Dr. DaShanne Stokes

Dr. DaShanne Stokes

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"DaShanne Stokes is a public intellectual with true courage and vision." —Alyssa Milano Sociologist of politics, power, institutions & inequality. Speaker & commentator. Seen: TV, radio & print. dashannestokes.com Top 100 Bluesky Account —GraphTracks.com

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It's been over 11 months and the Trump administration still hasn't fully released the Epstein files as required by law because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."

Trump was clearly raging at himself by projecting his mental illnesses at a reporter, saying to the reporter "What’s wrong with you? Are you a sick person? I actually think there’s something wrong with you."

Trump claims to be waging his illegal war with Iran partly because they are "the number one state sponsor of terror." For the record, Trump's illegal war, illegal use of ICE to terrorize and murder innocent people, and murdering people at sea makes Trump a state sponsor of terror.

Had to stop myself from reporting Donald Trump through their new "Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program" because you know they're not only using it to weaponize citizens and co-opt them into their abuse of power, but you can be sure they're going to go after anyone who reports Trump for his crimes.

As a multiple minority academic, I can't tell you how many times I've been discriminated against by progressive liberals on hiring committees--all of whom, if asked, would no doubt be happy to tell you all about how they "support" equality and even work for social justice organizations.

More often than not, they seemed eager to be able to report to administration that they interviewed a minority like m, all while making it very clear that they had no intention of hiring me no matter how strong my credentials--even when I was objectively stronger than the other candidates.

Trump and his administration are constantly finding new ways to abuse power to enrich themselves and their friends at the expense of the American people.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

NEW on MS NOW: The FBI plans to offer the UFC an exclusive one-year contract to train its special agents in hand-to-hand combat. UFC chief executive Dana White has long been a Trump ally. "This is just Patel giving his friend Dana White a lucrative contract."

So the UFC performance at the White House was really just profiteering from links to a known criminal to benefit himself at the expense of the American people.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

NEW on MS NOW: The FBI plans to offer the UFC an exclusive one-year contract to train its special agents in hand-to-hand combat. UFC chief executive Dana White has long been a Trump ally. "This is just Patel giving his friend Dana White a lucrative contract."

"Terrorism" refers to violence to achieve political ends. Research shows that immigrants commit fewer crimes, which means that ICE's actions are about Trump's racist politics, not law or security. That means ICE operates as a de facto racialized terrorist organization, not unlike the Gestapo.

It's been nearly eleven months and they still haven't released the Epstein files because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."

Dear Desperate Donald Trump: If we all just decide to give you a fake Nobel Prize you didn't earn, will you please step down from office and finally get psychiatric help?

How weak and insecure is Trump to feel a need to constantly remind people of the office he occupies, his desperation to nab a Nobel Prize he will never deserve, and to sign his unhinged social media posts in all caps.

The Trump administration's message, in effect, by their sanctioning the ICC: "Why follow the law when you can attack those who would hold you accountable for breaking it?"

The International Criminal Court is not a threat to U.S. independence or sovereignty. It is only a threat to convicted felon Trump, who is desperate to avoid accountability for his crimes.

You might be a minority if... ...people tell you that your reports of discrimination are just you being too "sensitive." ...you get attacked or undermined for using proven best practices. ...people in positions of unearned privilege take from you and keep taking.

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...you've constantly struggled with unemployment or under-employment no matter your strong qualifications. ...you have to survive on food stamps. ...your food stamps got taken away. ...you have to go to the food pantry for food and pretty much everyone around you is also a minority.

...you have to sell your things to survive. ...you have to sell your family heirlooms to survive. ...you have to do things you swore you'd never do to survive. ...you have to sell your soul to survive.

You might be a minority if... ...people tell you that your reports of discrimination are just you being too "sensitive." ...you get attacked or undermined for using proven best practices. ...people in positions of unearned privilege take from you and keep taking.

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...years of discrimination have a cumulative and compounding effect on you that consumes all of your time, reduces your productivity, and makes it virtually impossible to escape of "pull yourself up by the bootstraps." ...the discrimination is so pervasive and total you start doing it to yourself.

...you are well-qualified, but no one wants to hire you. ...employers are eager to interview you so they can report that they interviewed diverse candidates, but they were only interested in using you to give themselves cover.

You might be a minority if... ...people tell you that your reports of discrimination are just you being too "sensitive." ...you get attacked or undermined for using proven best practices. ...people in positions of unearned privilege take from you and keep taking.

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...those interviewing you assume you will be a fit with that one other person they already have who matches your racial/gender/sexual identity. ...those interviewing you assume that the only ones who will find you relatable are others who share your particular identity(ies).

...the hiring manager or business hiring people boasts that they "support" free speech, but in practice only support the "free speech" of those like themselves. ...you get asked illegal questions about your race, gender, or sexuality... ...and no one there cares and they attack YOU for it.

You might be a minority if... ...people tell you that your reports of discrimination are just you being too "sensitive." ...you get attacked or undermined for using proven best practices. ...people in positions of unearned privilege take from you and keep taking.

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...the people who discriminate against you are happy to tell you how much they "support" equality. ...hiring managers and committees camouflage their discrimination against you with claims that you aren't a good "fit."

...you deliver an outstanding performance in your interview/campus visit/etc., get applause and congratulations, score higher on their own internal reviews/evals, and you still get torpedoed for something so tiny, something common or insignificant, or that someone flat out invented to drag you down.

You might be a minority if... ...people tell you that your reports of discrimination are just you being too "sensitive." ...you get attacked or undermined for using proven best practices. ...people in positions of unearned privilege take from you and keep taking.

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...you have to "whiten," "straighten," "masculinize," or "cisgender-ify" your job application materials. ...you have to go by your middle name or initial because your actual first name sounds "too ethnic." ...you can't be yourself at work without risk of losing your job.

You might be a minority if... ...people tell you that your reports of discrimination are just you being too "sensitive." ...you get attacked or undermined for using proven best practices. ...people in positions of unearned privilege take from you and keep taking.

...you have to radically alter your physical appearance or dress to look more like those in positions of privilege. ...you can't explain your lack of productivity due to the effects of discrimination without hiring managers thinking you complain a lot and are trying to avoid responsibility.

Something barely discussed from the last election was Russia's numerous bomb threats against polling places in swing states. We have no idea how much of an impact that had, or what they have in store for the midterms. One thing seems certain, however: We can expect more illegal interference.

If ICE had any interest in safety or law enforcement, they wouldn't have violated court orders thousands of times, committed terrorism, broken so many laws, or murdered and attempted to murder innocent people.

Your reminder that there is a felon in the White House identified in the Epstein files as a rapist, there has been no investigation, and the files are still being hidden in violation of federal law.

They're still weaponizing our political and justice systems to prop up a felon.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING: MS NOW confirms. The Trump Justice Department is seeking a federal criminal indictment of ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on charges of lying to Congress about Trump's actions on Jan. 6.

If Trump is innocent, prove it. If you're a politician and don't support rapists or pedophiles, prove it. If you're a politician and aren't complicit in Epstein's crimes, prove it. Release the Epstein files.

“It is proper, constitutional, and legal for a federal grand jury to indict a sitting president for serious criminal acts that are... contrary to, the president’s official duties. In this country, no one... is above the law.” --Kenneth Starr (May 13, 1998)