Alec Badenoch
@alecbad.bsky.social
Just zis guy, you know? (He/him)
Asst. prof. for Media and Culture at Utrecht Univesity. Rock star in a parallel universe. I write stuff about radio, media history, women's history, archives, grief, and stuff.
https://alecbadenoch.org/
Asst. prof. for Media and Culture at Utrecht Univesity. Rock star in a parallel universe. I write stuff about radio, media history, women's history, archives, grief, and stuff.
https://alecbadenoch.org/
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Alec Badenoch
@alecbad.bsky.social
· Oct 5
The International Women’s Broadcasting Histories network is delighted to announce that it will be hosting its inaugural conference at the University of East Anglia, 25-26th June 2026.
#cfp as a 🧵
#cfp as a 🧵
Ah, the techno-politics of the railway gauge is back...
Check out a short version of the long history here: www.inventingeurope.eu/governance/c...
Check out a short version of the long history here: www.inventingeurope.eu/governance/c...
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Ah, the techno-politics of the railway gauge is back...
Check out a short version of the long history here: www.inventingeurope.eu/governance/c...
Check out a short version of the long history here: www.inventingeurope.eu/governance/c...
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Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:
The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources:
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:
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1/Senior US official caught coaching Russia on how to massage Trump on Ukraine deal. Why? Because we are entering a new international order based not in state interests but clique interests. Welcome to neo-royalism.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukra...
www.bloomberg.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
1/Senior US official caught coaching Russia on how to massage Trump on Ukraine deal. Why? Because we are entering a new international order based not in state interests but clique interests. Welcome to neo-royalism.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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fuck everyone involved in this decision. scum.
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
fuck everyone involved in this decision. scum.
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tv teachers!
teachable overview-y piece about the history of television and gender / domesticity?
covering soap operas+ a little industrial history, as well as a little more theory synthesis about femininity and tv as the presumed aesthetic inferior to cinema?
teachable overview-y piece about the history of television and gender / domesticity?
covering soap operas+ a little industrial history, as well as a little more theory synthesis about femininity and tv as the presumed aesthetic inferior to cinema?
November 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
tv teachers!
teachable overview-y piece about the history of television and gender / domesticity?
covering soap operas+ a little industrial history, as well as a little more theory synthesis about femininity and tv as the presumed aesthetic inferior to cinema?
teachable overview-y piece about the history of television and gender / domesticity?
covering soap operas+ a little industrial history, as well as a little more theory synthesis about femininity and tv as the presumed aesthetic inferior to cinema?
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I hope folks realize that between Trump, Kushner, Hegseth, Witkoff, Noem, RFK, Jr., Kash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard, this country is almost entirely undefended.
Q: Have you heard this audio that Bloomberg has of Witkoff coaching the Russians on how to appeal to you?
TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.
TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I hope folks realize that between Trump, Kushner, Hegseth, Witkoff, Noem, RFK, Jr., Kash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard, this country is almost entirely undefended.
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I remain convinced DOGE was a massive, planetary scale data exfiltration scheme and that Palantir has it all now
Musk's people infiltrated the GSA technology arm early on and demanded root-level access to computer systems, trying to circumvent normal security procedures. Here's one example where they pushed so hard they forced someone to resign rather than give in.
Why did they do this?
Why did they do this?
Musk Ally Demands Admin Access to System That Lets Government Text the Public
A worker resigned in protest rather than giving Thomas Shedd access to Notify.gov, which they said would allow him to see "all personally identifiable information moving through the Notiy system, incl...
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I remain convinced DOGE was a massive, planetary scale data exfiltration scheme and that Palantir has it all now
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En nog een: Vacature senior beleidsmedewerker media-technologie stichting democratie en media: sdm.nl/gezocht-seni...
Gezocht: Senior Beleidsmedewerker Media & Technologie - Stichting Democratie en Media
vacature, senior beleidsmedewerker media technologie, stichting democratie en media SDM, nieuwe baan
sdm.nl
November 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
En nog een: Vacature senior beleidsmedewerker media-technologie stichting democratie en media: sdm.nl/gezocht-seni...
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Radio : nom féminin, mondes masculins. Déborah Gay. Presses Universitaires du Midi 2025.
Coucou les réac', j'ai encore pensé à vous en lisant ce livre !
youtube.com/shorts/NaIBG...
Coucou les réac', j'ai encore pensé à vous en lisant ce livre !
youtube.com/shorts/NaIBG...
1 minute 1 livre : n°64
YouTube video by Vincent Patigniez - Respectives Formation
youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Radio : nom féminin, mondes masculins. Déborah Gay. Presses Universitaires du Midi 2025.
Coucou les réac', j'ai encore pensé à vous en lisant ce livre !
youtube.com/shorts/NaIBG...
Coucou les réac', j'ai encore pensé à vous en lisant ce livre !
youtube.com/shorts/NaIBG...
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Violating the First Amendment to hide the record of all their violations of the Fourth Amendment.
An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Violating the First Amendment to hide the record of all their violations of the Fourth Amendment.
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Editorial: 'Addressing the nation' by Kate Murphy &Kate Terkanian is available here:
Browse all journals
Browse all journals
doi.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Editorial: 'Addressing the nation' by Kate Murphy &Kate Terkanian is available here:
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Spotlight on #OpenAccess article: 'Mediating women: the International Council of Women and the rise of (trans)national broadcasting' Kristin Skoog & Alexander Badenoch (@alecbad.bsky.social) available here: doi.org/10.1080/0961...
Mediating women: the International Council of Women and the rise of (trans)national broadcasting
Almost from the start of radio broadcasting, the International Council of Women (ICW) took particular interest in the medium, founding a Broadcasting Committee in 1936. This article examines the or...
doi.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Spotlight on #OpenAccess article: 'Mediating women: the International Council of Women and the rise of (trans)national broadcasting' Kristin Skoog & Alexander Badenoch (@alecbad.bsky.social) available here: doi.org/10.1080/0961...
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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I remain genuinely gobsmacked that this wasn’t picked up more. The Alex Jones who *repeatedly accused grieving parents of making up their children’s murders*.
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
On US TV shows and podcasts from 2009-18, Farage discussed supposed plots by bankers to create a global government, citing Goldman Sachs, the Bilderberg group and George Soros as threats to democracy. Included six guest slots with the disgraced far-right US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I remain genuinely gobsmacked that this wasn’t picked up more. The Alex Jones who *repeatedly accused grieving parents of making up their children’s murders*.
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”
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Trump is so far detached from reality it’s absurd. It’s past time to talk seriously about the 25th Amendment.
November 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Trump is so far detached from reality it’s absurd. It’s past time to talk seriously about the 25th Amendment.
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It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.
Fond memories of that time Mike Johnson was president of a local law school that never opened its doors, in part because it was attached to a Baptist college that was losing its accreditation, and in part because it was always a scam from the start
Mike Johnson -- who is, yes, theoretically a lawyer -- has not had a chance to look at the American Constitution because he's been very busy lately, folks, he just can't see everything, gosh, how is he supposed to know if it's wrong that the president called for the execution of congress members?
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.
Re: my earlier comments about not giving these fascists the benefit of the doubt. Can they be sued for destroying evidence?
Uh huh, sure seems convenient....
“The government has said that the data for that period was lost in a system crash apparently on the day after the lawsuit was filed”
Bullshit, I've worked in IT for over 16+ years & there is no way they don't have redundancies & backups to prevent this.
Lies
“The government has said that the data for that period was lost in a system crash apparently on the day after the lawsuit was filed”
Bullshit, I've worked in IT for over 16+ years & there is no way they don't have redundancies & backups to prevent this.
Lies
ICE Suddenly Loses Key Evidence One Day After Being Sued
ICE says the evidence disappeared in a “system crash.”
newrepublic.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Re: my earlier comments about not giving these fascists the benefit of the doubt. Can they be sued for destroying evidence?
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
AMEN. I actually cannot imagine doing scholarship without the play of language.
When I read things like this, I'm reminded of how the play and poetry of language — even punctuation! — are ABSENT from most of the purely functional discussions of "why + how we write" precipitated by LLMs. I wish students could see the fun, freedom + productive friction in the process
A Granta series on punctuation and grammar: lol's, transitive verbs, ellipses, quotation marks, line breaks, xox's... 🤗
November 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
AMEN. I actually cannot imagine doing scholarship without the play of language.
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The authoritarian threat is serious, and people should take it seriously.
AND the threat is under-resourced and full of incompetents who got their job because they put breaking the law for Trump above personal integrity or fear of consequences.
Push the regime beyond its limits and it'll break.
AND the threat is under-resourced and full of incompetents who got their job because they put breaking the law for Trump above personal integrity or fear of consequences.
Push the regime beyond its limits and it'll break.
Kimmel and Comey Highlight the Trump Regime's Limitations
Their desire for authoritarian abuse is bottomless, their ability to carry it out is not
www.arcdigital.media
November 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The authoritarian threat is serious, and people should take it seriously.
AND the threat is under-resourced and full of incompetents who got their job because they put breaking the law for Trump above personal integrity or fear of consequences.
Push the regime beyond its limits and it'll break.
AND the threat is under-resourced and full of incompetents who got their job because they put breaking the law for Trump above personal integrity or fear of consequences.
Push the regime beyond its limits and it'll break.
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
At this point, we have to consider whether a pandemic is their goal. Beyond RFK's eugenicist fantasies, a pandemic would offer pretext for various 'emergency powers' not to mention suspending elections, etc.
“Should the administration seek rapid changes to vaccine ingredients, certain shots could become less available and protection against dangerous diseases that haven’t been a widespread threat in decades — including measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, and polio — could wither.”
Trump and RFK Jr. are mulling their most disruptive vaccine policies yet — alarming manufacturers
Trump and Kennedy are considering removing aluminum from vaccines and breaking up shots that protect against multiple diseases.
www.statnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
At this point, we have to consider whether a pandemic is their goal. Beyond RFK's eugenicist fantasies, a pandemic would offer pretext for various 'emergency powers' not to mention suspending elections, etc.
Makes me think of stories of German soldiers who went back as tourists to the cities they’d occupied in WWII, totally surprised at the locals who didn’t want to see them
Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
November 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Makes me think of stories of German soldiers who went back as tourists to the cities they’d occupied in WWII, totally surprised at the locals who didn’t want to see them
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Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
November 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
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🌍 42.5m refugees
Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.
🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.
It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.
My letter to my MP.
#asylum #Mahmood
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Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.
🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.
It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.
My letter to my MP.
#asylum #Mahmood
🧵
![Dear [my MP’s name],
As the Home Secretary prepares to announce sweeping changes to the UK’s asylum system, I see it as both my duty as a citizen and responsibility as a migration expert to do all I can to urge policymakers to oppose the proposals—not only for what they will do to refugees, though that is the first concern, but also for what they will mean for all of us and the future society we live in.
That is why I am writing to you as my MP. This letter explains why I consider the need to oppose the Home Secretary’s proposals urgent and, at the most fundamental level, in the national and your constituents’ interest.
I was born in Germany, a country whose history taught me how quickly societies can go down dark paths; how quickly our leaders can fail in the choices they make. But the history of the displacement of people that the Nazi regime was responsible for also shaped my understanding of why refugee movements occur—and why our response to any of them can never compromise what are, and must always be, universal human rights.
Which is why what is happening in the UK now is so deeply alarming.
A manufactured crisis
As of June 2025, there were 42.5 million refugees globally. Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries; most of them immediate neighbours. Overall, five countries—Colombia, Germany, Türkiye, Iran and Uganda—host a third of the total number of refugees; Germany is the main host in the EU, hosting 2.7 million.
The UK hosts 548,000 refugees; that is 0.78% of the UK population. About 110,000 people are in receipt of asylum support; that is 0.15% of the UK population.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bru4h6s37w4hfmwhetu7veye/bafkreidmewc5timbx7nh57qyq7lm7gmhvclzidmloqhwgckpnegnddoicq@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM