Carrie Brown
@brizzyc.bsky.social
Associate prof of journalism, Montclair State University. Community engagement. Most recent prior: CUNY. WI native, beer & Packers enthusiast. Aging 🏃♀️. Author, Transforming Newsrooms w/Jonathan Groves. Must love dogs. Maplewood, NJ resident. views mine
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Carrie Brown
@brizzyc.bsky.social
· Aug 15
I don’t know why I post this stuff but just trying to occasionally lighten the timeline slightly or something.
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late to point this out but anyone trying to watch Monday Night Football but has YouTubeTV (like me!) - SlingTV offers a single day streaming pass for $5 🫡
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
late to point this out but anyone trying to watch Monday Night Football but has YouTubeTV (like me!) - SlingTV offers a single day streaming pass for $5 🫡
“They’re putting attorneys who have dedicated themselves to public service in the impossible position of fealty to the President or fealty to the Constitution www.newyorker.com/news/the-led... (July)
Why a Devoted Justice Department Lawyer Became a Whistle-Blower
In the first Trump Administration, “they didn’t say ‘Fuck you’ to the courts,” Erez Reuveni said.
www.newyorker.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
“They’re putting attorneys who have dedicated themselves to public service in the impossible position of fealty to the President or fealty to the Constitution www.newyorker.com/news/the-led... (July)
"Tech designed for improving public dialogue is possible — and can even work in the middle of a war zone." www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/soci... (July)
Social media can support or undermine democracy — it comes down to how it’s designed
Platform design is a silent pilot steering human behavior.
www.niemanlab.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
"Tech designed for improving public dialogue is possible — and can even work in the middle of a war zone." www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/soci... (July)
"social media essentially breaks down echo chambers. I can see the views of other people...That’s where a lot of the felt hostility of social media comes from. Not because they make us behave differently, but because they are exposing us to a lot of things" www.techdirt.com/2025/06/20/c... (June)
Community And Choice Are Not Bubbles
Disclosure: I am on the board of Bluesky and am inherently biased. Adjust your skepticism of what I write on this topic accordingly. It seems a bit odd: when something is supposedly dying or irrele…
www.techdirt.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
"social media essentially breaks down echo chambers. I can see the views of other people...That’s where a lot of the felt hostility of social media comes from. Not because they make us behave differently, but because they are exposing us to a lot of things" www.techdirt.com/2025/06/20/c... (June)
"Political leaning did not have much impact, with 54% of “extreme conservatives” and 58% of “extreme liberals” in the survey considering PBS a major source of their news." rq1.substack.com/p/are-journa...
Are journalists projecting their own opinions onto the public?
Plus: Finding sustainable revenue for nonprofit news, what the local news crisis has done to political scandal coverage, and how photojournalists view AI
rq1.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
"Political leaning did not have much impact, with 54% of “extreme conservatives” and 58% of “extreme liberals” in the survey considering PBS a major source of their news." rq1.substack.com/p/are-journa...
A Reuters examination details how rightist influencers and Trump officials have formed a powerful alliance, working together to target perceived adversaries, amplify false claims and reshape the media landscape. www.usermag.co/p/right-wing...
Right-wing influencers earn higher fees for sponsored posts than left-wing counterparts
Sora strangulations, Slurmcore, Bearista breakdowns, a skincare line for 3 yr olds, fitness influencers' hotness problem, MrBeast + Dealbook, Rizzwiches, how far ChatGPT will *really* go
www.usermag.co
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
A Reuters examination details how rightist influencers and Trump officials have formed a powerful alliance, working together to target perceived adversaries, amplify false claims and reshape the media landscape. www.usermag.co/p/right-wing...
Looked this up for someone but here is my roundup of engagement journalism guides if it is useful to anyone. brizzyc.medium.com/engagement-j... Need to add some new ones that have come out
Engagement Journalism Guides
Resources to help you make your work more participatory, equitable and inclusive
brizzyc.medium.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Looked this up for someone but here is my roundup of engagement journalism guides if it is useful to anyone. brizzyc.medium.com/engagement-j... Need to add some new ones that have come out
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This week, we examine the dramatic cuts to SAMHSA, the gov't agency in charge of supporting addiction, suicide prevention, and mental health programs receiving federal funding. More than half the employees are gone since January. Huge news story and it's personal.
maximumfun.org/episodes/dep...
maximumfun.org/episodes/dep...
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This week, we examine the dramatic cuts to SAMHSA, the gov't agency in charge of supporting addiction, suicide prevention, and mental health programs receiving federal funding. More than half the employees are gone since January. Huge news story and it's personal.
maximumfun.org/episodes/dep...
maximumfun.org/episodes/dep...
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That’s what it is, what I was getting at about my texts this morning.
Regular people don’t think I’m so crazy now.
Regular people don’t think I’m so crazy now.
It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
That’s what it is, what I was getting at about my texts this morning.
Regular people don’t think I’m so crazy now.
Regular people don’t think I’m so crazy now.
“He told me, bluntly, that his agency will no longer book speaking engagements for me. The explanation was simple: the chilling effect of Donald Trump.” The writer said he was told “universities are now too scared to bring in a speaker like me." www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...
🟡 Semafor Media: Mogul edition | Semafor
In today’s edition: Axel Springer’s CEO on the hunt.
www.semafor.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
“He told me, bluntly, that his agency will no longer book speaking engagements for me. The explanation was simple: the chilling effect of Donald Trump.” The writer said he was told “universities are now too scared to bring in a speaker like me." www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...
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Have you heard about this?
"As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash."
h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com
"As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash."
h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com
NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear | CNN
Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.
www.cnn.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Have you heard about this?
"As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash."
h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com
"As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash."
h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com
Within higher education, today’s crackdown is “worse than McCarthyism—much worse,” Ellen Schrecker, a historian and the author of No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities, told me.
This is really good--one of the most powerful and insightful pieces I've read about what @qjurecic.bsky.social appropriately calls "The Third Red Scare." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Within higher education, today’s crackdown is “worse than McCarthyism—much worse,” Ellen Schrecker, a historian and the author of No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities, told me.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
Ugh I was going to bed, and then I got really mad about all of this. And now I’m still up
I have friends who couldn’t pay their mortgage. FUCK EVERYONE who did this to them FOR NOTHING
They shut down the government for nothing. Literally nothing.
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Ugh I was going to bed, and then I got really mad about all of this. And now I’m still up
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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-Oct 18, more than 7 million Americans stand up and stand together.
-Nov 4, millions of Dems turn out for landslide wins in VA, NJ, NY, CA, GA, many other places.
-Nov 9, eight "Dems" say "Oh, this nice Mike Johnson and Mr. Trump say they care about health. If they don't, well shame on them..."
-Nov 4, millions of Dems turn out for landslide wins in VA, NJ, NY, CA, GA, many other places.
-Nov 9, eight "Dems" say "Oh, this nice Mike Johnson and Mr. Trump say they care about health. If they don't, well shame on them..."
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
-Oct 18, more than 7 million Americans stand up and stand together.
-Nov 4, millions of Dems turn out for landslide wins in VA, NJ, NY, CA, GA, many other places.
-Nov 9, eight "Dems" say "Oh, this nice Mike Johnson and Mr. Trump say they care about health. If they don't, well shame on them..."
-Nov 4, millions of Dems turn out for landslide wins in VA, NJ, NY, CA, GA, many other places.
-Nov 9, eight "Dems" say "Oh, this nice Mike Johnson and Mr. Trump say they care about health. If they don't, well shame on them..."
I have friends who couldn’t pay their mortgage. FUCK EVERYONE who did this to them FOR NOTHING
They shut down the government for nothing. Literally nothing.
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I have friends who couldn’t pay their mortgage. FUCK EVERYONE who did this to them FOR NOTHING
Wow. I’ve never went from hope to no hope this fast. I don’t know anything anymore, I really don’t.
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Wow. I’ve never went from hope to no hope this fast. I don’t know anything anymore, I really don’t.
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Prescient
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Prescient
I have friends and family who are SUFFERING in very real and concrete ways due to this shutdown. Caving now while extracting nothing is a betrayal of all they have sacrificed. For shame.
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I have friends and family who are SUFFERING in very real and concrete ways due to this shutdown. Caving now while extracting nothing is a betrayal of all they have sacrificed. For shame.
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In the midst of all that we are facing, I want us to think about who we are being told to look to for understanding in this moment, who is being propped up as the voice of wisdom, and ask how right were they in predicting this, a year ago, 5, 8 years ago, and then ask why they are being centered now
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
In the midst of all that we are facing, I want us to think about who we are being told to look to for understanding in this moment, who is being propped up as the voice of wisdom, and ask how right were they in predicting this, a year ago, 5, 8 years ago, and then ask why they are being centered now
WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE IN NEW JERSEY DRIVE WITHOUT HEADLIGHTS IN THE DARK I demand an investigation
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE IN NEW JERSEY DRIVE WITHOUT HEADLIGHTS IN THE DARK I demand an investigation
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Government is shut down. Chaos in airports. 42 million going hungry. 24 million face skyrocketing healthcare costs. Economy in turmoil. And the president of the United States is in the Fox broadcast booth calling plays for a football game.
November 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Government is shut down. Chaos in airports. 42 million going hungry. 24 million face skyrocketing healthcare costs. Economy in turmoil. And the president of the United States is in the Fox broadcast booth calling plays for a football game.