A.J. Bauer

In case you missed this Friday!

Perfect for all you methodmaxxers out there...

Join the IPK and the Global New Right Working Group on March 11 for an event with @ajbauer.bsky.social. He will discuss his new book Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press, with Paula Chakravartty and @reecepeck.bsky.social.

ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...

A list of dates, with a photo of Steven GREECE National and Kapodistrian University of Athens "Race, Sex Work and the End of USAID" March 10 UNITED KINGDOM Cambridge Union Presdential Debate “The Right Wing is Today’s Biggest Threat to Free Expression” March 19 UNITED STATES Chicago Temple-First United Methodist Church “Food, Water and a Path to Travel” March 29 Pitzer College, Claremont, California Glass Annual Lecture in the Humanties, “Your ‘Right to Die’ v. Your ‘Right to Live’: Necropolitics and Liberal Governance” April 21 University of California, Los Angeles “The Overseer Class” (with Robyn D.G. Kelley) April 23 University of California, Santa Barbara “Theorizing an Overseer Class” April 27 “The US Global Assault on HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ Labor” April 28 University of California, Irvine “Covid, Mpox, Measles and The Viral Underclass” April 30 “May Day! The US Assault on LGBTQ Labor and HIV/AIDS” May 1

Prior to the release of The Overseer Class on May 19, I'm going on a three country pre-publication speaking tour. I'll be testing ideas from current research & the book. If you're in Cambridge, Athens, Chicago or the LA area on these dates, come say hi! (Yes, there will be more dates after Pub Day)

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

This Wednesday! See you soon NYC.

The Iranian Red Crescent has sent a request to the International Criminal Court calling for a criminal investigation based on the US/Israel's systematic attacks against civilians and civilian objects including:

6,668 civilian structures
5,535 homes
14 hospitals
65 schools

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

A tube of Colgate sparkling white toothpaste found on blacktop asphalt, criss crossed black wires nearby

Good luck.

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Heartbreaking and enraging.

That’s a war crime.

Hey, it's just an "idea" lol

They blew up an elementary school Tom
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

🎶I KNOW, I KNOW IT’S SEE-RI-OUS🎶

And I thought that I had too much caffeine in MY bloodstream and a lack of real spice in MY life!

OMG

Entirely possible that they don't lol

😘😘😘😘

Twitter post by DeepWebSlinger, including images comparing Rush Limbaugh and Jim Morrison. Text: Once see it, you can't unsee it... Who really was Rush Limbaugh? Rush Limbaugh suddenly gained significant attention in 1984 as a talk radio host on KFBK in Sacramento, California. Jim Morrison, the iconic lead singer of The Doors, supposedly died in Paris on July 3, 1971, at age 27, with the official cause listed as heart failure, his body supposedly discovered in a bathtub. No autopsy was performed, fueling all kinds speculation. Witness Protection ?? You tell me...

Get in loser we're Doorsvestigating Rush Limbaugh...

get up babe we’re doing march 2026 visual metaphors

Empty city street with houses and apartment building in the background. Pothole in the road filled with pink flower petals

Pothole full of petals

Thanks so much, Victor! I couldn’t have written it without your pathbreaking work.

Holding a copy of AJ Bauer’s new book, “making the liberal media”.

I have been digging into @ajbauer.bsky.social ‘s excellent and timely new book – I highly recommend it!

My contribution draws from ethnographic fieldwork on the Tea party movement I conducted in the summer of 2010.

I think about the limitations of participant observation and interview-based methods but also the strengths of reading with an "ethnographic eye."

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Trump: [Attacks Iran without justification]

New York Times: “This feels a little woke.”

Also “humanitarians” is the most insane euphemism for “neoconservatives.”

IDEAS How Good Intentions Helped Pave Trump’s Road to Iran Humanitarians proposed a loophole in international law. Decades later, Trump is jumping through it.

Few believe that Mr. Trump is driven by a concern for human rights. He has also made clear his lack of interest in international law. And the war has already been catastrophic for many Iranian civilians, including dozens killed at an elementary school in an apparent U.S. missile strike on a nearby naval base. Yet the invocation of humanitarianism to help justify the war taps into — whether the president intends it or not — a powerful argument that has reshaped the global order since the end of the Cold War.

“Few believe that Mr. Trump is driven by a concern for human rights.”

Then why write a whole story blaming “humanitarians” for his war?

Also the Democratic Party oversaw a Palestine Scare during the Biden years that gets glossed over when we focus on ghouls like Loomer etc.

Or, as often, "people who think they are leftists/liberals but aren't really."

This piece is actually good. Still, I thinking focusing on the "fringe" right-wingers who celebrate McCarthy creates space for more "reasonable" forms of anti-communism (which The Atlantic largely champions).

I have a book chapter coming out later this year that teases this out more...