Stop the count!
Stop testing for COVID!
Fire the non-believers!
It would be so boring if it wasnβt so awful.
@cvbell.bsky.social
π―π²Culture critic, media & politics prof and researcher. I π Art & Democracy. Bylines: NPR, Boston Globe, IndieWire, LATimes, NYTimes, Washington Post, Oprah Daily, The Emancipator and BookPage. UNC J-School PhD. Linktr.ee/Cvbell
Stop the count!
Stop testing for COVID!
Fire the non-believers!
It would be so boring if it wasnβt so awful.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...
01.08.2025 21:37 β π 0 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Seriously? Iβm old enough to remember when the right didnβt want the government to intrude!?! Or at least that was the story they sold.
01.08.2025 21:33 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign.
Happy Emancipation Day Jamaica π―π²π―π²π―π² Thinking about heritage, inheritance and culture today. Recommend: Remembering Marcus Garvey Through Reggae
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The fact that literally zero outlets ever cover crime decline as a story is a huge reason. (And before you yell at me, we do!)
30.07.2025 20:09 β π 6673 π 1402 π¬ 168 π 33Since 2002, local reporting capacity has dropped about 75%, from about 40 journalists to just 8.2 Local Journalist Equivalents per 100K residents. The Local Journalist Index shows where journalist capacity stands, down to the county level.
Learn more: localjournalistindex.com
College professors can help plug local news gaps by launching stateβbased media newsletters. A handful of higherβed pros are already tracking and analyzing their media landscapes.
Learn more about these efforts via @niemanlab.org: www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/i-te...
My family lived on a shoestring budget and I didnβt attend preschool. But I was (secretly) reading well before kindergarten, and Iβm pretty sure it was at least partly due to Sesame Street.
29.07.2025 22:34 β π 1600 π 219 π¬ 46 π 2βIn Ukraine, dark humor dates back to the Soviet days, giving people who live in uncontrollable circumstances a sense of power. If you can laugh about a dark reality, you rise above it, etc.ββ Maria Reva, Endling
03.06.2025 16:16 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Thrilled to see Endling made the Booker Prize long list. Maria Revaβs Madcap, moving, and deeply weird debut is the book you should read this summer.
29.07.2025 13:18 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Relatedly, I think editorβs bylines should appear under writerβs bylines.
27.07.2025 00:26 β π 692 π 52 π¬ 11 π 3This
27.07.2025 00:25 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Should be promising in any normal world βWyden urges AG to follow the money. Trumpβs Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb newrepublic.com/article/1982... via @newrepublic.com
26.07.2025 23:58 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery βto avoid provoking President Trump.β Sherald: βI cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorshipβ
24.07.2025 17:06 β π 3943 π 1258 π¬ 71 π 155100 percent. And thank you for calling attention to this!!!
22.07.2025 16:01 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thrilled to be joining @newrepublic.com. Very excited to work with @monicapotts.bsky.social, @alexshephard.bsky.social, @mjtoma.bsky.social and so many writers and editors I have long admired.
22.07.2025 15:11 β π 1596 π 136 π¬ 83 π 13Love this!! Congrats Perry!
22.07.2025 15:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Gift link to NYTimes article on Johnson Epstein shutdown. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
22.07.2025 15:32 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0The Trump administration is just a circus: Johnson Shutting Down House Until September to Block Epstein Vote www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...
22.07.2025 15:17 β π 1042 π 323 π¬ 93 π 38Incredible.
@nytimes.com
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Ditto!
21.07.2025 20:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Upcoming opportunities to learn more about the launch of GLOBAL BLACK THOUGHT!!!
H/T African American Intellectual History Society H/T Keisha N. Blain, PhD
They mean to be as insulting to Black people, as dismissive of our lives, as resistance to our status as full citizens in this country as they can be.
There is no common ground to be had at the expense of our sisters & daughtersβ lives and our dignity as a people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
Not sure where to put this, but I want to make sure see the news re the physical signs you rightly observed. apple.news/AFKYzT616Twy...
17.07.2025 22:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0How and why you should take action to save public radio in Tampa today www.wusf.org/savepublicra... WUSF - Save Public Radio | WUSF
17.07.2025 21:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Huge loss for WaPo.
17.07.2025 17:10 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Yikes. Nightmare fuel.
17.07.2025 15:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0i canβt remember anything that has felt more foisted upon us than AI. repeatedly telling us why we actually need is like thinking a joke will get funnier the more you explain it.
16.07.2025 06:17 β π 6201 π 1230 π¬ 205 π 85βItβs not that traditional liberal arts is out of step with student demand. Instead, itβs out of step with the priorities values desires of a powerful board of trustees with no apparent commitment to liberal education, an administrative class.β
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Iβm old enough to remember when John Barrasso consistently opposed defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting because CPBβs most important role is financially sustaining radio and TV broadcast infrastructure in places like WYOMING where private enterprise will not connect people to the world.
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