Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

Hey FCC is this news distortion?

Seems wrong to characterize the Kimmel affair, as I’ve seen some people do, as “corporate censorship.” The but-for condition was a direct threat by the FCC chair; that’s state censorship.

As of now, only $12K of the necessary $250K in legal fees have been raised to free Leqaa. If prisoners are the compass of the Palestinian struggle, they should be the compass of the Palestinian solidarity struggle as well.

And more deafening silence from U.S. news outlets and journalists about Israel’s ongoing attacks on journalists.

Do you know how badly things have to be going in America for us to be owned this hard by the Dutch? The Dutch of all people

It is no more a “market decision” or “voluntary” for you to give me your wallet after I threaten to shoot you than it is for ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel after the FCC chair threatened them. You can’t pretend that ABC did this on their own. The government coerced them into taking a specific action.

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

Exactly this. Look at how RICO has already been weaponized against organiz(ers/ing). Not saying it is inevitable, but this regime wants to do the absolute most in that area. You didn’t just sign up for a newsletter, in their eyes you implicated yourself in a criminal—nay, terrorist!—conspiracy.

"Any forms of hate and violence are abhorrent and unacceptable in our community," says my university which just so happens to have an armed police force that it used against students protesting a genocide.

"The 72-page report by the UN commission of inquiry on Palestine and Israel finds Israel has committed four of the five acts prohibited under the 1948 Genocide Convention, and that Israeli leaders had the intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza as a group." www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-conc...

Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week Reporter: [nods] Trump: so we must murder on the high seas Reporter: [nods] Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once Reporter: [nods] Trump: the cock on that bunny Reporter: [nods] Trump: bigger than you think Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives

BREAKING: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a team of independent experts commissioned by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council concludes.

Not sure anyone here’s talking about it but Israel is carrying out their Final Solution in real time.

New in JSI (OA): Reckless speeding or tinted windows? We look at racial disparities in reasons why drivers are stopped, their disparate impacts on community trust, and how police departments exacerbate —or mitigate— their impacts through policy. (1/7) spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

If you are a white person who subscribes to the Washington Post, your solidarity should not be expressed in "feeling badly" but in cancelling your subscription today if you have one. Otherwise no one wants to hear anything from you.

This is why documenting real history is important. He found footage his grandmother took in 1963 when America was in segregation and had her narrate it into a short film.

New study examines how people evaluate online ads as "political": source cues, message strength (i.e., persuasive intent), and uncongenial messages. All addressed by the politically relevant media model (PRMM) and why asking if a media text is "political" may not be the best measure.

The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, & student speech in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk. 1/4

10/10, no notes!

The. Problem’s. Always. Been. Israel.

One genocide after the next to sustain an unsustainable and objectively evil colonial apartheid project.

So many things come into focus when you start to ask ontological questions. What is “political?” What is “violence?” Because it’s easy to condemn political violence, all the while condoning, justifying, or even celebrating so many forms of political violence that occur every day.

It’s also misleading to even talk about “young voters moving right” without specifying which groups of young people are moving right. It‘s young white men engaging in reactionary politics over perceived status loss across race and gender lines.

I have many thoughts about Charlie Kirk—and perhaps even more about the white elites, including some on the left, who insist we can’t hold multiple realities at once. We can. And we must. A brief 🧵

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

“Charlie Kirk was a staunch advocate for free speech, and to live up to his legacy, we will swiftly fire you for saying anything we don’t like.”

He's conditioning us to this. And watch by the midterms next year how many Democratic stronghold cities are flooded with National Guard, ICE, and other federal law enforcement. Watch them prevent nonwhite citizens from voting. All they have to do is detain someone long enough to screw up their day.

Me all day on the internet seeing non-Black people ask what has happened to America.

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

Just a reminder that the p*lice are defunding YOU

It’s tiring being someone else’s “teachable moment.” Especially when you are rarely afforded any mistakes.

I'm noticing a marked difference in response to today's events, and the specter of political violence more broadly, across racial lines. And I think, particularly for Black people, it has to do with what *we* recognize as political violence and our experience of being on the receiving end of it.

It’s not considered political violence to dehumanize people until they’re so ostracized by society that they take their own lives. It’s not considered political violence to make policy choices to intentionally kill people by depriving them of life saving healthcare.

In 2014, Anita Sarkeesian canceled an event at Utah State after a credible assassination threat because the school’s response was that Utah allows guns on college campuses. People have warned about this kind of violence for years. But they weren’t the people the powers at be wanted to protect.

Perfect example of the untenability and uselessness of this "reject all violence" sentiment. You cannot reject all violence while also expressing gratitude "for first responders"—i.e., COPS—"who immediately jumped into action." That is what we see as acceptable violence. This isn't just a gotcha.

Kirk getting shot is gonna lead to harm to already marginalized people, so careful what you wish for AND You can't "condemn all political violence" while also not condemning the military & police. Either ALL violence is unacceptable, or you just need to admit that u think some of it is acceptable.

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This thread is very important context for the Authors Guild class action against Anthropic, especially as an academic author whose work was also pirated. At the same time, our own academic publishers (looking at you, Taylor & Francis) are selling our work to companies training AI models, so…

incredible work. become uncarryable.

It’s an interesting time to be teaching #CMN425 Entertainment and Politics.

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SEALs murder three North Korean fishermen in a poorly planned and executed mission. Congress is not briefed, and the public is only learning about it now.

Today it’s “this drug boat in international waters in the Caribbean posed an immediate threat so we murdered everyone on board,” next it’s “this U.S. citizen whose ideas we don’t like posed an immediate threat so we murdered them.” 👑🪃 will come back for us, just you wait.

A 🧵 of clips from my interview with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social last week newrepublic.substack.com/p/democratic... 1. The problems with the terms democratic erosion/backsliding

reminder that as trump looks to expand his terror to other cities, shit is still very much going down in LA

Wow, one of those times when you knew that water is wet, but seeing the study of just how wet the water is is still staggering. -Even *within* Trump supporters, whites' racial resentment predicts belief in voter fraud. -Cities' Black population ➡️ mentions of fraud, regardless of Biden vote share.

That I could identify as anime? Probably Ronin Warriors. Before Sailor Moon and DBZ, if I recall correctly.