Antal Wozniak
@antalwozniak.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Media, Politics and Society at the University of Liverpool. PGT Director of Studies in Communication and Media. Programme Director of the MA Global Media and Politics.
Please consider contributing to our special issue on communicating the climate crisis in an age of rising authoritarian populism. We accept short commentaries and full research papers.
I am co-editing a special issue ‘Communicating Climate Change in an Age of Rising Authoritarian Populism’ of the Journal of Environmental Media with @antalwozniak.bsky.social and Sibo Chen. We're accepting pitches for commentaries and abstracts for full papers www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-e...
Journal of Environmental Media
Journal of Environmental Media; The Journal of Environmental Media offers a scholarly platform to bridge work in environmental studies, identity and social justice, and science communication through t...
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September 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Please consider contributing to our special issue on communicating the climate crisis in an age of rising authoritarian populism. We accept short commentaries and full research papers.
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How Grok turned into Hitler – a short explanation.
July 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
How Grok turned into Hitler – a short explanation.
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Let’s be absolutely clear. This decision, based on fringe conspiracy theories, will kill children.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
RFK Jr. says U.S. will stop funding global vaccine alliance Gavi
Gavi works to expand access to vaccines for children in some of the world’s poorest countries. Health experts say the move could have deadly consequences.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Let’s be absolutely clear. This decision, based on fringe conspiracy theories, will kill children.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.
June 27, 2025 at 2:13 AM
An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.
Maybe there isn't any room for a third economic-liberal, anti-immigration, culture war party in the German party landscape next to the CDU and AfD? How the FDP is sliding into irrelevance. It cannot come soon enough.
»Wahrscheinlich bleibt in der Parteienlandschaft neben CDU und AfD einfach kein Platz für eine dritte wirtschaftsliberale, migrationsrechtsfeindliche und kulturkämpferische Partei« schreibt Nils Schniederjann in seiner Rezension von Wolfgang Kubickis neuem Buch.
Kulturkampf wird die FDP nicht retten
Wolfgang Kubickis »liberale Kampfansage« in Buchform zeugt von der Ratlosigkeit der FDP. Anstatt eine Erneuerung des Liberalismus vorzubringen, hofft er, dass der Aufwind rechter Kulturkämpfe den freien Fall seiner Partei abfangen kann.
jacobin.de
June 27, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Maybe there isn't any room for a third economic-liberal, anti-immigration, culture war party in the German party landscape next to the CDU and AfD? How the FDP is sliding into irrelevance. It cannot come soon enough.
JKR is one of the vilest people currently alive.
In case you can't tell what just happened, JK Rowling instructed her followers to take photos of anyone in a women's restroom who doesn't match their idea of Western feminine beauty standards. Short hair? Thick cheekbones/jaw? Too tall or broad-shouldered? You're now "a man" and will be harassed.
If you're still buying wizard book shit, you are no friend to the trans community. Here's the wizard book bigot inciting harassment against innocent people to her 14 million followers on the nazi app.
And no, they can't Always Tell.
And no, they can't Always Tell.
June 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
JKR is one of the vilest people currently alive.
Just wow! Tucker Carlson is a terrible person, but how Rafael Edward Cruz (I'm not referring to him by the name he chose for himself, since he denies that favour to other people) is fumbling this interview is a sight to behold.
WATCH: “You’re a U.S. senator and you don’t know anything about the country you want to topple.”
Tucker Carlson embarrasses @sentedcruz as he pushes for war with Iran
Tucker Carlson embarrasses @sentedcruz as he pushes for war with Iran
June 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Just wow! Tucker Carlson is a terrible person, but how Rafael Edward Cruz (I'm not referring to him by the name he chose for himself, since he denies that favour to other people) is fumbling this interview is a sight to behold.
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39 lecturers at Liverpool Hope face redundancy.
“This will devastate our community, the university’s reputation, and the local economy.” Roberto Catello, branch secretary.
#StopTheCuts #UCU
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“This will devastate our community, the university’s reputation, and the local economy.” Roberto Catello, branch secretary.
#StopTheCuts #UCU
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Liverpool Hope University cuts 'devastating' for its reputation - BBC News
Liverpool Hope University says it is planning cuts "to ensure financial and academic stability".
www.bbc.co.uk
June 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
39 lecturers at Liverpool Hope face redundancy.
“This will devastate our community, the university’s reputation, and the local economy.” Roberto Catello, branch secretary.
#StopTheCuts #UCU
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“This will devastate our community, the university’s reputation, and the local economy.” Roberto Catello, branch secretary.
#StopTheCuts #UCU
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
😂😂😂
It’s basically the meme where people replace the audio with squeaky shoe sound effects to mock boring parties
June 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM
😂😂😂
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I've got an opinion article out in @niemanreports.org sharing tips for improving media reporting on climate change-fueled disasters. Shout out to my colleague @antalwozniak.bsky.social who co-authored heat wave coverage research with me. #climatechange #journalism
niemanreports.org/battling-cli...
niemanreports.org/battling-cli...
Battling a Climate Change Backlash - Nieman Reports
Jill Hopke's recommendations on how to improve reporting on extreme weather in an age of denialism and cutbacks
niemanreports.org
June 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I've got an opinion article out in @niemanreports.org sharing tips for improving media reporting on climate change-fueled disasters. Shout out to my colleague @antalwozniak.bsky.social who co-authored heat wave coverage research with me. #climatechange #journalism
niemanreports.org/battling-cli...
niemanreports.org/battling-cli...
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May 30, 2025 at 1:21 AM
'And this is perhaps Israel’s real horror: far from proving the “anachronism” that Deutscher described, it embodies the ethnonationalism of the future, beyond legal and moral restraints—a “portent,” as Mishra writes, “of a bankrupt and exhausted world.”'
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Outcasts of Zion - Boston Review
The manufacturing of Jewish Zionist consensus lies at the heart of American liberalism’s identity crisis.
www.bostonreview.net
May 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
'And this is perhaps Israel’s real horror: far from proving the “anachronism” that Deutscher described, it embodies the ethnonationalism of the future, beyond legal and moral restraints—a “portent,” as Mishra writes, “of a bankrupt and exhausted world.”'
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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“A criminal gang headed by Benjamin Netanyahu is committing war crimes in Gaza and must be stopped,” says the former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert.
Olmert added that Netanyahu is waging war “without goals, clear planning and with no chance of success.” 🇮🇱
Olmert added that Netanyahu is waging war “without goals, clear planning and with no chance of success.” 🇮🇱
'Criminal gang headed by Netanyahu committing war crimes in Gaza': Israel former PM Ehud Olmert
Ehud Olmert said Netanyahu was waging war "without goals, clear planning and with no chances of success”
www.theweek.in
May 28, 2025 at 7:53 AM
“A criminal gang headed by Benjamin Netanyahu is committing war crimes in Gaza and must be stopped,” says the former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert.
Olmert added that Netanyahu is waging war “without goals, clear planning and with no chance of success.” 🇮🇱
Olmert added that Netanyahu is waging war “without goals, clear planning and with no chance of success.” 🇮🇱
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I'm presenting a paper in the Sustainability and biodiversity session today at #PCST2025. "Anthropomorphising ecology: investigating social information bias with non-human characters". I'll be talking trees and graphs, if you like that kind of thing. 11:45 AM in Conference Suite 4.
May 28, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I'm presenting a paper in the Sustainability and biodiversity session today at #PCST2025. "Anthropomorphising ecology: investigating social information bias with non-human characters". I'll be talking trees and graphs, if you like that kind of thing. 11:45 AM in Conference Suite 4.
The @nytimes.com being very amenable to accommodating and playing ball with the neo-fascists. No surprise there, sadly.
"I care about social cohesion and social solidarity, which is why I tried to convince white people in Ohio that Haitian immigrants were eating their dogs."
Naturally, Douthat does not challenge him at all on these lies.
Naturally, Douthat does not challenge him at all on these lies.
“Social solidarity is destroyed when you have too much migration too quickly,” JD Vance tells our columnist Ross Douthat in this episode of “Interesting Times.” “That’s not because I hate the migrants or I’m motivated by grievance. That’s because I’m trying to preserve something in my own country.”
May 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The @nytimes.com being very amenable to accommodating and playing ball with the neo-fascists. No surprise there, sadly.
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The average Republican in Congress is a millionaire, funded by billionaires.
25% of American households have a net worth less than $27k.
Just in case you were surprised that their budget attacks the working class to give more handouts to rich people like them.
25% of American households have a net worth less than $27k.
Just in case you were surprised that their budget attacks the working class to give more handouts to rich people like them.
The ugly truth about Trump's "big, beautiful bill"
On the campaign trail in 2024, Trump pledged to improve the economic conditions of the working class.
popular.info
May 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The average Republican in Congress is a millionaire, funded by billionaires.
25% of American households have a net worth less than $27k.
Just in case you were surprised that their budget attacks the working class to give more handouts to rich people like them.
25% of American households have a net worth less than $27k.
Just in case you were surprised that their budget attacks the working class to give more handouts to rich people like them.
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New @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org article out in Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics with @georgenewth.bsky.social and @aurelmondon.bsky.social:
𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐚𝐫-𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠
Short 🧵 on the key ideas 1/
𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐚𝐫-𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠
Short 🧵 on the key ideas 1/
May 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
New @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org article out in Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics with @georgenewth.bsky.social and @aurelmondon.bsky.social:
𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐚𝐫-𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠
Short 🧵 on the key ideas 1/
𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐚𝐫-𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠
Short 🧵 on the key ideas 1/
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We despise immigrants for not putting down roots, even as we make sure that it is impossible for them to do so. We do this because we have no idea what we want.
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
May 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
We despise immigrants for not putting down roots, even as we make sure that it is impossible for them to do so. We do this because we have no idea what we want.
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
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There are many reasons we're here in fascism, but one of the biggest is that nearly all members of the media have spent the last ten years not asking Donald Trump a follow-up question.
May 15, 2025 at 1:56 AM
There are many reasons we're here in fascism, but one of the biggest is that nearly all members of the media have spent the last ten years not asking Donald Trump a follow-up question.
💯% agree. "Populism" gets used too often as a placeholder term when people don't know how to (or don't want to) call out awful things clearly and decisively.
It wasn't populism he surrendered to, it was racism.
The worst element of what happened this week isn't even about immigration specifically. It's that Starmer surrendered against populism.
May 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
💯% agree. "Populism" gets used too often as a placeholder term when people don't know how to (or don't want to) call out awful things clearly and decisively.
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The worst element of what happened this week isn't even about immigration specifically. It's that Starmer surrendered against populism.
May 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The worst element of what happened this week isn't even about immigration specifically. It's that Starmer surrendered against populism.
Very happy (and proud) to announce my PhD student's first peer-reviewed paper publication in Social Semiotics: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Well done, Rachel! 🥳 🤘
Well done, Rachel! 🥳 🤘
Muddying the waters on climate change: conflicting positions articulated in Instagram posts about Greta Thunberg’s 2023 arrest
Climate change is an existential threat. Despite facts that suggest otherwise, climate scepticism remains salient especially on social media. Online information and entertainment increasingly shape...
www.tandfonline.com
May 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Very happy (and proud) to announce my PhD student's first peer-reviewed paper publication in Social Semiotics: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Well done, Rachel! 🥳 🤘
Well done, Rachel! 🥳 🤘
Wow, lawmakers wanting to abjudicate lawmakers' powers to make laws (so that big business can do whatever the fuck it wants). More and more I think we need to perceive the U.S. (at least on the federal level) as a failing state.
This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years.
from @404media.co
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from @404media.co
www.404media.co/republicans-...
May 13, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Wow, lawmakers wanting to abjudicate lawmakers' powers to make laws (so that big business can do whatever the fuck it wants). More and more I think we need to perceive the U.S. (at least on the federal level) as a failing state.
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Ah yes, the good old Democrat party strategy of undermining the racist party's platform by implementing their racist policies for them, forcing them to spend time coming up with new even more racist policies. A strategy famous for winning absolutely not one single election in the history of ever.
UK risks becoming ‘island of strangers’ without more immigration curbs, Starmer says
PM unveils policies to ‘significantly’ drive down net migration including English tests and degree requirements
www.theguardian.com
May 13, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Ah yes, the good old Democrat party strategy of undermining the racist party's platform by implementing their racist policies for them, forcing them to spend time coming up with new even more racist policies. A strategy famous for winning absolutely not one single election in the history of ever.