Ever Josue Figueroa, Ph.D.
@everfigueroa.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder. PhD from UT Austin. Media Representations | Media Sociology | Sports Communication | Journalism Studies
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Can't "move past the blank page" on your research?
Maybe you shouldn't be a researcher.
Maybe you shouldn't be a researcher.
February 12, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Can't "move past the blank page" on your research?
Maybe you shouldn't be a researcher.
Maybe you shouldn't be a researcher.
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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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This started as the last paper I wrote in a graduate seminar back in 2014. Increasingly I felt like it would be useful to share another boundary concept with my friends in sports media research.
The Box Score as Boundary Object: How a Data Table Built the Sports-Media System - Michael Mirer, 2026
A boundary object is an item or idea or that solidifies relationships between stakeholders in a social system. A boundary object has local meaning within a sing...
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February 6, 2026 at 3:45 PM
This started as the last paper I wrote in a graduate seminar back in 2014. Increasingly I felt like it would be useful to share another boundary concept with my friends in sports media research.
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If you saw today's headline that Gallup will stop measuring presidential approval, they did the same thing in 2018. They do it whenever Trump is president.
February 11, 2026 at 7:27 PM
If you saw today's headline that Gallup will stop measuring presidential approval, they did the same thing in 2018. They do it whenever Trump is president.
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I did both qual and quant research and those experiences made me a strong believer in the power of good qualitative research. There's some questions where quantitative data may be necessary for a good answer, but to really direct strategy, you had to talk to people and think about their answers.
February 11, 2026 at 2:10 PM
I did both qual and quant research and those experiences made me a strong believer in the power of good qualitative research. There's some questions where quantitative data may be necessary for a good answer, but to really direct strategy, you had to talk to people and think about their answers.
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The political dynamics of 2025 were shaped by Democrats and Republicans over-reading Trump's victory in the same way. That turns out to be a problem for a LOT of rich and powerful people who made a very large bet on the theory that MAGA had won the culture war. www.offmessage.net/p/trump-has-...
Trump Has Lost The Culture
And his greediest collaborators are awakening to the fact that they made a terrible bet.
www.offmessage.net
February 10, 2026 at 5:13 PM
The political dynamics of 2025 were shaped by Democrats and Republicans over-reading Trump's victory in the same way. That turns out to be a problem for a LOT of rich and powerful people who made a very large bet on the theory that MAGA had won the culture war. www.offmessage.net/p/trump-has-...
I will never forgive CJ Stroud.
a man with a mustache is laughing with his eyes closed .
ALT: a man with a mustache is laughing with his eyes closed .
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February 9, 2026 at 2:27 AM
I will never forgive CJ Stroud.
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Matt Yglesias thinks the half-time show should have been about grocery prices.
February 9, 2026 at 1:47 AM
Matt Yglesias thinks the half-time show should have been about grocery prices.
Out of all the directions this Gronk Horse ad could have gone…
February 9, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Out of all the directions this Gronk Horse ad could have gone…
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heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show
February 9, 2026 at 1:34 AM
heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show
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Only one who got the ball into the end zone was Bad Bunny
February 9, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Only one who got the ball into the end zone was Bad Bunny
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The think pieces write themselves. My contribution: this is fucking beautiful, and we should keep fighting for more of this! Everywhere.
February 9, 2026 at 1:30 AM
The think pieces write themselves. My contribution: this is fucking beautiful, and we should keep fighting for more of this! Everywhere.
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Dump Truck, by Mikhail Evdokimovich Tkachev, 1956
February 9, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Dump Truck, by Mikhail Evdokimovich Tkachev, 1956
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Kid Rock has not even started playing yet, btw
February 9, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Kid Rock has not even started playing yet, btw
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Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
AEW is not WWE and people should not in any way equate their fanbases. If you watch AEW they’ve always been inclusive and signaled some leftist ideas. Fans chanting “fuck ice” is like the most natural thing that could happen on the show.
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In Search of Left Wrestling
Pro wrestling is often associated with the Right, but a new character has become popular for championing solidarity and workers’ rights, reflecting the growing economic precarity of its fanbase.
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February 5, 2026 at 4:43 AM
AEW is not WWE and people should not in any way equate their fanbases. If you watch AEW they’ve always been inclusive and signaled some leftist ideas. Fans chanting “fuck ice” is like the most natural thing that could happen on the show.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/in-s...
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AEW & its fanbase is, at its core, anti-fascist. ❤️✊
We've been going to bat for human rights and dignity from the very beginning, with many of us joining in at protests against ICE, at NO KINGS, and raising nearly $100K with Brody King for families affected by ICE
Fuck Fascism
Fuck Nazis
Fuck ICE
We've been going to bat for human rights and dignity from the very beginning, with many of us joining in at protests against ICE, at NO KINGS, and raising nearly $100K with Brody King for families affected by ICE
Fuck Fascism
Fuck Nazis
Fuck ICE
February 5, 2026 at 4:11 AM
AEW & its fanbase is, at its core, anti-fascist. ❤️✊
We've been going to bat for human rights and dignity from the very beginning, with many of us joining in at protests against ICE, at NO KINGS, and raising nearly $100K with Brody King for families affected by ICE
Fuck Fascism
Fuck Nazis
Fuck ICE
We've been going to bat for human rights and dignity from the very beginning, with many of us joining in at protests against ICE, at NO KINGS, and raising nearly $100K with Brody King for families affected by ICE
Fuck Fascism
Fuck Nazis
Fuck ICE
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If I know anything about the AEW sickos, every arena will be chanting that whenever Brody is out there.
February 5, 2026 at 4:10 AM
If I know anything about the AEW sickos, every arena will be chanting that whenever Brody is out there.
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Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event
February 5, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event
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anyone who defends this as a business decision is simply lying
Bezos personally made the decision to kill the paper's endorsement before the election, Bezos chose to gut the opinion section, he's the one who told the paper's audience they should leave
so they did, and now he burns down what's left
Bezos personally made the decision to kill the paper's endorsement before the election, Bezos chose to gut the opinion section, he's the one who told the paper's audience they should leave
so they did, and now he burns down what's left
February 4, 2026 at 4:00 PM
anyone who defends this as a business decision is simply lying
Bezos personally made the decision to kill the paper's endorsement before the election, Bezos chose to gut the opinion section, he's the one who told the paper's audience they should leave
so they did, and now he burns down what's left
Bezos personally made the decision to kill the paper's endorsement before the election, Bezos chose to gut the opinion section, he's the one who told the paper's audience they should leave
so they did, and now he burns down what's left
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Bezos could cover the WaPo current annual loses each year with just a portion of the interest earned on just his liquid assets. Destroying the paper is a choice not a financial necessity.
News: The Washington Post is preparing to slash upwards of 300 staffers, incl sports, metro and foreign desks @nataliekorach.bsky.social reports.
“The newsroom is being punished for absolute incompetence from the owner and publisher,” one staffer told @status.news
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“The newsroom is being punished for absolute incompetence from the owner and publisher,” one staffer told @status.news
www.status.news/p/washington...
Post Parting Depression
Looming cuts at The Washington Post threaten to decimate key coverage areas as staffers question the motives and commitment of billionaire owner Jeff Bezos.
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January 26, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Bezos could cover the WaPo current annual loses each year with just a portion of the interest earned on just his liquid assets. Destroying the paper is a choice not a financial necessity.
The Washington Post has a news guild and I think it’s time their guild leadership did something other than a feckless individualist job begging campaign on Twitter that was clearly never going to work. If they’d like to be reminded of what labor unions are capable of doing I’m happy to chat.
February 4, 2026 at 3:36 PM
The Washington Post has a news guild and I think it’s time their guild leadership did something other than a feckless individualist job begging campaign on Twitter that was clearly never going to work. If they’d like to be reminded of what labor unions are capable of doing I’m happy to chat.
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The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
January 30, 2026 at 4:44 PM
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.