Dr. DaShanne Stokes
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He attacks science and higher ed, driving top talent to flee, then complains we don't have talent and must bring in immigrants with h1b visas that he's charging $100,000 a pop for.
He's ok with immigration so long as he can exploit and profit from it.
He's ok with immigration so long as he can exploit and profit from it.
November 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
He attacks science and higher ed, driving top talent to flee, then complains we don't have talent and must bring in immigrants with h1b visas that he's charging $100,000 a pop for.
He's ok with immigration so long as he can exploit and profit from it.
He's ok with immigration so long as he can exploit and profit from it.
Call me crazy, but maybe a good reason to stop attacking science and higher ed, which is leading to top U.S. talent fleeing the country and being rendered unemployed?
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Call me crazy, but maybe a good reason to stop attacking science and higher ed, which is leading to top U.S. talent fleeing the country and being rendered unemployed?
As a sociologist who has taught thousands of students, I would never recommend students getting data from Doordash, much less basing policy decisions on it. Trump and his people know the best data is from peer-reviewed sources. People who know what they're doing use peer-reviewed research.
November 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
As a sociologist who has taught thousands of students, I would never recommend students getting data from Doordash, much less basing policy decisions on it. Trump and his people know the best data is from peer-reviewed sources. People who know what they're doing use peer-reviewed research.
As an actual social scientist, I have a lot of concerns about the highest office in the land relying not on data from peer-reviewed research, as is the norm across the world, but DoorDash, of all places. I mean, what, was McDonalds too much?
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
As an actual social scientist, I have a lot of concerns about the highest office in the land relying not on data from peer-reviewed research, as is the norm across the world, but DoorDash, of all places. I mean, what, was McDonalds too much?
It's like he's upset not that the guy could be dying but that the cameras aren't focused on him while the other guys is struggling for his life. Perfect metaphor for Trump and the GOP.
November 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
It's like he's upset not that the guy could be dying but that the cameras aren't focused on him while the other guys is struggling for his life. Perfect metaphor for Trump and the GOP.
This is the face of a man who doesn't care if someone could be dying in front him.
November 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This is the face of a man who doesn't care if someone could be dying in front him.
SNAP increased from $60.38 billion in 2019 to $79.16 bn in 2020. This was during Trump's first Term and during Covid. Under Biden, and further into the pandemic, it increased to $113 bn in 2021, $119bn in 2022, $113 bn in 2023, and dropped to $100 bn in 2024 as the pandemic ended.
November 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
SNAP increased from $60.38 billion in 2019 to $79.16 bn in 2020. This was during Trump's first Term and during Covid. Under Biden, and further into the pandemic, it increased to $113 bn in 2021, $119bn in 2022, $113 bn in 2023, and dropped to $100 bn in 2024 as the pandemic ended.
SNAP increased because we were in a global crisis known as Covid-19. SNAP has overall been increasing since 1969.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:14 AM
SNAP increased because we were in a global crisis known as Covid-19. SNAP has overall been increasing since 1969.
www.fns.usda.gov/sites/defaul...
www.fns.usda.gov/sites/defaul...
Republicans who depend on SNAP are curiously quiet about this claim. Could it be because they know it's a lie and calling it out would reveal that they knowing support a fraud and it would reveal their hypocrisy?
November 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Republicans who depend on SNAP are curiously quiet about this claim. Could it be because they know it's a lie and calling it out would reveal that they knowing support a fraud and it would reveal their hypocrisy?
Somehow, I sense that if we surveyed white Republicans dependent on foodstamps that they would all claim SNAP wasn't just "given" to them, and perhaps also a strained chorus of claims that they deserve benefits, but others (curiously high numbers of Dems and POC), don't.
November 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Somehow, I sense that if we surveyed white Republicans dependent on foodstamps that they would all claim SNAP wasn't just "given" to them, and perhaps also a strained chorus of claims that they deserve benefits, but others (curiously high numbers of Dems and POC), don't.
Funny, people weren't starving or swarming food banks under Biden's watch, and he wasn't letting people starve to line his pockets.
November 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Funny, people weren't starving or swarming food banks under Biden's watch, and he wasn't letting people starve to line his pockets.
Anyone who has ever applied for or depended on food stamps can tell you that they don't hand them out to everyone. There are strict eligibility guidelines and the system is designed to kick people off food stamps. But sure, let's listen to the fraud born with the solid gold spoon in his mouth.
November 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Anyone who has ever applied for or depended on food stamps can tell you that they don't hand them out to everyone. There are strict eligibility guidelines and the system is designed to kick people off food stamps. But sure, let's listen to the fraud born with the solid gold spoon in his mouth.
We rise or submit. There's no middle ground when confronted with a growing autocracy.
November 4, 2025 at 11:51 AM
We rise or submit. There's no middle ground when confronted with a growing autocracy.
Massive shutdowns.
Extra-judicial murders.
Empowered U.S. enemies.
Inspired Nazis.
Destroyed lives and families.
Two impeachments.
One insurrection.
Multiple failed businesses.
A nation in fear.
Convicted felon.
Those are Trump's "accomplishments."
Extra-judicial murders.
Empowered U.S. enemies.
Inspired Nazis.
Destroyed lives and families.
Two impeachments.
One insurrection.
Multiple failed businesses.
A nation in fear.
Convicted felon.
Those are Trump's "accomplishments."
October 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Massive shutdowns.
Extra-judicial murders.
Empowered U.S. enemies.
Inspired Nazis.
Destroyed lives and families.
Two impeachments.
One insurrection.
Multiple failed businesses.
A nation in fear.
Convicted felon.
Those are Trump's "accomplishments."
Extra-judicial murders.
Empowered U.S. enemies.
Inspired Nazis.
Destroyed lives and families.
Two impeachments.
One insurrection.
Multiple failed businesses.
A nation in fear.
Convicted felon.
Those are Trump's "accomplishments."
Only a sad excuse of a man would try to steal credit for someone else's work. I give you Donald Trump.
October 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Only a sad excuse of a man would try to steal credit for someone else's work. I give you Donald Trump.
Trump's science "efforts" have been to attack universities and to block and scrub science that conflicts with his ideological agenda.
October 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Trump's science "efforts" have been to attack universities and to block and scrub science that conflicts with his ideological agenda.
The Trump administration is also using the White House website to smear President Obama, bringing back the tired attempt to frame him as a "secret Muslim" and link him to Muslim extremists.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The Trump administration is also using the White House website to smear President Obama, bringing back the tired attempt to frame him as a "secret Muslim" and link him to Muslim extremists.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
The White House page also tries to smear Biden by claiming that Biden established the Trans Day of Visibility on Easter, 2024. This is a lie. It was established in 2010 by trans advocate Rachel Crandall.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
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October 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The White House page also tries to smear Biden by claiming that Biden established the Trans Day of Visibility on Easter, 2024. This is a lie. It was established in 2010 by trans advocate Rachel Crandall.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
The White House webpage is being used to smear Hunter Biden and speculates that cocaine found there belonged to Hunter Biden and attempts to implicate Joe Biden. (see "major events timeline"). None of this is presented with any shred of evidence.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
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October 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The White House webpage is being used to smear Hunter Biden and speculates that cocaine found there belonged to Hunter Biden and attempts to implicate Joe Biden. (see "major events timeline"). None of this is presented with any shred of evidence.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
I'm no psychologist, but an inability to keep track of one's lies and a lack of awareness about time and space more generally seems like evidence of cognitive decline to me. (Trump was in office Jan. 6).
October 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I'm no psychologist, but an inability to keep track of one's lies and a lack of awareness about time and space more generally seems like evidence of cognitive decline to me. (Trump was in office Jan. 6).
Proof, again, that "Truth Social" is a fraud. Trump was in office Jan. 6.
October 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Proof, again, that "Truth Social" is a fraud. Trump was in office Jan. 6.
Trump was in office Jan. 6, but claims Biden's FBI put agents in the crowd. Biden didn't have control of the FBI until he took office two weeks later. Does Trump even know where he is?
October 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Trump was in office Jan. 6, but claims Biden's FBI put agents in the crowd. Biden didn't have control of the FBI until he took office two weeks later. Does Trump even know where he is?
Knowledge is power. Know.
September 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Knowledge is power. Know.
"America First," Trump's slogan, was popularized by the KKK.
August 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"America First," Trump's slogan, was popularized by the KKK.