A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 21hSomeone should probably let Eric Schmitt know that Caitlin Clark is not the Hawk Tuah girl... 1225
Reposted by A.J. BauerMatthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Turning Points Live on Substack tomorrow at 1pm Eastern, if you are interested. This week: Media studies professor @ajbauer.bsky.social and we’ve got the Erika Kirk Vanity Fair profile out! 032
Reposted by A.J. BauerSpencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My “A Short History of Nazi-Satanism,” the first comprehensive overview of Nazi-Satanism, is finally out! Runs from the 1970s alliances b/t the Church of Satan & neo-Nazi groups thru today’s Order of Nine Angles and NVE. Link for PDF download. (captcha req) escholarship.org/uc/item/1f57... 28543232
Reposted by A.J. BauerA.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'm co-chairing a search for a full professor in the area of "media entrepreneurship" (extremely broadly defined) at the University of Alabama. It comes with an endowment! Curious? Don't hesitate to reach out. careers.ua.edu/jobs/ccis-so...careers.ua.eduCCIS - Southern Progress Professor of Media Entrepreneurship, Journalism and Creative Media - 530646 - Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United StatesDepartment/Organization207451 - Journalism and Creative Media RankProfessor Position SummaryThe Department of Journalism & Creative Media in the College of Communication & Information Scienc... 087
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'm co-chairing a search for a full professor in the area of "media entrepreneurship" (extremely broadly defined) at the University of Alabama. It comes with an endowment! Curious? Don't hesitate to reach out. careers.ua.edu/jobs/ccis-so...careers.ua.eduCCIS - Southern Progress Professor of Media Entrepreneurship, Journalism and Creative Media - 530646 - Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United StatesDepartment/Organization207451 - Journalism and Creative Media RankProfessor Position SummaryThe Department of Journalism & Creative Media in the College of Communication & Information Scienc... 087
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Seems like “migrant caravan” season gets earlier every two years… 1274
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Finally reached the stage of my career where I’m getting “major revisions” on an article for insufficiently engaging with my own earlier work 🫠 2180
Reposted by A.J. BauerTej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Yesterday in NYC — Thanks to all the lovely people who came to my book launch at NYU. Tomorrow in VA — If you’re at the Af-Am conference, please come to my book panel with great people… 063
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Boston folks: I'm giving a book talk tomorrow (Thursday) at MIT. Hope to see you there! calendar.mit.edu/event/aj-bau...calendar.mit.eduA.J. Bauer, “Beyond Bias” 050
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Well, I was masking at a nightclub one Friday night And that nightclub bar was a little uptight Yeah, I was masking all alone a little self-conscious When some kids came up and said "For masking, come with us" And soon I was masking in a lesbian bar, ah-oo, ah-oo 090
Reposted by A.J. BauerPhilip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"[R]eframes familiar debates about bias and balance within a longer history of political struggle offering ... a framework that will shape future conversations." MAKING THE LIBERAL MEDIA, by @ajbauer.bsky.social reviewed in *American Journalism.* bit.ly/4xCg1z3 @columbiaup.bsky.social 082
Reposted by A.J. BauerEmmaia Gelman @mishmoshk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Happy pub day to this collective labor of love. With essays by all your faves! Dismantle Zionism. @notechforapartheid.bsky.social @ajbauer.bsky.social @soljbrager.bsky.social @kbruyneel.bsky.social @isaackamola.bsky.social @ahmedmoor.bsky.social 144
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Boosting video from Trump TV is scabbing. I support perpetual press pool boycott. 615124
Reposted by A.J. BauerChris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Big news from @ij.org: A federal judge in Alabama has just ordered ICE and CBP to stop warrantless raids of construction sites, to stop detaining people without individualized suspicion, and to stop detaining people who present valid ID. More to come shortly. 9412123
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This is excellent. We need this for the remainder of his term regardless of whether or not he welcomes those three outlets back. 2173
Reposted by A.J. BauerKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/09/2026For my newsletter, I wrote about Democrats coming out against "trans surgery for kids" (which do not happen) and how the myth took over our politics. www.burnsnotice.com/the-trans-ki...burnsnotice.comThe "Trans Kid Surgery" MythThe big lie worked because it played on your protective instincts 111296487
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Plenty to criticize the New York Times for but it DOES deserve a Pulitzer for this illustration. 4142
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Trump cherishes the free press like he loves his children. 0120
Reposted by A.J. BauerCandice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 21/09/2026NOW: Just arrived at the intersection of Research Blvd and Anderson Lane—near where ICE shot & wounded 29-yr-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez earlier today. Between 300-500 people still holding intersection here. ICE is reportedly not letting Garces Perez’s family access him at the hospital. 171595657
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Kennedy got an eternal flame so of course Trump wants an eternal sniper's nest. 3205
Reposted by A.J. BauerSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I learned this week that the New York Times was founded 175 years ago. There is a useful set of pieces floating around on this for journalism history buffs. But what struck me is that means the Times was founded 25 years *after* the black press which will celebrate its 200th birthday in a few months 71013258
Reposted by A.J. BauerDan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 20/09/2026What’s most frustrating, and what we are working to try to get the Dem cmtes to understand, is that they don’t understand how or why trans attacks (and ones on immigrants) work. It’s all status threat. Besides the casual cruelty, ads like this make the problem worse. We can even measure it. 421439
Reposted by A.J. BauerPhilip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"[E]ssential reading not only for historians of journalism but also for scholars of conservative politics and right-wing media culture." Kathy Roberts Forde reviews MAKING THE LIBERAL MEDIA in *American Journalism.* bit.ly/4xCg1z3 @ajbauer.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social 0146
Reposted by A.J. BauerImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026Some of you may know that my grandfather was fired from his job as a school teacher in Philadelphia because he was a communist and wouldn't name names. So he sued the school district, it went to the Supreme Court, he lost ultimately. I just found some of his typewritten briefs. What a find! 211760216
Reposted by A.J. BauerDavid Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Rose was a gem We miss her already www.npr.org/2026/09/18/n...npr.orgEditor Rose Friedman, who helped shape NPR's cultural coverage, dies at 38Friedman was in her early 20s when she landed her first position as an editorial assistant at NPR. She became an editor and reporter, and a co-creator of the annual Books We Love reading guide. 331107140
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Trump has never been politically weaker. That should factor into how the press responds this time. 4232
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The only path forward is an openly antagonistic press. No more delicately navigating access. No more attending press conferences or avails. All investigation. All amplifying Trump admin defectors and detractors. Call out the bullshit. Stop being polite. 40832163
Reposted by A.J. Bauerrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 18/09/2026‘preppy conservatives are having a moment’ ok cool let me know when it starts because those men are dressed for a tuesday morning at the accounting firm 1327412
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Gonna start an organization called Leftists Who Loaf and we’re going to just wear preppy clothes so that our politics can be mainstream too. 2435
Reposted by A.J. BauerKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 18/09/2026The New York Times can't stop telling us how sexy they think fascists are. 336244
Reposted by A.J. BauerKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026You Might Think White Supremacists are Distasteful; Here’s Why You’re Wrong part 315 of an ongoing series at the New York Times 25783152
Reposted by A.J. BauerWagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026so tired of white media falling all over themselves to give 'Dapper Nazis' free publicity 151182201
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Find you someone who loves you like the New York Times loves the sartorial preferences of right-wingers. 571031133
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026When you buy and consume something that you want to buy and consume you're a sucker actually. I have a degree from the Wharton School of Business. 1100
Reposted by A.J. BauerPerry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"The right answer on trans sports is that fairness is important and inclusivity is important, and that it is extremely possible to include trans people in sports without fairness or safety being a problem," says @evanurquhart.bsky.social. 18612
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Today is the 15th anniversary of the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street encampment. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/487-oc...haymarketbooks.orgOccupying Wall StreetThe inside story of the protest that has given birth to America’s most important progressive movement in a half century. 08638
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026As an alumni of the University of Texas this is absolutely heartbreaking and enraging. www.kut.org/education/20...kut.orgUT Austin plans to cut Mexican American, Black, women's and gender studies majorsThe decision comes after university officials consolidated seven ethnic studies departments into two earlier this year. Faculty within the College of Liberal Arts were told most majors could be consol... 263
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Regarding Texas: Fool me once (Wendy Davis) shame on you. Fool me twice (Beto O'Rourke) shame on me. In the words of the Patron Saint of the Republican Party of Texas: "Fool me can't get fooled again." 140
Reposted by A.J. BauerTej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · 17/09/2026My pleasure to go on the PTO podcast. We discuss US-UK labor & race & empire struggles — amid WW2 antifascism — as ‘foreign’ and ‘domestic’ politics were blurred. This draws from my new book — TROOP MOVEMENTS. We can trace an arc of such dynamics from the 1940s to 1960s, from post-9/11 to Trump. 075
Reposted by A.J. BauerLewis Raven Wallace @lewispants.bsky.social · 17/09/2026New book announcement! New book announcement! Journalism as Resistance drops May 11 2027! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/854914...penguinrandomhouse.comJournalism as Resistance by Lewis Raven Wallace: 9780807026700 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksFor young journalists and activists, a first-of-its-kind guidebook to movement journalism that sparks social change and transforms news media for the better Amid the shrinking of local news outlets, ... 13516
Reposted by A.J. BauerEmily Lim Rogers @elimrogers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026yall Am*zon won’t restock my book til it gets more clicks apparently. can everyone click this link but buy from the press lol?? (cheaper). students who banked on Amazon aren’t getting their books on time www.amazon.com/Sick-Work-Ex...amazon.comSick Work: Exhaustion, Labor, and Invisible Illness (ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise)In , Emily Lim Rogers shows the unpaid labor it takes to be recognized as sick in the United States. Through a historical and ethnographic account of myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue synd... 5159
Reposted by A.J. BauerTej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · 16/09/2026📣 I’m starting my book tour — from September 2026 onward… 📕 “TROOP MOVEMENTS: Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II” — by Tejasvi Nagaraja These 2 slides list some of my events this Fall. Check it out, be in touch!, more to come… 394
A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026When exactly was Donald Trump ever tethered to reality? 1365
Reposted by A.J. BauerTej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · 15/09/2026📣 NYC people — I have an event on September 24 at NYU. I'm on booktour for my new book, TROOP MOVEMENTS. On Sep 24 (a Thursday) at 6pm at NYU — I'll speak in conversation with Adrian De Leon and Ruth Milkman. RSVP today — and come through on Sep24! ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...ipk.nyu.eduBook Talk | Tejasvi Nagaraja | Troop Movements: Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II – Institute for Public Knowledge 024