Thing is, newspapers have higher standards than "Democratic strategists," and they check to see if a photo is fake before circulating it.

No, Hegseth didn't try to pass off a Pulp Fiction monologue as real scripture. Watch the full clip - he explains what he's doing before the part that's going viral here. Your influencers lie to you too. It's an unfortunate byproduct of the intersection of polarization and the attention economy.

Oof, a new stat crime for my methods class.

Counterpoint: they don’t need to cede all agenda-setting power to his whims.

Nor should the ones who served honorably.

The state of academia: I just had a tooth pulled, and it’s very important not to raise my blood pressure for the next 24 hours. So even though I’m behind on grading, I can’t touch any of it because the rampant cheating is too aggravating.

Early in our marriage, I drove my wife to a rural area north of Dallas so she could fulfill her dream of skydiving. He and I are not the same.

Well that sucks. Hopefully it’s the worst thing that happens in the world today - but I’m not optimistic.

If your favorite influencer convinced you that Trump might have died this weekend, then find better influencers.

Jeez, Cruz’s take was hackneyed back in like 2004 when the red-blue divide trope was just getting its legs.

Cosplaying working class Rafael Cruz went to Princeton and Harvard. When he flees his constituents without power, he stays at the Ritz-Carlton. His wife, Heidi, is Managing Director at the fancy investment firm Goldman Sachs. They are not men & women with callouses on their hands. They are elites.

Today I had my first student ever who wasn’t familiar with the Access Hollywood tape. In just a few years, I’ll have to show it to them because that will be the norm, not the exception.

Incredible

In the last 24 hours: -ARIZONA (my childhood team) first Final Four in 25 years. -TCU Women advance to Elite 8. -duke eats shit in historically epic fashion.

“According to anonymous officials, person A told person B that Trump said something.” Give me a break. We’ve been doing this for 10 years and it only leads to more unfocused rage.

Amusing incongruity of the day: they’re playing a Radiohead playlist at our dogs’ agility training.

Amazing graphic. Notable too that 2 of the top 3 blue accounts mainly post clips of Republicans saying dumb things, while most of the red ones are openly white nationalist.

Good advice, though I’m rather offended that neither of my books was stolen.

Sure, let’s keep playing. Why not?

So true. Regarding #3, I’ve spent all semester fretting about how to broach it in class, to no avail.

If it’s that important, then tell your social-media person to stop mimicking AI slop style.

I attended 2 concerts last week and now I’m on an airplane. A vivid reminder that being a short man has its pros and cons.

This whole thing is nauseating and scary. But the fact that they're proudly making a list is at least useful for efficient identification of those trying to normalize open hatred.

"Imagine someone saying something bad about Jews. You can't!" Actually. . .

This piece, from an excellent local news source, showcases the main dilemma facing non-partisan outlets. “Some want to ban Islam and expel all Muslims. Others disagree.” Is that the right approach? I don’t know.

Tragically relatable.

Sometimes I worry that my academic articles will be obsolete before they're published. This isn't one of those times. Left: The first sentence of my forthcoming SSQ piece. Right: The top story on Fox News right now.

One sold appliances at Sears. The other -- a decorated B-17 front gunner in WWII -- owned and operated a dry cleaners.

Two papers into the first batch of grading for my upper-division class, and. . . I think this is officially the last semester of out-of-class writing assignments. I tried. I really did.

This isn't X. It's Y!

My wife’s well-timed insta post. Give her a follow if you like wildlife photography set to a soundtrack of cleverly curated tunes. (Bald Eagle seen recently in central Fort Worth. Very unusual.)

Wait, is dense good?

When I had dinner with No Doubt in 1992, the guys were really friendly but she never acknowledged my existence. Also, the OC punk/ska scene had significant conservative undertones.

Just wildly irresponsible to report betting odds in the exact format we are conditioned to recognize as poll results. Of course, I could have stopped after the first 7 words. But this just makes it 🥵😡

Phew! Got Tame Impala tickets. Lower level in American Airlines Center (Dallas). First time I won't be on the floor/GA to see them -- but, given the whack-ass demand and all of the scamming, I'm grateful to be going at all.

Went to the National Zoo and then to a Thai restaurant in Bethesda. We got a parking ticket.

That was fantastic. Thoroughly entertaining and moving. (My love for Puerto Rico made up for not knowing any of his songs.)

I guess there are 3 types of SB commercials: 1: AI 2: Gambling 3: An ad for something else, in which the punchline is a celebrity cameo.

This looks really cool.

Fantastic work. Folks, be skeptical of media-bias charges (and their new media forms like shadow-banning), regardless of their valence.

Love Shack

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1. Environmental Science 2. U.S. 1945-1960 3. Gay and Lesbian Literature 4. Intro to Journalism 5. Intro to Voice and Movement #1 rewired my brain more than any other. I still think about it often.

This is a conservative paper with automated SM posts, so the double meaning here is purely accidental.

Given the views of his advisors and supporters, it's only a matter of time before he confuses Greenland with Greenberg.

I brought ‘80s robot to class last week and told students I had kidnapped ChatGPT.

I can assure you that Ecuador's largest airport isn't "now closed." Why are they still so, so bad at this?

"Syllabus" is one of those words that, after reading and typing it a few times, makes no sense and looks like it's spelled wrong.

I was 17 in 1991. . .

Political scientists today

I'm starting a band that mimics the vibe of millennium-era pop. Our name will be Third-Chorus Key Change.