Joseph Beaudreau
Oregonian in Paris. PhD at Sorbonne Nouvelle - US Media, Fact Checking.
Neurodivergent
he/him
🐘:@JosephBeaudreau@scholar.social
- That Tom Llamas @nbcnews.com Trump interview was so shameful. Having the conversational filler of “yeah” as he impatiently waited to ask his never weak question. Trump gets to say lie after lie and Tom just says “yeah”. Is NBC just following CBS now?
- Reposted by Joseph BeaudreauICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
- I heard last night @emmavigeland.bsky.social on the @majorityreport.bsky.social ask if Pizzagate (and QAnon) was a MAGA psyop. An interesting thing to consider how post-2016 in reaction this taught liberals to feel like this type of stuff is too conspiratorial to consider
- Reposted by Joseph BeaudreauDefinitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
- Do criminal investigations into obvious corporate wrongdoing take too long ?
- TBD what will come of this intervention but it is encouraging to see that this obviously sketchy (even by tech oligarch standards) company is being investigated.
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- Reposted by Joseph BeaudreauI join my City Councilors in calling for prosecution of ICE for this flagrant violation of city and state law. This is illegal, and if ICE does this to families and children on a sunny peaceful daytime protest, I shudder to think what they do without that kind of daylight and public scrutiny.
- Reposted by Joseph BeaudreauHere's hoping that Sam Altman continues praising Donald Trump, that his remarks are widely disseminated, and that all those using or considering using ChatGPT hear them.
- "President Trump is a very strong leader, and I hope he will rise to this moment and unite the country." Such a courageous statement from Sam Altman to OpenAI employees. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/b...
- Engels writing about human impact on nature in “The Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Ape to Man.” A key part of historical materialism’s development was understanding the contradictory impacts of production on nature.
- Reposted by Joseph BeaudreauThe people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE
- Reposted by Joseph BeaudreauRemember that literally every single one of the billionaire freaks behind generative AI has very publicly aligned themselves with trump and his policies Their CEO's are in and out of the oval office for photo ops, they're donating mountains of money to him, they're literally getting military titles
- Reposted by Joseph Beaudreauno matter how hard Greg Bovino tries to exude rugged masculinity he always comes off like Don Knotts in a Portlandia sketch
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- Fawning over Elon was a red flag of low critical thinking to me before he bought Twitter. In this day and age, they should be fully discredited as being respectable.
- Reposted by Joseph Beaudreauabsolutely insane to see Musk feted at Davos as the icon of a boldly "optimistic" future in 2026, as if he hadn't just spent the last year buying elections for fascists, making Nazi salutes, condemning millions in Africa to death, and building "Mechahitler," and a nonconsensual porn/CSAM generator
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- Reposted by Joseph Beaudreauone takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it
- A list of presidents (only on this single) issue never held accountable for unconstitutional actions. The joke is on everyone who continued to pretend the US is an example of democracy and balanced powers despite mounting evidence before Trump. Precedence leads to
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- Reposted by Joseph BeaudreauThe United States is a rogue actor throwing the world into disarray. It hosts war criminal Netanyahu, sanctions ICC and European officials, launches strikes around the world, and now kidnaps foreign leaders. Western allies need to stop it if they truly believe in human rights and international law.
- I am so happy to see that Monthly Review’s Dec issue is dedicated to Robert McChesney. I have only read the opening article, but it is so valuable to read John Bellamy Foster’s memoir of their friendship and collaboration. What a gift monthlyreview.org/articles/rob...
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- Reposted by Joseph BeaudreauA reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.
- Reposted by Joseph BeaudreauThrilled to announce the publication of our @rooseveltinstitute.org report that uncovers the policy roots of the current crises facing our news, information & communication systems. We argue that media reform must become central to a US pro-democracy movement. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
- It’s a long shot that this bill to eliminate dual citizenship in the US will pass but it sure is a sign of the next segment of debate on who counts as a US American www.wkbn.com/news/ohio/se...
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- Reposted by Joseph BeaudreauThe AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
- A truly cool thing in American civic culture, we have very cute license plates in most states. This isn’t even the cutest from Oregon.
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- Reposted by Joseph Beaudreauseems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
- Reposted by Joseph Beaudreau🔈Join us for "21st-Century US: A Historical Assessment" U Paris Cité, Nov 20&21! Organized by @tamaraboussac.bsky.social @hbouvard.bsky.social & Anne Légier, supported by @echelles-umr8264.bsky.social @chcscuvsq.bsky.social @institutdesameriques.fr @mondesamericains.ehess.fr @parissaclay.bsky.social
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- I am glad to see the shared joy and hope from so many today. It is great! We should celebrate! But remember @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s campaign team did a lot of work for a long time. Even in NYC this is just step 1. So get ready to do the work based on your unique local conditions.
- This speech was excellent in style and Easter Eggs references. Too noteworthy points but my favorites were competence and compassion can coexist. Then at the end when he described Trump grew out of NYC tying Trumpism to city’s corrupt elite.
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- Reposted by Joseph BeaudreauThree times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
- Reposted by Joseph BeaudreauThere's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
- Reposted by Joseph BeaudreauBREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
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- Reposted by Joseph BeaudreauU.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet" www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
- Thanks to the team at @savoirdevenir.bsky.social for organizing such an exceptional conference. It is without exaggeration that I will be digesting all the wonderful discussions for a while.
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