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Sarah J. Jackson

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Prof and researcher. Race, media, activism, feminism, tech and politics but not always in that order. Co-Director @miccenter.bsky.social Preorder my latest: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/a-second-sight-sarah-j-jackson Opinions definitely my own

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 29d

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

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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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 53m

So if I take my baby to a No Kings protest does she also get paid, or is it like an adults only deal with Soros

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Po Murray @pomurray.bsky.social · 1h

Breaking News! MIT became the first university to reject the Trump administration’s compact of demands, after its president Sally Kornbluth said the practices of the school already “meet or exceed many standards outlined” by the federal government.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/10/b...

MIT becomes first school to reject proposed ‘compact’ with Trump administration - The Boston Globe

MIT president Sally Kornbluth said the university’s practices already “meet or exceed” the federal government’s list of demands.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4h

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 4h

Yep, another great example

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 4h

It might be hard to convey to people outside economics just how seismic this is. The Trump effect has most certainly arrived to US academia.

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 8h

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 4h

I just want to live in a world where kids learn civics and history in school and words mean things.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 4h

It absolutely feeds the fantastical paranoia of the movement for inverted victimhood and righteousness that is a projection of the many actual secret societies and orgs that white supremacists have joined since reconstruction

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 4h

Right. Was everyone looking at each other like, “are you seeing this too?!”

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t understand your question? Professor Bray and many scholars are experts in antifascist politics and movements, which have existed across all human history, that’s not the same thing as an organization called “antifa” existing in the way right-wing orgs imagine and insist.

Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 4h

In these contexts words come to mean absolutely nothing, totally devoid of context, besides what authoritarians insist they mean which is an always moving target to correct and that’s well…pretty bad!

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 4h

As someone who has studied the circulation of terms “subversive” and “communist” in the lead to and through McCarthyism as empty signifiers to justify violent suppression I feel like I’m both amazed and unsurprised how transparently and unsophisticatedly “woke” and “antifa” are now doing the same.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 4h

Curious if folks are getting the impression that those around them are unaware antifa is not an org? We know this admin is dead set on pretending it is & many media are uncritically perpetuating that. Feels like we’re watching an elite disinfo campaign move in both a rapid and absurdist fashion.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15h

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 15h

but I was told #metoo made men so afraid they wouldn't even talk to women

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16h

Lmao

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 16h

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 16h

Hi, if you are new to me, I hate euphemisms.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 16h

“divisive issues” 🫠

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23h

As Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”

As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

lede = introductory section in journalism

bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information

Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.