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Susan Murray

@murraysd.bsky.social
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Professor, Media historian, New Yorker, author of Bright Signals: A History of Color Television.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
New York City is the most perfectly "American" place in the nation, just one wave of newcomers after another, gradually building up the culture, one remarkable cultural collision after another. MAGA chuds hate NYC not because it's awful but because it disproves every lie they tell about immigration
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Susan Murray @murraysd.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
A number of people I know have received this exact same email. If you reply, it ends in Aileen asking for a $250 “participation fee.” Here’s my invite:
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Susan Murray @murraysd.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Fantastic! Congrats, Bilge! 🙌🏻
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
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Susan Murray @murraysd.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
NYU-MCC is hiring! Asst. Prof in the area of “Media and Global Cities.” Please help us get the word out. apply.interfolio.com/174886
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Jen Chaney @jenchaney.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Fuck yeah Letterman
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Mamdani surges past Cuomo in final Emerson poll, pulling nearly even in the first round and winning final round 52/48. Crucially, the poll shows Mamdani with a 41/31 lead among those who have already cast their ballots.
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New York City Mayoral Poll: Mamdani Catches Cuomo In Rank Choice Voting - Emerson Polling
The final Emerson College Polling/PIX11/The Hill survey of the New York City Democratic mayoral primary…Full Release & Results
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.
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Trisha KansasGal @kansasgal71.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/06/2025
Illinois has enshrined protections to meet this very moment. In a time of increasing overreach and hateful rhetoric, it's more important than ever to reaffirm our commitment to the rights and dignity of the LGBTQ+ community. You have a home here always.
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
NYC: if you can get to Federal Plaza near the Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall subway stops, come support Brad Lander, the latest Dem politician to be manhandled/detained by ICE for no legal reason. Zohran Mamdani is there in support of his fellow mayoral candidate. NYT's darling Cuomo nowhere in sight.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
My kids have measles, I lost my job, and I've been stranded at Newark for three days. But at least I know that Harvard is going to have start hiring more conservative professors.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/04/2025
After adding today's new polls, Trump's approval rating has hit a new low of 43.6%, down from 49.4% on day one of his term. His new record-low net rating of -9.4 is now lower than his rating at this point in his first term. Worst-ever approval for a POTUS 100 days in. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/04/2025
This is why the student loan bubble is about to burst. I feel bad for this woman—but she freaking nails it. 🔥
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Christine Harold @christinescreen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Highly recommend this interview with Christopher Eisgruber, President of Princeton University, on why academic freedom at our higher ed institutions should concern all Americans. #AcademicSky #MomSky
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The University President Willing to Fight Trump
Christopher L. Eisgruber of Princeton University talks about the administration’s move to freeze billions of dollars in funding to higher education institutions.
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Jamie Carter @jctheresistance.demcast.com · 08/04/2025
For the #HandsOff , there were a group of seniors that couldn't make it to the Capitol. So they held their very own! 57 of them came out! Aged 67-104! They all walked down to the main street! So proud of them! They had s sign making day before the event! They sent this video to me to share.🥰
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025
100,000+ people marched at the #HandsOff rally in New York!
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New York Daily News @nydailynews.com · 04/04/2025
NYS Ed Dept. won’t sign Trump admin anti-DEI certification — risking federal funds
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NYS Ed Dept. won’t sign Trump admin anti-DEI certification — risking federal funds
A letter from the U.S. Education Department gave state commissioners 10 days to sign and return the formal affirmation.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 26/03/2025
how it feels lately doing my little tasks & confronting my minor responsibilities
boardroom desk carved from stone with an immense roughly hewn boulder suspended above it in a menacing fashion 

By The Davani Group, Seattle, WA - high end fabricators
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
(AP) — Democrat James Andrew Malone won a special election for a state Senate seat in a stretch of Republican-leaning Pennsylvania suburbs and farming communities, scoring an upset in a territory that a Democrat hasn’t represented in the chamber for 136 years. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/penn...
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Democrat James Andrew Malone scores an upset win in a Pennsylvania Senate special election
Democrat James Andrew Malone won a special election for a state Senate seat in a stretch of Republican-leaning Pennsylvania suburbs and farming communities, scoring an upset in a territory that a Demo...
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 25/03/2025
Voting is a fundamental right and sacred responsibility of every American. Yet, once again Donald Trump is ignoring the rule of law and circumventing Congress.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 24/03/2025
Uh oh the Trump administration accidentally added us to their group chat
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Big turnout for other "empty chair" town hall, this time for the two AWOL Ohio senators in Columbus www.facebook.com/christinapao...
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National Association of Letter Carriers @lettercarriers.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
“But you know what none of them voted for? To dismantle the Postal Service!” — NALC President Brian Renfroe HANDS OFF USPS! We will #FightLikeHell to defend our jobs and the universal service all Americans rely on!
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.
Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Important note about this breakthrough: Literally would not exist without the kind of Federal support the current administration is slashing. Took 15+ years of research at a federal lab (Lawrence Berkeley) to get this to a point at which private enterprise could take over and make these at scale.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
AOC and Bernie in front of the rally crowd in DenverZoomed out crowd shot of 34,000 people in downtown Denver with Colorado mountains in the background
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Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It is with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of Jonathan Sterne, an extraordinary scholar whose groundbreaking work transformed the fields of sound studies, media theory, and the cultural study of technology.
In memoriam photo of Jonathan Sterne (1970-2025)
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The crowds that AOC & Bernie Sanders are getting are MASSIVE. Here’s the current scenes in Denver. Thousands. #FightOligarchy (🎥: Bastian Brauns)
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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Here's a more fulsome post from the Press. So sad. Farewell to Jonathan Sterne dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/f...
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Farewell to Jonathan Sterne
We are very sad to learn of the death of communication scholar Jonathan Sterne, after a long battle with cancer. He was 54 years old. Sterne was James McGill Professor of Culture and Technology at …
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Susan Murray @murraysd.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Jonathan was the very best of all of us—brilliant, creative, full of joy, and exceptionally generous. Always kind and working to lift everyone up. He leaves behind a vast and loving community and a model for a life truly well-lived. 💔
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RDB @reshmi777.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The following extraordinary statement was published today in the New York Review of Books. The statement's signatories include virtually every leading First Amendment scholar in the country, conservative and liberal.
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A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following extraordinary statement was published today in the New York Review of Books and is reposted here with their permission.  The statement’s signatories incl…
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Holy shit. Republican Harriet Hagemen got torn apart at a town hall in Wyoming last night. In a state that voted for Trump by 46 points. She tried defending DOGE and it went as well as you’d imagine. “Deport Elon, Deport Elon!” Watch to the end…
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy. "Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
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Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Chilling report from Brown University. Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities. Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.
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Brown University advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel
One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including green card holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunda...
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Federal Workers United @fedworkersunited.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Thousands out in NYC today to demand that DOGE… STOP THE CUTS!
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Make the Road NY @maketheroadny.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
🪦 New Yorkers are in front of the New York Stock Exchange for a mass die-in to symbolize how these devastating cuts will destroy families & take lives. Deep spending cuts to programs like healthcare, food assistance, and education is a matter of life & death for millions. Congress: #StopTheCuts!
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Susan Murray @murraysd.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Unbelievable
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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Tomorrow morning, 8AM, Prospect Park West & President St, if you're mad at Schumer let's show it.
SCHUMER: FIGHT BACK OR STEP DOWN, NO ON CLOTURE, NO TRUMP/MUSK BUDGET, 9 PROSPECT PARK WEST, MARCH 14, 8AM
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Susan Murray @murraysd.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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Boycott Contributions to Senate Democrats Until Chuck Schumer Steps Down
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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Melissa Adler @murmz.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
In light of the fact that some U.S. universities are pausing admissions to their PhD programs, the Media Studies PhD Program in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at Western University (London, Ontario) is welcoming late applications from American applicants. www.fims.uwo.ca/programs/gra...
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PhD in Media Studies (PhD MS)
Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This "immediate cancellation" violates the law. If the Admin thinks Columbia has violated Title VI by being deliberately indifferent to antisemitic harassment, it has to give Columbia a chance for a hearing first, make findings on the record, & wait 30 days. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
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The Trump administration cancels $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
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thenewepoch.bsky.social @thenewepoch.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Kinda pathetic how easy it is to do this and how little the Dems are doing it
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