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A.J. Bauer

@ajbauer.bsky.social
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Researching conservative news and right-wing media. PhD in American Studies from NYU. I teach at but don't speak for the University of Alabama. News on the Right (bit.ly/2YgUcZX). Making the Liberal Media (shorturl.at/e31nU)

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 8h
More like an intellectual Jets, amirite?
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 21h
Someone should probably let Eric Schmitt know that Caitlin Clark is not the Hawk Tuah girl...
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Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Turning 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!
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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My “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...
image of 6 pentagrams around the text "A Short History of Nazi-Satanism - see link above"
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'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...
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CCIS - Southern Progress Professor of Media Entrepreneurship, Journalism and Creative Media - 530646 - Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
Department/Organization207451 - Journalism and Creative Media RankProfessor Position SummaryThe Department of Journalism & Creative Media in the College of Communication & Information Scienc...
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'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.edu
CCIS - Southern Progress Professor of Media Entrepreneurship, Journalism and Creative Media - 530646 - Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
Department/Organization207451 - Journalism and Creative Media RankProfessor Position SummaryThe Department of Journalism & Creative Media in the College of Communication & Information Scienc...
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Seems like “migrant caravan” season gets earlier every two years…
U.S. department of homeland security sharing a dubious Leading Report headline suggesting a migrant caravan is moving toward the U.S. border
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Finally reached the stage of my career where I’m getting “major revisions” on an article for insufficiently engaging with my own earlier work 🫠
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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yesterday 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…
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Boston folks: I'm giving a book talk tomorrow (Thursday) at MIT. Hope to see you there! calendar.mit.edu/event/aj-bau...
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A.J. Bauer, “Beyond Bias”
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well, 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
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Philip 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
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy publication day, @tejnagaraja.bsky.social!
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Emmaia Gelman @mishmoshk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy 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
Book cover: The Anti-Defamation League, A Critical Reader. White with street protest photo & Palestine flags. Set against green foliage.Muhannad Ayyash
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Mama Ganuush
Me!
Felice Gelman
Maxwell Greenberg
Abdeen Jabara
Amira Jarmakani
Isaac Kamola
Darryl Li
Merrie Najimy
Nicole Nguyen
Nora Lester Murad
Dylan Rodríguez
Charlotte Rosen
Heike Schotten
Stephen Sheehi
Dean Spade
Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
Lesley Williams
Carrie Zaremba
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Boosting video from Trump TV is scabbing. I support perpetual press pool boycott.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Big 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.
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Awesome. More of this.
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is excellent. We need this for the remainder of his term regardless of whether or not he welcomes those three outlets back.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/09/2026
For 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...
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The "Trans Kid Surgery" Myth
The big lie worked because it played on your protective instincts
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Plenty to criticize the New York Times for but it DOES deserve a Pulitzer for this illustration.
New York Times opinion guest essay, headline "When political reality collides with Ed Sheeran"

Underneath is an illustration by the New York Times featuring a bunch of different cut outs of Ed Sheeran's head (red hair, pale skin, blue eyes) with a blank stare peeking out from behind white clouds in a blue sky.
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump cherishes the free press like he loves his children.
The White House is not instituting an assault on the Free Press, something which I cherish. It is instituting an assault on the FAKE NEWS, something that has grown like Cancer in our beloved United States of America. It is corrupt, purposeful, pervasive, fully coordinated, and totally out of control. It is a threat to our National Security, and must be stopped, NOW! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good.
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Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 21/09/2026
NOW: 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.
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Kennedy got an eternal flame so of course Trump wants an eternal sniper's nest.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I 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
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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What’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.
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Philip 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
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026
Some 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!
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David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Rose was a gem We miss her already www.npr.org/2026/09/18/n...
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Editor Rose Friedman, who helped shape NPR's cultural coverage, dies at 38
Friedman 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.
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump has never been politically weaker. That should factor into how the press responds this time.
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The 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.
Trump truth social post: I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW (who recently changed their name from MSNBC due to lack of viewership and credibility!), and Politico (The recipients of an illegal and ridiculous $8 Million Dollar subscription, an All Time Record, directly from the United States Government, under Crooked Joe Biden, in order to keep them “alive.” Seems like corruption to me!), from the White House as a result of their constant “reporting” FAKE NEWS! Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the President of the United States, the Trump Administration, or the United States of America. Other Fake News Media Outlets to follow. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Were they able to make it levitate?
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rax ‘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
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Gonna start an organization called Leftists Who Loaf and we’re going to just wear preppy clothes so that our politics can be mainstream too.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 18/09/2026
The New York Times can't stop telling us how sexy they think fascists are.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You Might Think White Supremacists are Distasteful; Here’s Why You’re Wrong part 315 of an ongoing series at the New York Times
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
so tired of white media falling all over themselves to give 'Dapper Nazis' free publicity
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Find you someone who loves you like the New York Times loves the sartorial preferences of right-wingers.
Nyt headline: spains preppy conservatives are having a moment, loafer-wearing young Spaniards, often called Cayetanos, are flexing their countercultural muscles after eight years of left-wing governmentYoung Spanish men wearing normal looking clothes, button up dress shirts tucked into khaki slacks with loafers
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
When 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.
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Perry 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.
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Today is the 15th anniversary of the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street encampment. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/487-oc...
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Occupying Wall Street
The inside story of the protest that has given birth to America’s most important progressive movement in a half century.
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As an alumni of the University of Texas this is absolutely heartbreaking and enraging. www.kut.org/education/20...
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UT Austin plans to cut Mexican American, Black, women's and gender studies majors
The 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...
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Regarding 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."
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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My 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.
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Lewis Raven Wallace @lewispants.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New book announcement! New book announcement! Journalism as Resistance drops May 11 2027! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/854914...
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Journalism as Resistance by Lewis Raven Wallace: 9780807026700 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
For 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, ...
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Emily Lim Rogers @elimrogers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
yall 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...
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Sick 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...
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Tej 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…
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026
True story.
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When exactly was Donald Trump ever tethered to reality?
NYT Opinion: Trump has untethered himself from reality
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Tej 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-...
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Book Talk | Tejasvi Nagaraja | Troop Movements: Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II – Institute for Public Knowledge
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