Josh Shepperd

Breaking: Judge grants Mark Kelly a preliminary injunction against Hegseth, who is reconsidering his rank: "This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Sen. Kelly's First Amendment freedoms & threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees."

They’re loving this piece over at X

Are we really going to blame a philanthropic group for supporting underrepresented topical areas in response to a rightwing movement to defund public education?

I’m not so much pessimistic about AI as I am pessimistic about the administrators and business leaders who will wield it.

Preserved by the very awesome Film & Media Archive in the very awesome @washulibraries.bsky.social.

Everyone should be following the digitization and posting of the Adam Jacobs Collection. A 10,000 live concert chronicle of rocknroll-live-in-Chicago between the mid-1980s and today. archive.org/details/aada...

I am not going to repost the vile and racist image that Trump posted last night of President & First Lady Obama because it is beyond disgusting. Trump is a vile racist as is every Republican that continues to support him. I don’t want to hear mumbling from Mike Johnson or stoic silence from Thune.

the cover of academic journal Creator & Influencer Studies. It's a purple gradient and the journal name appears in white font.

some exciting news:

announcing CREATOR & INFLUENCER STUDIES, the first open-access peer reviewed journal dedicated to creator and influencer culture research. I'm honoured to be named as one of the journal's inaugural associate editors.

submissions open Feb 12.

Reclaiming the Public Interest? - The Shorenstein Center

Great new piece by Shorenstein fellow Jax Deluca on possible next steps after the defunding of US public media.

Among the many things that I love about Hall, he read everything. He synthesized ideas when it worked. And he kept his eye on the ball of social justice strategy. But the key point is that he didn’t just take positions about thinkers, he read them. All of them.

“Gramsci used to say 'Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will'. What he meant is: understand how the bloody system works.” - Stuart Hall, born Feb. 3, 1932

Looking forward to giving my fourth invited talk at the University of Missouri tomorrow.

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Superb work, and a brilliant cadence that additionally honors the memory of one of the defining media research mentors of this generation.

Big congrats to @akstuhl.bsky.social for winning the 2026 SCMS dissertation award. For “Unmaking a Medium: Automation and Art in American Radio, 1950–2010,” supervised by Jonathan Sterne (McGill).

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.

But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

it does

On the other side of things I’d qualify the murals as…ideological.

Every elevator at the Utah state capitol has a beehive for a panel, it’s utterly charming.

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This morning’s view

it’s fun, i love independent film

going on friday!

Video evidence and eyewitness accounts: The science behind why people see different things Why can people watch the same video footage and see different things? Neuroscience can help explain

My colleague @sristovska.bsky.social provides significant analysis regarding the laws and interpretation of video evidence, in the context of recent state violence, at Scientific American.

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Anyone else watching the live press briefing with Bovino? He just announced that anyone who "interferes" with ICE, just by being present the scene, is fair game to be shot.

it’s just a hack account

Every single thing that Trump is doing to help rig the election has been happening since before he even had his first term. Trying to steal elections is not a new concept for Black communities.

Not too late for Schumer and Jefferies to publicly state that murdering innocent people is a violation of rights and liberty.

What does the end of the CPB mean for local news?

I was interviewed about what’s next for public media after the closure of the CPB. This is a digestible 10-minute segment on the political and ideological winds that are currently confronting democratic voice. kgnu.org/what-does-th...