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Opinion | The U.S. Is No Longer the Leader of the Free World

"We had a good run — some eight decades or so — but it is clear by now that the United States has ceased to be the leader of the free world." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/o...

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Politicized pejoration - @erikbleich.bsky.social, Husam AlZubaidy, Andrey Cao, Abigail Chang, Nikki Sadat, Abby Ward & A Maurits van der Veen develop the concept through a case study of the term “woke” in the US. Read more: buff.ly/E9Cra12

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Politicized pejoration - @erikbleich.bsky.social, Husam AlZubaidy, Andrey Cao, Abigail Chang, Nikki Sadat, Abby Ward & A Maurits van der Veen develop the concept through a case study of the term “woke” in the US. Read more: buff.ly/lviFdJO

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Fascinating.

Throwback Tuesday. An analysis by Will DiGravio from the bygone days (2018) when it looked like MBS was a bad guy. www.mediaandminorities.org/MBS/

Check out my review of some exciting new books in qualitative methods!

I wish more schools had money to organize book workshops. I have attended one today that was intellectually so stimulating. As any good book workshop, it will not only make the manuscript that was being discussed better, but it will make the future work of all the participants better.

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Politicized pejoration - @erikbleich.bsky.social, Husam AlZubaidy, Andrey Cao, Abigail Chang, Nikki Sadat, Abby Ward & A Maurits van der Veen develop the concept through a case study of the term “woke” in the US. Read more: buff.ly/zc4rybp

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci

Every wonder what happened to "systemic racism" in the news? It had its day, and now it has all but disappeared. Andy Cao shows us the trends: www.mediaandminorities.org/systemicraci...

Our study on the politics of language in @polstudies.bsky.social looks at how terms like woke get strategically transformed and weaponized.

Lab members Ting Cui and Eva Janairo examined the effect of Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric on media coverage. They show that words like "criminal", "murderer", and "invasion" spiked in his first term and never went down to pre-Trump levels. www.mediaandminorities.org/immigration/

The last of my lab's three-part series on media coverage of DEI is by Eva Janairo and YiJun Kim. They examine what happens when "DEI scandals" hit the news. They show the real costs to men and women of color who are stigmatized as "DEI hires". www.mediaandminorities.org/DEIscandals/

Interesting research on what exactly happened with DEI and its framing and representation in the media to end up where we are now, by a research project led by @erikbleich.bsky.social, with whom I first studied about race and ethnicity, all those years ago.

The second in my lab's series on DEI is by Andrey Cao and Ting Cui. They look at which groups are linked with DEI in the media. Race/ethnicity are mentioned far more than religion or disability--Black Americans most of all. Discussions of DEI are attached to some groups more than to others.

BREAKING: ICE raided a home with 20 armed agents, ripped a mom & her 3 daughters out of bed in their underwear, held them in the rain for hours at gunpoint—with ZERO charges.

They’re U.S. citizens. This isn’t immigration enforcement. It’s state-sanctioned terror.

No other democracy has electoral institutions that make the least informed individuals in randomly important geographic locations the pivotal voters.

This isn't a problem of democracy. It's a problem of single member districts, presidentialism/Electoral College, and statehood/federalism.

My Media Portrayals of Minorities Project lab is analyzing coverage of DEI in US newspapers in three contributions over the coming days. Here, Daniza Tazabekova and Abby Ward explore how DEI became embroiled in the culture wars between 2020 and 2024: www.mediaandminorities.org/DEIhistory/

There seems to be a conspiracy to make people mad online, cause @whstancil.bsky.social keeps being right. Opinion and politics in the social media age is increasingly just social construction and peer validation.

"the most brazenly corrupt thing a President has ever done"

‘Competitive authoritarianism is a political system where elections occur, but the ruling party uses state power to unfairly disadvantage opposition parties, making the competition real but not fair.’

Thanks for sharing. Would be nice to see something coordinated like this from current presidents.

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

A new high: 62% chance of a recession this year. For no reason. A self-inflicted wound.

Basically Trump is Cheddar Bob waving a gun around and shooting himself in the ****.

A reminder that B2 level French is advanced intermediate level. It is of course good to master the language as well as possible, but requiring applicants for naturalisation to speak, listen and write at this level means that you're basically selecting by educational background.

LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor YouTube video by Associated Press

Over 80K people currently watching on Youtube.
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💥🇭🇺 Police have given up guarding Budapest’s Liberty Bridge as anti-government protesters shut down traffic on four major bridges, rallying against Viktor Orbán’s new law curbing freedom of assembly and banning the Pride march.

They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"