美国的巨大逆转

今天，我们从大西洋著作的亚当·塞尔沃（Adam Serwer）开始，讲述了美国社会的“巨大逆转”。如果伟大的逆差证明是成功的，它将恢复美国过去的过去和少数民族在原本白人主导的景观中偶尔存在的代币。

The Great Resegregation of America

美国的巨大逆转

We begin today with Adam Serwer of The Atlantic writing about the “Great Resegregation” of American society.

今天，我们从大西洋著作的亚当·塞尔沃（Adam Serwer）开始，讲述了美国社会的“巨大逆转”。

If the Great Resegregation proves successful, it will restore an America past where racial and ethnic minorities were the occasional token presence in an otherwise white-dominated landscape. It would repeal the gains of the civil-rights era in their entirety. What its advocates want is not a restoration of explicit Jim Crow segregation—that would shatter the illusion that their own achievements are based in a color-blind meritocracy. They want an arrangement that perpetuates racial inequality indefinitely while retaining some plausible deniability, a rigged system that maintains a mirage of equal opportunity while maintaining an unofficial racial hierarchy. Like elections in authoritarian countries where the autocrat is always reelected in a landslide, they want a system in which they never risk losing but can still pretend they won fairly.

如果伟大的逆差证明是成功的，它将恢复美国过去的过去和少数民族在原本白人主导的景观中偶尔存在的代币。它将整体废除民权时代的收益。它的倡导者想要的不是恢复明确的吉姆·克劳（Jim Crow）隔离，而是粉碎了自己的成就是基于色盲的精英管理。他们希望安排无限期地将种族不平等永久化，同时保留某些合理的可否认，这是一种操纵的系统，该系统在保持非正式的种族层次结构的同时保持了平等机会的幻影。就像在专制国家总是在滑坡中连任的专制国家的选举一样，他们希望有一个永远不会冒失败但仍然可以假装自己赢得的制度的制度。

The battles of the Great Resegregation are now taking place in at least three overlapping arenas. The first is politics, where right-wing legal organizations have succeeded in rolling back many civil-rights-era voting protections; they want to now fully destroy the remaining shreds. The second is education and employment, particularly at elite institutions, such as the media and academia; right-wing legal strategies have been similarly fruitful here in attacking diversity, thanks to the conservative capture of the Supreme Court. The third is popular culture, where conservatives have sought to leverage anger and nostalgia against movies, television, books, and other creative media brought to life by artists of color.

伟大逆差的战斗现在至少在三个重叠的领域进行。首先是政治，右翼法律组织成功地撤销了许多民权时代的投票保护；他们现在想完全破坏其余的碎片。第二个是教育和就业，特别是在媒体和学术界等精英机构中；右翼法律策略在攻击多样性方面同样富有成果，这要归功于最高法院的保守占领。第三个是流行文化，保守派试图利用对电影，电视，书籍和其他创意媒体的愤怒和怀旧之情。

As the Trump State Department official Darren Beattie wrote, “Competent white men must be put in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.” This analysis is perceptive in the sense that the exact reverse is true—we are now in the second decade of a years-long temper tantrum sparked by the election of Barack Obama—not to mention the failed attempts to elect a woman to succeed him—and the effect it had on the fragile self-esteem of people like Beattie.

正如特朗普国务院官员达伦·比蒂（Darren Beattie）写道的那样：“如果您希望事情起作用，则必须负责胜任的白人。不幸的是，我们的整个民族意识形态都是基于使妇女和少数群体的感情和士气低落的白人男人的沮丧。”从某种意义上说，这种分析是正确的，我们现在是由巴拉克·奥巴马（Barack Obama）当选为长达一年的脾气发脾气的第二个十年，还提到了选举一名女性接替他的失败的尝试 - 以及它对Beattie这样的人的脆弱自尊的影响。

Undoubtedly, The Great Resegregation of America is but one of those “shadows” referenced by former Vice President Kamala Harris at the NAACP Image Awards last night.

毫无疑问，美国的伟大逆向是前副总统卡马拉·哈里斯（Kamala Harris）在NAACP Image Awards上引用的那些“阴影”之一。

Many are asking what should we do now? “We use our power, organize, mobilize, educate…the American story will not be written by who occupies the White House or by the wealthiest among us…it will be written by you, by ‘we the people.’”-fmr VP Kamala Harris receiving the NAACP Chairman’s Award.

许多人问我们现在该怎么办？ “我们利用自己的力量，组织，动员，教育……美国的故事将不会由谁占领白宫或我们当中最富有的人写……它将由您写的，'我们的人民'。” - FMR VP卡马拉·哈里斯（Kamala Harris）获得了NAACP主席奖。

The Trump Administration Wants to Know What You’ve Done for It Lately

特朗普政府想知道您最近为此做了什么

Nicholas Bednar of JustSecurity looks at the legal and even some of the cultural ramifications of the e-mail sent out by Elon Musk asking federal employees to name five accomplishments for the past week.

JustSecurity的Nicholas Bednar着眼于埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）发出的电子邮件的法律，甚至是一些文化后果，要求联邦雇员在过去一周中列出五项成就。

The email follows a pattern of Musk borrowing tactics from the private sector in his efforts to shrink the federal workforce. Following his acquisition of Twitter in 2022, Musk instructed Twitter’s engineers to “email [him] a bullet point summary of what your code commits have achieved in the past ~6 months, along with up to 10 screenshots of the most salient lines of code.”

该电子邮件遵循私人部门借来的穆克借贷策略的模式，以缩小联邦劳动力的努力。在他在2022年收购Twitter之后，马斯克指示Twitter的工程师“通过电子邮件发送给他的代码提交在过去〜6个月中所取得的成就，以及最多10个最明显的代码线的屏幕截图。透明

This is not the first OPM email to echo Musk’s takeover of Twitter. On Jan. 28, federal employees received an email with the subject line “Fork in the Road.” That email announced a “deferred resignation” program that promised to place employees on administrative leave with full pay and benefits until Sept. 30. Despite significant concerns over the program’s legality, a federal judge allowed the program to go forward, finding that employees would need to exhaust their administrative remedies with either the Federal Labor Relations Authority or the Merit Systems Protection Board before suing in federal court.

这不是Echo Musk收购Twitter的第一封OPM电子邮件。 1月28日，联邦雇员收到了主题行“叉子”的电子邮件。该电子邮件宣布了一项“递延辞职”计划，该计划承诺将员工置于行政假，直到9月30日。在起诉联邦法院之前，要用联邦劳资关系局或优异系统保护委员会耗尽其行政补救措施。

In essence, it appears that the Trump administration is demanding that employees justify their positions. But to date, the administration has done a consistently poor job of determining which positions are, in fact, important. Its poor-track record is evidenced by agencies’ efforts to recall fired probationary employees after realizing they perform crucial functions, such as managing the nuclear stockpile and the power grid or those working on responses to bird flu. Meaningful reorganization of the federal workforce requires more than five bullet points; it requires a holistic evaluation of how federal programs operate.

本质上，特朗普政府似乎要求员工为自己的立场辩护。但是迄今为止，政府在确定哪些位置实际上很重要的工作状况一直很差。机构意识到他们执行关键功能，例如管理核库存和电网或从事对鸟类流感的反应的人，这证明了机构为召回被解雇的试用员工的努力所证明的。对联邦劳动力的有意义的重组需要五个以上的要点；它需要对联邦计划的运作方式进行全面评估。

Paul Krugman Believes Trump Mal-Administration Could Be Laying Foundation for Next Financial Crisis

保罗·克鲁格曼（Paul Krugman）认为，特朗普·梅尔（Mal-Administration）可能为下一个金融危机奠定基础

It’s hard, for example, to see whose interests Trump is serving by trying to kill New York’s congestion pricing scheme, which is already showing clear positive results, including a noticeable decline in traffic accidents. If you think he cares deeply about the relatively small number of people who commute into lower Manhattan by car (many of whom seem to like the policy!), I have a Melania coin you might want to buy.

例如，很难通过试图杀死纽约的交通拥堵定价计划来了解特朗普的利益，该计划已经显示出明显的积极成果，包括明显的交通事故下降。如果您认为他非常关心相对较少的汽车上下班曼哈顿下城的人（其中许多人似乎喜欢这项政策！），我可能会想买一枚Melania硬币。

This behavior may in part reflect the right-wing insistence, going back to

这种行为可能部分反映了右翼的坚持，回到