Becca Lewis
@beccalew.bsky.social
Assistant prof of comparative media studies @MIT, researching the rise of right-wing politics in Silicon Valley and online. Email me at [email protected]. Read my stuff at www.beccalew.org.
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again: you can openly pursue a policy of ethnic cleansing and be received as engaging in "racially charged rhetoric" so long as you are not sufficiently rude about it. and yet the present administration cannot manage even this
February 6, 2026 at 5:20 PM
again: you can openly pursue a policy of ethnic cleansing and be received as engaging in "racially charged rhetoric" so long as you are not sufficiently rude about it. and yet the present administration cannot manage even this
i don't just mean this as an exercise in eye-rolling, btw -- it's genuinely fascinating to see how much has shifted in the time since then, in both predictable and unpredictable ways
January 30, 2026 at 6:54 PM
i don't just mean this as an exercise in eye-rolling, btw -- it's genuinely fascinating to see how much has shifted in the time since then, in both predictable and unpredictable ways
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kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life