Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 17/01/2026W was opposed to creation of DHS. Dems/public drove the issue. 000
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 17/01/2026I mean you can reason that way about literally everything 2021-24 but some was good and some was bad. 020
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Subject matter expertise is often quoted in legacy outlets but it never informs its reporters doing access journalism. 020
Reposted by Henry PorterIf you didn't vote Dem, you helped make this: @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 17/01/2026When reporters use "critics say..." I call it "generic attribution." Legacy political reporters do this constantly as part of their both-sidesing neutrality theater performances. I don't know how editors ever embraced it, because it's only a small step from just inventing sources. 2134
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Nah. That was actually pretty important that they *did* do that. You don’t preserve democracy by advertising you violated the rules of democracy. 120
Reposted by Henry PorterFoghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸♨️ @foghorn453.bsky.social · 14/01/2026This was @henryporter.bsky.social's thesis from a few years back 051
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Back on Bluesky because this is where the law professors are: if you aren’t laying the intellectual groundwork to narrow the pardon power what are you even doing with your life? 040
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 05/10/2025We need to replace physics with evolution as the paradigmatic science up and down our pedagogy. “Is MAGA ‘fascism?’” is precisely the same sort of question as “are dogs the same species as wolves?” It’s nothing at all like categorical lines in classical mechanics. 010
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Why is educational attainment so predictive of partisan alignment? We’ve been moving that direction for a while. What happens at college has something to do with resentments of non-college voters. Thread on The Hard Hat Riots… 021
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 06/08/2025We need serious local news outlets, doing original reporting, subsidized by and aligned with the Democratic Party. Hyperlocal with lots of youth sports and WeRateDogs-type content. 040
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Whatever happens, never ask the question “What if the issue driving education polarization is education, specifically the way we organize education after high school?” 000
Reposted by Henry PorterDana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 04/08/2025C’mon, man, A. Parties aren’t “brands” B. It’s not “destroying” anything Scammy emails are a problem, but Mothership has been blocked from most Dem clients, & what they’re doing appears to not be easy to shut down. I want Dems to bleed them dry, but it’s not the party, it’s feeding off the party… 3194
Reposted by Henry PorterWhat Democrats are doing @whatdemsaredoing.bsky.social · 04/08/2025You all see how these news companies and TV channels are bowing to Trump? What can be done? Well, here’s a message more Democrats need to get into their heads. Spread the word 👇 032
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 04/08/2025The story is certainly more complex. Having newspapers aligned with the parties that served their readers mattered tremendously in the lead up, see Hearst’s platform in running for governor. But universal public education seems to be a baseline ingredient for big positive sum politics. 120
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 04/08/2025The Cult of SCOTUS is created by law professors and journalists who gain status along with the Court. After WW2 the media became non-partisan and needed non-partisan protagonists. At the same time law schools and law faculty exploded. 030
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 04/08/2025The New Deal coalition was possible with an all white electorate and universal public education sufficient to be a prosperous good citizen. Universities are a successful treatment for racism and training after high school is now needed by all but they failed to keep up with these needs. 110
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 02/08/2025The op-ed page wasn’t invented until the 1970s. People like Will Rogers, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Mike Royko had columns in the news section. 031
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 02/08/2025This kind of thing will never hit home with voters as long as humanities professors throw a public shit fit when the Secretary of Education says parents expect college to prepare their children for a career. 020
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 01/08/2025We need serious local news outlets, doing original reporting, subsidized by and aligned with the Democratic Party. Hyperlocal with lots of youth sports and WeRateDogs-type content. 161
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 31/07/2025The White House is way too small and it's impossible for Dems to do anything about it without getting trashed in the media so this is good. 000
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Lol. I was just googling pics of her after seeing a Seth Meyers bit. 010
Reposted by Henry PorterJonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 30/07/2025I know people think that Dems are doing nothing but once again it just isn't true. Part II. (Good that @gregsargent.bsky.social is on this; you would think from some accounts around here that Dems are trying hard to downplay the scandal). 515640
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 22/07/2025There’s a fair amount of Howard Zinn thinking between Hunter and the interviewer that’s not great. 010
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Minute 43: Advertising for “Ground News” which “balances” NBC with The Federalist so you get the “unbiased truth.” That asymmetrical media regime is killing us. Dems got to get in the game. 150
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Minute 31: If you haven’t been the subject of the news it’s hard to describe how disorienting it can be to read something and be like, “Is the reporter a psychopath? Have they not met any human beings?” Only to hear normal people *praise* those journalists. youtube.com/watch?v=XBbk...youtube.comHunter Biden InterviewYouTube video by Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan 151
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 20/07/2025One of the things killing our democracy is that the professionalization of journalism has turned Enlightenment fantasies about how democracy works into the background assumptions informing the discourse. 120
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 20/07/2025If only we could a have a democracy as successful and stable as Brazil? What the actual fuck? 010
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Academics loudly proclaim that you have to let them do anything. 110
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Media history from Gutenberg to the present is filled with publishers/outlets in the tank for one side or the other. The concentrated power held by CBS as arbiter of Truth is the problem for democracy and it’s part of how we got here. 020
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Media-academy complex is never going to tell you they are the problem. Instead they say that they are democracy incarnate. 110
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Intellectual diversity is neither here nor there when you devote a ton of resources to “higher” education for the favored 40% of students and leave 60% a chaos of under-resources choices for training after high school. 110
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 17/07/2025We need serious local news outlets, doing original reporting, subsidized by and aligned with the Democratic Party, hyperlocal with lots of youth sports and WeRateDogs-type content. 011
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 17/07/2025It takes zero legal changes to end the dominance of neutral journalism. Just a tiny bit of imagination on the part of journalists. 020
Reposted by Henry PorterJosh Huder @joshhuder.bsky.social · 14/07/2025New Congress, Two Beers In! @mattglassman312.bsky.social and I discuss the BBB, its institutional consequences for the House and Senate, and the status of Congress’s power of the purse. Listen here! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...podcasts.apple.comThe Big Beautiful Bill(?) has Passed | Congress, Two Beers InPodcast Episode · Congress, Two Beers In · 07/11/2025 · 46m 074
Reposted by Henry PorterAaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 14/07/2025“'Stop looking for the quick fix. Stop looking for the messiah. You have great candidates running races right now. Support those candidates,' Obama said, calling out the New Jersey and Virginia elections" www.cnn.com/2025/07/14/p...cnn.comObama’s blunt message for Democrats: ‘Toughen up’ | CNN PoliticsFormer President Barack Obama issued a call to action for Democrats at a private fundraiser in New Jersey on Friday evening, urging those frustrated by the state of the country under President Donald ... 69320
Reposted by Henry PorterJonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 14/07/2025This is among other things a partial test of the president vs. GOP aligned media...although it's possible that for Fox this one might be a trickier product to exploit than it is for, say, single-voice radio talk shows or social media posters. 186
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Good forbid someone in Omar's position treat media business models as a variable, a thing which could be otherwise. 000
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Isn’t this just a token of the general problem with critical theory used to make empirical claims, where clever people come up rhetorical moves to argue only “power relations” are real and everything else is an illusion? 000
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Meta-process question for @joshhuder.bsky.social after listening to pod. Big Ugly Bill is vandalism but end of filibuster has to be ugly, no? Could you overcome status quo bias without terrible results *from the perspective of Senators voting Yes* from filibuster workarounds like reconciliation? 000
Henry Porter @henryporter.bsky.social · 10/07/2025People really struggle with the idea that the New York Times is a for profit company executing a business strategy because that’s not the language used to communicate the strategy to the reporters (or to the public). 030
