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The Price of Comfort: How Corporate Media Left Democrats Blindsided in 2024 (Again)
A recent HuffPost headline captured the mood of Democrats after Trump’s 2024 election victory: “Shell-Shocked Democrats Stumbling For Answers After Loss To Donald Trump.” Similar reactions reverberated across major corporate media outlets. CNN reported, “Still-stunned...
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“The News as a Commodity”: Raza Rumi on Establishment Press with Mickey Huff
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The Price of Comfort: How Corporate Media Left Democrats Blindsided in 2024 (Again)
A recent HuffPost headline captured the mood of Democrats after Trump’s 2024 election victory: “Shell-Shocked Democrats Stumbling For Answers After Loss To Donald Trump.”...
Finding Ourselves in the Days After Trump Wins
I thought Kamala Harris was going to win. I said, repeatedly, that I thought she would win the 2024 presidential election in a landslide. I found all the talk of a “close”...
The First AI Election: When Convincing Deepfakes Influence the Electorate
“We are so screwed, it’s beyond what most of us can imagine,” exclaimed Aviv Ovadya. “We were utterly screwed a year and a half ago, and we're even more screwed now. And the...
Manufacturing Outrage, One Pet at a Time
Disinformation, Hyper-Partisan Media, and the Perils of Big Tech “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of...
The Rise of Misogynoir Fascism
Pascism or Fatriarchy? We are fully in the throes of the 2024 Presidential Election. Kamala Harris says the present right-wing assault on our democracy must be stemmed. And...
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Nestled beneath lush pine forests of the Carpathian Mountains in the quaint Transylvanian town of Rasnov, Rockstadt Extreme Fest unleashed its tenth annual independent music...
Radicalize the Promise of Kamala
My purpose: to claim all possibilities for radicalizing Kamala Harris’s campaign to demand a ceasefire and not one more bomb, while making sure that Trump does not win. And...
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No[n]Sense: Administrative Responses to Campus Protests
What happened on campus at University of Texas at Dallas on May 1, 2024 — and in its aftermath — makes no sense to me whatsoever. On that day, colleagues, students,...
Op-Ed: Educators Are Not the Enemy
Unlike Simone Biles, who stuck the landing on physics-defying aerial brilliance, leading the women’s gymnastics team to a gold medal in the 2024 Paris Olympics, J.D. Vance…