Tag Archives: University of Michigan

Covering Trump: The Presidency and The Press in Turbulent Times

By Mark | December 14, 2016

Continuing our recent conversation about how to exist in the post-fact word of Donald Trump, I thought I’d share a few brief notes from a panel discussion I attended at the University of Michigan a couple of weeks ago titled Covering Trump: The Presidency and the Press in Turbulent Times. The panel, which featured Craig […]

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J. Alex Halderman, director of the University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society, sees evidence that election results in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania may have been manipulated or hacked

By Mark | November 23, 2016

On Election Day, J. Alex Halderman, the director of the University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society, told the BBC, “Unless the election is extraordinarily close, it is unlikely that an attack will result in the wrong candidate getting elected.” Well, you all know what happened next. The whole election came down to […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, call to action, computer science, conspiracy theory, Department of Justice, Donald Trump, election tampering, fraud, hacking, Hillary Clinton, J. Alex Halderman, Michigan, Pennsylvania, recounts, Russia, University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society, vote rigging, vote tampering, voter fraud, Wisconsin | 36 Comments

Does this safety pin make you feel unwelcome or unsafe?

By Mark | November 15, 2016

After Trump’s victory of last week, as incidents of racial intimidation started to become more commonplace across the United States, some on the left began wearing safety pins as a sign of solidarity with members of those communities most at risk that. [This practice, for what it’s worth, was borrowed from British progressives, who began […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged #NotMyCampus, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim violence, Brexit, bullying, crime, Donald Trump, England, false equivalence, fascism, hate, hijab, Muslim, Muslim women, racial intimidation, safety pins, slashing, violence, white nationalism | 107 Comments

Before you thank Trump for finally telling the violent racists emboldened by his victory to “Stop it,” you should know that he also announced his chief White House strategist would be Steve Bannon, the man who brought white nationalism into the mainstream with the alt-right

By Mark | November 13, 2016

Since the election, as I’m sure you know, a number of non-white Americans have come forward to report instances of racial intimidation. Last night, Mark Fancher of the Michigan ACLU, who was one of my guests on the Saturday Six Pack, told us that, over the preceding 48 hours, his office had received an “avalanche” […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Michigan, Uncategorized | Also tagged ACLU, Breitbart News, Build the Wall, Donald Trump, hate speech, hijab, Lesley Stahl, Mark Fancher, race baiting, racial intimidation, racism, responsibility, rhetoric, Stephen Bannon, Steve Bannon, white nationalism, white nationalist | 40 Comments

Tom Hayden, famed ’60s anti-war activist, dies at 76

By Mark | October 24, 2016

I just woke up to find that Tom Hayden passed away last night. Here, for those of you who may have missed it the first time around, is our discussion from 2012, which, sadly, I’ve yet to finish my transcription of. You can still listen to it, though. Earlier this evening, I had the occasion […]