Ryan Thomas

a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends

This is an insane chart

Taylor Lorenz said WHAT about 9/11???

This tweet aged like milk in the sun

The gerontocracy has consequences, episode one million and three.

if the democratic party wasn’t a gerontocracy this would have failed. gerry connelly staying in office til he died allowed this to pass. this is echoes of RBG not retiring. when will democrats fucking learn

This is bleak reading

the democratic party got a single gen z representative with david hogg and he started actually representing the resentment young generations have to old and weak democratic leadership and canned him. pathetic. this party will genuinely never change and keep losing to republicans. bleak

the results Chotiner gets (like Mehdi Hasan) from simply a) doing his homework and b) asking follow-up questions rather than accepting deflections are remarkable - but also a testament to how much U.S. interviewers normally defer to power

Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Thomas, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, on his recent publication in Poynter! @ryanjthomas.bsky.social

Read it here: www.poynter.org/ethics-trust...

Carnegie Corporation of New York Awards Fellowships to 26 Scholars Researching Political Polarization | Carnegie Corporation of New York The philanthropic foundation’s three-year, $18 million initiative supports interdisciplinary research into the causes of polarization and ways to mitigate it

Congrats to our own Jennifer Henrichsen, a member of @carnegiecorp.bsky.social's 2025 class of #CarnegieFellows! This esteemed group of scholars is researching the causes of political polarization & seeking ways to strengthen social cohesion & fortify our democracy. www.carnegie.org/news/article...

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An incredible achievement by my brilliant colleague!

Delighted to be included in this list with co-authors @ryanjthomas.bsky.social and @phoebesophist.bsky.social alongside some very fine colleagues from around the world.

Robert McChesney, the Great Champion of Journalism and Democracy, Has Died The academic and activist inspired generations of people to challenge corporate power and support a media reform movement that lives on.

The great champion of independent, speak-truth-to-power journalism, and of the democracy that can only survive if the press is free, Robert W. McChesney, has died at age 72. He fought the media oligarchs and the politicians who served them — and often won.

Now, we must carry the fight forward.

The 2024 election

The recent record is rife with examples of members of Congress pre-emptively throwing up their hands and turning over power to the executive branch.

But when it's the *chair of the House Appropriations Committee* doing it, we're on a whole different level.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I like how he implies that previously people only liked Tesla because they were programmed to

‘Rising star’ minister dim on Labour benefit cuts Torsten Bell has long been seen in Labour circles as a rising star, and it had been so far so good since the general election for the new MP. He was one of the first frontbenchers of the 2024 intake and it looked as if, for the special adviser turned economist turned minister, the only way was up. But a car-crash interview on BBC Newsnight after Labour’s £5 billion benefits cut raised stark questions about the brightness of the Swansea West MP’s future. He has been described as arrogant, lacking empathy and out of touch for ploughing through questions from Victoria Derbyshire such as: “Are you okay with making people worse off?” A little human touch would go a long way in helping ministers sell the “moral case” for Labour’s welfare reforms.

I think of this as 'everything is comms' disease. This interview looked awful because the policy is, in fact, awful. You can't do an interview about it and come across well unless your interlocutor is under-prepared!

The way this commonly shakes out is you see a sentence that describes a finding unique to a particular study followed by (Author) or (Citation withheld for blind review). And this is somehow de-identifying?!?!?!? Make it make sense

I don’t know what journal editors are out there telling authors to remove references to their own work by replacing the in-text citation with (Author) but they need to be launched into the sun, it’s bad practice and makes the author more likely to be identified

at this point amy schumer would be a better minority leader

a big driver of my creeping madness is having to pay attention to this fucking asshole just running his god damn mouth every minute of the day

This guy is a bullshit artist

Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth.

The hypocrisy is so glaringly obvious and yet it's still worth calling it out: