
Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth
Artificial intelligence may be a useful tool for learning, but don't use it for your homework, Pope Leo told about 15,000 U.S. youth during a question-and-answer session on Friday.
reut.rs
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Oh sure, I tell the kids the same thing every day but this guy is some kind of saint for saying it
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Once again: read @mariahblake.bsky.social's "They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals"
bookshop.org/p/books/they...
bookshop.org/p/books/they...
EPA just approved new ‘forever chemical’ pesticides for use on food
Critics warn the EPA’s approvals of new PFAS pesticides could expose more Americans to “forever chemicals” through their food.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Once again: read @mariahblake.bsky.social's "They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals"
bookshop.org/p/books/they...
bookshop.org/p/books/they...
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X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
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In Rhode Island, ICE arrested an intern who worked for a court, and then a judge intervened to say they had the wrong person.
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
In Rhode Island, ICE arrested an intern who worked for a court, and then a judge intervened to say they had the wrong person.
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
Yes (I mean no but in the center, yes), and a lot of tech companies tested this and other forms of surveillance technology and “ai education” out on children in countries like Guatemala and India before they roped western kids into it too
Are we really at a stage in public education where we consider it OK to have literally Google-branded schoolchildren whose learner identities are tied to being "responsible AI" users of private for-profit technologies?
November 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Yes (I mean no but in the center, yes), and a lot of tech companies tested this and other forms of surveillance technology and “ai education” out on children in countries like Guatemala and India before they roped western kids into it too
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this boycott picket is part of the National We Ain't Buying It call for boycotts from November 27 through Cyber Monday - weaintbuyingit.com - The target orgs are Target, Amazon and Home Depot.
We Ain’t Buying It! - Economic Pressure on Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday - We Ain’t Buying It!
We Ain’t Buying It is an economic action and solidarity campaign designed to defend democracy and reclaim community power.
weaintbuyingit.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
this boycott picket is part of the National We Ain't Buying It call for boycotts from November 27 through Cyber Monday - weaintbuyingit.com - The target orgs are Target, Amazon and Home Depot.
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A very good piece. “The fact that many men believe they no longer even have to pretend to respect women in order to participate in public life makes it unlikely that anything will change anytime soon.”
President Piggy
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
A very good piece. “The fact that many men believe they no longer even have to pretend to respect women in order to participate in public life makes it unlikely that anything will change anytime soon.”
Okay I just saw the portion of that press conference re FDR and the new deal and one of these guys is engaged in a super smart moment of public political intervention and the other is being a narcissist and they are both really pleased with themselves
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Okay I just saw the portion of that press conference re FDR and the new deal and one of these guys is engaged in a super smart moment of public political intervention and the other is being a narcissist and they are both really pleased with themselves
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At #MozFest, we organized a surprise main stage session titled "Unlearning Cisnormativity: Trans Justice is Tech Justice."
The recording is now live, w/ @vektra.bsky.social, Dia Kayyali, Elijah MacKinnon, @alexhanna.bsky.social, and myself:
www.mozillafestival.org/en/2025-high...
@mozilla.org
The recording is now live, w/ @vektra.bsky.social, Dia Kayyali, Elijah MacKinnon, @alexhanna.bsky.social, and myself:
www.mozillafestival.org/en/2025-high...
@mozilla.org
Unlearning Cisnormativity - Mozilla Festival 2025
This year at Mozilla Festival, we unlearned the old rules of the internet to imagine new ways to build, connect, and create together. Watch the highlights on-demand.
www.mozillafestival.org
November 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
At #MozFest, we organized a surprise main stage session titled "Unlearning Cisnormativity: Trans Justice is Tech Justice."
The recording is now live, w/ @vektra.bsky.social, Dia Kayyali, Elijah MacKinnon, @alexhanna.bsky.social, and myself:
www.mozillafestival.org/en/2025-high...
@mozilla.org
The recording is now live, w/ @vektra.bsky.social, Dia Kayyali, Elijah MacKinnon, @alexhanna.bsky.social, and myself:
www.mozillafestival.org/en/2025-high...
@mozilla.org
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I was looking at protest photos from NC and if this isn’t the shadiest, most southern ass sign… I love you, Durham!
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I was looking at protest photos from NC and if this isn’t the shadiest, most southern ass sign… I love you, Durham!
We do coq au vin!
My friends and I have gone five straight years of never serving turkey at Canadian Thanksgiving, American Thanksgiving, or Christmas. We served char siu, prime rib, lobster, lamb, roast duck, and even a grocery store rotisserie chicken. Lots of options. It is fine to start your own traditions.
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
We do coq au vin!
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AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.