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The Onion @theonion.com · Jun 19

Texas Bans Consensual Sex
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jun 19

Amar 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.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · Jun 18

Tonight, 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.

Brad Lander: "I'll keep coming back to court, week after week"

YouTube video by Brad Lander for NYC

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · Jun 17

Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani is now here calling for the release of Lander (his fellow mayoral candidate)

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · Jun 17

Hi, 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.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jun 17

As 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.

A graphic of Bernie and Zohran smiling. Text reads “BERNIE ENDORSES ZOHRAN.”

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jun 16

With 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.

Graphic with a photo of Letitia James that says she is ranking Zohran.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Jun 16

Government 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...

The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jun 14

I'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.

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Firehawk @firehawkjw.bsky.social · Jun 14

#NoKings
New York

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Paula C @paulachak.bsky.social · Jun 14

No 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.

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Paula C @paulachak.bsky.social · Jun 14

This is so great! Thank you Jordan for this work.

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · Jun 5

Not 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.

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Cruel capitalism: a forum on media and fascism

Abstract. 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

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · Jun 5

Mis/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!

Communication, Culture & Critique @ccc-journal.bsky.social · Jun 5

🚨OPEN ACCESS🚨

As part of our new forum on "Media and Fascism," @cassiusa.bsky.social writes about how trans cultural production might best answer the ascendant fascist aesthetics of nonsense and sensation.

There's no paywall, check it out!

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Kamala is for they/them: liberalism, fascism, and nonsense

Abstract. The slogan that the Trump campaign used in the 2024 US presidential election to tie rival Kamala Harris to trans activists in its television ads—

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Communication, Culture & Critique @ccc-journal.bsky.social · Jun 4

Our 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!

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Cruel capitalism: a forum on media and fascism

Abstract. 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

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Paula C @paulachak.bsky.social · Jun 3

Check 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!

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Cruel capitalism: a forum on media and fascism

Abstract. 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

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Paula C @paulachak.bsky.social · May 23

Read 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!

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Prison media mobilization: smuggled technologies and media practices in Lebanese carceral spaces

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · May 9

A 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.

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Paula C @paulachak.bsky.social · Apr 23

Great video capturing fighting spirit of principled scholars who should give us all a boost of much needed hope.

Paula C @paulachak.bsky.social · Apr 23

Read 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.

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The urgency of producing Palestine

Palestine 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

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Paula C @paulachak.bsky.social · Apr 23

If 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..

Communication, Culture & Critique @ccc-journal.bsky.social · Apr 23

See Johan Farkas' review of Bilge Yesil's "Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order" (University of Illinois Press, 2024) here:

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Talking back to the West: How Turkey uses counter-hegemony to reshape the global communication order by Bilge Yesil

Digital media technologies were long heralded as tools of global deliberation, free speech, and democracy, marking the end of top-down control over public

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Communication, Culture & Critique @ccc-journal.bsky.social · Apr 23

The 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.

The urgency of producing Palestine, Ather Zia's review of "Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media" edited by Dina Mater and Helga Tawil Souri (Bloomsbury Press, 2024), published in Communication, Culture and Critique

Johan Farkas' review of "Talking back to the West: How Turkey uses counter-hegemony to reshape the global communication order" (University of Illinois Press, 2024) by Bilge Yesil, published in Communication, Culture and Critique

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Paula C @paulachak.bsky.social · Apr 17

The death throes of American Empire: some visual evidence from downtown Manhattan.

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Paula C @paulachak.bsky.social · Apr 16

NYU 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!

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Paula C @paulachak.bsky.social · Apr 16

🚨 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

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Arm’s length or joined at the hip? Public service media’s coverage of Gaza

Abstract. Critiquing normative articulations of a public versus commercial media binary, we explore the contradictory juxtaposition of democratic expectati

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