Reposted by Carla MurphyOrdinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 02/09/2026An important read by Rinaldo Walcott. 072
Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026"My students in Newark were of color, immigrant and second-gen. I spent most of my class time demonstrating that intentionally broadcasting bad or good representations of a non-white race, culture or community is a marketing campaign; it’s not journalism." open.substack.com/pub/carlamur...open.substack.comImmigrants, quiet rebellion and “the media”How new Americans relate to U.S. journalism’s single stories about ‘community’ 010
Reposted by Carla MurphyStrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Online commenter shuts down FBI agents. 641126424
Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Join me online starting in August in my News Futures community of practice, "Repurpose Journalism Education for Some, as Popular Education for All" open.substack.com/pub/carlamur...open.substack.comAre higher ed journalism education programs maximizing or missing their civic mission?Join me online starting in August in my News Futures community of practice, "Repurpose Journalism Education for Some, as Popular Education for All" 010
Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026"I aim to make the case that as a load-bearing pillar of democracy, my profession should be looking at methods of doing integration that are neither racial representation nor assimilation. The U.S. is not a white democracy; that’s a contradiction in terms." open.substack.com/pub/carlamur...open.substack.comHow not to democracy: racial 'representation' in journalismLessons from a non-white mainstream in Newark 000
Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026"I’ve been in journalism since the early 2000s. I’ve never seen the equivalent of a PSA from a coalition of news companies seeking to educate their viewership about the nation’s nearly 30-year crisis in journalism and how it harms them." open.substack.com/pub/carlamur...open.substack.comJournalists are not the leaders that journalism needs, nowOur multicultural publics are. 001
Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026"Post-WWII journalism may have been the pinnacle of commercial profit. That is not the same thing as the pinnacle of the integration of journalism practice and pedagogy with purpose and democratic function." open.substack.com/pub/carlamur...open.substack.com5 ideas for helping U.S. publics to care about journalismBut first, let's get journalism to demonstrate care for them. 111
Reposted by Carla MurphyOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/03/2026if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either 9142781176
Reposted by Carla MurphyThe Chaotic Good Giggle Goddess 🌞♐️ @beeyaaaaaaahh.blacksky.app · 06/02/2026it is 6:38a on a fri in Feb 2026 & i must be accosted w pics of famous Black ppl as apes bc shitheads elected Racism for president. is reposting it rly necessary? can’t you do the journalism thing? describe it & tell me to click a link if i wanna see. & i wont click. cuz i dont wanna see. 18222
Reposted by Carla MurphyAurelius Raines II (He/Him) @aureliusr2.bsky.social · 06/02/2026The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit. Gentle Spades "I'm a veteran" 9967981996
Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 06/02/2026"Tenure was designed in part to protect truth-tellers from reprisals; but today, at the highest echelons of the ivory tower, it is a credential one earns mainly through dedication to private interests. " www.aaup.org/issue/winter....aaup.orgThe Underclass Is in SessionWhat do we see when we view the structure of academic labor as it is, not as we wish it to be? 010
Reposted by Carla MurphyMinnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 21/01/2026Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol 29053202611
Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Same. Even now the cleaner jokes when she arrives: "Did you clean before I got here?" She just laughs at me. I do love coming home to a clean place.home.to 010
Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/m...nytimes.comTrump’s Fight With Minnesota Is About More Than Immigration 000
Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 16/01/2026"Truthiness is an interesting puzzle for immigrants and the native-born Americans who love to love immigrants. I think they love each other’s forgetting." 010
Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Cue Marcus Aurelius to Maximus in the movie, Gladiator: “Commodus is not a moral man. You have known that since you were young. Commodus cannot rule. He *must* not rule." 000
Reposted by Carla MurphyWilliam C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Once you understand that you're dealing with murderous liars, you stop entertaining what they say as possibly credible and legitimate. The fight against them is about stopping them from terrorizing and killing by any means, not winning debates about your reality versus theirs. 142750910
Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 14/12/2025"Listening in" is not part of the cultural common sense of our steward-elite. open.substack.com/pub/carlamur...open.substack.comCan elite culture produce democratic journalism?How a pluralist nation listens in 000
Reposted by Carla MurphyCavalrysword @cavalrysword.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Comedian Jimmy Carr with a great insight. Debate vs deliberation. www.youtube.com/shorts/c7Kwg...youtube.comLess debate, more deliberation. #jimmycarr #hecklers #crowdwork #standup #hecklesYouTube video by Jimmy Carr 155
Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Expecting students to plug local news gaps isn’t sustainable for students, communities, or journalism objectivejournalism.org/2025/12/stud...objectivejournalism.orgStudents plugging local news gaps isn’t sustainable for students, communities, or journalismCarla Murphy on how expecting college students to “fill the gap” in local news without addressing institutional power may reify inequities. 000
Reposted by Carla MurphyJorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 25/11/2025This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette... 264350952
Reposted by Carla MurphyRuha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 22/11/2025I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQyoutu.beHoward University AI PanelYouTube video by Tiera Tanksley 9593289
Reposted by Carla MurphyThe Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 07/11/2025New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009 775162985125
Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 28/10/2025ProPublica spent almost a year chronicling Vought’s rise from the mailroom of the U.S. Senate to his perch as one of the two or three most influential players in the current administration behind only Trump and, arguably, Stephen Miller. www.propublica.org/article/vide...propublica.orgWho Is Russell Vought? How a Little-Known D.C. Insider Became Trump’s Dismantler-in-ChiefReporter Andy Kroll explains Vought’s rise from a congressional staffer to the man piloting everything from Trump's layoffs and agency closings to his shutdown strategy, controlling the fate of trilli... 000
Reposted by Carla MurphyTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/10/2025www.dailytarheel.com/article/opin...dailytarheel.comColumn: Information is the most human thing you can study"This detective work, this human ability to read between the lines and see what’s missing as well as what’s there, is the real work of information and library science. The information is all the littl... 212135
Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 27/10/2025"I also aim to help move the discourse around media, pluralism and democracy beyond interventions at the level of content. Our media infrastructure now disappears “place” in storytelling, at scale." open.substack.com/pub/carlamur...open.substack.comHow I talk About the American MainstreamWhy "place" matters for truth-telling about our nation 010
Reposted by Carla MurphyOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2025I know people on here are scandalized that someone might classify a public school teacher as "working class" because she might have a masters or even PhD in education but can we agree it's at least as weird to call the guy who owns the local Wendy's franchise "working class" because he has a GED? 2681860
Reposted by Carla MurphyThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/09/2025Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Leetheguardian.comWhy I gave the world wide web away for freeMy vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for 515457
Reposted by Carla MurphyDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 19/09/2025In "The City of Our Dreaming," the 3rd Alchemy Lecture, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and @biidaasamose.bsky.social imagine ways to organize city life. Read the intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, for free on our website now! buff.ly/zjH8Y4w 04521
Reposted by Carla MurphyDavid Sirota @davidsirota.com · 17/09/2025Amid billionaires taking over the whole society, Democratic pundits & operatives have launched a billionaire-funded Abundance movement, a billionaire-funded Substack & a billionaire-funded think tank. We have to understand this as all part of the oligarch takeover of whatever remained of democracy. 510033
Reposted by Carla MurphyAndrew Losowsky @losowsky.com · 12/09/2025It's unjust to group academics @CarlaMurphy.bsky.social, @jnelz.bsky.social, @suerobinsonuw.bsky.social, @taliastroud.bskysocial, & @andreawenzel.bsky.social, as each has their specialties and projects, but their collective rigor provides the framing and evidence that all our work desperately needs. 1102
Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Saw these new (to me) teethy turnstiles to stop fare beating -- and thought about this era's quiet disappearance of, say, a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau or a Lina Khan. 010
Reposted by Carla MurphySherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 22/08/2025The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social 25780703106
Reposted by Carla MurphyHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Listening to this press conference it seems clear that Trump is mentally gone and that his team is consolidating power for President J.D. Vance. 23433841005
Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 30/07/2025open.substack.com/pub/carlamur...open.substack.comJournalism, democracy and “pluralist sight”The challenge for journalism in a new century 010
Reposted by Carla MurphyTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/07/2025One of my deeply held beliefs is that if we could condition people to accept how chance affects their lives, they’d be much better equipped to recognize how systemic things impact them. 381922339
Reposted by Carla MurphySoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 26/07/2025The reason this isn't going away is because the US is home to far more survivors of childhood sexual trauma than anyone wants to admit or who have been steeping in silence, shame, anger and quiet isolation. They identify with those victims in ways they sometimes barely realize and they are PISSED. 241204338
Reposted by Carla MurphyCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 23/07/2025My approach to surviving these days… 2377
Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 20/07/2025He's such a "city kid". Which is a throughline for all of us I don’t care if you're from Bensonhurst, Gun Hill Road or South Side Jamaica. 1151
Reposted by Carla MurphyTexas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 11/07/2025“I don’t know how long it took—ten seconds, maybe fifteen—for the house to come apart." During the early-morning hours of July 4, the Guadalupe River pulled senior editor Aaron Parsley and six members of his family into its waters. Read his firsthand account:texasmonthly.com“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came. 16313154
Carla Murphy @carlamurphy.bsky.social · 09/07/2025I think your guidance also applies to (what remains of) journalism. It makes sense for tech to corner the market in knowledge-creation. It doesn't make sense for journalism and academia to cede their foundations.applies.to 010
Reposted by Carla MurphyCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 04/07/2025An exceptionally dark 4th of July this year. I am rapidly losing my relative “optimism” about the short-term future of U.S. democracy and society. Perhaps the most depressing part is that it is being dismantled so easily by a rather incompetent force. 13494532
Reposted by Carla MurphyOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/07/2025people come up with all kinds of fanciful math to justify billionaires' wealth but imo present political moment demonstrates conclusively that we need to tax billionaires at whatever rate will keep them focused on their own fucking business rather than our Medicaid and pediatric cancer research 8759691600