Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
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Assistant Professor at Syracuse. I study public relations, military esports, video games, and gender theory. Happily 🏳️🌈.
Assistant Professor at Syracuse. I study public relations, military esports, video games, and gender theory. Happily 🏳️🌈.
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New Research: Masculinity as an Affect, and What It Means for Video Games
I contributed a chapter in a new volume, The Handbook on Gender and Digital Media, about how we can start to use affect theory to better understand how men behave the way they do with video games. …
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Recently had a chapter published in the Handbook of Gender and Digital Media, where I develop a theory of “affective masculinity” to try to better understand what masculine genders are doing in video games. It tries to answer the question: what work do feelings do for men who play games? 1/9
Asking Josh Barro to defend Chuck Schumer is absolutely humiliating for both of them
Of course, the next morning, the #BrokenTimes editorial page would find someone to defend Chuck and the status quo.
Chuck Schumer Is a Convenient Punching Bag. There Was No Happy Outcome for the Shutdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
Chuck Schumer Is a Convenient Punching Bag. There Was No Happy Outcome for the Shutdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
Opinion | Chuck Schumer Is a Convenient Punching Bag. There Was No Happy Outcome for the Shutdown.
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Asking Josh Barro to defend Chuck Schumer is absolutely humiliating for both of them
A whole new body of scholarship is going to grow in relevance now
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
A whole new body of scholarship is going to grow in relevance now
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late to this but i feel like an underrated part of the musk meltdown over joyce carol oates accusing him of not reading is this musk reply that makes it clear he has never read anything by joyce carol oates
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
late to this but i feel like an underrated part of the musk meltdown over joyce carol oates accusing him of not reading is this musk reply that makes it clear he has never read anything by joyce carol oates
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QSRs reported earnings last week, including Cava and McDonald’s, while Chipotle reported the last week of October.
Taken together, they paint a portrait of a cash-strapped consumer, particularly on the lower end of the earnings spectrum, as job growth weakens.
www.cfobrew.com/stories/2025...
Taken together, they paint a portrait of a cash-strapped consumer, particularly on the lower end of the earnings spectrum, as job growth weakens.
www.cfobrew.com/stories/2025...
What burgers and burrito bowls tell us about the economy right now
McDonald’s, Cava, and Chipotle all reported earnings recently, and a similar story emerged.
www.cfobrew.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
QSRs reported earnings last week, including Cava and McDonald’s, while Chipotle reported the last week of October.
Taken together, they paint a portrait of a cash-strapped consumer, particularly on the lower end of the earnings spectrum, as job growth weakens.
www.cfobrew.com/stories/2025...
Taken together, they paint a portrait of a cash-strapped consumer, particularly on the lower end of the earnings spectrum, as job growth weakens.
www.cfobrew.com/stories/2025...
Every progressive organizer that inked a win this year is furious at Schumer’s coordinated betrayal and seems to be devoting energy now to primarying party elders.
Good. Clean house.
Good. Clean house.
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Every progressive organizer that inked a win this year is furious at Schumer’s coordinated betrayal and seems to be devoting energy now to primarying party elders.
Good. Clean house.
Good. Clean house.
This is the political equivalent of a health insurance executive refusing to cover a disease cure because treating it as a chronic condition that immiserates the patient is more profitable, which they do all the time and which is why everyone hates health insurance executives. Maybe a lesson there.
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This is the political equivalent of a health insurance executive refusing to cover a disease cure because treating it as a chronic condition that immiserates the patient is more profitable, which they do all the time and which is why everyone hates health insurance executives. Maybe a lesson there.
I think it’s neat that they did this right after the Senate Democrats caved on the shut down.
It’s always weird when these government officials do something that makes sense.
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FAA Limits Private Aircraft Flights at Major Airports
The restrictions will affect private jet flights at a dozen airports, including Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, and Chicago’s O’Hare, according to the National Business Aviation Association trade ...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I think it’s neat that they did this right after the Senate Democrats caved on the shut down.
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This is why Schumer caved.
People on SNAP are starving and people on ACA who cannot afford insurance will suffer and die but what keeps coming up on Morning Joe? Air travel. First-world problems always trump -- pun intended -- poor people's problems.
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This is why Schumer caved.
Normally we this much Gender happens on the right, but now there’s sissy shaming from the party liberals, too, who not only misstate the issue (CRs and reconciliation votes have different thresholds!), but are condemning us for ever expecting resistance from the “Trump will end democracy” party.
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Normally we this much Gender happens on the right, but now there’s sissy shaming from the party liberals, too, who not only misstate the issue (CRs and reconciliation votes have different thresholds!), but are condemning us for ever expecting resistance from the “Trump will end democracy” party.
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I don’t think this is chess. I think this is as straight forward as it looks.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I don’t think this is chess. I think this is as straight forward as it looks.
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The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
I’m still mad about this. We just voted six days ago to elect candidates who won primaries on the promise to fight. Immediately knocking out our knees while demanding we just do it again next year is insulting and demeaning. The whole party leadership has to go. They’re disasters. They failed.
Everyone responding to this with “vote harder” is missing the issue while making my point and it’s such an exhausting tedious ritual I really don’t want to participate. Either say something useful or leave me alone in peace.
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I’m still mad about this. We just voted six days ago to elect candidates who won primaries on the promise to fight. Immediately knocking out our knees while demanding we just do it again next year is insulting and demeaning. The whole party leadership has to go. They’re disasters. They failed.
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They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
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If the rest don’t oust Schumer immediately, then the entire U.S. Senate sold us out. They think we’re stupid. It’s insulting.
These 8 Senators sold us out to Trump:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yes—they agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yes—they agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 AM
If the rest don’t oust Schumer immediately, then the entire U.S. Senate sold us out. They think we’re stupid. It’s insulting.
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Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
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Members fly and the donors and people close to them fly a LOT. My first thought when I’d heard they were caving
not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
November 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Members fly and the donors and people close to them fly a LOT. My first thought when I’d heard they were caving
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
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the minute flights got canceled, Dems folded like a house of cards, leaving me to wonder why the fuck this post made some of you so angry
not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
the minute flights got canceled, Dems folded like a house of cards, leaving me to wonder why the fuck this post made some of you so angry
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We lose, they surrender.
We win, they surrender.
Why bother showing in 2026?
Seriously. Why bother?
We win, they surrender.
Why bother showing in 2026?
Seriously. Why bother?
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
We lose, they surrender.
We win, they surrender.
Why bother showing in 2026?
Seriously. Why bother?
We win, they surrender.
Why bother showing in 2026?
Seriously. Why bother?
I just watched Schumer’s video statement and… I don’t think this is limited to Trumpers, but the key wrinkle is that Senate Democrats are bad at posting. Schumer is in so far over his head he probably forgot that he’s drowning and we can all see it. Self-important, impotent, and embarrassing.
Endlessly fascinating, in a morbid way, how they really can’t tell the difference between governance and content, between governing and posting. The two are interchangeable to this administration.
menswear writer here 👋 camo will not hide you inside a gym
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I just watched Schumer’s video statement and… I don’t think this is limited to Trumpers, but the key wrinkle is that Senate Democrats are bad at posting. Schumer is in so far over his head he probably forgot that he’s drowning and we can all see it. Self-important, impotent, and embarrassing.
Endlessly fascinating, in a morbid way, how they really can’t tell the difference between governance and content, between governing and posting. The two are interchangeable to this administration.
November 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Endlessly fascinating, in a morbid way, how they really can’t tell the difference between governance and content, between governing and posting. The two are interchangeable to this administration.
We lose, they surrender.
We win, they surrender.
Why bother showing in 2026?
Seriously. Why bother?
We win, they surrender.
Why bother showing in 2026?
Seriously. Why bother?
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
We lose, they surrender.
We win, they surrender.
Why bother showing in 2026?
Seriously. Why bother?
We win, they surrender.
Why bother showing in 2026?
Seriously. Why bother?
“Only when you stand a little closer… do you notice the fact which then becomes blinding and finally crazymaking, which is just that there is zero… stress put on the relation between those two ‘sides,’ or their histories, or their sponsors, or their relative evidentiary authority, or any of it.”
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
“Only when you stand a little closer… do you notice the fact which then becomes blinding and finally crazymaking, which is just that there is zero… stress put on the relation between those two ‘sides,’ or their histories, or their sponsors, or their relative evidentiary authority, or any of it.”
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It is, and what goes unsaid is that the piece in question a) opened with one of the most blatantly racist ledes I’ve read in years* and b) was by Jeremy Peters, who for the last decade has functioned as effectively a Heritage Foundation-type operative inside the Times newsroom
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
It is, and what goes unsaid is that the piece in question a) opened with one of the most blatantly racist ledes I’ve read in years* and b) was by Jeremy Peters, who for the last decade has functioned as effectively a Heritage Foundation-type operative inside the Times newsroom