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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 48s

Looking for any info/contacts for immigrants’ rights groups or ICE watch groups in Buffalo, NY

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 1m

As Pogo would have it: we have met the enemy, he is us.

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 1m

Media must find its audience to succeed, even if that audience can be cultivated and influenced on some level. That applies to big legacy media outlets that ostensibly appeal to broader segments as much as to more narrow ones like Fox.

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 1m

We can see with Archie Bunker for President that the show innovated the merger of politics into television by being so focused on plausible real world scenarios that everyone child either relate to or argue about. This is a mass media alternative to the segmentation that still encouraged bitterness

Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics by Oscar Winberg

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 1m

Hemmer focuses on the partisan political projecg that Fox News pursued and shows how this rough and bitter political style emerged out of the Reagan revolution.

Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s by Nicole Hemmer

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 1m

As Brownell shows, media and political values cocreated each other as the business of cable sought fragmented and divided market segments to carve out a niche.

24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News by Kathryn Cramer Brownell

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 1m

You can find out more about this with the following books.

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 1m

Yup with some caveats. Media outlets chase audiences and makes appeals to those tastes by altering how they frame stories and what they cover. But, they also stoke and cultivate their audience in a segmented and fragmented landscape.

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

These are the "jobs" the oil industry is always boasting about creating. See how they actually treat their workers. inthesetimes.com/article/bp-o...

Since around 800 workers were kicked out on March 19, the union says, replacement workers have been laboring inside the facility, while locked-out workers maintain a 24/7 picket outside. The union is determined to continue fighting back, even as the company, whose quarterly profit doubled to over $5 billion the previous quarter, intensifies its economic pressure.

“They want to have it both ways,” Jon says of his job. He’s missed birthdays, weddings, holidays and even slept in the parking lot after an 18-hour shift to avoid missing the next one, he tells me. The job can be treacherous; it’s a workplace where there’s a risk of fires and even explosions, he says. “How can you ask everything out of us and then show us such little respect in return?”

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

At the western in Oregon and sadly no aha this year, though it is in your backyard I gather!

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Climate change is coming for our houses, the market economy cannot keep up

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

A beautiful essay and thoughtful reflection on us

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Totally was a great conversation that wondered widely, inspired by your book. I've assigned it twice and would love to hit you up about it next conference we are both at together.

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

She's right, make sure to read @nimishabarton.bsky.social's book, A Just Future!

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

😳🤣 I won't lie, I'm not sure which I am more amazed at, a beef commercial for a senate seat in Mississippi or that Mississippi is perhaps somewhat in play a little!

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Sigh, I really need to finish my book already!

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Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Nashville, I’m coming your way this Saturday! My talk will be followed by a book signing and I’ll have stickers to share. And yes, we *will* be talking about Amy Grant.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13/10/2026

40% of *everything being shipped everywhere on Earth* is fossil fuels Just an absolute laughing-stock clown-show of an energy source. This is laughably absurd, why do we treat this like it's normal and good Fossil fuels are a satirical fuel www.irena.org/-/media/File...

Global shipping transports fossil fuels and runs on oil: 40% of shipped products are fossil fuels or derivatives, while 99% of international shipping’s energy demand is met by oil-based fuels.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Loud booms were heard near Saudi Aramco’s headquarters in Dhahran, with sources reporting a fire, an evacuation order and a possible strike on the building. Saudi authorities said debris from an intercepted missile fell on a residential area. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

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Loud booms heard near Saudi Aramco headquarters in Dhahran, sources say

Loud booms were heard in the vicinity of Saudi Aramco's ‌headquarters in Dhahran on Tuesday night, six sources told Reuters.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 13/10/2026

University of Chicago off-campus fraternity claims no member involvement with sexual assault report

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University of Chicago off-campus fraternity claims no member involvement with sexual assault report

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Debbie Gershenowitz @dgershenowitz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Congrats to @renatakeller.bsky.social on winning the Friedrich Katz prize from the @historians.org! The first of what I expect to be many prizes for the Interconnections series at @uncpress.bsky.social. @juliairwin.bsky.social @cmcknichols.bsky.social @drjsarkar.bsky.social 🍾🎉

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

When an AI summarizes a text, it is not "reading," in any way close to what happens with humans. It is more accurate to call an AI summary a "compression." Compression of huge bodies of text can be very useful, but I think it's necessary to hold on to the distinction between compression and summary.

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Always make sure to cross reference and read the historians who might be able to direct you in the right direction.

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Regarding popeye, obviously iron wasn't the obsession in 1930s compared to vitamin a was. Reading historians of nutrition science (or reading up on how scientific nutritional worked in 1920s/1930s) would've helped clarfiy the origins of popeye and iron.

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Check out the 1930s archival record to verify the truth. Go to the papers of the 1972 claim and find out how that conclusion was made. But, the author did cite an important interview so that is basically like oral history.

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Regarding the larger issue of citation telephone, which this article does an excellent job doing, I couldn't help but dream about the archival research that could have possibly really opened up the investigation. Go to Germany and read up on that study that may have gotten the decimal wrong.

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

As pointed out elsewhere, an explanatory footnote would instantly solve the citation problem, which is why footnote/endnote citations rule.

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

To the archives! To the historical literature! To the oral histories! (Then make sure to cross reference with newspapers and other published media)

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Err, as I like to say to my students

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Right!? Don't get me wound up about Chicago destroying apa/mla because of footnotes. As I live to say, only Chicago tells you how to actually find the darned thing being cited.

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

While I'm absolutely glad to have had some really good interactions with scholars like yourself who I would never get to otherwise, totally toxic waste site that only fuels negative engagement and hateful behavior.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 12/10/2026

Arguments have begun in Safe Homes St. Paul v. City of St. Paul, the procedural battle over whether the St. Paul City Council broke the law when it refused to place the Right to Repair ordinance on the ballot on grounds that the law itself was allegedly invalid.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/10/2026

NEW: The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement firmly condemning plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. Archbishop Paul Coakley calls the decision “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered.” www.usccb.org/news/2026/us...

United States
Conference of
Catholic Bishops
READINGS
WASHINGTON - Yesterday, the U.S.
Department of War announced that the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the man convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009, would be publicly livestreamed. Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued the following statement sharply condemning the decision of the U.S. government:
"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.

United States
Conference of
Catholic Bishops
READINGS
"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.
"I pray for the intercession of Our Lady of Good Counsel that we as a nation may always choose life even in the most trying times and circumstances."

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Turning the military into a partisan arm of their white power fantasies

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Wow, Trump is basically at his floor. He's at die-est of die-hards only level at this point.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some good news for a change: Overcoming a massive and aggressive tech lobby and a squeamish, Silicon Valley-friendly governor, the labor movement has managed to pass a raft of first-of-their-kind AI laws aimed at protecting workers in California.

bloodinthemachine.com

California just passed the strongest AI labor laws in the US

Finally, some good news

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

As Foucault explains, public executions are risky business for the sovereign, who may actually turn popular opinion against them by giving the people a martyred body to focus on. This is not the flex Hegseth thinks it is.

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Foucault argued that the penoptocon replaced public execution made us all subjects to the disciplining power of the state. With this return of public execution, the old way of punishment is brought back, with all the assorted complexities.

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Sonya Bonczek @sonyabonczek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🚨Hot off the press‼️ THE POLITICAL SUPREME COURT by @rachelshelden.bsky.social dismantles the myth of an apolitical Court to reveal a much longer history of politics on the bench. Officially out October 27 from W. Hodding Carter III Books, an imprint of @uncpress.bsky.social ⚖️📚

Several copies of Rachel A. Shelden's The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History (W. Hodding Carter III Books, an imprint of UNC Press; officially out October 27, 2026)

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Excellent thread on Rio's political situation

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