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Joe Katz is @joekatz45 wherever you microblog Profile picture
Joe Katz is @joekatz45 wherever you microblog
@joekatz45
Democracy is like exercise. You can't do it once every four years and complain when you don't see results. He/him. https://t.co/Vup9mWIXH1.
Jun 7, 2023 • 15 tweets • 7 min read
Thought I'd take the opportunity of Oklahoma's attacks on public education getting national headlines to do a #thread on their GOP state superintendent of schools, Ryan Walters. Because hooooo boy the sledgehammer to the separation of church and state is just the beginning. (1/x) Oklahoma state superintende... Walters took office earlier this year as superintendent, after serving as Secretary of Education under Governor Kevin Stitt (also GOP). He briefly held both roles, and while secretary was ALSO on the payroll of a non-profit funded by school privatizers. readfrontier.org/stories/billio…
Mar 3, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This piece from @JohnGHendy is a bracing enough read on its own, and it doesn't even get to what is imho one of the biggest dangers: not just the use of AI to spread lies, but the way the existence of AI can be used to cast doubt on the truth, theatlantic.com/politics/archi… Imagine, for instance, Donald Trump's audio-recorded confession of sexual assault. In the coming years, when a story with that kind of evidence comes out, the politician in trouble will be uniquely positioned to brazen their way out of it by claiming it's faked.
Aug 31, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Interesting reaction from a big name on the wingnut right. So that's Cernovich. Silence so far from Monica Crowley, Molly Hemingway, Charlie Kirk, Jesse Kelly, Tim Young, etc.

Tim Pool is mostly focused on spreading his mix tape.

Jack Posobiec has cracked the case, though.
Aug 31, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
It would be premature at this point to congratulate Chaya Raichik/@LibsOfTikTok for getting exactly what she wanted.

After all, just bc she's generated violent threats towards a children's hospital, using violence to try and shut them down, doesn't mean THIS threat is on her. It's important that we let the process play out before we discuss how stochastic terrorism is responsible for this *specific* threat, and how the use of and encouragement of violence against trans folks and their supporters has been mainstreamed/normalized by the right wing.
May 24, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"It's too soon to politicize Uvalde."

Fine. Let's talk about Sandy Hook.

Or Parkland.

Or El Paso.

Or Pittsburgh.

Or Las Vegas.

Or Orlando.

Or Buffalo.

Or Fort Hood.

Or Aurora.

Or Virginia Tech.

Or San Bernadino.

Or Columbine.

Or Boulder.

Or Sutherland Springs.

Or Mass murders I couldn't fit keep coming to mind. Charleston, Oxford, Milwaukee, Oak Creek, Isla Vista, Moneta, Roseburg, Baton Rouge, Dallas, Milwaukee, the Navy Yard, Colorado Springs, Tucson, Manchester, Red Lake...