Scott Burnett
@burscott.bsky.social
Asst Prof of African Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State - PI of Sawyer Seminar “Birthing the Nation” - join us! https://sites.psu.edu/birthingthenation/
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Scott Burnett
@burscott.bsky.social
· Nov 19
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Excited to share that, with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social , we’ve published a new article in New Media & Society!
We examine how far-right actors on X (formerly Twitter) instrumentalize wellness culture to spread reactionary ideology.
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We examine how far-right actors on X (formerly Twitter) instrumentalize wellness culture to spread reactionary ideology.
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The wellness pipeline: Tracing far-right health narratives on X - Piotr Marczyński, Catherine Tebaldi, 2025
This article examines how far-right groups advance political agendas through digital platforms, specifically by embedding reactionary ideology within health and...
doi.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Excited to share that, with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social , we’ve published a new article in New Media & Society!
We examine how far-right actors on X (formerly Twitter) instrumentalize wellness culture to spread reactionary ideology.
Thread below 🧵
We examine how far-right actors on X (formerly Twitter) instrumentalize wellness culture to spread reactionary ideology.
Thread below 🧵
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
"South Africa in 1994 [was an] exclusive club, composed of only white people. Since 1994, the club has taken on new, black members. But it remains an exclusive club because many cannot gain admission – and most of the new members lack the same powers and privileges enjoyed by the old ones."
October 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
"South Africa in 1994 [was an] exclusive club, composed of only white people. Since 1994, the club has taken on new, black members. But it remains an exclusive club because many cannot gain admission – and most of the new members lack the same powers and privileges enjoyed by the old ones."
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He made a fool of himself just to be fired anyway. How many times are institutions going to do this?
Welp: Texas A&M President Mark Welch just stepped down after pressure from Republicans over a video of a professor who taught about transgender people in a children's literature class
September 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
He made a fool of himself just to be fired anyway. How many times are institutions going to do this?
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This, the fruit of a week’s abject institutional submission to horseshit hagiography, is about ten times the number of specific anecdotes of Republicans being purged from academia that TPUSA fans have ever mustered
NEW: I tracked three dozen teachers, professors and other school staff who've been forced from their job or stepped away due to their comments on Charlie Kirk and his killing
Republican lawmakers are increasingly getting involved, pushing for firings
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Republican lawmakers are increasingly getting involved, pushing for firings
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Teachers' punishment for social media posts on Charlie Kirk's death prompts free speech debate
More than three dozen professors, teachers and school staffers have left or been removed over allegations they made disparaging or mocking comments about Charlie Kirk.
www.nbcnews.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
This, the fruit of a week’s abject institutional submission to horseshit hagiography, is about ten times the number of specific anecdotes of Republicans being purged from academia that TPUSA fans have ever mustered
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CUNY friends, we're getting organized!
The CUNY Alliance for Defending Higher Education is organizing faculty & staff to stand up to attacks and advocate for a CUNY-wide defense compact
Follow us @cadhe.bsky.social and sign up on our website to support and stay informed!
cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu
The CUNY Alliance for Defending Higher Education is organizing faculty & staff to stand up to attacks and advocate for a CUNY-wide defense compact
Follow us @cadhe.bsky.social and sign up on our website to support and stay informed!
cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu
The CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education
cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu
September 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
CUNY friends, we're getting organized!
The CUNY Alliance for Defending Higher Education is organizing faculty & staff to stand up to attacks and advocate for a CUNY-wide defense compact
Follow us @cadhe.bsky.social and sign up on our website to support and stay informed!
cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu
The CUNY Alliance for Defending Higher Education is organizing faculty & staff to stand up to attacks and advocate for a CUNY-wide defense compact
Follow us @cadhe.bsky.social and sign up on our website to support and stay informed!
cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu
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The official version of the constitution on Congress.gov has removed Article I, Section 9 and 10 from the website which includes the writ of habeus corpus.
web.archive.org/web/diff/202...
web.archive.org/web/diff/202...
August 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The official version of the constitution on Congress.gov has removed Article I, Section 9 and 10 from the website which includes the writ of habeus corpus.
web.archive.org/web/diff/202...
web.archive.org/web/diff/202...
The brilliant Zukiswa Wanner is fundraising for a project that translates books written in African languages into English. The first book will be an isiZulu book; each one needs $5,000 to pay for the process. They've raised $1,300 and need your support! ko-fi.com/post/Announc...
Announcement: First Book
African Translation Project published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The brilliant Zukiswa Wanner is fundraising for a project that translates books written in African languages into English. The first book will be an isiZulu book; each one needs $5,000 to pay for the process. They've raised $1,300 and need your support! ko-fi.com/post/Announc...
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.001 milliseconds after it dawns on me that I’ve been ignoring/supporting a genocide: most important thing now is no scolding about this
July 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
.001 milliseconds after it dawns on me that I’ve been ignoring/supporting a genocide: most important thing now is no scolding about this
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Tom Lehrer - Send The Marines
June 11, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Tom Lehrer - Send The Marines
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Bari’s key insight as an entrepreneur is that there is a bottomless demand for rich people to have their existing opinions sold back to them as forbidden knowledge
FT Exclusive: Weiss has met with David Ellison, the incoming owner of CBS News, over a potential deal to sell her three-year-old media company, according to several people familiar with the matter. https://on.ft.com/4eZ6WbM
July 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Bari’s key insight as an entrepreneur is that there is a bottomless demand for rich people to have their existing opinions sold back to them as forbidden knowledge
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Support trans journalists, because ain't no way the cis corporate media are going to tell our stories.
The goal is to add $1000/month to our funding, to ensure Assigned Media remains healthy, and we're halfway there!
We're looking to add 30 new members over the coming week, along with extra gifts from existing members and new small donations.
Will you share this to help us find our people?
We're looking to add 30 new members over the coming week, along with extra gifts from existing members and new small donations.
Will you share this to help us find our people?
In order to meet the moment, we need your help. Our goal is to add an additional $1000/month to keep funding the increased pace of publication we've been maintaining since we got the news of Trump's re-election.
We're about halfway to that goal, so we need to keep pushing. Join us as a member!
We're about halfway to that goal, so we need to keep pushing. Join us as a member!
July 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Support trans journalists, because ain't no way the cis corporate media are going to tell our stories.
Philip K Dick knew a thing or two about the USA when he wrote Man in the High Castle…
The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage”
July 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Philip K Dick knew a thing or two about the USA when he wrote Man in the High Castle…
Huge LOL at this basket of deplorables arguing the Elgin marbles should stay put — a motley crew of cunty English lords and ladies plus Sargon of bloody Akkad 😂😂😂
that list of culture warrior signatories, and the text of that desperate "Great British PAC" letter to the British Museum, in full — what Christmas party that’s going to be 🧐😬
July 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Huge LOL at this basket of deplorables arguing the Elgin marbles should stay put — a motley crew of cunty English lords and ladies plus Sargon of bloody Akkad 😂😂😂
Elon put Grok on timeout 😆
After an hour-long blackout, Grok is functional on X again, although it appears to be limited to image generation replies
July 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Elon put Grok on timeout 😆
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"The fact that this story engendered all the conversation and debate that it has feels like all the evidence you need that this was a legit line of reporting” is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
People criticized your work, therefore it was good?
People criticized your work, therefore it was good?
This does not inspire much confidence in the NYT. www.semafor.com/article/07/0...
July 7, 2025 at 3:16 AM
"The fact that this story engendered all the conversation and debate that it has feels like all the evidence you need that this was a legit line of reporting” is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
People criticized your work, therefore it was good?
People criticized your work, therefore it was good?
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His name, @nytimes.com is Jordan Lasker, and you probably know him since he was at the Eugenics Conference you and every other mainstream outlet provided fawning coverage over
July 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
His name, @nytimes.com is Jordan Lasker, and you probably know him since he was at the Eugenics Conference you and every other mainstream outlet provided fawning coverage over
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Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language.
Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.
Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.
June 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language.
Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.
Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.
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anyone who's gonna go "it sucks but you gotta win over people first, slowly build the case for rights" for trans people should tell me, without looking it up, when they think interracial marriage reached majority approval in america
June 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
anyone who's gonna go "it sucks but you gotta win over people first, slowly build the case for rights" for trans people should tell me, without looking it up, when they think interracial marriage reached majority approval in america
Congratulations! This volume is eagerly awaited 😄
We did it! Just submitted the manuscript for the edited volume 'Trans Panic, Anti-Gender Mobilisations, and the Far Right', forthcoming with Routledge, ETA 2026. Edited by Iris B. Segers, @audreygagnon.bsky.social @drkondor.bsky.social @gretajasser.bsky.social and myself.
June 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Congratulations! This volume is eagerly awaited 😄
The Guardian, yet again, failing to understand the first thing about right-wing metapolitics
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say
Many who engage are ‘discriminating and value-driven’, with a minority consuming ‘extremely misogynistic content’, study for Ofcom suggests
www.theguardian.com
June 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The Guardian, yet again, failing to understand the first thing about right-wing metapolitics
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Pretty egregious error from this book: The authors say Swedish deaths fell by 2.3% during the pandemic, proving that the country's lax lockdown strategy worked.
But they misread their source: Mortality is only down if you remove the COVID deaths.
research.abo.fi/ws/portalfil...
But they misread their source: Mortality is only down if you remove the COVID deaths.
research.abo.fi/ws/portalfil...
June 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Pretty egregious error from this book: The authors say Swedish deaths fell by 2.3% during the pandemic, proving that the country's lax lockdown strategy worked.
But they misread their source: Mortality is only down if you remove the COVID deaths.
research.abo.fi/ws/portalfil...
But they misread their source: Mortality is only down if you remove the COVID deaths.
research.abo.fi/ws/portalfil...