Oh no DHS is upset that people are saying mean things about ICE. Im sure this won’t generate a Streisand Effect or anything. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...

I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Let's go over all the ways in which this is bad journalism. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Isaac Chotiner interviews Cass Sunstein. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

It's amazing that people act like Isaac Chotiner has superpowers simply because he is the only journalist who has object permanence. The only journalist who doesn't freak out in a tantrum when mommy covers her face with her hands, and people are like holy shit this guy is basically Columbo

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

Check out the video essay on OM SHANTI OM (2007) we made! intransition.openlibhums.org/article/id/1... So glad to be part of IVERN and this collaborative experiment.

They’re putting in place a patronage network. Instead of open, accountable structures, public goods will be allocated to courtiers.

I wrote something up about how the H-1B fee could harm US higher education and the communities that rely on it. open.substack.com/pub/brendanc...

The 100K fee for H-1B visas (yearly!) is reported as a hit on tech -- but it is a hit on universities. It will make it impossible for us to hire foreign visitors, or foreign scholars into tenure track positions--I think almost 40% of H-1Bs go to universities and university hospitals.

[in]Transition 12.3 is live! We got 7 new articles (women's rage, gothic, azner, wong kar-wai, vfx, j panahi, om shanti om) + a special 4-piece section on ecocriticism & animal studies (k reichardt, rilke & cats, donkeys, sound in weerasethakul) go! intransition.openlibhums.org/issue/1672/i...

New issue of @intransition.bsky.social! Featuring OM SHANTI OMNIBUS—the first published work of the IVERN collective, of which I am very happy to be a part along w/ @ludology.bsky.social @llamasjr.bsky.social @kathleenloock.bsky.social & many others: intransition.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...

A three-run homer! 🦅

Go Birds, F*ck ICE, Free Palestine!

So CBS tried to dress the Emmys in a Middle America conservative curtain and almost all the winners have been super liberal or Queer as f #Emmys

“Go Birds, F*** ICE and Free Palestine” - Hannah Einbinder during her #EMMYs speech

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

Hannah Einbinder, the legend you are.

That was “Go Birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine” from Hannah Einbinder.

and a fuck ICE, give her one more Emmy honestly bsky.app/profile/rick...

Javier Bardem at the #Emmys: "Here I am today denouncing the genocide in Gaza... Free Palestine!" (via @Variety)

This week has really crushed my last dregs of hope that legacy news organizations can become capable of meeting the moment.

Gay mediocrity.

🎮 🕹️ Happy National Videogames Day! To celebrate, we've gathered a collection of #OpenAccess MIT Press books on gaming, game design, and streaming that you can read freely and immediately: mitpress.mit.edu/open-access-...

A threat to authoritarianism anywhere is a threat to authoritarianism everywhere

You can write this only if, by virtue of your income, identity, or both, you are utterly removed from the consequences of politics. To pretend that the racist, misogynistic, anti-gay vileness that Kirk spent his life spreading is secondary to the fact that he spread it "the right way" is appalling.

Which violence is framed by mainstream society as unacceptable and which is treated with indifference or applause is always a reflection of who holds political power

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

Hi, everyone, it's me, one of the 231 members of Congress who just said "violence is not the answer" and then proceeded to vote for an $848 billion military spending bill

That both of Turning Point USA’s founders are dead from public health crises their organization worked hard to enable is a parable for our time.

Not only is this coming for you, it is here and we are collectively behind in preparing.

I’m also not interested in litigating what is or isn’t “political violence” with people who willfully refuse to consider the quotidian violence that defines this country as political, or to entertain that the very idea of violence itself is ipso facto political. sorry but no thanks

Will be interesting to see which news outlets omit his years of violent white nationalism. I'm guessing practically every single one.

no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace

If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares. www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some...

RFK jr is going to kill so many people with political violence

democrat melissa hortman was literally politically assassinated in her fucking home less than 3 months ago and now everyone wants to comment on how bad it’ll be now like ok

The Supreme Court bans affirmative action in university admissions but is okay with racial profiling on American streets. That pretty much sums up white supremacy--heads I win, tails you lose, all legal.

I'm excited to share that we’ve just launched Siren! Magazine, a student-led, transnational feminist journal✨ supported by @annenbergcargc.bsky.social Our first issue, Resurfacing Feminist Currents, is now open for submissions! You can check our CFP here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🎙️ Check out my conversation with @petecant.bsky.social about the #MediaTravels collection! We discuss the need for all media studies to be global media studies, the barriers to achieving this, and the value of embracing partial and fragmentary knowledges. newbooksnetwork.com/media-travels

🎙️ Check out my conversation with @petecant.bsky.social about the #MediaTravels collection! We discuss the need for all media studies to be global media studies, the barriers to achieving this, and the value of embracing partial and fragmentary knowledges. newbooksnetwork.com/media-travels

Don't worry academics, it's still only August 32nd. Still plenty of time!

What’s happening is a lot of people who thought a little fascism just meant clearing out some undesirables and making the trains run on time are realizing that actually yes they too will be effected and it’s making them slightly nervous.

First day of my new grad seminar, MEDIA IN CRISIS! Undoubtedly, at some point in the semester, we may have to skip the scheduled materials + address something awful in current events. But for now, I look forward to intellectually rich discussions about crisis’ relation to time, history, and media.

Immigration is the central issue of our century and progressives must defend it or lose absolutely everything to fascism

I loved having this conversation with Pete about what it means to teach global media, the barriers to globalizing the media studies curriculum, and the importance of open access for our collection #MediaTravels:

New @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Juan Llamas-Rodriguez on his new collection, Media Travels: Toward an Atlas of Global Media. Check it out. And check out the book -- it's open access! -- in the first comment below. newbooksnetwork.com/media-travels

Words cannot adequately describe what a colossal disappointment our mainstream media has been during our slow descent into authoritarianism.