Freya Thimsen

Writing and teaching about political rhetoric and media.

[Freya Thimsen @FreyaThimsen]

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[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: President Trump paid no federal income taxes in 10 of the past 15 years, according to a report in The New York Times. https://t.co/aVqWBRXs6o

[Freya Thimsen @FreyaThimsen]

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[Anjali Vats @raceip]

Here's a list of documents from the NCA/RSA Distinguished Scholars/RPA controversy. They are all publicly available primary and secondary sources. I'll keep posting these as they arrive. #communicationsowhite #teamrhetoric #race #whiteness

[Anjali Vats @raceip]

25% of the editorial board of Rhetoric & Public Affairs has resigned. #TeamRhetoric #CommunicationSoWhite

[Mohan J Dutta @mjdutt]

Open letter to the Discipline. Sign if you want to be on the right side of history. Dismantle Whiteness. Dismantle racism. #CommunicationSoWhite

[Mohan J Dutta @mjdutt]

#Whiteness #academicmerit Here's my blogpost on racist structures of our organization and White mediocrity. https://t.co/hJ8aqVI23n

[Claire Sisco King @cnsiscoking]

As an editor of a journal in the field of communication studies, I want to say I believe that diversity and merit are coextensive with one another. I welcome submissions from voices not often heard in other journals, including (if not especially) ones that take our field to task.

[National Communication Association @NatComm]

In response to numerous inquiries, NCA has created a webpage that includes key documents related to the change in process for selecting NCA Distinguished Scholars, as well as responses to this change. Click here to access the page. https://t.co/O2irULmipD

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

A few classics:
- Hope in the Dark, Solnit
- Why We Can’t Wait, MLK
- The Search for Common Ground, Thurman
- Team of Rivals, Goodwin
- Col Poems,Audre Lorde
- Bhagavad Gita
- Capital, Piketty
- 100 Years of Solitude, García Márquez
- Infinite Jest / Consider the Lobster, Wallace

[Freya Thimsen @FreyaThimsen]

Finally starting to see some direct responses to the current political moment from critical scholars. #happyholidays2018

[Freya Thimsen @FreyaThimsen]

The Lessons of Community Rights Ordinances for Democratic Philosophizing. Philosophizing. Philosophizing. Just kidding, the real title only has one. Philosophizing.

[Sara VanderHaagen @SVanderHaagen]

Worst Trump interruption yet, and so telling: "Such a nasty woman."

[Dr. Karen Kelsky 🏳️‍🌈 Pro-Palestine Anti-Z ✡️ @ProfessorIsIn]

"Such a nasty woman"

[Freya Thimsen @FreyaThimsen]

#cpaiub https://t.co/8yv4HH9nBG

[Onion Politics @OnionPolitics]

Trump: ‘I Eliminated Osama Bin Laden From Season 6 Of Celebrity Apprentice’ #debatenight

[Freya Thimsen @FreyaThimsen]

Did the moderator just ask Donald Trump to talk over Hillary Clinton? #CPAIUB

[Freya Thimsen @FreyaThimsen]

Trump: I love women. I especially love talking about their emails. #CPAIUB

[Freya Thimsen @FreyaThimsen]

Only one of these candidates has shipped jobs to Mexico. Wait, let me guess: is it the bad hombre?? #badhombres #CPAIUB

[Freya Thimsen @FreyaThimsen]

Did Trump just say he was going to give us a New Deal? #CPAIUB

[Freya Thimsen @FreyaThimsen]

Trump: "We are going to speed up this process. Bigly." You can't make this stuff up. #CPAIUB