Reposted by Paula CThe Onion @theonion.com · 19/06/2025Texas Bans Consensual Sex theonion.com/texas-b... 35879491408
Reposted by Paula CZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Amar mayor! Tomar mayor! From Parkchester to Jackson Heights, Bangladeshi New Yorkers have been showing up for this campaign from day one — and I’m proud to have their support. 15982112
Reposted by Paula CBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.youtu.beBrad Lander: "I'll keep coming back to court, week after week"YouTube video by Brad Lander for NYC 570361727714
Reposted by Paula CHell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 17/06/2025Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani is now here calling for the release of Lander (his fellow mayoral candidate) 4861421575
Reposted by Paula CBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely. 21422827011052
Reposted by Paula CZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17/06/2025As for so many across this country, Bernie Sanders has been the single most influential political figure in my life. As Mayor, I will strive to live up to his example by fighting for the working class every day and hopefully make Brooklyn’s own proud. 404156538
Reposted by Paula CZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 16/06/2025With Tish James as our Attorney General, New Yorkers have a champion for the rule of law, a fighter who stands up for working people over greedy corporations, and a leader who has taken on Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo—and won. I am so proud to have her support. 181219139
Reposted by Paula CAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Government services undoubtedly have their flaws, but DOGE's disinformation-driven approach to data and "reform" has made Social Security demonstrably worse--creating chaos, driving away experienced expert staff, and jeopardizing benefits that millions depend upon. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...nytimes.comThe Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security 17435
Reposted by Paula CBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/06/2025I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice. 645251645935
Paula C @paulachak.bsky.social · 14/06/2025No Kings, No ICE, No Bans on Stolen Land and Free Palestine! A little rain couldn’t stop tens of thousands in New York this afternoon. A few of my favorite signs. 021
Reposted by Paula CA.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Not saying we jinxed it. But I do think it's funny that the Musk/Trump breakup comes the same week @paulachak.bsky.social's and my piece about their collab dropped. academic.oup.com/ccc/article/...academic.oup.comCruel capitalism: a forum on media and fascismAbstract. This article introduces a forum on “Media and Fascism” by reading tech oligarch and right-wing political operative Elon Musk as a nexus of intern 0133
Reposted by Paula CA.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Mis/Disinformation Studies folks! This is an excellent meditation on the political limitations of debunking and on how we might respond otherwise. Even if you're not a queer/trans studies person, this piece is well worth the read! 23713
Reposted by Paula CCommunication, Culture & Critique @ccc-journal.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Our June issue is now live! It kicks off with a forum on Media and Fascism, featuring a star-studded list of contributors. Get started with this introduction by forum editors @paulachak.bsky.social and @ajbauer.bsky.social! academic.oup.com/ccc/article-...academic.oup.comCruel capitalism: a forum on media and fascismAbstract. This article introduces a forum on “Media and Fascism” by reading tech oligarch and right-wing political operative Elon Musk as a nexus of intern 0106
Paula C @paulachak.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Check out CCC’s latest forum on “Cruel Capitalism: Media and Fascism” co-edited with @ajbauer.bsky.social in @ccc-journal.bsky.social! Essays on trans culture, the central role of Christian Zionism, masculinity and alt media, reparative and abolitionist futures, and more! doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...doi.orgCruel capitalism: a forum on media and fascismAbstract. This article introduces a forum on “Media and Fascism” by reading tech oligarch and right-wing political operative Elon Musk as a nexus of intern 054
Paula C @paulachak.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Read our latest article by @chaficnajem.bsky.social'on smuggled digital technologies and how incarcerated people in Lebanon make their voices heard. With lessons for those interested in abolition media everywhere! Now available from @ccc-journal.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...doi.orgPrison media mobilization: smuggled technologies and media practices in Lebanese carceral spaces 073
Reposted by Paula CDemocracy Now! @democracynow.org · 09/05/2025A judge in Vermont has ordered Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk immediately released from ICE detention. Öztürk has been held in a notorious prison in Louisiana. She still faces the threat of deportation, apparently in retaliation for co-authoring a piece for her student newspaper about Gaza. 15821225
Paula C @paulachak.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Read our review by critical Kashmir studies scholar Ather Zia's of "Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media," edited by Dina Mater and Helga Tawil Souri (Bloomsbury, 2024) here. Read and engage in the on-going violence in Gaza. doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...doi.orgThe urgency of producing PalestinePalestine has long been in the global conscience, especially for many, a beacon of a decolonial struggle for liberation. Today, there is a new urgency to u 000
Paula C @paulachak.bsky.social · 23/04/2025If you are trying to figure out how to make sense of authoritarian turn, read this thoughtful review by @jfarkas.bsky.social and @bilgeyesil.bsky.social new book on Turkish mediated authoritarianism and how to contest its hold.. 094
Reposted by Paula CCommunication, Culture & Critique @ccc-journal.bsky.social · 23/04/2025The CCC Editorial Collective is excited to highlight our new and selective “Book Review” section, which features what we see as necessary and critical scholarship that we should all be reading. 173
Paula C @paulachak.bsky.social · 17/04/2025The death throes of American Empire: some visual evidence from downtown Manhattan. 010
Paula C @paulachak.bsky.social · 16/04/2025NYU has closed off every space for student protest, thereby criminalizing the very act of dissent on campus, bowing down to Trump. Today, student activists organized a “Melt ICE” rally protesting sadistic deportations by federal ghouls. In response, NYU reinforced cops & checkpoints. Disgusting! 26826
Paula C @paulachak.bsky.social · 16/04/2025🚨 JUNE ISSUE PREVIEW 🚨Read latest article on the limits of US and UK public media coverage of the on-going genocide in Gaza, published thanks to our Editorial Collective from @ccc-journal.bsky.social Congrats Authors @sydneyforde.bsky.social and @desfreedman.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...doi.orgArm’s length or joined at the hip? Public service media’s coverage of GazaAbstract. Critiquing normative articulations of a public versus commercial media binary, we explore the contradictory juxtaposition of democratic expectati 084
Paula C @paulachak.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Join the NYU branch of @aaup.bsky.social and some 20+ academic labor orgs on Thursday afternoon. It’s time to hit the streets to protest the terrorizing and kidnapping of our anti-war students and fascist backlash against science and all critical thought. Please share and see you Thursday! 0188
Reposted by Paula CVeena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 12/04/2025“If the administration’s lawless & unconstitutional attempts to control speech & governance at Harvard are allowed to proceed, then any one of our institutions could be next. The impact would be catastrophic – crushing freedom of speech and academic freedom as hallowed ideals in our democracy. 03113
Paula C @paulachak.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Check out the latest in critical global feminist media studies from @ccc-journal.bsky.social, @hoornazkeshava.bsky.social and @nicolestewart.bsky.social, "Make Iran Great Again: Apolitical Influencers and the Revival of a Romantic Patriarchal Nationalism"! doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...doi.org“Make Iran great again”: Apolitical influencers and the revival of a romantic patriarchal nationalismAbstract. The Woman Life Freedom (WLF) Movement in Iran represents a longstanding struggle for social justice, gender equity, and civil rights. Our study d 1147
Reposted by Paula CVeena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 02/04/2025The Office for Civil Rights has requested the names & nat'lities of students & faculty..involved in alleged Title VI violations. Today, the AAUP wrote to college & universities to clarify that they are under NO LEGAL COMPULSION to comply. Doing so enables deportations. www.aaup.org/news/institu...aaup.orgInstitutions Should Not Provide Student and Faculty Info To Enable DeportationsIn response to news reports that the Office for Civil Rights in the US Department of Education has requested the names and nationalities of students and faculty who may have been involved in alleged T... 3184112
Reposted by Paula CCommunication, Culture & Critique @ccc-journal.bsky.social · 03/04/2025We are planning to honor Jonathan’s significant intellectual legacy in critical media and cultural studies in future CCC issues. More on that in the months ahead. 081
