Karrin Vasby Anderson
@kvanderson.bsky.social
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I write about the culture of politics and the politics of culture | Professor of Communication Studies @ Colorado State University | The Conversation (https://tinyurl.com/yzbmdpuw) | Views represent my expertise, not my university.
I write about the culture of politics and the politics of culture | Professor of Communication Studies @ Colorado State University | The Conversation (https://tinyurl.com/yzbmdpuw) | Views represent my expertise, not my university.
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Hey, #TeamRhetoric and Poli Comm friends, I created a list from my Rhetoric and Poli Comm Starter Pack: bsky.app/profile/did:.... Follow it to get the latest from Rhetoric/Communication scholars staving off the end of democracy.
Hear hear!
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Hear hear!
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never thought we'd be asking the entire educational establishment to administer the Turing test but here we are I guess
November 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
never thought we'd be asking the entire educational establishment to administer the Turing test but here we are I guess
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People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.
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This is identical to Russia invading Ukraine. Illegally invading a country for their resources and likely killing thousands—if not more—is immoral and should not be supported by anyone with any shred of moral conscience.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This is identical to Russia invading Ukraine. Illegally invading a country for their resources and likely killing thousands—if not more—is immoral and should not be supported by anyone with any shred of moral conscience.
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At least since 2016. It’s a poor representation of the public sphere for a lot of reasons, but this is an important one.
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
At least since 2016. It’s a poor representation of the public sphere for a lot of reasons, but this is an important one.
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This is awful, and it's really important that it's being reported on.
At the same time, it's almost impossible to get to the actual journalism because USA Today is shoving their own chatbot at you (pic in next post).
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At the same time, it's almost impossible to get to the actual journalism because USA Today is shoving their own chatbot at you (pic in next post).
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“After having extensive conversations with ChatGPT about his depression and suicidal ideation, ChatGPT still provided Joshua with information on how to purchase and use a gun, according to the court complaint reviewed by USA TODAY.”
He told ChatGPT he was suicidal. It helped with his plan, family says.
A lawsuit against OpenAI claims that Joshua Enneking, 26, was coached into suicide by ChatGPT after confiding in the chatbot for months.
www.usatoday.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This is awful, and it's really important that it's being reported on.
At the same time, it's almost impossible to get to the actual journalism because USA Today is shoving their own chatbot at you (pic in next post).
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At the same time, it's almost impossible to get to the actual journalism because USA Today is shoving their own chatbot at you (pic in next post).
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So glad to see my Rep's @neguse.house.gov name on this letter. equality.house.gov/trans-rhetor.... Healthy democracies include everyone.
213 Representatives Call on Speaker Johnson to Address Anti-Trans Rhetoric, Enforce Rules of Decorum
As Congress returns to normal business this week after the government shutdown, 213 Members of Congress—led by Equality Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Sarah McBride (DE-AL) and Chair Rep. Mark Takano (CA-39)—se...
equality.house.gov
November 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
So glad to see my Rep's @neguse.house.gov name on this letter. equality.house.gov/trans-rhetor.... Healthy democracies include everyone.
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Corruption at every level of government. Inconvenient truths are eradicated.
November 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Corruption at every level of government. Inconvenient truths are eradicated.
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Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Good news you might have missed: in-state tuition rates will soon be soaring because your president doesn't want international students to subsidize US students' tuition.
The White House just blasted this out under the headline "Good News You May Have Missed"
November 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Good news you might have missed: in-state tuition rates will soon be soaring because your president doesn't want international students to subsidize US students' tuition.
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Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.
Woke academia? Where instructors were summarily fired for mentioning that there are books about trans people and showing a chart about racism . . . But Larry Summers is still teaching his class?
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Woke academia? Where instructors were summarily fired for mentioning that there are books about trans people and showing a chart about racism . . . But Larry Summers is still teaching his class?
OMG, I'm so excited. (Spoilery if you didn't read the book tho)
Project Hail Mary trailer using Champagne Supernova is like a cheat code, but cheat codes work!
November 19, 2025 at 5:58 AM
OMG, I'm so excited. (Spoilery if you didn't read the book tho)
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We don’t need to reform ICE.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
We don’t need to reform ICE.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.
ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.
Wow!
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Wow!
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Here Herbert Simon recounts hiring James March. He openly longs for the days when you could simply offer jobs without any committee review. No transparency, no open calls, no formal interviews. Just good old boys with elite credentials reproducing themselves.
January 5, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Here Herbert Simon recounts hiring James March. He openly longs for the days when you could simply offer jobs without any committee review. No transparency, no open calls, no formal interviews. Just good old boys with elite credentials reproducing themselves.
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A 14 year old has responded to Megyn Kelly’s disgusting comments.
@cheeringforchange on TikTok
#EpsteinFiles #ReleaseTheFiles #MegynKelly
@cheeringforchange on TikTok
#EpsteinFiles #ReleaseTheFiles #MegynKelly
November 17, 2025 at 1:17 AM
A 14 year old has responded to Megyn Kelly’s disgusting comments.
@cheeringforchange on TikTok
#EpsteinFiles #ReleaseTheFiles #MegynKelly
@cheeringforchange on TikTok
#EpsteinFiles #ReleaseTheFiles #MegynKelly
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Also in here: DHS responded to the faith-led protest yesterday, calling participants “violent rioters” and “imbecilic morons” who need to “get a job.”
Asked about the statement, one UMC pastor who participated in the protest told me: "This is our job." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
Asked about the statement, one UMC pastor who participated in the protest told me: "This is our job." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
November 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Also in here: DHS responded to the faith-led protest yesterday, calling participants “violent rioters” and “imbecilic morons” who need to “get a job.”
Asked about the statement, one UMC pastor who participated in the protest told me: "This is our job." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
Asked about the statement, one UMC pastor who participated in the protest told me: "This is our job." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
Here's my affordability pitch for the Dems: we can't afford to keep ignoring rank sexism in our politics.
November 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Here's my affordability pitch for the Dems: we can't afford to keep ignoring rank sexism in our politics.
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Watching the Trump/MTG feud like
November 15, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Watching the Trump/MTG feud like
This!
BTW, even though it's called the American Association of University Professors, every professional working in teaching or research in higher education (except administrators at Dean level or higher) is eligible & welcome to join. Grad students, postdocs, faculty, research & teaching staff.
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
This!
Trump has ZERO idea how our health care system works. ZERO. And he's parroting the GOP fiction that someone who needs health care is in a good bargaining position or can "shop" for more "competitive" insurance plans. Capitalism and health care are incompatible.
TRUMP: We’re going to give Americans the money to buy health insurance
REPORTER: But won’t they buy it from
Insurance companies?
TRUMP: Ahhh. Some may. I mean they’ll be negotiating prices
REPORTER: But won’t they buy it from
Insurance companies?
TRUMP: Ahhh. Some may. I mean they’ll be negotiating prices
November 15, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Trump has ZERO idea how our health care system works. ZERO. And he's parroting the GOP fiction that someone who needs health care is in a good bargaining position or can "shop" for more "competitive" insurance plans. Capitalism and health care are incompatible.
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WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
Every academic should join the @aaup.org national and their local AAUP chapter. If your uni doesn't have one, start one! Colorado academics, check out @aaupcsu.bsky.social! We're active, growing and looking to collaborate. Join the resistance on academia's front lines.
WE WON!!!
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
democracyforward.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Every academic should join the @aaup.org national and their local AAUP chapter. If your uni doesn't have one, start one! Colorado academics, check out @aaupcsu.bsky.social! We're active, growing and looking to collaborate. Join the resistance on academia's front lines.
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I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power