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Associate Professor of Media, University of Leicester. Own views, albeit in a deeply mediated world.
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This is how you do it. It really is “They can’t arrest us all” in action. Remember: as a community, you outnumber them.

Tomorrow, April 17, 2-4pm!! A discussion about our rights and responsibilities and supporting international students and others, nationally and locally, sponsored by USC-AAUP In concert with National Day of Action for Higher Ed, www.dayofactionforhighered.org

Today is the final presentation for my Kluge flwshp @ the LoC. I'm 🗣️ abt the bureaus of bureaucracy, our 🟠👑's furniture fetish + debasement of democratic apparatae,+ how we might "turn the tables." It's a bit too 😬 to air in a fed venue, so I'm hoping to find another opp to share this somewhere?

SAVE Act just passed House. It is modern-day poll tax that would disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans, end online, mail + voter registration drives & require voters to register in person at election offices, forcing some rural voters to drive 8 hours to register. Total disaster in every way

It was my deep honor to file an amicus brief on behalf of 61 media organizations and press freedom advocates in the Perkins Coie litigation, arguing that President Trump's threats to lawyers will chill the press and harm the public. theintercept.com/2025/04/09/t...

So heartening and encouraging to see my home state elect Susan Crawford to the Supreme Court, demonstrating that Musk's money cannot, in fact, buy everything.

TODAY. IT'S HAPPENING. Elon Musk thinks he can buy this election. We're gonna show him that democracy is not for sale.

"Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for." – Seamus Heaney

Especially now 📻

BREAKING: People are being suspended on X in Turkey for posting videos of these protests against Erdoğan’s corrupt and repressive regime. Keep sharing everywhere.

I highly recommend this litigation tracker, following 127 cases (including 2 closed cases) against Trump administration actions: www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...

Calling it the "biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history," the EPA rolled out sweeping moves Wednesday aimed at walking back environmental protections and eliminating a host of climate change regulations, some decades in the making.

It's hard to say this, but science (& research more generally) is just being **stopped** in the US right now. This is just one university, losing nearly a billion dollars in project funding pretty much overnight. That's people's jobs & the research that could save lives. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

German police yesterday violently broke up an International Women's Day march in support of Palestine and solidarity with Palestinian women who continue to struggle under Israeli occupation.

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️

#BREAKING: NPR employees and on-air hosts are participating in a rally outside the programmer's Washington, D.C. headquarters on Thursday as part of "Protect My Public Media Day," which is intended to raise awareness about de-funding efforts by the Trump administration and Congress.

JD Vance is proclaiming to the world that the US's AI industry will dominate, Elon Musk and DOGE are hollowing out the government with an AI-first strategy, and Silicon Valley's is stuck on a growth-at-all-costs AI approach. As @katecrawford.bsky.social put it: 'AI is in its empire era'

All day, every day, I'm consumed with heartache and anger over the pervasive cruelty: The ecosystems decimated out of spite. The adolescent administrative pyromania. The shambolic alienation of long-term allies. The elimination of dedicated public servants without compassion or accommodation...

Bring back The Good Fight (2017 - 2022). So much material 📺

Measles and polio right now after RFK Jr. was confirmed by the senate.

Happy World Radio Day! We need local, community-led communication more than ever 📻🎤🌍❤️🧡 radio.garden

I’m okay with being okay with not being okay with any of this.

Fixed it--from Standing Bear Network