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paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social · 4h

Economists, gender studies, political theorists, Black studies, polisci, rhetoric...

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paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social · 16h

There's some reporting Shapiros involvement is being concealed to some of the performers in these cases

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paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social · 16h

I just read a book recently that talked about this though and im with you!!

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paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social · 17h

It's still great! The painkiller my gawd

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paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social · 17h

Was social media democracy? Not exactly. But very few things are pure democracy. It had its democractic affordances. Those were drivers of Musks purchase of Twitter, Web 3.0 enclosure etc

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 17h

This was a tweet from Michael Hobbes a while back and I’ve seen nothing to contradict it yet: “I think we'll look back on the last decade as a time when social media gave previously marginalized groups the ability to speak directly to elites and, as a result, elites lost their minds.”

A hand pointed a graph, and the words in black are, no lies detected

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paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social · 17h

Can confirm that the strip Maggies Farm is still open and good!

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paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social · 18h

Excited for an unhinged right-wing messaging campaign in the future about horse absences from the city streets

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paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I was one of the 20. Thought it was great!

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paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Otoh if you grew up in Nashville you go home and you're like oh no this kinda sucks now

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paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

That was my initial take but yours makes even more sense. It's also not gonna work out for him bc he oozes opportunism but maybe he'll just be a Silicon Valley made man

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paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Like when a certain topic trending impacts things?

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paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is the best way of making sense of it I've seen

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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

REMINDER for New York friends! Oct. 21 I'll be at NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...

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Book Talk | Julia R. Azari | Backlash Presidents: Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History – Institute for Public Knowledge

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city

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paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yea it would be cool if the logic of good reasons held but my regular experience is that they don't really matter. Every now and then they do at the margins but even between chair and admin it's rarely an actual conversation

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paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Running Prop 187 GOP backlash on the whole country. Gonna see how that scales I guess.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

America was an empty mall. America was shoddy caulk oozing from a vinyl arc in a historic heatwave. America was a brutishly redacted Frederick Douglass speech on foam posterboard in a tractor trailer Freedom Truck. America was not even selling corndogs. www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

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How Defunding the Arts Wrought Civic Disintegration

What Was America?: Art, Culture, and Politics in the Bicentennial Era tackles United States’ most ambitious cultural project: the bicentennial.

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paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sounds like someone didn't like Jay Shermans student film

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paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Paging Michel Foucault, Michel Foucault

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paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is great. I had an old "daily me" assignment like this and man they LOVED it

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

Stuart Hall notebook: NOTES ON THE REPRODUCTION OF IDEOLOGIES AND THE MEDIA (Orange notebook, "Summit Students Pad")

Stuart Hall notebook page with headline: "Problems for a Marxist Theory of the Media" and a series of bulletpoints. Lined notebook paper with black handwriting.

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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

‼️💻📺 Looking for the weirdest, worst, most bizarre, funniest 2026 campaign ads! Have already come across some doozies, but if there's a local ad that's been driving you nuts or amusing you, send it to allegra@talkingpointsmemo.com or thread it here! 📺💻‼️

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paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Going to her book talk here tonight...

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paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026