thank you!! @ppopiel.bsky.social 🤩

The Sinews of Colonial Hypocrisy: Indigenous Unfreedom in Newspaper Advertisements in 1776 In 1776, Indigenous freedom seekers Sim, William, and Margaret escaped the enslavement or unfreedom forced upon them by colonists. Advertisements announcing their departures and rewards for their c...

eprint link here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BA25R...

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The Sinews of Colonial Hypocrisy: Indigenous Unfreedom in Newspaper Advertisements in 1776 In 1776, Indigenous freedom seekers Sim, William, and Margaret escaped the enslavement or unfreedom forced upon them by colonists. Advertisements announcing their departures and rewards for their c...

Journalism History has just published my essay reflecting on the role of the press during the American Revolution. as we approach the semiquincentennial, i challenge journalism historians to consider what gets left out from memories of this era. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Journalist plans to create new archive of residential school survivor stories — before it's too late | CBC News A new project from award-winning journalist Connie Walker aims to create an archive of testimonies of abuse at residential schools before the accounts are destroyed in September 2027.

an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Dr Linford Fisher and Dr Kathy Brown discuss Stealing America.

it was an absolute pleasure to host @linford.bsky.social at @asc.upenn.edu yesterday for a brilliant book talk on his new monograph, Stealing America, which rigorously unpacks the colonial conditions and dispossessive practices of Anglo-American enslavement of Indigenous people.

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Goldman Sachs reports that 300 million full-time jobs could be replaced by AI by 2030. Labor turnover is high and hiring has slowed. 71% of Americans worry that AI will cause permanent job loss. As young people about to enter the workforce for the first time, the fear of unemployment is understandable, but we cannot save ourselves with the very tool that is putting us at risk. The irony is that as Penn pours endless money and energy into AI advancement in its attempt to get ahead, the University is only quickening its own demise. AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it. As technology advances and workers are replaced by machines, schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought. With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship. Editorials represent the majority view of members of The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board who meet regularly to discuss issues relevant to the Penn community. This body is led by Editorial Board Chair Jack Lakis and is entirely separate from the newsroom. Questions or comments should be directed to letters@thedp.com.

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it.

From the Penn student paper:
www.thedp.com/article/2026...

this event is being generously co sponsored by @miccenter.bsky.social and @annenbergcargc.bsky.social !!

suuuuuper excited to have Lin here at @asc.upenn.edu. If you're around in philly, swing by!!

Ph.D. candidate @dassarma.bsky.social won runner-up in the '25-26 Journalism History essay contest. Her essay, "The Sinews of Colonial Hypocrisy: Indigenous Unfreedom in Newspaper Advertisements in 1776," examines announcements of Indigenous freedom seekers’ departures and rewards for their capture

Two copies of a black, white and red book cover. The cover reads UNCORRECTED PROOF NOT For SALE SECOND SIGHT: HOW THE WONDER AND VISION OF BLACK MEDIAMAKERS PUSH AMERICA TOWARD FREEDOM SARAH J. JACKSON My light brownish hand with chipped purple glitter nail polish holds the books

Thrilled to have galleys of my book in hand! Final corrections & index pending. Please consider preordering, gifting, & teaching. Via the archive, interviews & more I show how the crisis we face now reflects failure to listen & act on the democracy Black folks have envisioned, but we still can.

ICE Agents Assault Group of Reporters Documenting Arrests at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan A journalist was hospitalized after masked federal agents assaulted a group of reporters documenting ICE arrests outside immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan. Video footage of Tuesday's attack…

ICE Agents Assault Group of Reporters Documenting Arrests at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan

Introducing “The Refounding” from the 14th Amendment Center for Law and Democracy Far too many Americans still do not know about the promise and potential power of the 14th Amendment, or its role in transforming America

BIG NEWS this morning!

medium.com/@TheRefoundi...

This is why we need @baltimorebeat.bsky.social.

How US Universities Can Survive State Terrorism BY CATHERINE D’IGNAZIO As a professor at MIT, I find myself navigating strange waters these days. Last semester, I advised the thesis of a student who left the country because she did not fee…

📣 In this short essay, I describe how actions of the current administration constitute ➡️ state terrorism ⬅️ and outline how US universities (and professors and students and staff) can survive state terrorism, as people before us have survived.

academeblog.org/2025/08/05/h...

Missouri’s oldest Black bookstore just closed. The Kansas City Defender plans to reopen it as a newsroom and public archive. “The thought of losing that history, particularly in this political moment, was devastating.”

“The thought of losing that history, particularly in this political moment, was devastating.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/miss...

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.

Read it for yourself here:

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"

Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.

going to keep saying: important for a society that would like to keep functioning to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Super proud of this pub with an excellent mentor and collaborator
@sjjphd.bsky.social

Read this, and then make sure to read "News Inside" from @themarshallproject.org, too!

“I Do Solemnly Swear”: Audio Series Highlights Federal Workers’ Voices on Trump’s Unraveling of Gov’t A new audio series published by the group Federal Workers Against DOGE looks at the plight of fired federal workers whose jobs and careers were cut short by the Trump administration’s systematic defunding...

"I Do Solemnly Swear": Audio Series Highlights Federal Workers' Voices on Trump's Unraveling of Gov't

AFP journalists in Gaza at risk of starvation, warns journalists' association 'We have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded, prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can recall seeing colleague die of hunger,' says French news agency's journalists' association - Ana...

"I don't have the power to cover media anymore. My body is lean and I no longer have the ability to walk” www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...

EPA Employees Still in the Dark as Agency Dismantles Scientific Research Office On Monday, some employees at ORD, the largest office in the agency, began receiving emails detailing that they had been assigned new positions within the EPA. "There is no action you need to take the ...

NEW from me: after EPA announced it would officially do away with its scientific research arm Friday, officials at the Office of Research and Development had few answers for employees on a Monday call about how many of them will be reassigned to other offices—and how many will lose their jobs

Reckoning with the Federal Communications Commission’s history of structural racism Since the agency’s inception, FCC policies have undermined the 14th Amendment rights of Black people and Black communities.

Here's a new @media2070.bsky.social essay published by The Objective‬ that provides an overview of the role the FCC has played in undermining the 14th Amendment/equal protection rights of Black/marginalized communities since its inception, reinforcing racial hierarchy. @freepress.bsky.social

ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens The dramatic shift in policy could result in thousands of immigrants being deported to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.

Breaking news: Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own, even without assurances that the arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture, a top official said.

i am only through the first section of this (highly anticipated!) paper by my dear friend Anj but wow i wanna make all y'all read this!!!!! modern journalism centers whiteness above all else bc it *always* has!!!!!!

📚📖 my newest article, entitled “truth-making, slavery and advertising in anglo-american newspapering” is now available from the journal of alternative and community media! @asc.upenn.edu
intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...

What looks like an amazing book by a brilliant Indigenous scholar is on sale through the link below (and blurbed by the greats @hiokinai.bsky.social Hi'i Hobart and @brdemuth.bsky.social Bathsheba Demuth). Arctic governance and colonial administration are the most fascinating topics!

it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.