What happened on Jan 6th at the US Capitol was an attempted auto-coup. New classification of the Jan 6th event just released by the Cline Center: clinecenter.illinois.edu/coup-detat-pro… Image credit: TapTheForwardAssist (CC BY)

Nearly two years later, still hard to believe this happened in the United States.

Some background on the Cline Center's recent classification of Jan. 6 as an attempted auto-coup. news.illinois.edu/view/6367/8375…

The Cline Center for Advanced Social Research added an additional classification to its assessment of the events of Jan. 6, 2021, said center director and #ILLINOIS professor Scott Althaus. He explains the “attempted auto-coup d’état” classification. ▶ bit.ly/3IojMlt

2/ Austin Energy says the answer is relatively simple and involves two key components: ice and trees. Austin happened to be the most populous area in the path of the storm. When ice from that storm hit the city’s celebrated urban tree canopy, outages were inevitable.

🧵 Creating effective local news means understanding the needs of local communities. With this in mind, our team, along with The Lenfest Institute for Journalism & Independence Public Media Foundation, analyzed Philadelphia’s media landscape. bit.ly/CMEPhillyNews

Exciting news. This dashboard was developed with Joyce support through our Gun Violence Prevention & Justice Reform program, led by Timothy Daly. This tool will provide accurate data & allow communities to make more informed policy & practice decisions. Congratulations, mnhealth!

Pence saying something about the press that v few other Republicans are, at Gridiron, via POLITICO Playbook: “I don’t deny that you infuriate me … and I’m sure I infuriate you … but I genuinely value what you do to keep us a democracy.”

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Critiquing a gun-related bill today, TX Rep. James Talarico—a Presbyterian seminarian—rejected 'thoughts and prayers' rhetoric. "There is something profoundly cynical about asking God to solve a problem that we're not willing to solve ourselves. God moves, God works through us."

ONLINE FIRST! How does news users' engagement in small-group discussions on Facebook Messenger compare with larger conversations in a Facebook Group? Caroline Murray, Martin Johannes Riedl and Talia Stroud explore it in this study. ➡️tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

This is amazing news for a seriously smart but also great person. I was lucky enough to work with Elliott a little bit Annette Strauss Institute TEXAS Moody and it was clear he was heading for great things even as a 21 year-old. Congrats G Elliott Morris

On this day in 1980, Joy Division released the single “Love Will Tear Us Apart"

The rare "Very unhealthy" purple color showing up in places like Decatur, Clinton, Sullivan, and Shelbyville. I can't say in my time as a 21 year meteorologist that I've seen air quality this bad in our area. #cILwx #ILwx

Gun Violence Prevention & Justice Reform Program Officer Quintin Williams is a City Colleges of Chicago #SuccessStory - read more about his journey from incarceration to Malcolm X College to a doctorate & a thriving career. #JusticeReform #Education #StudentSuccess success1.ccc.edu/2023/06/30/dr-…

Carrying out a field experiment at this scale was incredible & challenging. Talia Stroud & I did A LOT of listening-on strategy calls & trainings-that taught us so much about what the news engagement process looks like. And of course we collected A LOT of data.

🚨New piece in Political Communication 📓! I explore how cross-cutting romantic partners (e.g. Republicans w/ Democrats) negotiate news selection, consumption, and discussion amidst contentious political differences. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The 2023 Cline Symposium will take place on Thursday October 26 and will include a Zoom Roundtable on the topic of reducing gun violence in the US with national experts Vaughn Bryant Kimberley Smith and Thomas Abt This event is from 2:30-4:15 pm and is open to the public.

According to the Cline Center's SPOTLITE data, on average from 2014 to 2021, there were 8 incidents involving police use of deadly force per day in the US. There's an upward trend, but it's unclear how much of that reflects increased media coverage. clinecenter.illinois.edu/spotlite