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ndrossi13.bsky.social
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Latinx and Media Studies Faculty in Chi
Currently researching Latinx Race & Ethnicity in relation to digital DNA
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emilyyoshida.bsky.social
The blast radius of how much this is going to suck is going to be huge. Best practice for creatives in Hollywood, for crude self interested reasons alone, is to stay as far away from whatever the fuck is going on at Paramount as possible
originalsp.in Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · Oct 23
David and Larry Ellisons’ sloptastic vision for Hollywood is coming into focus:

“Paramount has reportedly signed a $200M+ multiyear deal for Higgsfield AI to use mass-use Popcorn AI model that ingests dailies and script notes, then outputs regional cuts: new leads, alternate jokes, revised endings”
October 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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zackbeauchamp.bsky.social
I saw, during my reporting in Hungary, how much putting friendly oligarchs in charge of the media matters in authoritarian consolidation.

That's starting to happen in the United States. www.vox.com/politics/462...
September 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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fritamoreno.bsky.social
Hey all, apparently many book preorders have the effect of extending the life of the book, so here is where to preorder mine, with a 30% discount when you order it through the U of Minnesota Press website using the discount code: MN93640 @uminnpress.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791990...
July 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
ndrossi13.bsky.social
I wrote about the onslaught of streaming shows with male celeb hosts traveling the world in the name of "sustainability," and how they promote extractive practices in Central America. Part of an awesome issue of Environmental Communication on Green Storytelling www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NKRYK...
Down to Extract with Zac Efron and Ewan McGregor: How Streaming Travel Docuseries and Sustainability Discourses Map Racial Geographies in Central America
This article examines the growing number of streaming travel documentary programs. Often anchored by white male Hollywood actors, I interrogate how these series represent the Global South and Centr...
www.tandfonline.com
August 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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cmonstah.bsky.social
On the left:
Trump's immigrant concentration camp in the Everglades

On the right:
A camp built for high level political prisoners by the Chilean military during the early Pinochet regime — located on Isla Dawson, near Tierra del Fuego.
An distant overhead view shows a camp with large white barracks tucked amid grass and vegetation in Florida. A vintage black and white image shows rows of barracks in an austere landscape in far southern Chile.
July 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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aoc.bsky.social
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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miriamposner.com
This is how you get a police state.
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jun 30
Huge increases in ICE spending provides the fuel for Trump to fulfill his promise to go after cities run by Democrats, to do what he has done to LA, with less need to rely on the military. The new funding allows Trump to create a Department of Domestic Military Enforcement.
Trump wants to direct an extraordinary amount of new money for ICE. The spending is so large that it defies easy understanding. For example, ICE will receive a 365% increase in detention, spending $45 billion. For context, the current budget for the federal Bureau of Prisons is just over $8.3 billion. The ICE detention budget is larger than the total budget for USAID used to be. The ICE detention budget increase is larger than cuts in education, or for SNAP in the BBB. It is larger than cuts to NIH, CDC and cancer research combined.
July 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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jamellebouie.net
the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does
June 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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ndrossi13.bsky.social
I wrote about HBO's Looking, Omar Apollo and the instability of Latinx Brownness for Aztlán (all inspired by Apollo's TinyDesk concert) Check out both!
online.ucpress.edu/aztlan/artic...
“Burn that Bridge”Queer Brown Heartbreak in HBO’s Looking and the Music of Omar Apollo
In this essay, I identify the contemporary trope of the sad, young gay man of color and examine the varying ways heartbreak manifests itself in the lives of queer Brown Latinx men through analysis of ...
online.ucpress.edu
June 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
ndrossi13.bsky.social
I wrote about HBO's Looking, Omar Apollo and the instability of Latinx Brownness for Aztlán (all inspired by Apollo's TinyDesk concert) Check out both!
online.ucpress.edu/aztlan/artic...
“Burn that Bridge”Queer Brown Heartbreak in HBO’s Looking and the Music of Omar Apollo
In this essay, I identify the contemporary trope of the sad, young gay man of color and examine the varying ways heartbreak manifests itself in the lives of queer Brown Latinx men through analysis of ...
online.ucpress.edu
June 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
I'm repeatedly struck that all the scenarios the critical data studies / algorithmic bias / smart cities scholars warned us about over the past 10-15 years are now manifesting simultaneously
ICE Moves to DNA-Test Families Targeted for Deportation with New Contract
Advocates worry the tests will pave the way for the Trump administration to separate children from their caregivers.
www.bloomberg.com
June 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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jamellebouie.net
something to be said about how these people view americans as inputs to be used up by capital
May 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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nitishpahwa.com
feels like the next big societal divide, far beyond any mere generational or ideological gaps, will emerge between those who do their best to hold onto real and tangible creations and skills, and those who outsource all facets of everyday life to middling bots
May 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
ndrossi13.bsky.social
Intrigued that they are making a film about El Mozote...but the cast is not inspiring confidence deadline.com/2025/04/fire...
‘Fireflies At El Mozote:’ Salvadoran Civil War Drama Starring Paz Vega Lands North American Distribution Deal
The film was written and directed by Ernesto Melara.
deadline.com
April 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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ndrossi13.bsky.social
Published in a new journal, Communication and Race, which has one of the most amazing editorial boards I've seen, so many scholars whose work has shaped my own. I examine Latinx DNA Reaction videos and how they trouble the principle of mestizaje.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FG6MQ...
“Am I White?”: Race, Ethnicity, and Emotion in Latinx DNA Reaction Videos on YouTube
In this article, I analyze a set of videos published by Latinx YouTube channel Pero Like, entitled “Latinos get their DNA tested.” The videos, uploaded between 2016 and 2022, each feature 5 Latinx ...
www.tandfonline.com
April 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
ndrossi13.bsky.social
Published in a new journal, Communication and Race, which has one of the most amazing editorial boards I've seen, so many scholars whose work has shaped my own. I examine Latinx DNA Reaction videos and how they trouble the principle of mestizaje.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FG6MQ...
“Am I White?”: Race, Ethnicity, and Emotion in Latinx DNA Reaction Videos on YouTube
In this article, I analyze a set of videos published by Latinx YouTube channel Pero Like, entitled “Latinos get their DNA tested.” The videos, uploaded between 2016 and 2022, each feature 5 Latinx ...
www.tandfonline.com
April 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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aurabogado.bsky.social
SCOTUS cited Reno v Flores, a case fired by four Salvadorian teenagers 40 years ago! Salvadorian people, including children, have fundamentally shaped the social, legal, and political contours of the U.S.

We hear *about* Salvis but don’t hear *from* Salvis. Again: diversify your go-to experts.
April 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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laprofelgp.bsky.social
Why do people keep thinking this man doesn’t mean his threats when he has delivered on each on of them? He’s telling you he’s turning the USA into a dictatorship. Believe him and act accordingly.
March 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
It’s patently false, but notice that “humans won’t be needed” to these people is identified as the desired future rather than the deeply dystopian vision that it actually is.
Bill Gates: Within 10 years, AI will replace many doctors and teachers—humans won't be needed ‘for most things'
Over the next decade, advances in artificial intelligence will mean that humans will no longer be needed "for most things" in the world, says Bill Gates.
www.nbcchicago.com
March 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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rubenwrites.bsky.social
For Slate, I wrote about the deportations to El Salvador and how Bukele is selling out the country

slate.com/news-and-pol...
Why El Salvador Is Doing Trump’s Dirty Work
Why is a foreign government incarcerating hundreds of immigrants on the United States’ behalf?
slate.com
March 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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jamellebouie.net
he thinks he’s king. he issues executive orders (royal decrees) and the entire society is expected to obey
March 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Clear-eyed, direct NYT op-ed by @jamellebouie.net using the kind of non-euphemistic language the headlines should embrace:
Together, Trump and Musk are trying to rewrite the rules of the American system. They are trying to instantiate an anti-constitutional theory of executive power that would make the president supreme over all other branches of government. They are doing so in service of a plutocratic agenda of austerity and the upward redistribution of wealth. And the longer Congress stands by, the more this is fixed in place. Again, if Musk had been elected to some office, this would still be one of the worst abuses of executive power in American history. No one in the executive branch has the legal authority to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations. No one has the legal authority to turn the Treasury payments system into a means of political retribution. No one has the authority to summarily dismiss civil servants without cause. No one has the authority to take down and scrub government websites of public data, itself paid for by American taxpayers. And no private citizen has the authority to access the sensitive data of American citizens for either information gathering or their own, unknown purposes. The thing, of course, is that Musk isn't elected. He is a private citizen. He was neither confirmed for a cabinet job nor formally appointed to a high-level position within the administration. He does not even have a presidential commission; he has been designated a "special government employee." Musk says that he is acting on the authority of the president of the United States. Even still, it is not as if the president nftha lInitad Ctatachne the authoritietn
February 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM