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Patricia Aufderheide
@paufder.bsky.social
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University Professor, School of Communication, American University; Editor Emerita, In These Times; Author of books about documentary film, Kartemquin Films, the copyright doctrine of fair use and creativity, "political correctness," and more .. more

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Patricia Ann Aufderheide is a scholar and public intellectual on media and social change, and an expert on fair use in media creation and scholarship. She is a University Professor at American University in Washington, D.C., where she has worked since 1989 and directed the Center for Social Media, later the Center for Media & Social Impact, beginning in 2000. She has received multiple awards and honors for her journalism and scholarship, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1994, and a Fulbright Research Fellowship in 1995, and a Distinguished Career Award in 2008 from the International Digital Media and Arts Association. .. more

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Patricia Aufderheide @paufder.bsky.social · 2h
What FB posts do public media users respond to? No Kings day was a biiiiiiiig one:
www.semipublic.co/p/no-kings-p...
No Kings Protests Were Public Media’s Biggest Facebook Moments of 2025
A study of over 113,000 Facebook posts by public media stations showed that No Kings demonstrations in June and October set user engagement records.
www.semipublic.co

Reposted by Patricia Aufderheide

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 2h
We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

Reposted by Patricia Aufderheide, McKenzie Wark

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 19h
Vulgar Marxism implies a Clean Edit Marxism, a Kidz Bop Marxism, a Marxism (Taylor's version)

(all flavors of Marxism are, according to managers, NSFW)

Reposted by Cas Mudde, Shibley Telhami, Naomi Klein , and 8 more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
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"

Reposted by Patricia Aufderheide

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Dr. Aure Schrock @aschrock.bsky.social · 1d
"When your heart is broken you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain." – Andrea Gibson

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Patricia Aufderheide @paufder.bsky.social · 4d
Need a briefing on current genAI copyright landscape, with some historical perspective? Pam Samuelson and Silicon Flatirons are here to help: siliconflatirons.org/wp-content/u... (there is video too!)
siliconflatirons.org

Reposted by Patricia Aufderheide

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 5d
Today in the Land of the Free:

• Trump says Ukraine should give up a bunch of its territory to Russia and not have security guarantees.

• The CDC says vaccines could cause autism.

• Trump says members of Congress who encouraged service members to obey the constitution should be executed.

Reposted by Patricia Aufderheide

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 5d
Colorado enacted a limited but crucial step forward against automated decision-making: the AI Act of 2024. We oppose weakening or delaying this law, and support strengthening it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Strengthen Colorado’s AI Act
Powerful institutions are using automated decision-making against us. Fortunately, workers, patients, and renters are resisting. The Colorado AI Act is a good step in the right direction. Still, EFF
www.eff.org

Reposted by Patricia Aufderheide

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 5d
Alex Jones launches GoFundMe to make face even puffier
Alex Jones launches GoFundMe to make face even puffier
AUSTIN, TX - Radio show host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is once again reaching out to his listener base for help with a new GoFundMe campaign to make his face even more ruddy-looking.
www.thebeaverton.com

Reposted by Patricia Aufderheide, David R. Miller, Alexandra Cirone

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 5d
The President of the United States just called for Democratic lawmakers to be killed. Trump is putting my colleagues’ lives at risk because they have exercised their free speech rights under the First Amendment and Speech and Debate Clause.

Reposted by Patricia Aufderheide

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 5d
we are "ruled" by the worst people imaginable

paufder.bsky.social
Patricia Aufderheide @paufder.bsky.social · 5d
Front page top of fold news, right?
cingraham.bsky.social Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 5d
Not an exaggeration!
Trump truth social posts ranting about "seditious behavior," linking to a Washington Examinder story on Democratic congressmen urging service members to refuse unlawful orders

Reposted by Patricia Aufderheide

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 5d
Not an exaggeration!
Trump truth social posts ranting about "seditious behavior," linking to a Washington Examinder story on Democratic congressmen urging service members to refuse unlawful orders

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Mark A. Lemley, Patricia Aufderheide , and 8 more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
Trump calls for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged
Trump on Truth Social reposts someone who says of Democratic lawmakers, "HANG THEM GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD!!"

Reposted by Patricia Aufderheide

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Kate Petersen @k8petersen.bsky.social · 6d
in a moment when too much of the remaining opinion column space in the states seems to have been set aside for farcical, garbled thinking, so grateful for @elienyc.bsky.social, for his moral clarity, and for the way he wields the form.
‘To put that in simple terms so that Larry Summers is able, genetically, to understand it: Summers is a tax this society places on women. He is their extra cost of doing business. And most men are willing to let them pay it. After all, most men know the tax means that they too can benefit as long as they retain some professional power.’

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Patricia Aufderheide @paufder.bsky.social · 7d
The whole thread, people. Read the whole thread.
eliothiggins.bsky.social Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 7d
The content is still obviously delusional to anyone reading it. It’s just organised crazy. But the real danger is the internal effect on the user. The AI provides coherence and validation, stabilising the narrative they’re caught in.

Reposted by Patricia Aufderheide, José Pina-Sánchez

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 7d
The content is still obviously delusional to anyone reading it. It’s just organised crazy. But the real danger is the internal effect on the user. The AI provides coherence and validation, stabilising the narrative they’re caught in.

paufder.bsky.social
Patricia Aufderheide @paufder.bsky.social · 7d
For those who, due to @mmasnick.bsky.social ’s brilliant repost of NE Ohio Sewer District’s blog post on storm water management (YESS!), are meeting them for the first time, I give you this immortal work, the best graduation speech ever.
neorsd.org NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · May 7
to the graduating class of 2025 🎓

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Patricia Aufderheide @paufder.bsky.social · 7d
I am such a devotee of NE Ohio Regional Sewer District.
mmasnick.bsky.social Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 7d
The award-winning article about stormwater management you didn't know you needed.
neorsd.org NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 7d
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.

remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

Reposted by Patricia Aufderheide

mmasnick.bsky.social
Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 7d
The award-winning article about stormwater management you didn't know you needed.
neorsd.org NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 7d
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.

remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com

Reposted by Patricia Aufderheide

katelynburns.com
Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 10d
My question is who is doing all the Epsteining for these powerful wealthy men now?

Reposted by Patricia Aufderheide, Laurent Dubois, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

ember-energy.org
Ember @ember-energy.org · 11d
🇧🇷 In #Brazil,

- Solar grew from 0.01% in 2015 to 12% in 2025
- Met its 2030 renewable target 8 years early
- Installed 60 GW of solar by Sept 2025

4/7

Reposted by Patricia Aufderheide, Brian Keegan, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 11d
Cool thanks
After Friday's ruling, a spokesperson for the university system, which did not participate in the case, said the system remained "committed to protecting the mission, governance, and academic freedom of the university."

paufder.bsky.social
Patricia Aufderheide @paufder.bsky.social · 12d
The real news from the COPP, thx @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Patricia Aufderheide

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Greeneville Zoo @greenevillezoo.bsky.social · 13d
When visiting our wolf, coyote, or jackal enclosures, keep in mind that the Greeneville Rule Book actually does say a dog can’t play basketball.

paufder.bsky.social
Patricia Aufderheide @paufder.bsky.social · 13d
“The real sex crime here is not supporting our President,” Leavitt told reporters, before vanishing in a puff of foul smoke.

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 13d
"Trump is a pedophile" email raises questions about whether Trump is a pedophile
"Trump is a pedophile" email raises questions about whether Trump is a pedophile
WASHINGTON, D.C. – With many of Jeffrey Epstein’s documents and emails now available to the public, subtle messages from the disgraced financer like “Donald Trump is a sex criminal I have done sex cri...
www.thebeaverton.com

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Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social · 13d
Live your life in such a way that if 20K pages of your files are released and someone builds a database of them, it doesn't crash because too many people want to search it simultaneously.

Reposted by Patricia Aufderheide

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13d
“.. The share of subprime borrowers at least 60 days past due on their auto loans rose to 6.65% in October, the highest in data going back to 1994 ..”

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Nancy MacLean @nancymaclean.bsky.social · 15d
This object capitulation by Schumer and Jefferies was appalling – – and so unnecessary and humiliating because they were winning the battle for public opinion and have the cards to win and save healthcare. I agree: primary any Dem who supports the failed leadership. Do you?

www.indivisible2026.org
Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...
www.indivisible2026.org