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Jessica Mahone

@jessmahone.bsky.social
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Head of Research, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy @ Duke | Single dog mom to Rocky and Mocha🌈 | Alum: King College, ETSU (x2), Florida | Views mine | She/her

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As a society, we have forgotten that the phone still works when you hold it up to your ear
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Shouldn't the Democrats have something like an Elon Donations Tracker posted on all of their websites and social media? Make this SALIENT? Might it make sense to point out repeatedly that he is a white supremacist and ask the public why he would be backing the GOP?
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.
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Jessica Mahone @jessmahone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Excited Cartoon Crocodile in Water
Alt: Excited cartoon alligator in water
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026
"they're coming for birth control" is not alarmism, that is absolutely next on the agenda I have my doubts on how successful it'll be but they're going to make a real go of it
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Jessica Mahone @jessmahone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Either NPR didn't research who Tucker's been aligning himself with these days and the extremist and unhinged things he's said, or worse, they did and decided to platform him anyway.
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Devin Burghart @dburghart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tucker Carlson is a white nationalist failed TV personality looking for a post-Trump rebrand bump (and potential campaign launch). Apparently NPR learned nothing from the Glenn Beck apology tour. NPR, please stop sane-washing fascists.
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Jessica Mahone @jessmahone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
As dumb as this is, we're lucky he didn't rename it "America Intelligence."
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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am SO DELIGHTED to announce that our brand new report: The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late Industrial Pennsylvania is out today. datasociety.net/research-lib... TechCrunch has the scoop: techcrunch.com/2026/09/22/e...
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Everyone can find a reason to dislike data center construction | TechCrunch
Inside two years of fraught AI data center debates in Pennsylvania.
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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Oh great, WaPo is pushing the most viral anti-Black racism story of the summer. Good job, everyone
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onion person @junlper.beer · 05/02/2026
it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Just learned that in December, Weird Al was out there covering Killing in the Name of, alongside Portugal. The man, and Jorma Taccone. No parodies. No accordion. Al's hardcore. www.youtube.com/watch?v=COZc...
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Killing In The Name - Portugal. The Man ft Weird Al and Jorma Taccone
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⏱📋David Steinberg⏱📋 @zzyzx.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Is it a good sign for the administration if both Dave Matthews and Weird Al are covering Killing in the Name Of?
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 30/01/2026
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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 28/01/2026
And the IRS.
An email with subject You've been audited by Trump! A Trump/Vance MAGA banner.
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Travis View @travisview.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It's obviously good that citizens with smartphones can create multiple records of these shootings and undercut propaganda and government lies about them. But I find it a little deranging that being an informed news consumer in 2026 requires watching what are essentially snuff videos in slow-mo.
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simine vazire @simine.com · 24/01/2026
I don’t think it’s a complete coincidence that, yesterday, so many of us around the world were in awe of what Minneapolis was doing, and, today, the government brutally murdered one of those courageous people, just to show us they could. They think they’ll scare us into submission. They’re wrong.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23/01/2026
Right wing billionaires now control TikTok. It's unsafe.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
in the best case scenario (we somehow survive all of this), we will still have had so many years of our lives disrupted by stress and anger and calamity
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
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Jessica Mahone @jessmahone.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
"You know, I thought [JD Vance] was a hillbilly....Hillbilly values, at least where I'm from in Appalachia, is that the police ought not to have absolute immunity to shoot you in the face."
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 15/01/2026
If this is all I had, I would NOT have gone with the story. Sources have motivation to lie/obfuscate. “Torso” is very broad. There is no supporting evidence. And there is no reason that the sources could not have been on the record.
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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 13/01/2026
This of course is nonsense framing. Minimum wage Universal healthcare Daycare and Pre-school funding Subsidies for higher ed Etc Are all liberal policies that address the question as opposed to the white nationalist arguments coming from Elon.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
NEW: The ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, the Venezuela attack, the new White House Jan. 6 website—these each convey a powerful & unsettling message from Trump, Miller, and their crew: Violence is ours to use, at home and abroad, to get what we want. Beware. Please read and share.
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The Trump doctrine: Violence is us
The message is clear—be afraid.
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Be aware of the politicians (most of them republicans) who will praise the martyred protestors in Iran, the disappeared in Venezuela, and the oppressed in Cuba but call Renee Good a terrorist.
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Ian Casselberry @iancasselberry.blog · 08/01/2026
CNN graphics put the asterisk in the wrong place, it appears…
CNN graphic censoring the “bull” part of “bullshit” - “b*llshit”
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
America is always like “ok but the NEXT regime change will work,” like when I “cut out carbs” briefly every January.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 06/01/2026
Remember when a guy lost an election and then spent months making wild, baseless claims that it was stolen, leveraging the personality cult he’d built to try to get people to reject the results? And then thousands of his supporters rioted, injuring hundreds of cops? Whatever happened to that guy?
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Daniel Kreiss @dkreiss.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
As our government seeks to erase the truth of five years ago, I am deeply grateful for all those researchers whose words shine with such clarity in our Media and January 6th @oxfordunipress.bsky.social book: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Paul Tassi @paultassi.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
greetings from hell
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/01/2026
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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Dave Holmes @daveholmes.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
It is objectively perfect that people are posting about MTV going off the air forever last night instead of turning on the television and noticing that it did not.
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 01/01/2026
Counterpoint: "rural America" and rural life in general has always exerted disproportionate influence on American politics. Most people don't live there and it's certainly not the moral heart and soul of the nation.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I just want to point out that if you are a nondriver in many places across the United States you very rarely get to freely travel using your preferred mode of transit. You can travel but it's often time-consuming, expensive, and/or dangerous.
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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Rural America is largely a myth. If very many people lived in rural areas, they wouldn’t be called rural anymore. Where these people actually live are: - Suburbs (rural cosplay) - Exurbs (rural cosplay) - Small metros (rural in the sense of being isolated but still not cornfields)
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Such an unbelievable loser
Daily Beast: Trump Posts Nearly 200 Times in Unhinged Christmas Day Spree
UNSILENT NIGHT
William Vaillancourt 
Reporter

Published Dec. 25 2025 6:20PM EST
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Catherine Prendergast @badtoss.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
I don't know who needs to know this, but Jesus is not everyone's savior in the United States.
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Catherine Prendergast @badtoss.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
That privilege--the privilege to speak of your religious beliefs as certainties that are incontestable--is given to Christians alone in America. And anyone else knows this and tiptoes around it, reflexively. But what if we stopped doing that, like this guy did in North Dakota?
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Christ on a bike, this is brilliant. And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
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Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com · 24/12/2025
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!
A passage from the book In Covid’s Wake, with a highlighted sentence reading: “Yoel Roth, the former head of trust and safety at Twitter, states that "the FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands," including demands involving domestic speech.”
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
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Kathy E. Gill 🏍️ @kegill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The commerce secretary is as innumerate as Trump. WTEF.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Warnock: He's got a lot of nerve saying that I'm using faith to divide people. This is a man who literally had protesters gassed and beaten down so he could hold up a bible in front of a church.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 18/12/2025
trump is panicking because democrats have a huge lead on affordability right now www.gelliottmorris.com/p/affordabil...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/12/2025
Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
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Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
WASHINGTON—Touting his latest executive order as a historic win for the U.S. economy, President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was mandating a 5,000% increase in all numbers nationwide. “Effect...
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Maybe it's easy to forget this as we all wade through the shit-flooded zone that is 2025 but "this country sucked and I, personally, made it great again" is basic entry-level fascism, and "this country sucked because of dirty criminal immigrants who I am now punishing" is actual fascism
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