Chokely Carmichael🥋
@stewartcoles.bsky.social
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Asst Prof @ Illinois Dept of Communication studying media, politics, & identity, not necessarily in that order. UMich Comm & Media / SDSU Journalism & Media Studies / Drexel Digital Media alumnus / USMC veteran. Views = my own. http://www.stewartcoles.com
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🚨New pub alert! 🚨 Out now in Communication Theory, I introduce a model for how media users evaluate media texts as politically relevant, leading to cognitive, affective, and behavioral outcomes bearing a variety of consequences. A 🧵... (1/10)
Screenshot of abstract for the article "Conceptualizing evaluations of the political relevance of media texts: The Politically Relevant Media Model," found at: https://doi.org/10.1093/ct/qtae004
stewartcoles.bsky.social
Now I’m thinking of an alternative term for “food desert” as well.
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nkalamb.bsky.social
Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
How Genocide Happened
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lexialex.bsky.social
People gave a record amount of money to multiple organizations for the people of Gaza and all this money just sat there for the past 2 years because Israel blocked it. I hope this money gets distributed quickly now so that the people of Gaza don't have to beg anymore
news.un.org/en/story/202...
Private donations boost UN support for war-torn Gaza
From celebrities to civil society, a growing number of people around the world are providing unprecedented support for UNRWA, the UN agency supplying a lifeline to two million Palestinians trapped in ...
news.un.org
stewartcoles.bsky.social
Absolutely none of this makes any sense, and we’re gonna need some answers from ICE about how this all went down. I’m sure they will be fully transparent and forthcoming.
jentrification.com
A 15-year-old was reported missing after he was last seen Saturday, Oct. 4.

The teen allegedly never returned to help his mother sell fruit after going to a restroom.
Houston: Missing teen with autism reportedly in ICE custody
The family of a Houston teen who went missing tells FOX 26 that he had been in ICE custody for days.
www.fox26houston.com
stewartcoles.bsky.social
These things are hopping into people’s shopping carts left and right!
stewartcoles.bsky.social
That’s a bidet.

A beret is a type of performance dance originating in 15th century Italy in which dancers spin on their toes and stuff.
andrecarrington.bsky.social
Wait, no, that's a chalet.

A beret is that thing attached to your toilet, in Europe
cerromerussell.blacksky.app
No your that's a beret.

A duvet it one of those cottages in the Alpines, like a snow lodge.
stewartcoles.bsky.social
Is @theonion.com sending a subtle reminder that the @icahdq.bsky.social #ICA26 conference deadline is less than a month away?
theonion.com
Woman Tends To Do Best Creative Thinking When Backed Into Corner With Livelihood At Stake https://theonion.com/woman-tends-to-do-best-creative-thinking-when-backed-in-1851338274/
Woman Tends To Do Best Creative Thinking When Backed Into Corner With Livelihood At Stake
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rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
"Among the estimated total population of Gaza, this is equivalent to more than 54,600 children up to six years old who need emergency nutrition and medical care, including 12,800 severely wasted children, the researchers said."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Almost 55,000 children in Gaza acutely malnourished, Lancet study estimates
Study shows clear link between Israeli restrictions on aid entering Gaza and levels of malnutrition among children
www.theguardian.com
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stewartcoles.bsky.social
And even if removal -> hate crimes, that’s certainly not a reason to keep the monuments, it’s a reason to prevent the hate crimes and address the white supremacy that underlies them. I just don’t want anyone getting the idea that keeping Confederate monuments is somehow good, actually.
stewartcoles.bsky.social
Not a response to the article itself but to the idea of monuments as stand-ins for performative violence and the possibility of actual violence upon their removal:

These monuments are themselves harmful in many ways, and we need to expand our definition of what “violence” and harm are.
stewartcoles.bsky.social
As we enter the annual War on Christmas™ season, take note at who cries about Christianity being under attack but has fuck-all to say about armed agents of the state shooting pastors in the head with pepper balls.
jackjenkins.me
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.
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karnythia.bsky.social
You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state
motherjones.com
Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.
The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.
Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.
www.motherjones.com
stewartcoles.bsky.social
“The longest review time in 2023 was 388 days, for an article that received a desk rejection, they wrote.”

This would be my villain origin story.
stewartcoles.bsky.social
It’s a complicated line to dance around, and the conversations have and will continue to include more nuance and explicit truth as time goes on. Like eventually they’re going to learn that some of their relatives have died in police custody 🤷🏽‍♂️
stewartcoles.bsky.social
Yeah we’ve tried to find the most age-appropriate way to talk about it, since our oldest is already being taught that “police keep people safe” in schools. So we’ve explained to her how police (and military) are allowed to hurt people, and they sometimes hurt people even when they don’t need to.
stewartcoles.bsky.social
My kids know why we don’t allow Paw Patrol and other copaganda-for-kids stuff in our house.
stewartcoles.bsky.social
Police will use violence even if protesters are nonviolent—and they know that people will therefore *believe* that protesters were violent and that police violence was necessary. State violence constructs reality.
mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.
stewartcoles.bsky.social
If one of my students did this, they’d be getting *at least* a zero on the assignment, not to mention facing an academic misconduct violation for plagiarism.
rikefranke.bsky.social
And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch
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stewartcoles.bsky.social
They make men’s shoes too, and yes they are insanely comfortable. Ask me how I know.
stewartcoles.bsky.social
Watch how much your life improves when you mute Tom Nichols.
stewartcoles.bsky.social
Black people (forever, but especially in 2020): Police are bad, actually.

Y’all: We think you’re overreacting.

Maybe for a second stop to consider that Black people might have some insight that you don’t. How much of the current moment could have been avoided by simply listening to Black people?
unraveledpress.com
Heard an officer say "let's do it" and then, in the dark, they tackle Rabbi Ben to the ground. He's being loaded into a CCSO wagon now. Broadview police also here screaming at people.