Patricia Aufderheide
@paufder.bsky.social
University Professor, School of Communication, American University; Editor Emerita, In These Times; Author of books about documentary film, Kartemquin Films, the copyright doctrine of fair use and creativity, "political correctness," and more
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Quiet part, meet out loud.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Quiet part, meet out loud.
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"When your heart is broken you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain." – Andrea Gibson
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"When your heart is broken you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain." – Andrea Gibson
Need a briefing on current genAI copyright landscape, with some historical perspective? Pam Samuelson and Silicon Flatirons are here to help: siliconflatirons.org/wp-content/u... (there is video too!)
siliconflatirons.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Need a briefing on current genAI copyright landscape, with some historical perspective? Pam Samuelson and Silicon Flatirons are here to help: siliconflatirons.org/wp-content/u... (there is video too!)
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Colorado enacted a limited but crucial step forward against automated decision-making: the AI Act of 2024. We oppose weakening or delaying this law, and support strengthening it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Strengthen Colorado’s AI Act
Powerful institutions are using automated decision-making against us. Fortunately, workers, patients, and renters are resisting. The Colorado AI Act is a good step in the right direction. Still, EFF
www.eff.org
November 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Colorado enacted a limited but crucial step forward against automated decision-making: the AI Act of 2024. We oppose weakening or delaying this law, and support strengthening it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Today in the Land of the Free:
• Trump says Ukraine should give up a bunch of its territory to Russia and not have security guarantees.
• The CDC says vaccines could cause autism.
• Trump says members of Congress who encouraged service members to obey the constitution should be executed.
• Trump says Ukraine should give up a bunch of its territory to Russia and not have security guarantees.
• The CDC says vaccines could cause autism.
• Trump says members of Congress who encouraged service members to obey the constitution should be executed.
November 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Today in the Land of the Free:
• Trump says Ukraine should give up a bunch of its territory to Russia and not have security guarantees.
• The CDC says vaccines could cause autism.
• Trump says members of Congress who encouraged service members to obey the constitution should be executed.
• Trump says Ukraine should give up a bunch of its territory to Russia and not have security guarantees.
• The CDC says vaccines could cause autism.
• Trump says members of Congress who encouraged service members to obey the constitution should be executed.
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Alex Jones launches GoFundMe to make face even puffier
Alex Jones launches GoFundMe to make face even puffier
AUSTIN, TX - Radio show host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is once again reaching out to his listener base for help with a new GoFundMe campaign to make his face even more ruddy-looking.
www.thebeaverton.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Alex Jones launches GoFundMe to make face even puffier
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic lawmakers to be killed. Trump is putting my colleagues’ lives at risk because they have exercised their free speech rights under the First Amendment and Speech and Debate Clause.
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The President of the United States just called for Democratic lawmakers to be killed. Trump is putting my colleagues’ lives at risk because they have exercised their free speech rights under the First Amendment and Speech and Debate Clause.
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we are "ruled" by the worst people imaginable
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
we are "ruled" by the worst people imaginable
Front page top of fold news, right?
November 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Front page top of fold news, right?
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Trump calls for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Trump calls for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged
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in a moment when too much of the remaining opinion column space in the states seems to have been set aside for farcical, garbled thinking, so grateful for @elienyc.bsky.social, for his moral clarity, and for the way he wields the form.
November 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
in a moment when too much of the remaining opinion column space in the states seems to have been set aside for farcical, garbled thinking, so grateful for @elienyc.bsky.social, for his moral clarity, and for the way he wields the form.
The whole thread, people. Read the whole thread.
The content is still obviously delusional to anyone reading it. It’s just organised crazy. But the real danger is the internal effect on the user. The AI provides coherence and validation, stabilising the narrative they’re caught in.
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The whole thread, people. Read the whole thread.
For those who, due to @mmasnick.bsky.social ’s brilliant repost of NE Ohio Sewer District’s blog post on storm water management (YESS!), are meeting them for the first time, I give you this immortal work, the best graduation speech ever.
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 AM
For those who, due to @mmasnick.bsky.social ’s brilliant repost of NE Ohio Sewer District’s blog post on storm water management (YESS!), are meeting them for the first time, I give you this immortal work, the best graduation speech ever.
I am such a devotee of NE Ohio Regional Sewer District.
The award-winning article about stormwater management you didn't know you needed.
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
November 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I am such a devotee of NE Ohio Regional Sewer District.
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My question is who is doing all the Epsteining for these powerful wealthy men now?
November 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
My question is who is doing all the Epsteining for these powerful wealthy men now?
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🧵!!
All I know is, in the basement of the UCLA library are 🔥 papers of men and women who went through the Red Scare & were vindicated in the end.
It gives me hope, as @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social likes to remind us, that despite these institutions, we are going to win.
All I know is, in the basement of the UCLA library are 🔥 papers of men and women who went through the Red Scare & were vindicated in the end.
It gives me hope, as @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social likes to remind us, that despite these institutions, we are going to win.
November 15, 2025 at 5:02 AM
🧵!!
All I know is, in the basement of the UCLA library are 🔥 papers of men and women who went through the Red Scare & were vindicated in the end.
It gives me hope, as @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social likes to remind us, that despite these institutions, we are going to win.
All I know is, in the basement of the UCLA library are 🔥 papers of men and women who went through the Red Scare & were vindicated in the end.
It gives me hope, as @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social likes to remind us, that despite these institutions, we are going to win.
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🇧🇷 In #Brazil,
- Solar grew from 0.01% in 2015 to 12% in 2025
- Met its 2030 renewable target 8 years early
- Installed 60 GW of solar by Sept 2025
4/7
- Solar grew from 0.01% in 2015 to 12% in 2025
- Met its 2030 renewable target 8 years early
- Installed 60 GW of solar by Sept 2025
4/7
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🇧🇷 In #Brazil,
- Solar grew from 0.01% in 2015 to 12% in 2025
- Met its 2030 renewable target 8 years early
- Installed 60 GW of solar by Sept 2025
4/7
- Solar grew from 0.01% in 2015 to 12% in 2025
- Met its 2030 renewable target 8 years early
- Installed 60 GW of solar by Sept 2025
4/7
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When visiting our wolf, coyote, or jackal enclosures, keep in mind that the Greeneville Rule Book actually does say a dog can’t play basketball.
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
When visiting our wolf, coyote, or jackal enclosures, keep in mind that the Greeneville Rule Book actually does say a dog can’t play basketball.
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Live your life in such a way that if 20K pages of your files are released and someone builds a database of them, it doesn't crash because too many people want to search it simultaneously.
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Live your life in such a way that if 20K pages of your files are released and someone builds a database of them, it doesn't crash because too many people want to search it simultaneously.
“The real sex crime here is not supporting our President,” Leavitt told reporters, before vanishing in a puff of foul smoke.
"Trump is a pedophile" email raises questions about whether Trump is a pedophile
"Trump is a pedophile" email raises questions about whether Trump is a pedophile
WASHINGTON, D.C. – With many of Jeffrey Epstein’s documents and emails now available to the public, subtle messages from the disgraced financer like “Donald Trump is a sex criminal I have done sex cri...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
“The real sex crime here is not supporting our President,” Leavitt told reporters, before vanishing in a puff of foul smoke.
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Ruh rho
“.. The share of subprime borrowers at least 60 days past due on their auto loans rose to 6.65% in October, the highest in data going back to 1994 ..”
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November 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Ruh rho
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November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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This object capitulation by Schumer and Jefferies was appalling – – and so unnecessary and humiliating because they were winning the battle for public opinion and have the cards to win and save healthcare. I agree: primary any Dem who supports the failed leadership. Do you?
www.indivisible2026.org
www.indivisible2026.org
Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...
www.indivisible2026.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
This object capitulation by Schumer and Jefferies was appalling – – and so unnecessary and humiliating because they were winning the battle for public opinion and have the cards to win and save healthcare. I agree: primary any Dem who supports the failed leadership. Do you?
www.indivisible2026.org
www.indivisible2026.org
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I wrote about what it means that the President fell for obvious (and not even very good) satire on "The Dunning Kruger Times" (yes, really).
Trump Falls For Satire From Site Called ‘The Dunning Kruger Times’
Over the weekend, the President of the United States fell for obvious satire from a website literally called "The Dunning Kruger Times." Donald Trump—a man with access to the best, most accurate information on basically any…
Over the weekend, the President of the United States fell for obvious satire from a website literally called "The Dunning Kruger Times." Donald Trump—a man with access to the best, most accurate information on basically any…
Trump Falls For Satire From Site Called ‘The Dunning Kruger Times’
Over the weekend, the President of the United States fell for obvious satire from a website literally called "The Dunning Kruger Times." Donald Trump—a man with access to the best, most accurate information on basically any subject—posted to Truth Social a screenshot claiming that "DOGE halts yearly payments of $2.5 million to Barack Obama for 'royalties linked to Obamacare.' Obama has collected this payment since 2010, for a total of $40 million in taxpayer dollars."
www.techdirt.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I wrote about what it means that the President fell for obvious (and not even very good) satire on "The Dunning Kruger Times" (yes, really).