mike fleisch

This notion that we are fundamentally nations, states, individuals competing against each other has really got to go.

Early data suggest that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last year to strike down affirmative action in college admissions—and none of the other admissions factors that give preferential treatment to wealthier White applicants like legacies and boosts for children of donors—has led to a *significant* drop in the percentage of Black students coming into highly selective colleges this year. Amherst College, a nearly three-fourth drop Black students in the incoming class of 2028: 3% Black students in the incoming class of 2027: 11% MIT, a two-thirds drop Black students in the incoming class of 2028: 5% Black students in the incoming class of 2027: 15% Tufts University, a one-third drop Black students in the incoming class of 2028: 4.7% Black students in the incoming class of 2027: 7.3% The percentage of incoming Latinx students also declined significantly at Amherst and MIT. The percentage of Asian students slightly increased at Amherst and slightly decreased at Tufts. Meanwhile, the percentage of incoming White students rose at both Amherst and Tufts, which appears to have been the goal all along of the Supreme Court Justices and Edward Blum who brought this case before them. The SCOTUS ruling didn’t create an equitable application process for all students no matter their race or class. The SCOTUS ruling further rigged the process to admit more wealthy White students while telling Black, Latinx, Native, MENA, Pacific Islander students—and low and middle income White and Asian students that they didn’t get admitted to that highly selective college because there is something wrong with them. This is the racist American way these days. Claiming the most disadvantaged groups are the most advantaged. Reframing antiracist efforts that create equal opportunity as unjust. Passing measures and making rulings that end up further excluding disadvantaged groups from the most coveted spaces. Telling them they are excluded because there’s something wrong with them (and not the measures and rulings). Calling those measures and rulings and ideas “not racist.” Rinse and repeat. theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

A superhuman intersection of young at heart, self-confident, and comfortable in your own skin is the hipster coffee shop social media person asking everyone else for permission to use pictures of them on IG, and me being totally okay with it.

@globalcommonshq @owengaffney @Ipsos @Earth4All_ This is real progress

💰 Tax the rich, say a majority of adults across 17 G20 countries surveyed. 📊 There is strong support for progressive taxation to fund major changes to the economy and lifestyles, reveals a new @Ipsos survey from @Earth4All_ & Global Commons Alliance. See the results 👇

📢 NEW DATA: How do G20 citizens feel about the economy during the biggest election year in history? 71% believe that urgent action is needed on climate, according to a new @‌Ipsos survey. 🌎📊 Swipe to see more findings from @‌Earth4All_ and the Global Commons Alliance. 👇

In 2022, @Earth4All published global policy proposals, eg wealth tax, gender empowerment, stronger workers rights, to create conditions for societies to come together around existential risks. We asked @ipsos to assess support in #g20. We found: majority support.

NEW DATA | What do people across the world think about inequality, taxes, climate action & more? Earth4All and @‌globalcommonshq asked 18,000 people across 18 G20 countries their opinions on political & economic transformation. This is what we learned: ow.ly/Yj9N50Sn9su

@LZGranderson Yes yes you’re wondering where the clarity and consistency for which conservative thought is so well known and highly regarded has suddenly gone

Conservatives are upset that Caitlin Clark does not have a spot on the Olympic team and conservatives made Butker’s jersey No. 1 after he told recent graduates like Caitlin Clark the best spot for them is in the kitchen. Got it.

“Soldiers enticed children like mice into a trap and murdered them for sport”…🇵🇸💔

A poorly understood feature of effective propaganda is manipulations of the volume and placement of news to distort how many people learn something and how urgently they feel about it. I wrote about it in the domestic U.S. copaganda context: equalityalec.substack.com/p/the-volume-o…

2. "Israel's executive and military leadership and soldiers have intentionally distorted foundational rules of international humanitarian law - distinction, proportionality and precaution - in an attempt to legitimise genocidal violence against the Palestinian people."

For years Israel has tried to silence Aljazeera journalists - through bombing their offices (2021), beating their journalists (Givara Budeiri, 2021), murdering them (Shireen Abu Akleh, 2022 and Samer Abu Daqqa, 2023) as well as their families (Al-Dahdouh, 2023). Now this.

Personal apocalypse bunkers should not be a viable/available option, even/especially for billionaires.

It’s hard to comprehend the deaths of 12,800 children. We put up figures of children on our studio walls - one for each child killed in Gaza during the war. They’re dying from airstrikes and now malnutrition and dehydration. These are some of their stories.

I research women and far-right movements in the U.S. and Europe, including why women are increasingly likely to join and how their role has changed. This speech was a masterclass. 1/

Imagine starving a whole people and then demonizing them for rushing in despair towards rare food trucks coming in... How could the IDF release this and not see this is yet another clear proof of the complete inhumanity of what they're inflicting on Gazans?

@margyartgrrl I hear you too :)

@margyartgrrl Of course, but *that's* what’s making you scared and depressed? I don’t think that would make my top 200.

@atrupar @Acyn time.com/6228353/tim-ry…

Ohio could've had Tim Ryan in the Senate but they inflicted this guy upon all of us instead

Everyone in Gaza is hungry. 1.7 million people have been displaced. The humanitarian system in collapsing. I call for rapid, safe, unhindered, expanded & sustained humanitarian access throughout Gaza.

@SteB777 "i’m not saying you're self-censoring. I’m sure you believe everything you say. I’m saying that if you believed something different, you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting." Chomsky

This is a contrivance, and at some point we need to have a deep discussion about disingenuity. This is where a person, doesn't really believe in what they are saying. They are framing it like this to deceive and manipulate the public. 7/

I want to commend @GeorgeMonbiot's article, and it is a must read. It says something quite profound about our governance system, when dark money funded right wing think tanks, can essentially get their policy written into law, without the public ever been aware of it. 1/🧵