A.J. Bauer

"These practices must end now."

Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen who was dragged from a car by ICE agents in Minnesota, speaks out at a congressional hearing on DHS immigration enforcement tactics.

The anti-war consigliere...

Creator and Influencer Studies Creator and Influencer Studies publishes studies of content creators, influencers, content production, and creator/influencer cultures examining the ...

My dear friend @jessmaddox.bsky.social has launched a new academic journal for folks who study content creators and influencers!

If that's your thing do consider submitting your work:

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James O'Keefe & @JamesOKeefeIII Follow A bunch of different citizen journalists are about to rock California. 8:43 PM • Feb 1, 2026 • 480.7K Views

Is the administration’s bit that they encourage right-wing influencers to find “fraud” in blue states; influencers “investigate” and publish propaganda claiming said widespread fraud was responsibility of immigrants; and then gov’t sends in ICE to terrorize people because of it?

I often think about how Oprah brought charlatans to prominence

I don’t think I can say this forcefully enough: hundreds of thousands of Haitians will lose status tomorrow with racist ending of their TPS & are spending today refreshing their feeds for a court order that could literally save thier lives.

This is nothing short of psychosocial torture.

You're telling me bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy, said the boogie, said *DIDN'T* drop the boogie!?

Most accurate initial reveal since Blanche Elizabeth Devereaux

(Dorothy: Your initials spell BED?)

Ken burns with trophy, headline “we have sanitized the American Revolution” from the Hill

Since when has Ken Burns looked like a haggard Stephen Colbert?

Speaking of:

Has anyone done a venn diagram of Harper's letter signatories and Epstein files mentions?

A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something “better.”

Fear and Anger Grow as Thousands Remain Without Power in the South

The word “FEMA” never appears in this story.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

The New York Times Does PR for Segregationists The paper of record casts a legal movement that is repealing Civil Rights era reforms as one committed to anti-discrimination.

I wrote about the New York Times refusing to call Neo-segregationists by their true names, the DARVO style of writing about race, and some great articles and books I read this week.

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Public opinion is a political claim. Always has been. Whether or not that claim is felicitous has little to do with whether or not it is empirically measurable.

Fixation on public opinion polling has cultivated a form of democracy that is more concerned with predicting the future than understanding the past or making change in the present.

The idea of aggregating individual expressions or behaviors into something called "public opinion" is a relic of early social scientists attempting to measure an object that scholars at the time knew to be "fictional" and metaphorical.

Hot take: Democracy will fare much better without public opinion research than it has in the 90-or-so years with it.

Remember when "Sunday scaries" meant "I don't feel like working tomorrow" instead of like "Trump is destroying a cornerstone of DC cultural infrastructure" and "the concentration camp for kids has a measles outbreak" and "most wealthy and famous straight men are pedophilic monsters"?

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...

#withalttext Nobody wants to perform at "Trump Kennedy Center" anymore, so he is going to demolish it.

Woah. I saw Rush Hours 1 and 2 but didn’t even realize there was a 3 until reading this.

New York magazine

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At this point I’m too punch drunk to tell the difference lol

Most of the suspicion swirling around the Ellisons involves their apparent closeness with, and deference to, the Trump administration. During the Paramount merger process, Skydance lawyers pushed the company to settle Donald Trump's flimsy lawsuit alleging misleading edits of a 60 Minutes interview of Kamala Harris and suggested making a donation to the Kennedy Center, which Trump was in the process of taking over. Paramount eventually agreed to donate $16 million to Trump's presidential library. The New York Times recently reported that Trump says Larry promised him the Ellisons would make CBS News a more conservative outlet, and David was spotted ringside with Trump at a UFC match before the lawsuit was settled. Trump immediately crowed publicly that he also had a handshake deal with Skydance for $20 million in free TV advertising. David has had plenty of opportunities to refute the claim but has declined to explicitly do so. Since the Ellisons began pursuing Warner Bros., Larry has reportedly spoken with White House officials about bringing sweeping changes to CNN, including removing specific anchors. He even brought back actionable intelligence: Trump wanted to see a fourth movie in the Rush Hour series starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. The series' director, Brett Ratner, was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women in 2017, and his only other recent project has been a forthcoming documentary on Melania Trump for Amazon. Many studios, including Paramount under its previous leader-ship, had reportedly passed on Rush Hour 4. Under the Ellisons, Paramount has agreed to distribute it.

The Ellisons agreeing to distribute Rush Hour 4 as an inducement to get Trump to approve the Skydance/Paramount merger is unfathomably funny.

I’m sure Trump feverishly re-Truthing a bunch of state level candidate endorsements this morning has nothing to do with what happened in Tarrant County last night.

I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

We *should* make the Vengabus song a protest song. I do want.