Trump’s threat to imprison student protesters is a fascistic scare tactic that is hilariously unenforceable. Until he deploys either his goon squad or the national guard (a distinct possibility), I recommend continuing to employ a tried and true tactic that all authoritarians hate: mockery.

@corybooker.com hello I used to run the Wendy’s Twitter account and I am begging you to let me help you with the dems social media strategy, I will literally do it for free at this point

Hey you know how GoFundMe is one of America’s largest #healthinsurance companies now? My recent article examines a common feature on the site: a #cancer narrative. Check it out here: contemporaryrhetoric.com/wp-content/u...

My babies were all smiles seeing Santa yesterday!

Loving this intro to Political Comm’s special issue on the far right 🔥🔥 “Employing euphemistic terminology often used to label far-right actors such as “alternative,” “populist,” and/or “counter-publics,” unwittingly does the bidding of these ideological actors…” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Had all four of my wisdom teeth removed this morning and I don’t remember taking this selfie at all. It hurts to laugh but lmao enjoy. Happy Thanksgiving, y’all!

Mask off.

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Rhetorician: The cup is a metaphor.

For my COMMrades at #NCA2024 - I’ll be talking about #cancer #rhetoric with some awesome folks on the Top Paper Panel for the RCT Division this Saturday at 4pm. Hope to see some of y’all there!

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting. Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

Alright team, I’ve been (relatively) silent over the last two weeks as I’ve struggled to gather my thoughts on what happened in this election. I won’t pretend that what I’m about to offer is radically unique or ground breaking. But here go…

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

It's great to be cobbling the #TeamRhetoric community back together here! I made a starter pack especially for Comm-rads staving off the end of democracy. Let me know if you are a rhetoric or poli comm type who would like to be added! go.bsky.app/HJBVtjK

🚨New pub just dropped! 🔥 In “Priming ‘American carnage:’ reality television and Donald J. Trump,” I offer three programs as particularly useful heuristics in explaining how and why so many Americans embraced Trumpism.

BENOIT BLANC: I know what you are. EDWARD CULLEN: Say it. Out loud. Say it. BENOIT BLANC: As impossible and asinine as it may sound to say out loud, as of late, I have become no stranger to impossible and asinine affairs. I do believe that you are one of those... those... vampiric creatuhs.

Next on the conference circuit, SSCA! Excited for accepted panel: "(Ex)communicating (Un)belonging: Exploring Recent Threats to Free Speech in the South." I'll be discussing expulsion of TN Reps Jones & Pearson. Other great presentations lined up too, like that from @the-bald-doctor.bsky.social

What? A new podcast? Check it out! hpafter2020.com My co-host JC and I have started a chapter re-read podcast called Harry Potter After 2020. The brilliant @antaranya.bsky.social is our producer. The first three episodes are up, and new ones drop every Wednesday!