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Comm Prof at The University of Puget Sound studying technology and relationships. www.pugetsound.edu/directory/nicholas-brody

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Trumpists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of Bush’s illegal invasion of Iraq, Dude, at least it had an ethos.

01.03.2026 21:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We live in a world in which its entirely possible that Iran negotiations failed because people involved bet the under.

01.03.2026 18:52 πŸ‘ 1790 πŸ” 472 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 15

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

openai.com/index/our-ag...

01.03.2026 05:20 πŸ‘ 2644 πŸ” 1165 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 73

This is a disappointing and feckless statement

01.03.2026 05:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Some snippets

13.02.2026 19:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

😬

13.02.2026 18:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

07.02.2026 16:49 πŸ‘ 6857 πŸ” 1952 πŸ’¬ 161 πŸ“Œ 120
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26.01.2026 02:57 πŸ‘ 199 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump β€” 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

24.01.2026 18:26 πŸ‘ 13221 πŸ” 5093 πŸ’¬ 224 πŸ“Œ 405

The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.

24.01.2026 19:09 πŸ‘ 16515 πŸ” 4776 πŸ’¬ 104 πŸ“Œ 69

This is murder.

24.01.2026 19:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them.

24.01.2026 17:13 πŸ‘ 11615 πŸ” 3381 πŸ’¬ 228 πŸ“Œ 107

Definitely the guy we should be trusting as the expert on child-rearing in the 21st century.

22.01.2026 01:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Attention graduate students! The 15th annual Communication & Technology / Mobile Doctoral Consortium is now accepting student proposals to participate at #ICA26 in Cape Town. Proposals are due 2 Feb. Please read the requirements closely. sites.google.com/view/2026ica...

20.01.2026 12:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

#Commsky Doctoral students! Consider applying for the Doctoral Consortium. Ideal timing is students at the proposal stage (does not need to be defended).

20.01.2026 21:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There's one foolproof way to gauge whether someone is a millennial or a zoomer: Ask them how they learned the difference between Iceland and Greenland.

If the answer is from D2: The Mighty Ducks, you're talking to a millennial. Otherwise, zoomer.

21.01.2026 20:37 πŸ‘ 1488 πŸ” 192 πŸ’¬ 145 πŸ“Œ 69

Really enjoyed this conversation with Nate about some issues that you might say are, uh, timely.

15.01.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Personal Relationships and Personal Networks The effort to understand personal relationships has traditionally focused on the individual characteristics of participants. Personal Relationships and Personal Networks takes this analysis a step fur...

Of course! Also your now-retired colleague wrote a book about it www.routledge.com/Personal-Rel...

15.01.2026 01:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Major in Comm.

12.01.2026 22:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
welp, maybe next year aggies

welp, maybe next year aggies

29.11.2025 04:16 πŸ‘ 141 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

16.11.2025 20:48 πŸ‘ 11483 πŸ” 2197 πŸ’¬ 167 πŸ“Œ 101
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If you're ever tempted to believe or cite Jonathan Haidt's moral panic crusade against social media, you should consider that he's now also part of Heritage's crusade to criminalize porn.

02.11.2025 17:00 πŸ‘ 450 πŸ” 134 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 14

Maybe legalizing gambling and then aggressively marketing it to every demographic possible, allowing them to buy sports networks, and putting it all on your phone was a bad idea I dunno

23.10.2025 12:41 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3
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Mark Zuckerberg thinks this is something people want.

25.09.2025 20:07 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Believing that em dashes reveal LLM usage just reveals that you don't read.

21.07.2025 18:25 πŸ‘ 167 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 2

Substack is aura farming?

21.07.2025 18:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit
In a court filing, the tax agency said a decades-old ban on campaigning by tax-exempt groups should not apply to houses of worship speaking to their own members.

I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit In a court filing, the tax agency said a decades-old ban on campaigning by tax-exempt groups should not apply to houses of worship speaking to their own members.

The double standard here is stunning. Universities are losing grants, student aid, and endowments for being "too woke." But churches (which also receive federal funds, eg, for school vouchers, food banks, and marriage promotion programs) are now allowed to openly endorse political candidates.

08.07.2025 12:53 πŸ‘ 556 πŸ” 213 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 37

Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal.

22.06.2025 02:47 πŸ‘ 49189 πŸ” 9189 πŸ’¬ 1983 πŸ“Œ 517