This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

Put it on every screen in America so that we can see what we have allowed ourselves to become and how desperately we need to fight to come back from this.

Lemme tell you what I’m NOT gunna listen to — an in-depth interview with Rahm Emanuel. Never hit skip on my NPR app so quick. ✌🏼🖕🏼

I do not understand why Dems (or someone) are not broadcasting wall to wall montages of ICE thugs abusing our neighbors, abducting children, terrorizing US citizens, invading homes w no warrant, or murdering mothers. This should be a massive exercise in ISSUE SALIENCE driven by Dem elites.

I get hype for my alma mater’s student paper the way other alums get hype for the bball. You can donate money directly to them, too. www.dailytarheel.com/page/donate

Everything is so stupid

The Daily Tarheel 🔥 www.dailytarheel.com/article/5671...

The moment it was crystal clear we were in the worse case scenario, was exactly a year ago when Trump pardoned every single Jan 6 perpetrator, including the ones that beat the crap out of cops and were convicted of seditious conspiracy.

Quinnipiac Poll, Jan 8-12 - poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

The weather forecast for Raleigh, North Carolina this weekend…

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

One of the worst features of political journalism and analysis in the Trump era. Remember the key quote: "The former official said he doesn't think Trump is playing 'the sort of three-dimensional chess people ascribe to decisions like this. More often than not he's just eating the pieces.'"

We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate

This David French article shows the analytic peril of ignoring the way normal policing and repression work in communities of color. The so-called "dual state" he's highlighting (laws applied unequally, non-compliance met with violence) is *exactly* what Black Lives Matter was protesting.

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?

"I spent much of 2025 pointing out that political pundits were misreading immigration and effectively ceding ground to Trump. This argument was controversial when I started making it. Now it is undeniable," writes @gelliottmorris.com. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/ice-is-a-7...

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Some of the time it’s not a question of law or policy. It’s just basic morality that a literal human baby understands.

I closed a bar tonight in the most elder millennial way — at 9:30pm. At a Delta lounge. The only way I’m closing a bar at 42

This new paper by @hartzog.bsky.social and @jessicasilbey.bsky.social makes "one simple point: AI systems are built to function in ways that degrade and are likely to destroy our crucial civic institutions." Grim but important reading: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

@katestarbird.bsky.social, @shannimcg.bsky.social and @noupside.bsky.social sourced in the following @jjoffeblock.bsky.social report on @npr.org regarding the symbiotic relationship of unverified influencer reports and federal actions. Both need to be held to account. #factsmatter

If ICE has 100 bajillion dollar budget or whatever, can anyone tell me why these goons are out here in their too-tight TJMaxx ass special instead of some fucking uniforms?

We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands. Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat

The people who mock gender studies are perversely the most compelling case for studying it

the president is doing a press conference FROM HIS FLORIDA COUNTRY CLUB about launching an illegal war

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

So much gerrymandering! We know gerrymandering is bad for democratic representation, but new research suggests candidates campaigning in non-competitive districts campaign differently; using more moral & emotional language in tweets during primaries than those in more competitive districts 🧵

“It is at the center of a university that is truly a university and not an echo chamber for those in political power.” Read more at: www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...

Really glad to have a piece with @shannimcg.bsky.social in the most recent issue of Political Communication Report. We argue that centering identity in political communication research can produce scholarship better equipped to deal with ongoing attacks on democratic values and social justice.

UNC is facing the now familiar bad-faith & partisan push to make syllabi public. This is an attack on academic freedom that weakens UNC by stifling faculty, harming recruitment & retention, and threatening the safety of students and faculty alike. www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...

"Instead of treating all individuals and groups equally with respect to their status, power, or ends, a group theory of political communication requires normative analysis of the positioning of groups vis-a-vis one another and liberal democracy."

Shot

🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we (w/ @dkreiss.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying #polcomm from a *group* perspective. 🧵

🚨new article🚨 "Polarisation" has become one of those terms commonly used to discuss the dire state of politics and democracy today Here @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I argue that this simplistic framing is counterproductive 🧵Thread🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"The high-income admissions advantage at Ivy-Plus colleges is driven by three factors: (1) preferences for children of alumni, (2) weight placed on non-academic credentials, and (3) athletic recruitment...The three factors...are uncorrelated or negatively correlated with post-college outcomes..."

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The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces: apply.interfolio.com/177901

Fantastic 1st day of conferencing at #IJPP2025. Lots of new faces, projects & ideas. Topics: International ✅ Press (in various shapes and mediums)✅ Politics ✅ @taberez.bsky.social @shannimcg.bsky.social @patyrossini.bsky.social @profvaccari.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social @polcomm.bsky.social

This! 👇 It is also a good reminder that we are not experiencing polarization but right-wing radicalization!

maybe sit this one out, bud

GAWKER! thou shouldst be living at this hour

offer stands

Instead, we usually just keep paying them but reduce their teaching and service load to zero 🤷🏼‍♀️🙃

I would love to read an account of this saga that isn’t written in an atrociously purple way but seems like that’s too much to ask of anyone involved

Read this if you must, but be warned — this is like the ukulele of prose: “Besides, like bamboo, the truth has a way of forcing itself out into the open.”

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

The least most politically engaged people I know are texting me before 8am to say, “we won’t forget.” So I don’t know man.

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.