What America will read this weekend while in line at the grocery checkout: @peoplemag.bsky.social #ICE people.com/ice-detains-...

I've got a report with @rooseveltinstitute.org on institutional design lessons from the history of battles over free speech on campus coming out next week. Stay tuned

➡️ @victorpickard.bsky.social 👥 Victor Pickard, a key contributor to our Political Economy of the Media paper, will now join us as a full-time fellow where he'll continue to research policy tools to reconstruct the public media system. Full bio 👉 rooseveltinstitute.org/authors/vict...

incredibly excited and honored to be joining @rooseveltinstitute.org as a 2026 Fellow!

Excited to see @patblanchfield.bsky.social's brilliant interdisciplinary analysis applied to corruption and other issues. That he's an amazing writer to boot is a welcome bonus!

Absolutely STOKED to get to work with and learn from our new (and, of course, returning!) fellows. Check out this absolute talent 😮‍💨 ⤵️

You drink the ayahuasca. You hear hear a knock *on your mind.* Suddenly an elfish woman appears. She wears a flamboyant dress. "Do not be afraid," she says. I am here to protect the status quo, sell crypto, and guide you on your vision quest."

Thanks to the @freepress.bsky.social for having @bilalb.bsky.social & me for this Q&A discussion about our new @rooseveltinstitute.org report, where we explore the roots of the crises facing our media system & argue that we need to rethink our policy approach to this vital democratic infrastructure

My colleague and coauthor, @victorpickard.bsky.social on the amazing @perrybaconjr.bsky.social's podcast, discussing our new @rooseveltinstitute.org report on the political economy of the US media system!

We can’t fix our democracy without fixing our media crisis. Deregulation, disinvestment, and disregard for press freedom are all policy choices—@bilalb.bsky.social, @shahrzadshams.bsky.social, & @victorpickard.bsky.social explain the need to reverse course on all three fronts. https://bit.ly/4rUvr01

Our Deputy Director of Democratic Institutions explains the "what" of the National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission case, filed in 2022. In terms of impact, it is one of the most significant campaign finance cases since Citizens United. 🧵🧵🧵👇

Tomorrow morning, SCOTUS will hear oral arguments in NRSC v. FEC, a major case that could deal yet another blow to campaign finance law and further open the floodgates of money in politics. 🧵

When journalism is trapped inside a commercial straitjacket, it can’t fight back. Our new piece on how hyper commercialism, oligarchy, and state coercion have converged to threaten the press — based on our recent @rooseveltinstitute.org report. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

New @thenation.com piece by @bilalb.bsky.social, @shahrzadshams.bsky.social and myself that draws from our recent @rooseveltinstitute.org report to argue for structural media reform: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Over at the @rooseveltinstitute.org, a new report by @bilalb.bsky.social, @shahrzadshams.bsky.social, and @victorpickard.bsky.social examines the political economy of the US media system.

Really excited to share this new report I wrote with my brilliant colleagues, @bilalb.bsky.social & @victorpickard.bsky.social! We explore the roots of the crises facing our media system & argue that a truly democratic information ecosystem must be protected from both state *&* commercial coercion⤵️

New from @rooseveltinstitute.org @bilalb.bsky.social @victorpickard.bsky.social @shahrzadshams.bsky.social "The next chapter of democracy reform must treat our media system as a core infrastructure that makes democracy possible & thus demands protection from both state control & commercial capture."

"[D]ecades of market-first policymaking has systematically eroded the media’s democratic function... consolidation that concentrated power in fewer hands, the abandonment of meaningful public-interest standards, and the rise of platform monopolies with virtually no accountability."

"Market supremacy has shrunk both our understanding of what a civic information economy ought to provide in a democracy, and our imagination about how to better guarantee the public access to reliable, diverse information." new from @rooseveltinstitute.org rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

"The crisis facing American journalism is the predictable outcome of decades of corporate libertarian media policy that prioritized commercial logics over democracy."

spoiler: mass media consolidated in the hands of ad-based corporations owned by a handful of right wing billionaires is easily exploited by a wide variety of bad actors and fatal to democracy and informed consensus

Thrilled to announce the publication of our @rooseveltinstitute.org report that uncovers the policy roots of the current crises facing our news, information & communication systems. We argue that media reform must become central to a US pro-democracy movement. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

If I were sick, I would simply choose to be healthy. Bing bang boom bsky.app/profile/atru...

Was thrilled to help consult for this fantastic John Oliver segment on the tragic plight of U.S. public media and why, if we hope to be a democracy, we still need public media for so many things that commercial media will never provide. Deserves a wide viewership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

“The incalculable damage left by Bush and Cheney’s day-in-and-day-out contempt for national and international law includes the power to sweep forward in time and trivialize into a matter of personal preference any future president’s adherence to the law.“ Elaine Scarry in 2008:

It is time to admit that Republicans won the 2024 election by running to the center. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...

It probably doesn’t matter but I would be flooding the zone with images of the White House destruction right now.

“Let him among you who is without a Nazi tattoo cast the first stone.” -The Bible

🧵 Yesterday’s AWS failure wasn’t just a massive service disruption. It exposed how dependent our economy and public institutions have become on privatized, centralized systems. 1/4 www.fastcompany.com/91425078/aws...

Maybe it's time for the pathetic and cowardly Democratic Leadership to FINALLY ENDORSE ZOHRAN MAMDANI?

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

It was inevitable that, without needed change and reform, the War on Terror would swing back to America It’s the march of capitalism and its reliance on hidden and then overt authoritarianism. We can see where this is going by looking at what we did to others, and so we must band together with them

Unsurprisingly all over online right-wing media channels too. Amid the flood of ads for grifty “wellness” products and the occasional pitch to invest in gold, these recruitment ads have joined the steady rotation of horseshit on Rumble

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

Last month @rooseveltinstitute.org and NASI launched the Disability Economic Policy & Research Consortium. Read my colleague Lena Bilik's latest below on how a focus on this oft ignore population is crucial to building an inclusive economy. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/disabil...

Deputy Director of Democratic Institutions lays out the cases to watch in this SCOTUS term. With the influence this court has had on landmark decisions and precedent, the outcomes will have long-lasting impacts.

"Haidt’s thesis is broader than just 'new thing bad.' In The Anxious Generation and his public commentary you find a dismissal of young people as a thinking, feeling group: they are anxious because of phones, they empathize with Gaza because of phones."

Important piece by @lookheron.bsky.social tracing how the steady neoliberalization of higher education has sowed fertile ground for its takeover by authoritarians

Stephen Miller said last year this was the plan. They said it out loud. Some of us highlighted his remarks at the time and warned how dangerous they were. Most of the media missed them and/or moved on from them. It’s happening:

A new SCOTUS term begins today. What fresh hell awaits our flailing democracy this time around?🧵

BREAKING: It’s official. David Ellison announces that Bari Weiss, founder of pro-Israel outlet “The Free Press,” is now Editor in Chief of CBS News, per internal memo shared with me:

Good stuff

Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby. "I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother. “I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

fuck gavin newsome but making states choose between local vs federal backing is a really effective way to combat the Trump Shit and more people should do it.