From Budget Cuts to Book Bans — The Decades-Long Assault on Public Libraries

#PublicLibraries #LibraryUnions #LibraryWorkers #EmilyDrabinski #CitationsNeeded

🔗 https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-179-from-budget-cuts-to-book-bans-the-decades-long-assault-on-public-libraries

[Citations Needed] Episode 178: The Palliative Pop-History of American "Racial Progress" Narratives 🅴 #citationsNeeded
https://podcastaddict.com/episode/155030596 via @PodcastAddict

just listened to #citationsneeded ‘s episode on “parental rights” and their interviewee, Jennifer Berkshire, mentioned that we’re witnessing a cultural rollback with regards to the media’s normalized platforming of anti-child rights, anti-trans, and anti-critical race theory rhetoric. highly rec a listen.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/citations-needed/id1258545975?i=1000598693603

Citations Needed Episode 173: How to Sell Police Crackdowns on Homeless People to Liberals
#Homelessness #citationsneeded
(I wish I could tell before I post something if the embed works properly or not)
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-173-how-to-sell-police-crackdowns-on-homeless-people-to-liberals

When academics write articles in the popular newspapers, can we keep speculatory BS like this to a minimum please? #scicomm #citationsneeded

[Citations Needed] Episode 170: The Shallow, Audience-Flattering Appeal of the ‘Neither Right Nor Left’ Guy 🅴 #citationsNeeded
https://podcastaddict.com/episode/148164691 via @PodcastAddict

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#USAAndnternationalCraziness

#CitationsNeeded: News Brief: Tucker & Co Try to Lawyer Their Way Out of Trafficking in Great Replacement Rhetoric

After a white nationalist kills 10 in a racist mass shooting in Buffalo, those most responsible for mainstreaming white nationalist talking points try and evade responsibility.

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/news-brief-tucker-co-try-to-lawyer-their-way-out-of-trafficking-in-great-replacement-rhetoric

StupidAndDangerous #FarRight

27 May

#CitationsNeeded: News Brief: #RightwingMedia's Increasingly Goofy, Hyper-Militarized Non-Solutions to
#MassShootings

#extremeright

In this public News Breif, we discuss the phoned-in, cynical response by Republicans to mass shooting and how they've devolved into a dark, meta self-parody.

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/news-brief-rightwing-medias-increasingly-goofy-hyper-militarized-non-solutions-to-mass-shootings

#CitationsNeeded: Episode 162: How the #DataDriven" Label Sanitizes Cruel #AusterityPolitics

“Follow The Data” is the name of a Bloomberg Philanthropies podcast that debuted 2016. “How Data Analysis Is Driving Policing,” a 2018 NPR headline read. “Data suggests that schools might be one of the least risky kinds of institutions to reopen,” an opinion piece in The Washington Post told us in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Over the last 20 or so years, a trend of labeling concepts as “data-driven” emerged. It applied, and continues to apply, to policies affecting everything from education to public health, policing to journalism. Decisions affecting these areas will be more thoughtful, the idea goes, when informed and supported by data. In many ways, this has been a welcome development: The idea that a rigorously scientific collection of information via surveys, observation, and other methods would make policies and media stronger seems unimpeachable. But this isn’t always the case.

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-162-how-the-data-driven-label-sanitizes-cruel-austerity-politics

#CitationsNeeded: Ep. 159: The #AntiWorker Pseudo-psychology of #Corporate #PersonalityTesting

"Is it a higher compliment to be called a) a person of real feeling, or b) a consistently reasonable person?" "Which word in each pair appeals to you more? a) scheduled, or b) unplanned?"   Questions like these are posed to millions of current and prospective workers and students every year. They come from personality tests, whether the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Clifton StrengthsFinder, or other surveys purporting to assess personality traits and job aptitude. Through a series of tens to hundreds of questions, personality inventories claim to identify qualities like dominance, neuroticism, or introversion, synthesize a user profile, and determine that user’s fitness for a given job History of personality testing used in military, educational, and corporate settings; the relationship between personality assessments, labor law, and the corporate consultancy class; how personality testing threatens livelihoods of people basedon race,disability, etc.

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/ep-159-the-anti-worker-pseudo-psychology-of-corporate-personality-testing

#job #work #labour

#CitationsNeeded: Ep.160: The 'Last $100 in Your Bank Account' Economy - How #Media's Love Affair with #Crypto, #NFTs and #Gambling Prey Upon #WorkingPeople

"NFTs May Seem Like Frivolous Fads. They Should Be the Future of Music," argues #RollingStone magazine. "How to Buy Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies: A Guide for New Crypto Investors," advises TIME magazine. "'I had $10 in my bank account': This 36-year-old went from living paycheck to paycheck to making over $109,000 selling NFTs," proclaims CNBC. Over the past couple of years, U.S. media have been breathlessly hyping a new economy of digital "investment opportunities" and asset speculation. From cryptocurrency to NFTs, sports betting to online streaming casinos, business rags and legacy papers alike extol the virtues of a financial climate in which seemingly anyone with an internet connection, a smartphone, and a few bucks stands a chance of striking it rich. It's what we're calling "The Last $100 In Your Bank Account Economy." . Our guest is #Motherboard's #EdwardOngweso, Jr.

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/ep160-the-last-100-in-your-bank-account-economy-how-medias-love-affair-with-crypto-nfts-and-gambling-prey-upon-working-people

#CitationsNeeded: News Brief: The Squishy Liberal Euphemisms Big City Dem Mayors Use to Sell
#CriminalizingHomelessness

In this News Brief, we examine the convoluted, vague rhetorical labor involved in making purging unhoused populations with cops seem humane and anodyne.

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/news-brief-the-squishy-liberal-euphemisms-big-city-dem-mayors-use-to-sell-criminalizing-homelessness

#ACAB
#CitationsNeeded: Live Interview: Police '#Defunding' That Never Was and #Abolitionism as a Long-Term Social Project

In this Live Interview from 1/11, we talk with #DereckaPurnell, author of '
#BecomingAbolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom' about her new book, her personal journey of embracing an abolitionist model and how, in the midst of a full blown reactionary moment over a rise in murders, activists can address legitimate fears of crime and provide an alternative vision to the cruel, failed "lock em up" approach.

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/live-interview-police-defunding-that-never-was-and-abolitionism-as-a-long-term-social-project

For an in-depth look into why political fact checks are mostly garbage, check out this fantastic episode of #CitationsNeeded
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-83-the-unchecked-conservative-ideology-of-us-medias-fact-check-verticals