Matthew Schneider-Mayerson
@schneidermayers.bsky.social
Professor at Rice University. Climate media, environmental literature, eco-reproductive concerns, cats, basketball. http://bit.ly/profmsm
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Between banning books, non-white people, genders, immigrants, comedians, journalism…
And then pushing AI which just regurgitates new ideas…
America is headed into a deep cultural recession. This place is bleak and getting increasingly boring.
And then pushing AI which just regurgitates new ideas…
America is headed into a deep cultural recession. This place is bleak and getting increasingly boring.
October 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Between banning books, non-white people, genders, immigrants, comedians, journalism…
And then pushing AI which just regurgitates new ideas…
America is headed into a deep cultural recession. This place is bleak and getting increasingly boring.
And then pushing AI which just regurgitates new ideas…
America is headed into a deep cultural recession. This place is bleak and getting increasingly boring.
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Said it before, will probably die saying it, we are never going to solve the climate disinfo problem if we don't fix media. As @maxboykoff.bsky.social notes here, the public by and large learns about climate change via the media, so if the media trades in false equivalence, it's damaging!
Today, a look at the role the media has played in climate obstruction, with @maxboykoff.bsky.social and Melissa Aronczyk: drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
S14, Ep4 | The Media As a Tool of Climate Obstruction
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
drilled.media
October 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Said it before, will probably die saying it, we are never going to solve the climate disinfo problem if we don't fix media. As @maxboykoff.bsky.social notes here, the public by and large learns about climate change via the media, so if the media trades in false equivalence, it's damaging!
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Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
September 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
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Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok.
They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.
They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.
“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.
They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.
They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.
“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.
September 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok.
They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.
They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.
“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.
They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.
They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.
“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.
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If you wrote a "Trump distances himself from project 2025" story in 2024 you are either a dupe or one of our enemies. They are cackling with laughter that the media they're now destroying enthusiastically helped them dupe the voters
September 19, 2025 at 3:10 AM
If you wrote a "Trump distances himself from project 2025" story in 2024 you are either a dupe or one of our enemies. They are cackling with laughter that the media they're now destroying enthusiastically helped them dupe the voters
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We are hiring - come work with us! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
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Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Social Sciences (Environmental Behavioral Sciences)
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August 29, 2025 at 9:27 PM
We are hiring - come work with us! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!
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My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
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August 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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We have had stable, professional, vouchsafed information about the physical & economic world for so long that we entirely take it for granted. It's going to be truly wild to operate in a world where quite literally no one knows for sure what is happening, where there is no fact of the matter.
August 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
We have had stable, professional, vouchsafed information about the physical & economic world for so long that we entirely take it for granted. It's going to be truly wild to operate in a world where quite literally no one knows for sure what is happening, where there is no fact of the matter.
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Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor statisti s. This is the end of being able to trust the data from the federal government on employment, GDP, or any other critical information. They will only want to produce information that pleases Trump, not the truth. This is how you get a failed state.
August 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor statisti s. This is the end of being able to trust the data from the federal government on employment, GDP, or any other critical information. They will only want to produce information that pleases Trump, not the truth. This is how you get a failed state.
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Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ.
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ.
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
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i’m finding it requires more and more cognitive dissonance to enjoy indulgences as the fascism becomes increasingly omnipresent and suffocating
July 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
i’m finding it requires more and more cognitive dissonance to enjoy indulgences as the fascism becomes increasingly omnipresent and suffocating
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We are seven months in, and the speed with which vital civic institutions are capitulating to authoritarian demands we once would have regarded as inconceivable in an established liberal democracy is jawdropping. I hadn't thought I was polyannaish about America, but it's really stunning.
July 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
We are seven months in, and the speed with which vital civic institutions are capitulating to authoritarian demands we once would have regarded as inconceivable in an established liberal democracy is jawdropping. I hadn't thought I was polyannaish about America, but it's really stunning.
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The problem with saying “history will remember” is that we are deciding right now whether there will be people in the future
We are also deciding right now whether to train people to be historians
Also, once it’s history, it’s too late
We are also deciding right now whether to train people to be historians
Also, once it’s history, it’s too late
July 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The problem with saying “history will remember” is that we are deciding right now whether there will be people in the future
We are also deciding right now whether to train people to be historians
Also, once it’s history, it’s too late
We are also deciding right now whether to train people to be historians
Also, once it’s history, it’s too late
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feel like this goes beyond politics and into tech and maybe culture. there's a kind of future blindness it feels like. a focus on both tearing down structural things/institutions and replacing them with nothing. or building things that disrupt institutions/infrastructure w/ little thought to future
This is, to me, the defining dyamic of everything the last six months. Any game theory notion of deterrence or the shoe being on the other foot ever is entirely gone. Either 1) They don't think they'll ever lose power again or 2) they're confident Democrats won't ever do the same things back to them
Budget agreements won’t matter, funding obligations won’t matter, expended funds on the basis of promised reimbursement won’t matter.
You really don’t get the impression the GOP is thinking through what this means for the second they’re not in control.
You really don’t get the impression the GOP is thinking through what this means for the second they’re not in control.
July 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
feel like this goes beyond politics and into tech and maybe culture. there's a kind of future blindness it feels like. a focus on both tearing down structural things/institutions and replacing them with nothing. or building things that disrupt institutions/infrastructure w/ little thought to future
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the TX GOP is redrawing the congressional map so houston voters won't be able to elect democrats to represent them
houston: you can speak at the public hearing saturday 7/26 at 11am
University of Houston Main Campus
4455 University Drive
Student Center, Houston Room (Room 220)
houston: you can speak at the public hearing saturday 7/26 at 11am
University of Houston Main Campus
4455 University Drive
Student Center, Houston Room (Room 220)
July 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
the TX GOP is redrawing the congressional map so houston voters won't be able to elect democrats to represent them
houston: you can speak at the public hearing saturday 7/26 at 11am
University of Houston Main Campus
4455 University Drive
Student Center, Houston Room (Room 220)
houston: you can speak at the public hearing saturday 7/26 at 11am
University of Houston Main Campus
4455 University Drive
Student Center, Houston Room (Room 220)
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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Climate media coverage is falling off a cliff, just as the crisis accelerates.
And that’s not just bad for business, it’s dangerous for democracy. Let’s talk. 👇 1/7
And that’s not just bad for business, it’s dangerous for democracy. Let’s talk. 👇 1/7
July 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Climate media coverage is falling off a cliff, just as the crisis accelerates.
And that’s not just bad for business, it’s dangerous for democracy. Let’s talk. 👇 1/7
And that’s not just bad for business, it’s dangerous for democracy. Let’s talk. 👇 1/7
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I wrote today about why we should shudder about ICE and CBP adding 19,000 new agents and officers — because we should terrified of WHO would want to join CBP and ICE amid politicized authoritarian images like this: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/four-fears...
July 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I wrote today about why we should shudder about ICE and CBP adding 19,000 new agents and officers — because we should terrified of WHO would want to join CBP and ICE amid politicized authoritarian images like this: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/four-fears...
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The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
June 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
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Feels like the so-painfully-obvious-that-nobody-is-saying-it lesson from the night is that short-form video is now one of the chief mediums of American politics — and is arguably now just as important as TV for some electorates. Short-form video is where persuasion and name ID happen now.
June 25, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Feels like the so-painfully-obvious-that-nobody-is-saying-it lesson from the night is that short-form video is now one of the chief mediums of American politics — and is arguably now just as important as TV for some electorates. Short-form video is where persuasion and name ID happen now.
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This is oligarchy. This is obscene.
While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%.
End this oligarchy.
While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%.
End this oligarchy.
June 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This is oligarchy. This is obscene.
While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%.
End this oligarchy.
While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%.
End this oligarchy.
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The bees from My Girl have endorsed Cuomo
June 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The bees from My Girl have endorsed Cuomo