If an author disclaims their use of AI in writing their article manuscript (and it shows in the prose) then why am I being asked to review it? If they can’t be bothered to write for themselves why should I be bothered to read?

Well, the FCC Commissioner has made the decision, first announced in an op-ed in Breitbart, stating that a regulatory body does not have to observe laws made by Congress if they don't feel like it. Every month is new and unprecedented territory. docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...

Latest review of my book!

Philip Leventhal@philipleventhal.bsky.social · yesterday

"An intricate, nuanced and amazingly well-researched journey into the 20th-century origins of a belief in a structural liberal media bias" MAKING THE LIBERAL MEDIA, by @ajbauer.bsky.social reviewed in *The International Journal of Press/Politics.* bit.ly/4xnZeA7 @columbiaup.bsky.social

Finished reading @ajbauer.bsky.social’s recent book, “Making the Liberal Media”. I recommend it as a well-researched, straightforward historical narrative documenting how “liberal media bias” grew to become a binding tenet of conservative identity between the 1940s and the 1990s.

August 2 is the 102nd birth-anniversary of the writer James Baldwin. Baldwin figures in my new book, TROOP MOVEMENTS — as a wartime worker in motion — and as an influence on my analysis. My book traces how ‘Greatest Generation’ WW2 workers came of age — in their paths toward “Sixties” politics…

“Innocent people don’t invoke the 5th (amendment),” Josh Hawley on Hannity just now. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Trump invokes Fifth Amendment nearly 450 times in N.Y. AG’s civil probe of his business practices

An attorney for Trump said the former president answered only one question, about his name, during the four-hour deposition.

nbcnews.com

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Wall to wall cable television coverage of this Fauci hearing is bonkers. We’re just leaning into right-wing COVID revisionism now?

Happy to get my first copy of TROOP MOVEMENTS from Penn Press. It looks great. It’s out in September. Pre-order it! I'll be on book tour, from Sep 2026 into 2027 — stay tuned… If you may be interested in doing a book review, podcast, interview, or book event — be in touch!

The hardest thing about being back in the archive post-book is retraining your eyes to search for the next book instead of the last one…

Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".

The Turner Diaries - Wikipedia

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last mo.

X owner Elon Musk indicates he would prioritise political violence (assassination of pro-migration politicians is the common sense meaning) over violence against "invaders" (refugees, asylum seekers, maybe ethnic minorities generally) while endorsing call for violence (killing) against both groups

Ahem. cup.columbia.edu/book/making-...

Making the Liberal Media | Columbia University Press

Conservatives have disagreed about many things, but they have long been united by the belief that the mainstream—or “liberal”—media is biased against... | CUP

cup.columbia.edu

NY Times Pitchbot@nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2w ago

The vast majority of our outlets are owned by right-wing billionaires and last night our most prominent political reporters spent an hour chuckling along with a clearly senile Republican president as he insulted them incoherently. Here's why our media has a liberal bias problem.

Narrator voice: They did not rethink the dinner.

Peter Baker@peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 2w ago

Have been a member of the @whca.bsky.social almost continuously since the 1990s. Our mission is to defend the First Amendment rights of White House correspondents to report on the president without fear or favor. Unfortunately last night did not advance that cause. Time to rethink the dinner.

My book TROOP MOVEMENTS is out in September. You can pre-order it anywhere! I'll be on book tour from 2026 thru 2027. A couple events... *Sep 24 in NYC — Tej Nagaraja w/ Ruth Milkman + Adrian De León *Oct 1 in Baltimore — Tej Nagaraja w/ Stuart Schrader More to come — stay tuned — be in touch!

Checkout Penn Press's Fall catalog — with a bunch of exciting books, coming soon. My book — TROOP MOVEMENTS — is frontlisted as a Featured Title. It comes out this September. You can pre-order it, on any site. Be in touch with me — if you want to review, interview, podcast, event, etc.!

Great news for the quoted poster, who posits that vocally "pro-life" profs couldn't possibly be employed at public universities in the humanities, here are two at UT Austin

In new lawsuit, two UT Austin professors say they won't excuse absences for abortion patients

Professors Daniel Bonevac and John Hatfield say they have no intention of complying with the Biden administration's Title IX regulations that expand protections for LGBTQ+ and pregnant students.

kut.org

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Actual faculty getting silenced and fired for their work from the right, and the big issue for a whole bunch of the commentariat is whether there is political discrimination against imagined faculty.

Democrats appear to have new partners in calling out President Donald Trump’s alleged self-dealing in office: onetime MAGA mouthpieces. 👀 “The perception that corruption is a big problem facing the country — it’s definitely increasing as a concern,” @mikemadrid.bsky.social told me. New @ms.now

MAGA mouthpieces are taking issue with Trump’s self-dealing

“We may be at the point now where for a lot of these Trump-adjacent folks, Trump fatigue syndrome has set in — they’re done with him,” one GOP strategist said.

ms.now

New book from @columbiaup.bsky.social: Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press by @ajbauer.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/making-...

Nobody told me the Angel of History was smol!

Okay this is funny.

We’re currently at war? Wouldn’t have guessed it from those rambling remarks about six year ago.

Trump has lost his essence. Lame duck starts now.

Nothingburger.

Oh the fake news media is conspiring against this jumbled nonsense? cup.columbia.edu/book/making-...

Making the Liberal Media | Columbia University Press

Conservatives have disagreed about many things, but they have long been united by the belief that the mainstream—or “liberal”—media is biased against... | CUP

cup.columbia.edu

This Trump speech is mumblepasta.

How did Barrack Hussein Obama burn these bags when he wasn’t in office?

Trump was fucking president in 2020.

You’re telling me China didn’t have my data until 2020? I thought they had everything at least a decade earlier.

Halting delivery like the teleprompter is on the fritz.

Looking porcine and twitchy.