Steven Chappell
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Grammarian. Two-time Hall of Fame (College Media Association and Associated Collegiate Press) journalism educator. Lover of hot and spicy foods. UAB Blazer who helped lead The Return. Friend of DeSoto. Klingon at heart.
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Comminternships | 228 followers on LinkedIn. This exists to help college students and recent graduates find internships and entry-level jobs in media fields. | This page is a collection of jobs and in...
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I just wanted to remind everyone that my old Twitter/X Comminternships feed is now on LinkedIn. I try to post to it multiple times a day as I find jobs and internships that are suitable for college students and recent grads. Please share with anyone you see fit!
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Do not do this.
Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.
December 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Do not do this.
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This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
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The Lt. Gov. of Indiana has now deleted this post which confirmed that the Trump admin threatened to withhold federal funding from Indiana if they didn’t gerrymander.
December 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The Lt. Gov. of Indiana has now deleted this post which confirmed that the Trump admin threatened to withhold federal funding from Indiana if they didn’t gerrymander.
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Trump threatened Indiana Republicans that if they didn't do what he wanted, he'd block all federal funds to their state but they ignored his threats and told him to pound sand.
Take notes, college presidents.
Take notes, college presidents.
December 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Trump threatened Indiana Republicans that if they didn't do what he wanted, he'd block all federal funds to their state but they ignored his threats and told him to pound sand.
Take notes, college presidents.
Take notes, college presidents.
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The South Carolina measles outbreak is “accelerating.” 111 people have contracted the contagious viral infection in since October, and more than 250 people are quarantined. Officials blamed the outbreak on “lower-than-hoped-for” vaccination rates: Of the 111 cases, 105 were unvaccinated.
December 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The South Carolina measles outbreak is “accelerating.” 111 people have contracted the contagious viral infection in since October, and more than 250 people are quarantined. Officials blamed the outbreak on “lower-than-hoped-for” vaccination rates: Of the 111 cases, 105 were unvaccinated.
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The @channel6.bsky.social 2025 Bradlee Van Pelt Award for Most College Football Player Available goes to the man so singular, and so college football, that we had to rename the award channel-6.ghost.io/the-2025-bvp...
THE 2025 BVP AWARD GOES TO ... THE MOST INTERESTING PLAYER IN CFB HISTORY
The BVP tries to recognize a football talent whose unique personality and natural skill make them not just great at the college level, but great in their own very specific context as a college footbal...
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December 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The @channel6.bsky.social 2025 Bradlee Van Pelt Award for Most College Football Player Available goes to the man so singular, and so college football, that we had to rename the award channel-6.ghost.io/the-2025-bvp...
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Vomit inducing: House Oversight Committee have released photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate Friday including a bowl of novelty condoms with a caricature of Trump’s face. Each condom bears Trump’s face with the text, “I’m HUUUUGE!” Did Epstein hand these out to men having sex with children?!
December 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Vomit inducing: House Oversight Committee have released photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate Friday including a bowl of novelty condoms with a caricature of Trump’s face. Each condom bears Trump’s face with the text, “I’m HUUUUGE!” Did Epstein hand these out to men having sex with children?!
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Absolutely staggering to consider the deadweight loss that AI has caused educators in terms of burdening them by making cheating easier, and how little our society's elites care
Across the country, a small but growing number of educators are experimenting with oral exams to circumvent the temptations presented by powerful artificial intelligence platforms such as ChatGPT.
To AI-proof exams, professors turn to the oldest technique of all
A small but growing number of educators are experimenting with oral exams to circumvent the temptations presented by powerful AI platforms.
wapo.st
December 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Absolutely staggering to consider the deadweight loss that AI has caused educators in terms of burdening them by making cheating easier, and how little our society's elites care
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COVID Vaccines Slashed Kids’ ER Visits by 76 Percent, Study Finds www.scientificamerican.com/article/covi...
COVID Vaccines Slashed Kids’ ER Visits by 76 Percent, Study Finds
A report published by the CDC reaffirms the effectiveness of COVID vaccines at preventing severe disease in children
www.scientificamerican.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
COVID Vaccines Slashed Kids’ ER Visits by 76 Percent, Study Finds www.scientificamerican.com/article/covi...
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It’s kind of incredible how little has been published about this guy and how little conservatives seem to care. Did people just forget these people were screeching for civil war when they thought he was a liberal?
Suspected Charlie Kirk assassin makes first in-person court appearance
The Utah man charged with killing Charlie Kirk made his first in-person court appearance Thursday as his attorneys pushed to further limit media access in the high-profile criminal case.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
It’s kind of incredible how little has been published about this guy and how little conservatives seem to care. Did people just forget these people were screeching for civil war when they thought he was a liberal?
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This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.
December 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.
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The emerging left-right consensus--from "socialists" to JD Vance--that it's ok to be openly racist should worry us all.
Open slurs were one way Black people were barred from full participation in daily life, including employment. "Socialists" who think this is ok are siding with capital.
Open slurs were one way Black people were barred from full participation in daily life, including employment. "Socialists" who think this is ok are siding with capital.
“Those of us on the left should be fighting to improve protections for workers of all races, and thereby for the betterment of people’s material conditions regardless of their views,” Arash Azizi argues:
Why the Cinnabon Story Doesn’t Make Me Happy
The left should be promoting working-class solidarity, not delighting in seeing workers summarily dismissed.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The emerging left-right consensus--from "socialists" to JD Vance--that it's ok to be openly racist should worry us all.
Open slurs were one way Black people were barred from full participation in daily life, including employment. "Socialists" who think this is ok are siding with capital.
Open slurs were one way Black people were barred from full participation in daily life, including employment. "Socialists" who think this is ok are siding with capital.
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Are you coming to the spring convention?
Join us in New York City for hands-on training, fresh ideas and meaningful connection March 4-7.
Registration is open now: www.cmaconvention.org
Join us in New York City for hands-on training, fresh ideas and meaningful connection March 4-7.
Registration is open now: www.cmaconvention.org
December 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Are you coming to the spring convention?
Join us in New York City for hands-on training, fresh ideas and meaningful connection March 4-7.
Registration is open now: www.cmaconvention.org
Join us in New York City for hands-on training, fresh ideas and meaningful connection March 4-7.
Registration is open now: www.cmaconvention.org
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This week, FOIAball obtained $30 million in expenses across 18 different bowl games. And there's so much good stuff in there, we don't know where to start!
Drumroll please 🥁
The 2024 Bowl Season Chick-fil-A leaderboard is here
Ohio: $726
Iowa State: $1,324
Sam Houston State: $2,600
ECU: $3,449
JMU: $4,136
UNLV: $4,463
UTSA: $4,878
Minnesota: $5,310
Texas: $8,800
www.foiaball.com/p/bowl-seaso...
The 2024 Bowl Season Chick-fil-A leaderboard is here
Ohio: $726
Iowa State: $1,324
Sam Houston State: $2,600
ECU: $3,449
JMU: $4,136
UNLV: $4,463
UTSA: $4,878
Minnesota: $5,310
Texas: $8,800
www.foiaball.com/p/bowl-seaso...
Inside Bowl Season's big bonkers budgets
FOIAball obtained $30 million in team expenses for 2024
www.foiaball.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This week, FOIAball obtained $30 million in expenses across 18 different bowl games. And there's so much good stuff in there, we don't know where to start!
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On her birthday, remembering Oscar nominee Teri Garr, who played Roberta Lincoln in the original #StarTrek episode "Assignment: Earth." ##Tootsie #YoungFrankenstein #CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind #AfterHours #TheSonnyAndCherComedyHour
December 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
On her birthday, remembering Oscar nominee Teri Garr, who played Roberta Lincoln in the original #StarTrek episode "Assignment: Earth." ##Tootsie #YoungFrankenstein #CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind #AfterHours #TheSonnyAndCherComedyHour
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THANEDAR: It is a fact that you ignored federal court orders in March and in May of this year. Do you plan on ignoring federal orders?
NOEM: We always comply with all federal court orders
THANEDAR: I'm sick of your lies
NOEM: We always comply with all federal court orders
THANEDAR: I'm sick of your lies
December 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
THANEDAR: It is a fact that you ignored federal court orders in March and in May of this year. Do you plan on ignoring federal orders?
NOEM: We always comply with all federal court orders
THANEDAR: I'm sick of your lies
NOEM: We always comply with all federal court orders
THANEDAR: I'm sick of your lies
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Senate Republicans blocked Democratic legislation that would have extended ACA tax credits for over 20 million people
Republicans Block Bill That Would Extend Affordable Care Act Tax Credits
Democrats, meanwhile, blocked a competing GOP bill on Thursday that would have bolstered health savings accounts instead.
www.huffpost.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Senate Republicans blocked Democratic legislation that would have extended ACA tax credits for over 20 million people
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Sorted through the Sherrone Moore story with @mrjoshuaperry on the new episode of Rushing The Field. Plus, thoughts on the coaching search.
Should Michigan AD Warde Manuel even get to make the next hire after all of the messes he's overseen? (14:00) podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/m...
Should Michigan AD Warde Manuel even get to make the next hire after all of the messes he's overseen? (14:00) podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/m...
Michigan fires Sherrone Moore for cause & Fallout from Notre Dame CFP Snub
Podcast Episode · Rushing the Field with Nicole Auerbach and Joshua Perry · 11/12/2025 · 56m
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December 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Sorted through the Sherrone Moore story with @mrjoshuaperry on the new episode of Rushing The Field. Plus, thoughts on the coaching search.
Should Michigan AD Warde Manuel even get to make the next hire after all of the messes he's overseen? (14:00) podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/m...
Should Michigan AD Warde Manuel even get to make the next hire after all of the messes he's overseen? (14:00) podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/m...
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Racism.
The answer is racism.
The answer is racism.
December 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Racism.
The answer is racism.
The answer is racism.
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This is such horseshit. There was no secret about who Trump was, how nuts he is, what he wanted, how dangerous he is. This is just blaming the media for the problem that the voters just didn’t care.
December 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This is such horseshit. There was no secret about who Trump was, how nuts he is, what he wanted, how dangerous he is. This is just blaming the media for the problem that the voters just didn’t care.
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Like many in our city, the Blade has struggled in Helene's ongoing aftermath. We're a local journalism co-op of working class trans people. It has not been an easy year.
Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
Donate to Help the Asheville Blade survive Helene's long aftermath, organized by Asheville Blade
Like many groups in our city, the Asheville Blade has faced … Asheville Blade needs your support for Help the Asheville Blade survive Helene's long aftermath
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December 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Like many in our city, the Blade has struggled in Helene's ongoing aftermath. We're a local journalism co-op of working class trans people. It has not been an easy year.
Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
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We're a co-op of working class trans reporters in a city that remains, despite the marketing, still a disaster zone in so many ways.
Independent, hard-hitting local journalism is more important than ever. Please share and support this so we can keep doing it.
Independent, hard-hitting local journalism is more important than ever. Please share and support this so we can keep doing it.
Like many in our city, the Blade has struggled in Helene's ongoing aftermath. We're a local journalism co-op of working class trans people. It has not been an easy year.
Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
Donate to Help the Asheville Blade survive Helene's long aftermath, organized by Asheville Blade
Like many groups in our city, the Asheville Blade has faced … Asheville Blade needs your support for Help the Asheville Blade survive Helene's long aftermath
www.gofundme.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
We're a co-op of working class trans reporters in a city that remains, despite the marketing, still a disaster zone in so many ways.
Independent, hard-hitting local journalism is more important than ever. Please share and support this so we can keep doing it.
Independent, hard-hitting local journalism is more important than ever. Please share and support this so we can keep doing it.
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Main stream media sucks. Trump was psycho tweeting and giving crazy pants speeches long before people were questioning Biden’s acuity. Trump has been NUTS for a very long time, and MSM has given him a complete pass for years.
December 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Main stream media sucks. Trump was psycho tweeting and giving crazy pants speeches long before people were questioning Biden’s acuity. Trump has been NUTS for a very long time, and MSM has given him a complete pass for years.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM