Alfie Kohn
@alfiekohn
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Have left Muskville. Now posting at https://t.co/cBrsOVMmwe & https://t.co/k4adg5zTe7. Always reachable at https://t.co/OmNNeEuAAQ.
Boston area
Joined June 2009
My conscience finally caught up with me. I can no longer justify supporting this Trump/Musk platform by posting on it. Please find me either at Mastodon ( https://t.co/q5x88mbZoJ) or Bluesky ( https://t.co/fyrvbxvkfH). And maybe ask your followers to join you on one of those sites!
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2.24K Posts, 17 Following, 1.61K Followers · author and lecturer on topics in #education, #parenting, and human #behavior.... (Personal messages more likely to be read if left on http://alfiekohn.o...
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Forgive the repetitive messaging, but I want to reach as many folks as possible with the news that I can no longer justify staying on this platform. I'm now posting on Bluesky ( https://t.co/fyrvbxvkfH) and Mastodon ( https://t.co/q5x88mbZoJ). See you at one of those sites, I hope!
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Forgive the repetitive messaging, but I want to reach as many folks as possible with the news that I can no longer justify staying on this platform. I'm now posting on Bluesky ( https://t.co/fyrvbxvkfH) and Mastodon ( https://t.co/q5x88mbZoJ). See you at one of those sites, I hope!
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2.24K Posts, 17 Following, 1.61K Followers · author and lecturer on topics in #education, #parenting, and human #behavior.... (Personal messages more likely to be read if left on http://alfiekohn.o...
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This article was one of many final straws for me: https://t.co/Ax68oMjwLM. I'm still posting on education, parenting, & human behavior - but not on this site. You'll find me - and I hope you'll join me - at Mastodon ( https://t.co/q5x88mbZoJ) or Bluesky ( https://t.co/fyrvbxvkfH).
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If you share the concerns that finally led me - and, just in the last week or so, a wave of other educators, scholars, journalists, scientists, etc. - to stop supporting this site, I hope you'll consider making a similar announcement to your followers. See you on the other side!
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After 15 years, I can no longer justify staying here. Instead, I invite you to find me at Mastodon ( https://t.co/q5x88mbZoJ) or Bluesky ( https://t.co/fyrvbxvkfH), where I'll be posting with a clear conscience.
sciences.social
2.24K Posts, 17 Following, 1.61K Followers · author and lecturer on topics in #education, #parenting, and human #behavior.... (Personal messages more likely to be read if left on http://alfiekohn.o...
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Friends, I've spent the last two years rationalizing that if we reasonable people huddle together over in this corner, we can ignore the fact that we're on a far-right propaganda platform. But I can't do it any more, especially with the Trump-Musk regime preparing to take power.
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I'm guessing he plans to send Putin a gift basket
Pretty wild that we just went through an election where a top foreign adversary aggressively tried to stop Democrats from voting — including calling in bomb threats to swing state polling locations — and there’s zero media interest in learning what Trump plans to do about that.
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5/5 But how many Republicans will (1) wake up and angrily vote out the scoundrels (assuming that's still possible), (2) simply refuse to admit what and who caused these things, or (3) willingly put up with misery as long as life is even worse for nonwhite and LGBTQ people?
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4/5 ...when Trump does what he promised: when jobs done by immigrants go unfilled, tariffs prove massively inflationary, abortion (including medical) is outlawed nationwide, deregulation leads to more epidemics and food contamination, etc., etc.
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3/5 ...Some did embrace his fascistic vision. Some just refused to vote for a Black woman. And some were entirely oblivious to, or misinformed about, what they were voting for (see below). There's going to be huge blowback, particularly among the oblivious and misinformed...
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2/5 B. The trend toward authoritarianism is worldwide, which should give us pause about blaming Harris's campaign. C. Trump got about the same # of votes as in 2020, when he lost. This time 12 million Democratic voters vanished. D. Don't assume a single explanation exists...
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1/5 Having read umpteen contradictory takes on Why Americans Supported Trump and What Harris Should Have Done, allow me to offer a few observations that argue for some humility: A. One third of eligible voters stayed home. The electorate ≠the populace.
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"Democratic erosion happens when pol. leaders gain enough control over parties & other institutions to neuter their restraining force but leave them intact enough, at least for awhile, to keep the opposition playing by the rules." Read esp. the last sec'n:
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Countries where democracy is in trouble share a common pattern, and it’s a worrying one for the United States.
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Notice the ratio of news stories about the potential impact of Trump's victory on inflation and the deficit vs. the peril it poses to the very existence of immigrants and trans folks ... or to the survival of the rule of law and fair elections.
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