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Chokely Carmichael🥋

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Asst Prof @ Illinois Dept of Communication studying media, politics, & identity, not necessarily in that order. UMich Comm & Media / SDSU Journalism & Media Studies / Drexel Digital Media alumnus / USMC veteran. Views = my own. http://www.stewartcoles.com

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · Mar 1

🚨New pub alert! 🚨 Out now in Communication Theory, I introduce a model for how media users evaluate media texts as politically relevant, leading to cognitive, affective, and behavioral outcomes bearing a variety of consequences. A 🧵... (1/10)

Screenshot of abstract for the article "Conceptualizing evaluations of the political relevance of media texts: The Politically Relevant Media Model," found at: https://doi.org/10.1093/ct/qtae004

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 3h

"Among the estimated total population of Gaza, this is equivalent to more than 54,600 children up to six years old who need emergency nutrition and medical care, including 12,800 severely wasted children, the researchers said."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Almost 55,000 children in Gaza acutely malnourished, Lancet study estimates

Study shows clear link between Israeli restrictions on aid entering Gaza and levels of malnutrition among children

www.theguardian.com

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 7h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 16h

And even if removal -> hate crimes, that’s certainly not a reason to keep the monuments, it’s a reason to prevent the hate crimes and address the white supremacy that underlies them. I just don’t want anyone getting the idea that keeping Confederate monuments is somehow good, actually.

Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 16h

Not a response to the article itself but to the idea of monuments as stand-ins for performative violence and the possibility of actual violence upon their removal:

These monuments are themselves harmful in many ways, and we need to expand our definition of what “violence” and harm are.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims As of the end of July there were 18,457 children named on the long official list of Palestinian victims of Israel’s war in Gaza. Over almost two years, that is equivalent to bombs, bullets and shells killing a boy or girl every hour of every day. In reality the deaths are not spaced out so evenly. Siblings, cousins and playmates are often killed together, by an airstrike or artillery shell. Even children shot by snipers or quadcopters are sometimes brought into hospitals in groups, doctors say. Continue reading...

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 1d

As we enter the annual War on Christmas™ season, take note at who cries about Christianity being under attack but has fuck-all to say about armed agents of the state shooting pastors in the head with pepper balls.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 1d

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 1d

“The longest review time in 2023 was 388 days, for an article that received a desk rejection, they wrote.”

This would be my villain origin story.

Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a complicated line to dance around, and the conversations have and will continue to include more nuance and explicit truth as time goes on. Like eventually they’re going to learn that some of their relatives have died in police custody 🤷🏽‍♂️

Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah we’ve tried to find the most age-appropriate way to talk about it, since our oldest is already being taught that “police keep people safe” in schools. So we’ve explained to her how police (and military) are allowed to hurt people, and they sometimes hurt people even when they don’t need to.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 1d

My kids know why we don’t allow Paw Patrol and other copaganda-for-kids stuff in our house.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 1d

Police will use violence even if protesters are nonviolent—and they know that people will therefore *believe* that protesters were violent and that police violence was necessary. State violence constructs reality.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 1d

If one of my students did this, they’d be getting *at least* a zero on the assignment, not to mention facing an academic misconduct violation for plagiarism.

Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 1d

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · Jan 30

When you got it

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 2d

They make men’s shoes too, and yes they are insanely comfortable. Ask me how I know.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 3d

Watch how much your life improves when you mute Tom Nichols.

Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 3d

Black people (forever, but especially in 2020): Police are bad, actually.

Y’all: We think you’re overreacting.

Maybe for a second stop to consider that Black people might have some insight that you don’t. How much of the current moment could have been avoided by simply listening to Black people?

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

Heard an officer say "let's do it" and then, in the dark, they tackle Rabbi Ben to the ground. He's being loaded into a CCSO wagon now. Broadview police also here screaming at people.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 6d

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 4d

The DA: “The evidence submitted in the crash report does not support that Kyren Lacy should have know that his actions were the cause of the crash that happened approximately 72 yards in front of him.”

Yet they went after him anyway.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 4d

When are news media and the public going to learn not to trust what cops and prosecutors say? See the interview with Kyren’s lawyer, who picks apart the state’s case. Cops coaching witnesses. Ignoring black box data. Other inaccurate witnesses. Cops lie. All the time.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=bwWR...

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 5d

Not an MD, but former Marine officer here. I still remember our Human Factors of Combat class from basic officer training. Being able to operate—literally and figuratively—in the face of gruesome wounds is kind of important. But yeah, totally unethical way to source those cadavers.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 5d

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.

Amplify amplify amplify please.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 5d

“(Hospital) Corpsman” is simply the term for a Navy enlisted medical specialist. The Army/Air Force call them “medics,” and the Coasties call them “health services technicians.” The name has changed over the centuries, with ”corpsman” being the term in use since after WWII.

Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 6d

East. Often sounds more like grow-shreez, but you can tell there’s a third syllable there.

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