Quick, put some of that DEI back in the military before things get worse!

Astronaut Victor Glover, pilot of the #ArtemisII, and his family. They must be so friggin proud.. www.nasa.gov/learning-res...

Advantaged group protestors can play an important role in social change, but what happens when their numbers dwindle or their participation is sporadic? We find that inconsistent participation raises doubts about protestors’ motives and trustworthiness. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The replies to this very simple post about breakfast show how difficult it is to do the most basic things as a Black person. Can't even talk about where and what you got for breakfast.

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

Conditioning Public Opinion Perceptions by “Survey Methods 101”

I...I'm going to have to do something about this for #CMN425 Entertainment and Politics this fall. IDK what yet, but something. An AI-generated diss track music video that operates as a geopolitical threat between two nations & is also a call for political violence just like the Trump admin videos.

I wrote my dissertation—and this paper—about this. Ms. Rachel’s speech/actions are inherently political, but whether anyone would call them political has a lot to do with “political” being both a four-letter word and one with many, often contradictory meanings. It says both a lot and nothing at all.

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

Remember when people were fired for *reposting* accurate quotes from Charlie Kirk after he was killed.

If there is going to be a reckoning about violence in progressive organizing spaces, we need to be prepared to hear survivors’ critiques of restorative justice. A lot of progressives think restorative justice is the only path forward, but it can be weaponized and co-opted just like other processes.

“The bombs have already fallen... The oil price shock has begun to be priced in, and the food shock is six weeks behind it. The specific comfort of the Before Times—that the catastrophe is real but not yet yours—is the only comfort available right now. And unfortunately, it has an expiration date.”

A university’s “content neutral” signage policies are irrelevant to the fact that the historical and current actions of universities privilege some identities and experiences over others. None of those actions are content neutral.

Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

“They were both in their 20s and he was only six years older than her.” It doesn’t matter. “They only kissed.” It doesn’t matter. “Nothing happened until after his class was over.” It. Doesn’t. Matter.

UC Irvine criminologist Charis E. Kubrin keeps proving that immigration doesn’t increase crime. Why hasn’t her message broken through?

Apply for NCA Division awards by March 25! Mass Comm Division (for which I am the VP) has three awards, Teaching Award, Service Award, and Dissertation Award. Consider nominating yourself or others who are eligible! #NCA2026 www.natcom.org/2026-interes...

I had assumed that the harm from DOGE cuts would fall hardest on non white men but this is astonishing. Read the rest for profiles of hardworking women who just wanted to help the public, and who were hastily fired by presumably a white adolescent empowered by Musk/DJT.

Power After the Results are Known (PARKing) floggingpvalues.blog/2026/03/13/p...

When we were being fancy, from a garbage can full of jungle juice. When we weren’t being fancy, straight from red solo cups because we needed something for beer pong.

Six years ago today, Louisville police murdered Breonna Taylor while serving a no-knock warrant based on false information. They shot her six times while she slept in her home. Breonna was only 26. She was an EMT, an aspiring nurse, and beloved by all who knew her.

“As much as partisans might be attracted to different types of entertainment content, they — at least white partisans — are also sensitive to social signals about who else is watching." news.illinois.edu/racial-polit...

Israel literally just bombed a demonstration in Tehran. apnews.com/article/iran...

Yes—and multiple studies have found that those copaganda programs make up a larger proportion of the Republican* entertainment TV diet, which means they further reinforce Republicans' pro-cop beliefs. *Democrats and independents watch cop shows too, but they also watch a bunch more other stuff.

Israeli settlers in the West Bank harass, terrorise, destroy, burn, injure and kill Palestinians, their properties and livestock every day, while the IDF is aiding and abetting them. Every. Day. www.972mag.com/israeli-sett...

"Did US media fail in Gaza?" Watch MS Now anchor Ayman Mohyeldin's response to @mehdirhasan.bsky.social on Western media coverage of Gaza in the latest episode of 'We’re Not Kidding' zeteo.com/p/ayman-mohy...

Human Rights Watch says they've verified that Israel has used white phosphorus on civilian populations in Lebanon.

They better run Tom Nook his money

They’ve already seeded the next few generations.

Right in line with my recent paper on partisan selection of entertainment TV: effects thought to be generalizable to all partisans are really just driven by white people. And the biggest gap was between Black vs. white Republicans. Imagine what we could learn if we listened to non-white people.

From the abstract: "We find clear and consistent evidence that whites who receive their political news from Fox News are significantly more likely to support core tenets of the GRT [Great Replacement Theory] than those who do not." led by: @jesserhodesumass.bsky.social available: cup.org/4d01aYr

Different government departments are now shooting down each others’ drones because everyone is incompetent and can’t coordinate for shit.

Due process violations don't get worse than this. Appalling stuff from Virginia State, every administrator involved should lose their job

Once again, I am promising Democrats there are literally thousands of former department of justice people who will crawl over broken glass to prosecute this administration given the chance

The Fulton Co elections expert shows, again & again, that the FBI agent put allegations into the search warrant affidavit & then failed to disclose investigators’ definitive refutations of them. The only bad intent one can infer is on the part of the FBI agent & any supervising prosecutor(s).

I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own. I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history. 1 square = 1 year.

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

This is AWFUL. Univ of Texas is consolidating 4 depts into 1: African and African Diaspora Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, American Studies, and Mexican American and Latino Studies will become "a Social and Cultural Analysis department." www.texastribune.org/2026/02/12/t...

We found over 70,000 cases referred to law enforcement over allegations of substance use during pregnancy — and that’s a significant undercount. In many cases, the referrals began with false positive results from flawed drug tests — sometimes triggered by the women’s prescribed medications.

It’s now official. I’ll be publishing my first book, Respectability Politics, w/ @uchicagopress.bsky.social! Proud to join a press w/ a strong lineage in Black studies & Black politics, including Cohen’s Boundaries of Blackness, which has deeply inspired my work. Now to get these revisions done.

Today is the launch of the travelling exhibition, Picturing Scholasticide @unileiden.bsky.social. It raises awareness of Israel's destruction of Palestinian academic & intellectual life, & what can be done to support Palestinian scholars & institutions. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

It’s 1853 & people are in hiding from slave catchers. It’s 2026 & people are in hiding from slave catchers.

Age verification? I remember when 3.5” floppy disks were new technology.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

It's why I have increasingly used the term "entertainment echo chambers" (or "filter bubbles"), given mounting evidence of political entertainment divides—with conservative/Republican media diets being more restrictive than others.

The current administration wants to do away with 8(a) contracts, which prioritizes minority owned businesses. I have a lot of mixed feelings abt that as an Alaska Native who has shares in an Alaska Native company. However, this kind of bias in contracts is exactly why they exist.

This, from @jamellebouie.net is exactly right. And I think so many folks have refused to see or admit what Trump is because admitting implicates them, or their families, so denial is easier.

This is a banger of a thread of the many things going on in the Bad Bunny halftime show. Definitely going to have to revisit the next time I run #CMN425 Entertainment and Politics, and also future work on [rap] music, the PRMM, cognitive elaboration, and political knowledge.