Ever Josue Figueroa, Ph.D.
@everfigueroa.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder. PhD from UT Austin. Media Representations | Media Sociology | Sports Communication | Journalism Studies
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This is precisely what Trump looks like
December 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This is precisely what Trump looks like
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"In a just world, where the career of a political pundit was somehow tied to his ability to analyze politics, this would be an extinction-level event for these morons."
My latest newsletter is about how centrist pundits got the lessons of the 2024 election wrong, and how the politics of 2025 exposed them.
The Pundits Were All Wrong
The Republican collapse has exposed elite pundits as clueless
stringinamaze.net
December 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"In a just world, where the career of a political pundit was somehow tied to his ability to analyze politics, this would be an extinction-level event for these morons."
I work at a beautiful place.
December 3, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I work at a beautiful place.
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College Basketball Reference has added schedules and results for the FULL history of NCAA Division I Women's Basketball!
This makes CBBref.com the most comprehensive database of major women's college basketball scores that you will find anywhere.
Details: www.sports-reference.com/blog/2025/11...
This makes CBBref.com the most comprehensive database of major women's college basketball scores that you will find anywhere.
Details: www.sports-reference.com/blog/2025/11...
December 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
College Basketball Reference has added schedules and results for the FULL history of NCAA Division I Women's Basketball!
This makes CBBref.com the most comprehensive database of major women's college basketball scores that you will find anywhere.
Details: www.sports-reference.com/blog/2025/11...
This makes CBBref.com the most comprehensive database of major women's college basketball scores that you will find anywhere.
Details: www.sports-reference.com/blog/2025/11...
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Canadian employees at The Athletic will have our second bargaining session with the company today, as we work collectively to negotiate a fair contract.
The bargaining committee has our full support! ✊
The bargaining committee has our full support! ✊
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Canadian employees at The Athletic will have our second bargaining session with the company today, as we work collectively to negotiate a fair contract.
The bargaining committee has our full support! ✊
The bargaining committee has our full support! ✊
One of the final things I did at my job before grad school was an on-site visit for a Somali non-profit organization in Minneapolis and it was genuinely an inspiring experience. One of the most deeply caring non-profit organizations in the country that truly impacted and made their community better.
I can't tell you how many of my (wonderful, driven, caring, genuinely outstanding) students are Somali. I'd take each and every one of them over a thousand of that orange pissbag. I'd take a single one of them over every last dollar he has.
My students are an inspiration. Trump's an embarrassment.
My students are an inspiration. Trump's an embarrassment.
Trump on Minnesota's Somali community: "They contribute nothing. I don't want them in our country, I'll be honest with you."
December 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
One of the final things I did at my job before grad school was an on-site visit for a Somali non-profit organization in Minneapolis and it was genuinely an inspiring experience. One of the most deeply caring non-profit organizations in the country that truly impacted and made their community better.
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The White House’s new anti-media website includes denunciations of:
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
November 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The White House’s new anti-media website includes denunciations of:
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
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There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI
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Northwestern and Columbia being famous for journalism and bending over for Trump seems a little too on the nose these days
This is the second largest payout from a private university to the Trump admin yet, second only to Columbia’s $200m
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Northwestern and Columbia being famous for journalism and bending over for Trump seems a little too on the nose these days
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Hook em!!!!
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Hook em!!!!
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
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donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
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Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
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Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
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Bottom line is Trump judges star power through the lens of visual communication, namely being good on video (tv in particular). It’s how he picked his cabinet. Mamdani was always going to wow him.
November 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Bottom line is Trump judges star power through the lens of visual communication, namely being good on video (tv in particular). It’s how he picked his cabinet. Mamdani was always going to wow him.
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also trump is always deferential to celebrities and mamdani is a celebrity bsky.app/profile/atru...
Q: would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani administration ?
TRUMP: I would. I really would.
TRUMP: I would. I really would.
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
also trump is always deferential to celebrities and mamdani is a celebrity bsky.app/profile/atru...
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me whipping out my "is this AI?" magnifying glass
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
me whipping out my "is this AI?" magnifying glass
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The blurbs are in!
Thanks to @sidbedingfield.bsky.social, @rickperlstein.bsky.social, and @alicetiara.bsky.social for their generous praise for *Making the Liberal Media* which is due out in March.
Journalists and academics interested in reviewing—hit me up and I'll connect you with my publicist!
Thanks to @sidbedingfield.bsky.social, @rickperlstein.bsky.social, and @alicetiara.bsky.social for their generous praise for *Making the Liberal Media* which is due out in March.
Journalists and academics interested in reviewing—hit me up and I'll connect you with my publicist!
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The blurbs are in!
Thanks to @sidbedingfield.bsky.social, @rickperlstein.bsky.social, and @alicetiara.bsky.social for their generous praise for *Making the Liberal Media* which is due out in March.
Journalists and academics interested in reviewing—hit me up and I'll connect you with my publicist!
Thanks to @sidbedingfield.bsky.social, @rickperlstein.bsky.social, and @alicetiara.bsky.social for their generous praise for *Making the Liberal Media* which is due out in March.
Journalists and academics interested in reviewing—hit me up and I'll connect you with my publicist!
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Had a great time consulting with the “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” team over the past couple months, and they kindly gave my book a shoutout during the episode.
November 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Had a great time consulting with the “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” team over the past couple months, and they kindly gave my book a shoutout during the episode.
Out now. Article with @patferrucci.bsky.social where we look at metajournalistic discourse of sports journalists layoffs at ESPN & The New York Times. #commsky
muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
Project MUSE - It's a Problem for All of Us: Discursively Explaining the Destruction of Sports Journalism
muse.jhu.edu
November 16, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Out now. Article with @patferrucci.bsky.social where we look at metajournalistic discourse of sports journalists layoffs at ESPN & The New York Times. #commsky
muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
Out now. Project led by our wonderful graduate student Qiongye Chen. We compared how solidarity is constructed and deconstructed in the case of four newspaper labor strikes, between NewsGuild media content and traditional corporate news coverage. #commsky
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Will They Defend Their Own? A Critical Discourse Analysis and Comparison of Corporate News Media and NewsGuild Coverage of Journalists’ Labor Strikes
Union organizing has increased rapidly in the United States news industry over the past several years, leading to increased labor conflicts in the form of strikes. This study compares news media co...
www.tandfonline.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Out now. Project led by our wonderful graduate student Qiongye Chen. We compared how solidarity is constructed and deconstructed in the case of four newspaper labor strikes, between NewsGuild media content and traditional corporate news coverage. #commsky
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Cmon Texas Longhorns we can push the dead money record for fired coaches a little higher.
November 16, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Cmon Texas Longhorns we can push the dead money record for fired coaches a little higher.
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This young girl was not “left vulnerable to exploitation.” She was in fact sexually exploited.
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This young girl was not “left vulnerable to exploitation.” She was in fact sexually exploited.