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George Wallace created the idea of the "liberal media," according to this academic paper. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
Resentful white Southerners who hated segregation developed this idea in the civil rights era, which has led to the current broken record of "fake news" from the entire right wing.
Among Wallace's heirs:
dammit, i meant to write "hated desegregation," but y'all know that.
Very informative article on the anti-Semitism behind attacks on "liberal media" (thx @PaulBlu for sharing) washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-h…
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Florida judge says Rick Scott's legal team presented NO evidence of malfeasance or corruption in the Florida ballot count.

They went to court with zero evidence of what they're publicly alleging to the media & all over social media.
Amazing: Rick Scott's team's argument is that "the public has lost confidence" in the process.

Scott & other Republicans have been making evidence-free claims about Dems trying to steal the election **w/ obvious purpose of diminishing public confidence**
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The day after the election, not a single caravan mention on Fox News' front page. You have to scroll WAY down to mind the only mention: in the World section.
At the white supremacist Breitbart, NOT ONE story on the caravan.
Gateway Pundit? NOTHING on the caravan. Compare today (L) with a site search of "caravan" (R) which includes one from yesterday.
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So it appears that Manafort's associate illegally used a "straw purchaser" to buy $50k worth of Trump inauguration tickets for at least 2, probably 3, pro-Russia Ukrainians.
ok, so one Russian in fact.
And note this, uh, fairly large sum of mystery money.
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Okay, let's try this, quick, dirty, and rough, Twitter style. I haven't worked on this at all, so I have no idea how it will go.

On @joerogan's podcast with @peterboghossian, I mentioned that a burger place near Santa Monica Pier could be the seed for a grievance studies paper.
1) Pick a trite topic.
The burger place in Santa Monica claimed on its menu that it's the burger that made Santa Monica famous. This should be more than enough to use as a seed to write a paper problematizing some kind of food colonialism (no doubt, this topic already exists).
So my trite topic would be that eateries exploit cultural foodways (how we interact with food), usually featuring very masculinist fare like burgers, to legitimize the colonization of pristine, indigenous, or otherwise uncolonized regions, and this is problematic.
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In preparation for submitting my Soc of Anti-Muslim Racism syllabus soon: an incomplete thread on relevant scholarship (adding to it today/tomorrow!). Jump in if you have the time & energy!
An important precedent for this effort is #IslamophobiaIsRacismSyllabus
islamophobiaisracism.wordpress.com + #BlackIslamSyllabus
Do Muslim Women Need Saving, Lila Abu Lughod hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is… & the original article org.uib.no/smi/seminars/P…
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2017 update to our normalized US tornado losses based on our 2013 paper: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
✅Past 5 yrs have 2nd lowest normalized tornado damage of any 5-yr period since 1950 (➡️1997 #1)
✅2016 had least
✅2015 2nd least
✅2017 3rd least
✅2018 near record-low tornadoes
Normalized US tornado damage to 2017 ($) values:
➡️Average annual damage
✅1950-1983 (34 yr) = $7.6 billion (median= $5,5B)
✅1984-2017 (34 yr) = $3.9 billion (median= $2.9B)
There are legitimate debates about tornado incidence, but clearly recent years have seen depressed levels of tornado incidence, accounting for the depressed levels of observed damage ➡️
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and if only someone had written about how the progress paradigm also includes fear about "decay" or "backsliding" as its opposite
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he is shocked, shocked. how could he have possibly known about resegregating schools (@nhannahjones) or stagnating wage gaps before now. it looks like David Brooks is about to change sides, right? OMG structural racism is real!
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So, this morning @BarbicanCentre @Create_London & @artsemergency launch a report bringing together academic work on specific aspects of inequality in cultural jobs barbican.org.uk/whats-on/event… & createlondon.org/event/panic201… The news is not good
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