Sammie Rae Stephens

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Sociologist & policy wonk

Progressive who's fed up with the right's assault on facts. Passionate about economic, racial & sexual equality; protecting the right to vote; and strengthening democracy.

Kushner blocked Biden access to COVID-19 planning: former aide

Alyssa Farah Griffin told the Jan. 6 committee that Jared Kushner ruled that Biden's transition "absolutely not" be briefed on pandemic planning.

Insider

This piece in New York Magazine by Olivia Nuzzi has been generating superlatives— for good reason. Her artistry as a writer.

Donald Trump's Final Campaign: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-running-for-president-2024.html

"There [his Doral club] he meets regularly with an impressive, ideologically diverse range of policy wonks, diplomats, and political theorists for conversations about the global economy and military conflicts and constitutional law and I’m kidding. He goes there to play golf.”

#journalism #journalists #uspolitics

I began regularly tweeting in 2019, first just to promote my books. This month I decided to stop tweeting not for any political reason or to make a statement, but because the product had degraded. My feed was filled with a bunch of nonsense that wasn’t fun to wade through. As a consumer (and content creator), I decided to go elsewhere. And that is exactly how it should be: platforms should be free to decide how to moderate, and consumers should be free to decide whether to go elsewhere.
Looking forward to seeing Halle Bailey as The Little Mermaid! When the haters chime in on something as innocent as a fairy tale, you know you’re doing something right. #blackmastodon #blackfriday #blackjoy #TheLittleMermaid #blackactors
The way these racists keep holding on to their take on "history" no matter what! #BlackFriday #BlackMastodon
"Stafford took good care of his slaves. If caught up on their work, they could hire themselves out to the other plantation owners so they could earn their own money. However, when the Civil War started and Cumberland Island was taken over by the Union army, all of Stafford’s slaves left him—to his great surprise."
https://npplan.com/parks-by-state/georgia/cumberland-island-national-seashore-park-at-a-glance/cumberland-island-national-seashore-historical-sites/cumberland-island-national-seashore-dungeness/cumberland-island-national-seashore-slavery-on-cumberland-island/
Cumberland Island National Seashore | SLAVERY ON CUMBERLAND ISLAND

The third stop on a tour of the Dungeness historical area is is a general information stop where you can learn about slavery on Cumberland Island.

National Park Planner
Statue of Henrietta Lacks will replace Robert E Lee - BBC News

She will be honoured decades after cells taken without her consent helped revolutionise medicine.

BBC News

@Jaden2

well said.

i always have to remind people that the actual KKK conducted a march in my town in PA as recently as 1980. Segregation is so recent, my parents actively participated in it.

They'd hoped that I'd be part of it too. I'm in my mid-30s, and a lot of my peers think it's ancient history.

The incident Musk used to justify suspending journalists had nothing to do with tracking his plane. Although we already knew that from OSINT folks--who pointed out that the incident occurred nowhere near an airport--the truth is apparently weirder. Remember how the local police said no report had been filed? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/20/police-provide-first-official-details-on-elon-musks-alleged-stalker-incident
Police provide first official details of Elon Musk’s alleged stalker incident

Police say a member of Elon Musk’s security team is currently a suspect in their investigation, not a victim

The Guardian

#Introduction - I'm Congress member Ritchie Torres from #NewYork , The past few days here have been great, I want to keep building our platform here on #Mastodon to make sure we can continue our conversations on a public social media platform.

Can you please BOOST this post and FOLLOW our account and encourage your followers to do the same? Thank you.

For anyone wondering, I'm still unable to access Twitter until I delete this tweet, which is factual journalism that doesn't even break the location rule Twitter enacted a few days ago. The account isn't marked as suspended anymore, but I can't use it or see tweets from people I follow. Using Mastodon exclusively for now and actually really enjoying it.