Ryan Thomas

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

Man people talk a lot about how much different/better movies in the 90s looked and this is a great example of a great-looking aesthetic you just never see in any digital color grade:

instead of lashing out at "coups" and "plots" by Burnham, Streeting etc, have Team Starmer considered just... being less shit at governing?

man the stuff i am seeing on IG from
the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different

these are monsters

absolute genius maneuver from bari weiss spiking this story now an exponentially higher amount of people will care about this and watch it anyways

Then you should resign, you’re boring them to death

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

Bari Weiss is Jimmy Fallon in glasses

SNL's Lazy Sunday is now closer in time to the Challenger explosion than to the present day

Color outdoor photo of an uprooted tree outside Beasley Coliseum

Color outdoor photo of two people cleaning up limbs and branches while a truck sits full of debris

Color photo of a tree which has fallen onto a sidewalk

Color outdoor photo of a tree cut up into pieces on a grass field with a building and blue sky and white clouds behind

@pullman.wsu.edu got hit this morning by a severe wind storm. Facilities Services crews have been working hard to clean up campus! 📸: Dean Hare, #WSU Photo Services 🐾 #GoCougs

This man has never encountered a tech corp whose priorities he didn’t think journalism should immediately internalize

Taylor Lorenz & @TaylorLorenz Same with Covid right now currently. This is exactly what disabled people are currently experiencing right now during the ongoing pandemic, stigmatization, people gleefully cheering their deaths on the right and the left. Yet it's totally normalized on the internet/in the media Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter • 2d I think most people understand the Republican response to AIDS in the 80s/90s as apathy or silence but they were genuinely quite gleeful about it

This is absolutely fucking deranged

Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop

Reality Re-Imag(in)ed. Mapping Publics’ Perceptions and Evaluations of AI-Generated Images in News Contexts The rapid advancement of generative AI technology has transformed the creation and dissemination of visual content in journalism, raising critical questions about its impact on news production, cre...

Full paper: (OA), published in special issue "Reimagining Visual Journalism Theory and Practice in the Digital Age" @tjthomson.bsky.social & @ryanjthomas.bsky.social @digitaljournalism.bsky.social 👇

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Taylor Lorenz said WHAT about 9/11???

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...

#CougsGive - April 16, 2025 Washington State University celebrates its 10th annual #CougsGive day of giving on April 16, 2025.

Today is the big day - #CougsGive is finally here! 🎉 Can't wait to see the new heights the #WSU community will reach today. Visit cougsgive.wsu.edu to make your donations, and remember, no matter how big or small, your contribution makes a difference! ❤️

An incredible achievement by my brilliant colleague!