Katie Moylan

Trump reportedly has a secret plan to renovate another part of the White House Officials have hinted that the president’s lavish new ballroom project, now estimated to cost up to $400 million, will ultimately ‘[enhance] mission critical functionality’

I feel this dovetails with persistent rumours of bunker building, in terms of creating a new status quo for the super-privileged
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You were measured throughout. It sounded like the host was trying to goad you.

Nicely and consistently argued in the face of a confrontational host. Anger in the face of systemic racism and structural inequities is beyond a valid position (not least to counter the assumptions of the previous caller!)

High court rules ban on Palestine Action is unlawful – live Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

High court rules ban on Palestine Action is unlawful

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BBC World Service - The Documentary Podcast, Kentucky’s Real People Radio WMMT radio in Kentucky reaches some of the least heard communities in America

New Opus for World Radio Day!! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

#wmmt #worldradioday #communityradio #kentucky

I've been tuning into WMMT for a while now--great to see this! 📻🌍

In further utterly unsurprising news

Sonic Anthropology | Voices of the People - The cultural work of New Orleans community radio with Katie Moylan In this episode of Sonic Anthropology Radio, media scholar Katie Moylan shares her thoughts on New Orleans community radio and what makes it so special.

A short piece I did for the Sonic Anthropology Radio podcast with Thomas Miller with some great clips from NOLA radio!
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Great piece which explains why I've always felt uneasy about all those measuring apps. Thanks for sharing Kim!

Looking forward to listening to this!

Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.

Follow AP for live updates.

Mamdani aside, it’s results across the Hudson River in New Jersey that show MAGA is in deep shit. In counties like Passaic looking like Hispanic support has completely collapsed & reversed only a year later. Dem Mikie Sherrill won governor far better than expected. www.latintimes.com/latinos-sour...

Finally finally some good news. Go NYC!!

This is rotten news: Teen Vogue had become a touchstone for independent political coverage--just like a publication for young women should be.

Black and white photograph of a German newspaper rack with overlaid text reading '"Traffic Killer" AI Overviews' and 'How Google's AI is impacting media pluralism'

Google rolled out AI Overviews earlier this year. Many users now see AI-generated summaries above traditional search results. This doesn’t just risk spreading unreliable answers, it could also divert traffic away from independent media and threaten media pluralism: algorithmwatch.org/en/google-ai...

UCU (@ucu.org.uk) has called a national demonstration against the planned redundancies at the University of Leicester.
Please come and march alongside us in Leicester on 12 November.
All welcome!

Jamaica’s Grid Was Not Ready for Hurricane Melissa The massive storm underscores the challenges in keeping up with the quickening pace of climate change.

After Hurricane Beryl devastated Jamaica’s grid last year, officials at the island’s sole utility vowed to fortify it. But the company’s initiatives were only in the planning + early implementation stages when Hurricane Melissa hit.

Story @bloomberg.com, gift link:
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It’s Public Radio Music Day. It’s a celebration of art over algorithms. It’s a celebration of discovery, diversity, and deep listening. Keep the music playing in stations across the nation.

Stand up for the NPR Network’s commitment to free, public-access music at the link here: n.pr/47jpe4d

“Are we criminals?” – everyday racialisation in temporary asylum accommodation This paper critically examines the placement of people seeking asylum in temporary accommodation during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is based on a 14-month collaborative ethnography conducted between ...

If anyone wants an article about what it is like to be in a hotel while applying for asylum (this is pandemic era but much still applies) then our article last year covers some of this from the perspective of those in the hotels

This is deranged and dangerous from the Conservatives, and similarly from Reform. If they could enact it, it would rip British society apart, destroy the economy & NHS, & make the UK an international pariah. Every decent politician & political journalist/commentator needs to push back hard.

After Congress yanks $1.1B from CPB, a one-page site starts saving stations - Editor and Publisher When lawmakers rescinded $1.1 billion in public media funding, hundreds of local NPR/PBS outlets — especially rural and Indigenous stations — were pushed to the brink. Enter Adopt-A-Station, a simple dashboard that spotlights the most at-risk outlets and turns clicks into gifts; in its first month, it drew 40,000 visitors and funneled donors directly to stations like KTNA in Alaska — proof that a lean tool can move real money, fast.

Love this story in Editor and Publisher on innovative website Adopt a Station, showing how much public media TV and radio stations relied on federal funding. No surprise, many of those most dependent serve rural, indigenous and Black communities. READ: https://loom.ly/oY2Jmt0

#AoIR conferences have expanded my understanding of our world through transcultural explorations of internet content, practices and structures since Dublin in 2022. Muito obrigada to our amazing #AoIR2025 hosts at the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Niterói, RJ, Brazil!

The #AoIR2025 conference dinner is not like other conference dinners

Countries 239 scholars from Brazil, for 208 of whom this was their first AoIR 443 first timers in total

For anyone still wondering: THIS IS WHY WE’RE HERE. Welcome to our family, and thank you for welcoming us to yours. #AoIR2025

And so we learn that the Portuguese word for enshittification is merdificacão. 🤣 #AoIR2025

MASP Museu de Arte de São Paulo

An amazing exhibition serving as a great introduction to Brazil and Brazilian art--generative context for the start of #AoIR2025
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Boy, y'all better hope the revolution never kicks off given that you're sticking all these vital data centers in the south to poison black people.

This is great work. Great. And you know what? A librarian might not know all this off the dome, but they would absolutely help you find out.

This feels distractingly divisive.