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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 6d

Between banning books, non-white people, genders, immigrants, comedians, journalism…

And then pushing AI which just regurgitates new ideas…

America is headed into a deep cultural recession. This place is bleak and getting increasingly boring.

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · Oct 3

Said it before, will probably die saying it, we are never going to solve the climate disinfo problem if we don't fix media. As @maxboykoff.bsky.social notes here, the public by and large learns about climate change via the media, so if the media trades in false equivalence, it's damaging!

Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · Oct 3

Today, a look at the role the media has played in climate obstruction, with @maxboykoff.bsky.social and Melissa Aronczyk: drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

S14, Ep4 | The Media As a Tool of Climate Obstruction

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

drilled.media

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Sep 22

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.

List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · Sep 18

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok.

They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.

They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.

“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Sep 19

If you wrote a "Trump distances himself from project 2025" story in 2024 you are either a dupe or one of our enemies. They are cackling with laughter that the media they're now destroying enthusiastically helped them dupe the voters

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · Sep 18

hey so this is insane

Brendan Carr confirming that the FCC is carrying out Project 2025 stuff via a gif on Twitter

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · Sep 14

This is a great idea! 🧪

laist.com/news/educati...

UCLA researchers host science fair to showcase work suspended by the Trump administration

On Thursday evening, dozens of researchers hosted a science fair at UCLA to demonstrate the long-term impact of frozen grants.

laist.com

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Matthew Schneider-Mayerson @schneidermayers.bsky.social · Aug 31

There’s also a journal article with more data, but less colors

The Presence and Portrayal of Climate Change and Other Environmental Problems in Popular Films: A Quantitative Content Analysis

doi.org

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Matthew Schneider-Mayerson @schneidermayers.bsky.social · Aug 30

www.theclimaterealitycheck.com

The Climate Reality Check

A Bechdel-Wallace Test for a World on Fire. Published by Good Energy and Buck Lab for Climate & Environment, Colby College

www.theclimaterealitycheck.com

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Sara Constantino @smconstantino.bsky.social · Aug 29

We are hiring - come work with us! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Social Sciences (Environmental Behavioral Sciences)

facultypositions.stanford.edu

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · Aug 25

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.

NYT just covered it. 1/n

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

www.nytimes.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Aug 12

#ReleaseTheCuomoList

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Aug 1

We have had stable, professional, vouchsafed information about the physical & economic world for so long that we entirely take it for granted. It's going to be truly wild to operate in a world where quite literally no one knows for sure what is happening, where there is no fact of the matter.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 1

Trump: "You're right. Why should anybody trust numbers?"

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Aug 1

Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor statisti s. This is the end of being able to trust the data from the federal government on employment, GDP, or any other critical information. They will only want to produce information that pleases Trump, not the truth. This is how you get a failed state.

News article titled "Trump orders firing of BLS commissioner, after large summer revision" by Andrew Ackerman. It reports that President Donald Trump ordered the firing of Erika McEntarfer, head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after the agency released major downward revisions to May and June jobs data. Trump announced the decision on social media, stating she would be replaced with someone "much more competent and qualified." The revisions removed 258,000 jobs from earlier counts, marking the largest two-month downward adjustment since the pandemic.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jul 29

Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ.
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation

www.nytimes.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jul 25

i’m finding it requires more and more cognitive dissonance to enjoy indulgences as the fascism becomes increasingly omnipresent and suffocating

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · Jul 25

We are seven months in, and the speed with which vital civic institutions are capitulating to authoritarian demands we once would have regarded as inconceivable in an established liberal democracy is jawdropping. I hadn't thought I was polyannaish about America, but it's really stunning.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jul 22

The problem with saying “history will remember” is that we are deciding right now whether there will be people in the future

We are also deciding right now whether to train people to be historians

Also, once it’s history, it’s too late

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Jul 21

feel like this goes beyond politics and into tech and maybe culture. there's a kind of future blindness it feels like. a focus on both tearing down structural things/institutions and replacing them with nothing. or building things that disrupt institutions/infrastructure w/ little thought to future

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jul 21

This is, to me, the defining dyamic of everything the last six months. Any game theory notion of deterrence or the shoe being on the other foot ever is entirely gone. Either 1) They don't think they'll ever lose power again or 2) they're confident Democrats won't ever do the same things back to them

Dolan's Knicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · Jul 21

Budget agreements won’t matter, funding obligations won’t matter, expended funds on the basis of promised reimbursement won’t matter.

You really don’t get the impression the GOP is thinking through what this means for the second they’re not in control.

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jen rice @jenrice.bsky.social · Jul 21

the TX GOP is redrawing the congressional map so houston voters won't be able to elect democrats to represent them

houston: you can speak at the public hearing saturday 7/26 at 11am

University of Houston Main Campus
4455 University Drive
Student Center, Houston Room (Room 220)

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jul 18

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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Tom Raftery @tomraftery.com · Jul 14

Climate media coverage is falling off a cliff, just as the crisis accelerates.
And that’s not just bad for business, it’s dangerous for democracy. Let’s talk. 👇 1/7

2004-2025 media coverage of climate change

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · Jul 7

I wrote today about why we should shudder about ICE and CBP adding 19,000 new agents and officers — because we should terrified of WHO would want to join CBP and ICE amid politicized authoritarian images like this: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/four-fears...

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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · Jun 27

The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it.

- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.

- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · Jun 25

Feels like the so-painfully-obvious-that-nobody-is-saying-it lesson from the night is that short-form video is now one of the chief mediums of American politics — and is arguably now just as important as TV for some electorates. Short-form video is where persuasion and name ID happen now.

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