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Just when I become optimistic upon seeing how stupid our enemies are, I become pessimistic when I see how few friends we have
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This is a *paradigmatic* example of what conservatives mean by “self defense” aka I have a weapon and i felt like killing someone
December 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This is a *paradigmatic* example of what conservatives mean by “self defense” aka I have a weapon and i felt like killing someone
Seeing more of these kinds of observations lately. I don't work in a classroom so I'm kind of at the mercy of random exposures, but this is definitely Bad.
At this point, our intro comp/first-year English course has been so heavily revised, it no longer includes a novel, or "extended reading" of any kind, no "specialized" or "historical" reading, mostly in-class assignments, no research essay...and we are still seeing a 40-50% rate of AI misconduct.
December 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Seeing more of these kinds of observations lately. I don't work in a classroom so I'm kind of at the mercy of random exposures, but this is definitely Bad.
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2/ Hegseth is committing boater fraud.
December 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
2/ Hegseth is committing boater fraud.
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if your solutions to improve the economy are 1) subsidize homebuying (as if we don't do that already) 2) ban China from buying single-family homes (fake problem) and "fewer immigrants" you're not a rebel truth teller in the Republican party you're actually an establishment figure with no new ideas
December 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
if your solutions to improve the economy are 1) subsidize homebuying (as if we don't do that already) 2) ban China from buying single-family homes (fake problem) and "fewer immigrants" you're not a rebel truth teller in the Republican party you're actually an establishment figure with no new ideas
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Cyber Monday has become so commercialized
December 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Cyber Monday has become so commercialized
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Per a new report, Kash Patel refused to exit his plane without an FBI jacket, but the only one that would fit him was a woman’s jacket. Then he demanded SWAT patches for it. www.scribd.com/document/958...
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Per a new report, Kash Patel refused to exit his plane without an FBI jacket, but the only one that would fit him was a woman’s jacket. Then he demanded SWAT patches for it. www.scribd.com/document/958...
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There is now a smoldering crater where the racism watchdog once stood
Leavitt: "Leaders have a duty to preserve the integrity and character of our nation's national identity."
December 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
There is now a smoldering crater where the racism watchdog once stood
There’s a consequential political contest being waged here and I don’t think you should get a pass for consciously choosing to ignore this fact.
December 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
There’s a consequential political contest being waged here and I don’t think you should get a pass for consciously choosing to ignore this fact.
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i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
One part of the big picture here is that we should be exploring the extent to which the religious right can hijack public enterprises like education at the expense of the rest of us. Let’s have a first amendment conversation.
This won’t be a popular opinion, but I don’t think the instructor was right here. The assignment said that the goal was for students to demonstrate they completed the readings *and* they could do so by reflecting on, among other things, their personal experiences. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...
OU puts graduate instructor on leave after student claims discrimination on Bible-based essay grade
OU placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after she received a failing grade on an essay
www.oudaily.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
One part of the big picture here is that we should be exploring the extent to which the religious right can hijack public enterprises like education at the expense of the rest of us. Let’s have a first amendment conversation.
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It was a bad faith effort to oust a trans instructor. It worked because people are cowards and the religious right always gets an unwarranted benefit of the doubt.
December 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It was a bad faith effort to oust a trans instructor. It worked because people are cowards and the religious right always gets an unwarranted benefit of the doubt.
A good liberal education necessarily involves opinion essays and reaction papers. A functional respect for free speech and religious freedom can’t mean that the grades these papers receive must be scrutinized for first amendment violations.
It’s ridiculous.
It’s ridiculous.
December 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A good liberal education necessarily involves opinion essays and reaction papers. A functional respect for free speech and religious freedom can’t mean that the grades these papers receive must be scrutinized for first amendment violations.
It’s ridiculous.
It’s ridiculous.
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what does cyber monday even mean
December 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
what does cyber monday even mean
Yes. I think there’s a way in which people who go in for the Fake Outrage of the Day are giving themselves an excuse for failing to take responsibility for the context. I think they should be held accountable, and held to a higher standard.
*sigh* it is simultaneously true that 0/25 is probably too harsh a grade AND that if you are going balls to the wall to complain about the difference between a 0 and a F (say, 12-15), you are missing the forest for the trees. the suspension/investigation is the far more important issue.
Always liked Parker, so this nastiness is rather disappointing.
I’ll always defend trans rights as I have all my career. But I also believe in the First Amendment’s protecting people being wrong.
And that’s where my engagement will respectfully end for the day.
I’ll always defend trans rights as I have all my career. But I also believe in the First Amendment’s protecting people being wrong.
And that’s where my engagement will respectfully end for the day.
December 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Yes. I think there’s a way in which people who go in for the Fake Outrage of the Day are giving themselves an excuse for failing to take responsibility for the context. I think they should be held accountable, and held to a higher standard.
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Yep the sophistry allows these bad faith actors to multiply their ability to harm people by orders of magnitude as a matter of principle.
Kristi Fulnecki, anti-trans bigot’s mother and lawyer for J6 traitors www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Yep the sophistry allows these bad faith actors to multiply their ability to harm people by orders of magnitude as a matter of principle.
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green coat guy living my DREAM: sitting in front of a friendly stranger’s dog who wants head stratches
more than anything
more than anything
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
green coat guy living my DREAM: sitting in front of a friendly stranger’s dog who wants head stratches
more than anything
more than anything
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Every broadly misogynist, homophobic and racist 'side effect' of proposed transphobic policy is a feature, not a bug, and I really wish people would stop pointing this out as though it's a gotcha moment or an unintended consequence that might give the architects of said policies pause.
December 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Every broadly misogynist, homophobic and racist 'side effect' of proposed transphobic policy is a feature, not a bug, and I really wish people would stop pointing this out as though it's a gotcha moment or an unintended consequence that might give the architects of said policies pause.
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how could your mood NOT be buoyed by this video of Snowball bobbing his head to "Everybody" by the Backstreet Boys! how could your heart not be lifted, your spirits not soar!
December 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
how could your mood NOT be buoyed by this video of Snowball bobbing his head to "Everybody" by the Backstreet Boys! how could your heart not be lifted, your spirits not soar!
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Every day I get angrier abt that wretched Harper’s Letter, and the broader feckless, bothsider-poisoned media environment that treated it as legit.
I’m profoundly disappointed in the left-leaning types who gave reputational cover to a nakedly bad-faith doc.
And furious at the on-going silence.
I’m profoundly disappointed in the left-leaning types who gave reputational cover to a nakedly bad-faith doc.
And furious at the on-going silence.
If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
December 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Every day I get angrier abt that wretched Harper’s Letter, and the broader feckless, bothsider-poisoned media environment that treated it as legit.
I’m profoundly disappointed in the left-leaning types who gave reputational cover to a nakedly bad-faith doc.
And furious at the on-going silence.
I’m profoundly disappointed in the left-leaning types who gave reputational cover to a nakedly bad-faith doc.
And furious at the on-going silence.
Environmental law in the west is broken, and we can’t expect that it’ll ever be fixed as long as our national legislature is also broken.
We found that the BLM skipped environmental review on 75% of its grazing land. Our new @propublica.org story explains the ”loophole” that allows BLM to bypass enviro reviews. www.propublica.org/article/graz...
December 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Environmental law in the west is broken, and we can’t expect that it’ll ever be fixed as long as our national legislature is also broken.
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“So the plan is to replace all their jobs with AI”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
Gen Z Shoppers Aren’t Spending Like Retailers Need Them To
More than other generations, 20-somethings are tightening their holiday-season budgets because of economic pressures.
www.wsj.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“So the plan is to replace all their jobs with AI”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
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A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
December 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
The entire Republican Party
Trump told crews working on White House ballroom to ignore zoning conditions. Trump firmly believes that no laws of any sort apply to him, and the Supreme Court has encouraged him to think that way. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump told crews working on White House ballroom to ignore zoning conditions: report
White House ballroom project has become costlier and larger than originally anticipated
www.independent.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The entire Republican Party
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I named my fists "Dunning" and "Kruger" because I haven't trained in any sort of martial art but am confident I would do pretty well.
I named my fists Chekhov and Gun because you know they're coming but you don't know when
i named my fists Rodgers and Hammerstein cuz theyre always in my own little corner
December 1, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I named my fists "Dunning" and "Kruger" because I haven't trained in any sort of martial art but am confident I would do pretty well.
The sheer amount of time and resources required to police the first amendment in this way would cripple public institutions and make the idea of a public university impossible.
It is an undergraduate psych class response essay to an assignment prompt that opened the door to non-germane perspectives. Public institutions can’t penalize students like this consistent with the First Amendment. It may have been an average essay, but 0/25 seems hard to justify under these facts.
December 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The sheer amount of time and resources required to police the first amendment in this way would cripple public institutions and make the idea of a public university impossible.