An incisive thread, but this is the most important part in my opinion. Yes, social media warps our subjectivity, but it's the *external* effects, the tidal wave of Postman-esque "factoids" flattening people's relationship to society & politics, that seems the most profound consequence of all.

If any constitutional law scholars on here are willing to give me five minutes of their time answering a law review-related question, please shoot me a DM!

I largely agree with the spirit of this thread. But the idea that local and regional newsrooms are training grounds, rather than a place where real work rooting out everyday corruption takes place, is (imho) a *huge* part of how we got here

I think ongoing corporate media consolidation reflects rather than creates unhealthy democratic conditions.

imo the threat posed by CBS News and CNN getting absorbed by pro-regime billionaires isn't that they're going to produce right-wing slop that convinces people to be right-wing, it's the dismantling of newsrooms capable of doing investigative reporting on the administration. Fewer eyes on the street.

As always, read the Broken Branch, read @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social, and most of all read @victorpickard.bsky.social who has been shouting from the mountaintops for years

My understanding is that, were this to go through, it would place both CBS and CNN under the same corporate ownership.

Glad that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social was able to make this happen but also let’s not normalize a system in which the secret police kidnap students and then they are released only because the mayor makes a call to the president.

I've written about loot boxes as an intentionally addictive technology (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....) and am excited to see this complaint, which addresses a very real problem. Hopefully, the anticipated first amendment defenses will be rejected!

Working this afternoon on the finishing touches for an online talk tomorrow evening for the Framingham Public Library on "The Revolutionary Legacy of the Free Press." Want to listen in? Sign up here: bit.ly/Lifelong-Learning-Lectures #America250 #FreePress #journalism

Just a whole literature of pettifogging: exceptions, exceptions to exceptions, ungrounded distinctions, and increasingly numerous argumentative epicycles.

State-backed ethnonationalism delivered to millions of smartphones with a Mr. Beast thumbnail is an incredibly efficient tableau for the dire state of contemporary politics.

It is quintessential Cleveland sports that James Harden is traded to the Cavs and now cannot buy a whistle.

Characteristically insightful. For many of the same reasons Genevieve identifies, I’m less sure that doctrinal fixes can get us where we need to go. More egalitarian institutional arrangements must ultimately be achieved, I think, not by doctrinal and judicial processes but by political ones.