"America, in their view, ought to be a country of, by, and for white people. In the service of that goal, they are essentially trying to turn back the clock — both legally and culturally — to before the civil rights movement."

Waldman shares some social media postings from Department of Homeland Security and Department of Labor (below).

#Trump #JDVance #WhiteSupremacy #race #gender #immigrants
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Yours truly's recent interview in Khabar Lahariya on gendered #disinformation in India.

https://khabarlahariya.org/gendered-realities-responding-to-misinformation/

#interview #gender

Yours truly's recent interview in Khabar Lahariya on gendered #disinformation in India.

https://khabarlahariya.org/gendered-realities-responding-to-misinformation/

#interview #gender

"It’s that these pictures, released by the Department of Labor social-media accounts and bearing the department’s seal, are uncomfortably reminiscent of posters from the 1930s. To be more specific: the ‘Heroic Realism’ of Nazi propaganda posters and the similarly stylized patriotic posters later produced in the United States.

Why is this style being used now, and what are these images for?"

#Trump #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DepartmentofLabor #race #gender #workers #Nazi #SocialMedia
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"The Trump administration is making it more difficult for veterans with a rare but deadly cancer to get their health care needs covered by the government. The new policy, involving breast cancer in men, is laid out in a Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica."

https://www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-male-breast-cancer-coverage-trump-executive-order

#healthcare #VA #veterans #military #cancer #BreastCancer #gender #environment #exposure

"The very AI tools that are adding to today’s employment problems are being used by the Trump administration to chip away at reality, one white-supremacy meme and one fascistic propaganda video at a time."

#Trump #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DepartmentofLabor #race #gender #workers #Nazi #SocialMedia
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"Only a few of the images explicitly say. But their purpose is explained in the accompanying captions: They’re promoting the department’s work on Project Firewall, meant to restore 'pathways to the American Dream by ensuring American Jobs go to American Workers.'"

#Trump #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DepartmentofLabor #race #gender #workers #Nazi #SocialMedia
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"It’s that these pictures, released by the Department of Labor social-media accounts and bearing the department’s seal, are uncomfortably reminiscent of posters from the 1930s. To be more specific: the ‘Heroic Realism’ of Nazi propaganda posters and the similarly stylized patriotic posters later produced in the United States.

Why is this style being used now, and what are these images for?"

#Trump #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DepartmentofLabor #race #gender #workers #Nazi #SocialMedia
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"A social-media ad campaign from the Department of Labor is going viral for featuring a dozen or more images of young, blond, white men with strong jawlines and cleft chins, in blue-collared workmen’s shirts and jeans—such great jeans. ...

It’s not the use of AI that’s giving everyone pause, of course."

~ Hannah Yoest

#Trump #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DepartmentofLabor #race #gender #workers #Nazi #SocialMedia
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/what-we-choose-to-nazi-department-of-labor-heroic-realism-doj-january-6th

"The Trump administration is making it more difficult for veterans with a rare but deadly cancer to get their health care needs covered by the government. The new policy, involving breast cancer in men, is laid out in a Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica."

https://www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-male-breast-cancer-coverage-trump-executive-order

#healthcare #VA #veterans #military #cancer #BreastCancer #gender #environment #exposure

"While women are being forced out of the workforce, children are going hungry, and people are being rounded up by ICE in warrantless raids, white male pain continues to be a Page 1 story. Farmers and ranchers make up less than 2 percent of the total population in America, but they dominate our cultural and political mythology."

#NewYorkTimes #Trump #Republicans #heartland #Iowa #farmers #gender #race
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Tressie McMillan Cottom comments on the Nazi tattoo of "working class" Democratic candidate in Maine, Graham Platner, to look at how the media and centrists want to define "working class":

"'Working class' has become a powerful political totem of its own — a discursive sleight of hand used to separate out white voters’ concerns as more legitimate, more materially grounded, more important than other voters’ concerns."

#media #WorkingClass #race #gender
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/opinion/nazi-tattoo-graham-platner-democrats.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xE8.-Tre.IWv8qRj_L9tb&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&fbclid=IwY2xjawNvAZ9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHpk1WSWbH6BzVsiHs8qtkJtESTzAK78mnq8dzCeNoJbfmIG-T7OOUzvnJjAO_aem_4BMcbpIr61zArVm80T9mKw

"In his latest interview about somehow dictating America's future from behind a microphone, Bannon was dead certain that Trump would be president come 2029, using typically verbose language to describe the addled god-king as a 'vehicle of divine providence' and an 'instrument of divine will.'"

#Trump #Republicans #SteveBannon #media #gender #race
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"While women are being forced out of the workforce, children are going hungry, and people are being rounded up by ICE in warrantless raids, white male pain continues to be a Page 1 story. Farmers and ranchers make up less than 2 percent of the total population in America, but they dominate our cultural and political mythology."

#NewYorkTimes #Trump #Republicans #heartland #Iowa #farmers #gender #race
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"This week, the New York Times ran an image of a farmer on the front page. ...

The story is about how Trump’s tariff policies are affecting the very farmers in Iowa who voted for him. ...

In 2017, I asked a farmer how he felt about voting for Trump, even though Republican policies were hurting his business."

~ Lyz Lenz

#NewYorkTimes #Trump #Republicans #heartland #Iowa #farmers #gender #race
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https://www.patreon.com/posts/only-white-guys-142289315

Ich feiere den Friedrichsdorfer Bürgermeister dafür:

https://www.hessenschau.de/politik/nur-weibliche-formen-in-satzung-gender-zoff-bei-der-feuerwehr-in-friedrichsdorf-v1,gender-feuerwehr-friedrichsdorf-100.html

#Genderverbot #Gender

Ich feiere den Friedrichsdorfer Bürgermeister dafür:

https://www.hessenschau.de/politik/nur-weibliche-formen-in-satzung-gender-zoff-bei-der-feuerwehr-in-friedrichsdorf-v1,gender-feuerwehr-friedrichsdorf-100.html

#Genderverbot #Gender

A timely reminder the gendered impact of the skewed character of medical research & its funding:

'Ending medical misogyny means closing the gender health gap, not only because it’s fair, but because it’s essential. A system that listens to women, funds their health & values their wellbeing is one that benefits society as a whole. It’s time we stop calling women’s health a “niche issue”.'

Its extraordinary that in 2025 we still need to be saying this!

#gender #health
http://www.wbg.org.uk/article/medical-misogyny-the-cost-of-ignoring-womens-health/

#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2025.10.11 — Have you ever written an unlikable protagonist?

I learned this lesson the hard way. Buying editors won't tolerate an initially unlikable protagonist, no matter how wonderful their transformative arc, or the ending—unless you have a brand name or a fan following, or at least a recently profitable track record. I'm needing to rewrite a trilogy and a standalone novel for penance for my hubris.

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory

A timely reminder the gendered impact of the skewed character of medical research & its funding:

'Ending medical misogyny means closing the gender health gap, not only because it’s fair, but because it’s essential. A system that listens to women, funds their health & values their wellbeing is one that benefits society as a whole. It’s time we stop calling women’s health a “niche issue”.'

Its extraordinary that in 2025 we still need to be saying this!

#gender #health
http://www.wbg.org.uk/article/medical-misogyny-the-cost-of-ignoring-womens-health/