mike fleisch

earthHQ design + ops @ global commons alliance | dpict

[mike fleisch @mikefleisch]

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

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

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.

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[mike fleisch @mikefleisch]

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.

[mike fleisch @mikefleisch]

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

[Global Commons Alliance @globalcommonshq]

📢 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. �📢 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. �📢 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. �📢 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. �📢 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. �📢 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. 👇

[owen gaffney @owengaffney]

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.

[Earth4All @Earth4All_]

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: https://t.co/1EdLXMf0nb

[mike fleisch @mikefleisch]

@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

[Pelham @Resist_05]

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

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

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: https://t.co/RREzmoROJR

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

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."

[Diana Buttu @dianabuttu]

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.

[mike fleisch @mikefleisch]

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

[Brianna Keilar @brikeilarcnn]

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.

[Sheri Rogers @sheri-rogers.bsky.social @Sheri_Rogers01]

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/

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

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?

[mike fleisch @mikefleisch]

@margyartgrrl I hear you too :)

[mike fleisch @mikefleisch]

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

[mike fleisch @mikefleisch]

@atrupar @Acyn https://t.co/8XODhw8lk7

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

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.

[mike fleisch @mikefleisch]

@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