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Healthy Texas D is making the OU line look like the Texas O-line.

Center for Dangerous Clickbait

Not sure I believe in fate, but Clemson football crashing as the admin cowers to political pressure is still rewarding.

Can Jimmy Kimmel sue Brendan Carr, or other federal actors, for violating his First Amendment rights by coercing ABC to suspend his show, and maybe eventually to fire him? To teal deer it, yes, but without an effective remedy. /1

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

Weapons was A LOT MORE Tales from the Dark Side than I expected.

Is it strange that the two leading figures in suburban horror are former sketch comedy guys?

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

Acts of political violence aren’t acceptable. Non-political school shootings aren’t acceptable. Sacking the legislature isn’t acceptable. Military occupation of peaceful American cities isn’t acceptable. Abductions conducted in courthouse hallways by masked agents of the state aren’t acceptable.

Assassination is as deadly to democracy as state violence.

Human rights are innate. Thus, a government willing to deny those rights to any of us will eventually deny those rights to all of us.

I’d missed that Kennedy had appointed Robert Malone to a board that advises the CDC on who should get certain vaccines. Malone is one of the worst purveyors of vaccine misinformation. He’s so bad he was banned by Twitter. Dude doesn’t know enough to be on Twitter but he’s advising the CDC.

OMG they finally figured it out. THIS is what college looks like for the majority of people.

Silly as this is, there is a version of it that would actually reveal something about the person answering: Would you publicly praise Trump if it meant he’d exempt you from the bad policy he’s inflicting on everyone else? That’s an actual measure of principle. And it’s one too many are failing.

Anyone writing on false profundity, BS, and GenAI results, especially conversational chat?

"But when we systematically looked at all these posts, a broader trend emerged: The larger the Black share of the population, the more a city was mentioned alongside the phrase “voter fraud” in the aftermath of the 2020 election..."

West Marches-style Critical Role and WotC playtesting Dark Sun. What a time.

This sort of admission—the VP is involved in prosecutorial decisions, the "concerns" arise from political actors, and the administration knows they don't have probable cause—would have prompted the Founders to impeach everyone involved.

New York Times and Washington Post: Trump's Executive Order Reinstating Slavery Has Invigorated His Supporters. But Some Question Whether It's Legal.

Who has the best book on how American stand up and preaching culture intersect?

For those not tracking, in the fallout of the OGL 1.1 scandal, @mattcolville.bsky.social announced that MCDM would be creating their own system. Not a 5e derivative, but something built on a unique chassis. Draw Steel is the #TTRPG, and you can read about it here! 1/2 www.polygon.com/draw-steel-m...

Friendly expert reminder that the information ecosystem is fucked.

👇🎯 Utter madness. The ROI on this stuff is massive, both at the individual and national level. And it costs effectively nothing, in the grand scheme of the federal budget, to fund area and language studies through NRC, FLAS, etc.

I’ve now reconnected with two of three groomsmen over the past year, and the fascinating way people say “I told you so” politely is a genre worth studying. Also, it’s really hard acknowledging how isolated you were once you start coming out of it.

Huge "Jesus and Trump" flag on interstate today, but 90% of the time it just looked like "Sus Trump". The kid laughed hard.

We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death

Does he know how weak he looks trying to literally fire facts? www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/b...

If the we had an HIV-type crisis right now, it would somehow be worse than the 80s.

It's important to remember that by "pawns for the Democrat party" he means "broadcasts anything I don't like." They hate free speech and they aren't trying to hide it.

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Man, we in rhet/comp really messed with Freddie’s mind.

Literally making up a guy to get mad at

The story of the '24 election for me will always be "did you think the owning class would take The Great Resignation & quiet quitting & rising wage growth on the lower end of the income spectrum lying down?"

God he just does this shit for the love of the game, man. An all timer midscale crook

The velociraptor science at Universal Orlando is so bad. I know it’s playing up the movie but I need a posted disclaimer for public health.

Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration tell Gisela Salim-Peyer that they were tortured during their months inside El Salvador’s megaprison.

@cbsnews.com are cowards. Canceling my Paramount+ Don't need it. www.cnn.com/2025/07/17/m...

So, my rankings of the movies of the summer for me: Elio B+ Mission Impossible B+ Superman B Jurassic Whatever B- How to Train Your Dragon B- Nothing terrible. Nothing great.

Gosh whoever this Dr. Baker is, sure seems like she was onto something earlier this year

The U.S. is most often named as the top threat in Canada, Indonesia, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil & Mexico Russia is top threat in France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden & UK China is top threat in US, Australia & Japan www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

But surely they can't use the bathroom with the rest of us!

Because everyone deserves a shot 🎯

Another ICE "assault" case unravels. Border Patrol and ICE are arresting US citizens and then after they find out that they are US citizens, they are charging them with "assault" to justify their actions. This is clearly DHS policy at this point. We've seen it repeatedly now.

The politics of the Descendants movies is very confusing.

Further context: If you’ve never dealt with FEMA after a disaster I can tell you they answer within 30 seconds. No hold times. Real live wonderful people who help while you cry and can’t even figure out what questions to ask. They walk you through it all. Every call. NOEM STOLE THAT $ FOR ICE