christina-ceisel.bsky.social @christina-ceisel.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Please send any recs, seems like a good idea 000
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialEd BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 07/01/2026It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood. 3282162225
christina-ceisel.bsky.social @christina-ceisel.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Yeah, that’s what I was saying 100
christina-ceisel.bsky.social @christina-ceisel.bsky.social · 18/09/2025My earlier comments were more about interpersonal conversations and relationships, not public figures 020
christina-ceisel.bsky.social @christina-ceisel.bsky.social · 18/09/2025That’s fair, but I don’t fault folks for being upset about his actions, and trying to find a better way to do politics/ politicians that better reflect their own values and politics. 120
christina-ceisel.bsky.social @christina-ceisel.bsky.social · 18/09/2025I just want to throw in the idea that in practice, I don’t think any individual should be expected or obligated to discuss/debate with another person or group that wish them harm, dehumanize them. But we do need to be having conversations, and those that can do it, absolutely should. 280
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialsharonfisher68.bsky.social @sharonfisher68.bsky.social · 10/09/2025 219742
christina-ceisel.bsky.social @christina-ceisel.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Fuck yeah, that’s my hometown! 010
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Last weekend, I retraced the steps of two of the most important moments in American (and Chicago) labor history, starting with the Haymarket Massacre. But the Haymarket Massacre wasn’t just a tragedy. It still provides a compass for us to fight against fascism today: 322542620
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power. 437172696147
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialAntifaLeader @antifaleader1.bsky.social · 31/08/2025 475909948
christina-ceisel.bsky.social @christina-ceisel.bsky.social · 21/08/2025I was thrilled to joint @nolanhigdon.bsky.social and @trevorgriffey.bsky.social on @thedisinfodetox.bsky.social to discuss the challenges facing higher ed this back to school season @cfaunited.bsky.social 0115
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 25/07/2025As I just said on CNN, my father's parents were Nakba survivors. I don't want Israeli children to live in fear and I don't want Palestinian children to starve to death. There is nothing anyone could do to make me put nationalistic talking points above basic human rights. 226169552326
christina-ceisel.bsky.social @christina-ceisel.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Same here! Higher education isn’t just the elites, and our communities don’t mimic those in elite spaces. 000
christina-ceisel.bsky.social @christina-ceisel.bsky.social · 14/07/2025John is a dedicated community organizer and professor—come out and show your support! 020
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 04/07/2025look I dunno how I feel about America today but I feel pretty good about hanging out with friends and eating grilled food so I’m still gonna do that part 2278151
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialUnion for Democratic Communications @uniondemcomm.bsky.social · 26/06/2025CFP Revised and Call Extended for DC Special Issue on Labor and Unionization!! 084
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialUnion for Democratic Communications @uniondemcomm.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Last panel of the day! Social Movements, Feminism, and Reproductive Rights with Lori Bindig Yousman, Isra Ali, Dorothy Kidd, Lars Stoltzfus, Joseph Flores, Aljoscha Paulus, and @tinemalz.bsky.social #udc2025 042
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialPawel Popiel @ppopiel.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Great panel and a big thank you to all the contributors and friends and friends! 185
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialThe Media, Inequality & Change Center @miccenter.bsky.social · 21/06/2025At 4:15pm today at UDC: Make sure to catch "The Dialectic of Broadband" presented by @sydneyforde.bsky.social in Cherry Parkes 105. 012
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialUnion for Democratic Communications @uniondemcomm.bsky.social · 20/06/2025@ricardovalp.bsky.social: Bukele Bitcoin propaganda model: regime run social media; shocking political change to grab attention; video and meme as regime propaganda; invest in the “vibe economy”; perpetuate narrative on social media (spoiler: it fails) #udc202 032
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialUnion for Democratic Communications @uniondemcomm.bsky.social · 20/06/2025@ricardovalp.bsky.social Latin America is the lab for US experiments and its people pay the price #udc2025 032
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialLSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Congratulations to Professor @couldrynick.bsky.social for being awarded the 2025 Dallas Smythe Award 🏆 A prominent & prolific sociologist of media & culture, he will be delivering the Dallas Smythe lecture on Saturday 21 June @uniondemcomm.bsky.social Find out more: www.democraticcomm.orgdemocraticcomm.orgUnion for Democratic Communications 052
christina-ceisel.bsky.social @christina-ceisel.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Hopefully we’ll see you next time! 110
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialSydney L Forde @sydneyforde.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Honoured to win this year’s Brian Murphy Student Paper award from @uniondemcomm.bsky.social for my paper “The Dialectics of Broadband” where I breakdown the contradictions between normative CPEC critiques of broadband access & infrastructure vs exploitation of users via bigtech &data commodification 054
christina-ceisel.bsky.social @christina-ceisel.bsky.social · 21/06/2025One of the most sombering and moving explorations of the horrors of ICE and our immigration policy. 000
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialUnion for Democratic Communications @uniondemcomm.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Now: @aaronhere.bsky.social and @johnnyrico.bsky.social on resistance and resolve on BlueSky (so meta) #udc2025 022
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialUnion for Democratic Communications @uniondemcomm.bsky.social · 21/06/2025@aaronhere.bsky.social: how do we resist enshitification? End to end principle and data transferability and right of exit are two potentials - how do you deal with the core of platformification and platform decay? #udc2025 001
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialUnion for Democratic Communications @uniondemcomm.bsky.social · 21/06/2025@aaronhere.bsky.social: resistance and platforms - decentralization as a technology and a politics (idea of a Fediverse of promise and project). This brings us to BlueSky #udc2025 001
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialUnion for Democratic Communications @uniondemcomm.bsky.social · 21/06/2025@aaronhere.bsky.social: Protocol instead of a platform has political saliency understanding that there is no good way out of this. So what happens when you build a protocol to protect the user from the protocol itself? #udc2025 012
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialThe Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 10/06/2025There's the reason the media only shows you burning Waymo cars 211833487
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialRep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 03/06/2025My home of Missoula just voted to establish the pride flag as an official government flag of the city, thereby circumventing the state's asinine pride flag ban. 🏳️🌈 Missoula is once again showing how to fight back against policies that seek to erase the LGBTQ community. 325284943958
christina-ceisel.bsky.social @christina-ceisel.bsky.social · 02/06/2025There’s certainly space for that—but fundamentally if the students don’t know how to think critically, they won’t be able to use AI intelligently. And if you aren’t smarter than the bots…that’s going to be a problem. 040
christina-ceisel.bsky.social @christina-ceisel.bsky.social · 02/06/2025The software used to “watch” students while they are taking a remote exam is riddled with problems—it has trouble “seeing” people of color, if someone walks into the frame it’ll register that as “cheating” and so forth. It also presents issues relating to invasion of privacy. 020
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialDale Ryder @kryton3298.bsky.social · 22/04/2025independentthought Trump’s Education Department says it will begin collection on student loans for over 5 million borrowers in default. Garnishing their wages to recollect the debt 33430158
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialMallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · 10/04/2025This admin is turning on the firehose hoping you’ll burn out and give up. But you don’t have to do it all. Do one thing, take one step each day. Put your phone down. Take a walk. Find the thing that moves you and focus. If we all find our one thing, we’ll build something better—together. 10643251083
christina-ceisel.bsky.social @christina-ceisel.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Social Security wasn’t great. Let’s get a higher tax cap while we fix it, because 176k in a world with multiple billionaires is an insult. 120
christina-ceisel.bsky.social @christina-ceisel.bsky.social · 05/04/2025That’s been done—that was the strategy in 2016-2020. From what I’ve seen, MAGA doesn’t care, and they loathe the national Democratic leaders so it’s easy to dismiss. Now that things are breaking, this is the time to explain how to put it back together better. 200
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 03/04/2025A relief to hear this said. Trump operates from the same untested, blustering ideas he had in the 80s. They weren’t good then and even less so now. It would be great if BUSINESS LEADERS were prepared to say what they clearly know - that Trump only knows how to run a muscle racket. And here we are. 703512695
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialRebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 31/03/2025I think there’s probably power in being up against people who simply can’t conceive of anyone caring enough to act without being bribed to do so. It means that they cannot imagine, or thereby prepare themselves for, a driven opposition. 1002705457
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Adding a journalist to a top secret government group chat about dropping bombs *IS* the kind of thing people who aren’t super politically literate can understand and find shocking/notable/disqualifying. Dems should seize on this and never ever let it go. I hope to hear about it in a decade 198326176047
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialVictor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Commissioner Bedoya nails it in this statement. Trump and his attack dogs are trying to dismantle the administrative state to serve the billionaires backing him. If we're to maintain any semblance of democracy, this illegal firing of principled regulators must not stand. 073
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialVictor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Was interviewed by the Hollywood Reporter about Trump's apparatchik at the FCC. It's all about beating the media into submission so that everything looks and sounds like Fox News. No dissent can be tolerated.hollywoodreporter.comTrump’s Media Pit Bull Is “Off the Leash”FCC chair Brendan Carr has already inspired widespread fear (and loathing) among media elites and free press advocates. And he’s only been in the job for two months. 16632
christina-ceisel.bsky.social @christina-ceisel.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Speaking to women as if they are people also goes pretty far 010
Reposted by @christina-ceisel.bsky.socialBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I think what is making everyone so angry isn’t just the cowardice of Senate Democrats, it’s their cowardice in comparison to the random normal person who runs for school board to oust a Moms for Liberty freak 131112442020
christina-ceisel.bsky.social @christina-ceisel.bsky.social · 13/03/2025www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...poetryfoundation.orgGood BonesLife is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. 010
