The right only entertains "race as sociohistorical construction" when they want to argue against census categories and affirmative action (or what's left of it, which is virtually nothing).

If only we had a discipline devoted to a Critical understanding of the Theory that underlies our understandings of Race. I guess we'll never know.

Of course the Challenger Launch Disaster is probably the quintessential case study.

Years ago I had the idea for a book series in Failure Studies, social histories of plans to improve the human condition that tanked. It turned out to be too big and diffuse. But this seems crucial for any empirical discipline!

I officially apologize to Rachel Maddow for saying she was "overdoing it" with the Russia stuff.

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵

In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.

We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.

with @julianachueri.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1940...

The key to understanding this is that no sensible outfit would try to court a conservative audience with journalism; Republicans hate journalism.

The purpose isn't to expand the audience, it's to remind staff they are expected to slant coverage and soak liberal readers with conservative propaganda.

As Congress continues to debate the Laken Riley Act, which Senator Britt inaccurately says makes relatively modest changes to law, ICE itself is telling Congress that the bill would cost over $25 billion and would be "impossible to execute."