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Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 6h

Cancel culture warriors should be up in arms over a college student demanding that a college instructor be fired because she taught things the student found offensive, but as I discuss in my new essay, Little Fascists Everywhere, their outrage is highly selective: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Excerpt from article: "The praise heaped upon a student who interrupted a class lecture to announce that she was personally offended by the instructor’s views on gender and who then proceeded to push to have that instructor fired is an illuminating contrast to the widespread vilification and punishment of college and graduate students who have protested external speakers on the basis of their views on gender. For example, students who protested a speech by a lawyer from the extreme anti-LGBTQ+ organization Alliance Defending Freedom at Yale Law School were accused of imposing a “heckler’s veto”; they were mocked, denounced, and “canceled” from consideration as clerks by several prominent, conservative federal judges. Stanford Law School students who disrupted a speech by a far-right conservative federal judge, Kyle Duncan, were similarly lambasted for their “intolerance” and similarly excluded for consideration for federal clerkships by conservative judges. These incidents have been frequently cited as examples of “snowflake students” trying to shut down discussion of topics they find personally offensive or unpleasant. In 2016, the founder of the Heritage Foundation described liberal students who protested conservative speakers as both “little snowflakes demand[ing] ‘safe spaces’ where they can be protected from words” and the “little dictators” of the campus. No one, however, has accused the anonymous Texas A&M student of being a “little dictator,” despite her hysterical and erroneous assertion that a viewpoint she found offensive—presented in a classroom setting by an expert on the subject being taught— was “illegal” and her announcement that she would be reporting the professor to the administration for that reason. None of the conservative cancel culture warriors ... have characterized her successful campaign to have an instructor fired for speech they didn’t like as “cancel culture.”

Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 6h

My top seeded team got bounced last week thanks to Josh Allen & Trayveon Henderson saving their worst suck week for the playoffs. I feel your pain.

Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 8h

Caucasian Christmas

Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 10h

Wild to think that a couple of years later, I was watching a 19-year-old rookie they called “Pudge” when I’d moved back to Texas for college

Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 10h

Finally got to see Fisk play in 1989 - was back visiting family in Texas and caught a game. Kevin Brown took a no-hitter into the 7th, broken up by Ron Kittle. Fisk threw out Cecil Espy trying to steal. www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/198...

Retrosheet Boxscore: Texas Rangers 3, Chicago White Sox 1

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Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 10h

My favorite player growing up, especially once I became a catcher. Only really knew of him on the White Sox by then, but my dad was a Red Sox fan growing up, so I learned the 1975 lore.

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 10h

For @rollingstone.com I wrote about the mass national movement to ban chemtrails...which don't exist. The movement is one of the ways in which MAHA is taking over the country.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Chemtrails Aren't Real. So Why Are Politicians Passing Laws About Them?

The history and politics of so-called weather weapons.

www.rollingstone.com

Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 23h

This was the youngest kid’s creation (well, the pickle tree was). I just provided the pickles.

Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 1d

Do y’all have a pickle tree with deviled eggs? because we have a pickle tree with deviled eggs.

What else can I say, it’s a paper cone covered in pickles on toothpicks with an American cheese star on top, centering a plate with deviled eggs.

Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like a new year’s snack experiment! I might try blanching the beans FWIW

Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 1d

Recipe please!

Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 1d

I literally spent a year on the test team & roll-out committee for the faculty180 system, so it’s frustrating we’re already shifting to a new system less than a decade later

Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 1d

The reason for the season

John @sportspants.bsky.social · 1d

This many days until Christmas

(Merry Christmas to all)

Internet Archive @archive.org · 1d

Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 16-color EGA #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required. Thanks to software preservation, it's still crackling on the Internet Archive.

✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️
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Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 1d

I was so hoping you’d go Al Oliver today

John @sportspants.bsky.social · 1d

This many days until Christmas

(Merry Christmas to all)

Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Christmas morning reminder from my employer. Got one of these on Thanksgiving too!

Reminder: Your review materials are due soon
Dear Daxton Stewart,

This is a reminder that your review materials are due for the following:

Process: 2025 Annual Report
Due Date: Thursday, January 15, 2026 11:59 PM CST

Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 1d

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 1d

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, couldn't ignore the crazy visions of him in LA. He heard that there's a special place, where boys and girls can all be queens every single day.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, eventually became a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Dawn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth!

Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 1d

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, couldn't ignore the crazy visions of him in LA. He heard that there's a special place, where boys and girls can all be queens every single day.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, eventually became a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Dawn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth!

Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 2d

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, eventually found himself on a planet called Third Earth, where he had a long-running quarrel with a group of anthropomorphic cats

Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 2d

Translated: Texas A&M leaders would rather pay hundreds of thousands of dollars on litigation and settlement costs than defend faculty that right-wing students do a hit job on

Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 2d

Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.

Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings

A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”

www.texastribune.org

Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 2d

Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.

Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings

A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”

www.texastribune.org

Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 2d

A sadly high percentage of Rangers on there!

Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 2d

The main ones I try to avoid are the worst cheaters - Beltran, Canseco, Sosa among the usual Rangers. Also Rocker and Vizquel and Aroldis Chapman for being horrible human beings. Texeira is working his way into that group.

Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 2d

lol I just can’t believe she’s comfortable talking to people who put together “60 Minutes” like this

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."

One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."

One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."

honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 2d

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd

Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN

The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”

cnn.it

Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 2d

(100 fly and 100 breast in case you were wondering)

(actually swam third-fastest time in the state in 100 fly in prelims but wasn't as good in finals, I’m sure this is some kind of discrimination orchestrated by people republicans hate)

Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 2d

I finished fifth place in two state swimming championships my senior year of high school. If only I’d decided to be a publicly hateful bigot, I could be making quadruple my salary as a tenured full professor and university administrator.

Daniel Libit @daniellibit.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Riley Gaines, the former collegiate swimmer turned right-wing media figure, made $474,313 last year from the conservative nonprofit org, the Leadership Institute. More striking than her total comp was the way it was structured.

For @sportico.bsky.social 👇

www.sportico.com/business/med...