Chris Becker
@chrisbecker.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Film, Television, and Theatre and the Sport, Media, & Culture Minor at University of Notre Dame. Working on a local TV history project: https://sites.nd.edu/boc-project/
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Toad leaped over a snowbank. “I could not steer the sled without you, Frog,” he said.
“Winter is fun!”
“Winter is fun!”
December 31, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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The people who talk about expanding the tent are never, ever actually expanding the tent. They want to pick up the tent and move it rightwards. If the tent were getting bigger, letting in new people would not require pushing other people out, which the metaphorical expansion somehow always does.
Well um is the tent big enough for us? Oh just big enough for hate mongers? Oh.
December 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The people who talk about expanding the tent are never, ever actually expanding the tent. They want to pick up the tent and move it rightwards. If the tent were getting bigger, letting in new people would not require pushing other people out, which the metaphorical expansion somehow always does.
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Breathlessly waiting for the NYT to do in-depth reporting on the lack of ideological diversity in Wall Street executive boards and Rust Belt diners.
The Times interviews and quotes the university president, who says things like the old New College “was ‘a little Club Med' for people who were all ideologically the same." He is only identified as a former state education commissioner. This leaves out a lot. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
December 29, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Breathlessly waiting for the NYT to do in-depth reporting on the lack of ideological diversity in Wall Street executive boards and Rust Belt diners.
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Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more
December 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more
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This is great because I’m always thinking what if my arm was resting on something cold and uncomfortable as fuck
I'm sure the 22 million people whose healthcare premiums will triple in six days are delighted by this news, you inhuman fuck.
December 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This is great because I’m always thinking what if my arm was resting on something cold and uncomfortable as fuck
Someday I’ll be emotionally ready to tell the story of the hour+ I spent on the phone helping my dad update his Max streaming app to HBO Max. He had to get a neighbor who works for NASA over to help out and still it took about 15 minutes after that.
I’m my dad’s smartphone & streaming tech support service, which has taught me valuable lessons about patience & empathy, as well as that tech companies don’t give a shit about older folks. He just wants to connect with family & watch his stories! But to tech bros he’s a negligible financial resource
Hoo boy.
Trying to walk Dad through which apps he doesn't need on his phone is... tiring. 😂
Trying to walk Dad through which apps he doesn't need on his phone is... tiring. 😂
December 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Someday I’ll be emotionally ready to tell the story of the hour+ I spent on the phone helping my dad update his Max streaming app to HBO Max. He had to get a neighbor who works for NASA over to help out and still it took about 15 minutes after that.
I’m my dad’s smartphone & streaming tech support service, which has taught me valuable lessons about patience & empathy, as well as that tech companies don’t give a shit about older folks. He just wants to connect with family & watch his stories! But to tech bros he’s a negligible financial resource
Hoo boy.
Trying to walk Dad through which apps he doesn't need on his phone is... tiring. 😂
Trying to walk Dad through which apps he doesn't need on his phone is... tiring. 😂
December 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I’m my dad’s smartphone & streaming tech support service, which has taught me valuable lessons about patience & empathy, as well as that tech companies don’t give a shit about older folks. He just wants to connect with family & watch his stories! But to tech bros he’s a negligible financial resource
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The lecturer in question is our colleague in children’s literature studies. She is a brilliant scholar and from all accounts a gifted teacher.
This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.
This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.
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
December 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The lecturer in question is our colleague in children’s literature studies. She is a brilliant scholar and from all accounts a gifted teacher.
This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.
This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.
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This has nothing to do with faith or observance btw. It’s just about establishing an official hierarchy of citizenship where they are on top. bsky.app/profile/mark...
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This has nothing to do with faith or observance btw. It’s just about establishing an official hierarchy of citizenship where they are on top. bsky.app/profile/mark...
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Sonny Rollins getting ready to go onstage at the Apollo Theatre in New York City, 1961.
Photograph by Steve Schapiro.
Photograph by Steve Schapiro.
December 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Sonny Rollins getting ready to go onstage at the Apollo Theatre in New York City, 1961.
Photograph by Steve Schapiro.
Photograph by Steve Schapiro.
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I mean, you have catholic priests outside ICE facilities right now crying out that evil resides there
The early church (like, 100 AD) would consider this Christian/White Nationalist shit that the modern American right is doing Satanic
December 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I mean, you have catholic priests outside ICE facilities right now crying out that evil resides there
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Schroeder from "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is just gonna keep his head down and practice his piano until he gets accepted to Juilliard, where he'll meet a beguiling young ballet student whose comfort in his own lithe, feline body is a contrast to the neurotics and depressives of Schroeder's hometown
December 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Schroeder from "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is just gonna keep his head down and practice his piano until he gets accepted to Juilliard, where he'll meet a beguiling young ballet student whose comfort in his own lithe, feline body is a contrast to the neurotics and depressives of Schroeder's hometown
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It really is about the notes you don’t play
Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump's name added reut.rs/3NfgBky
Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump's name added
A planned Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center was canceled, with the host of the longtime annual performance attributing the decision to the addition of Republican U.S. President Donald Trump's name to the institution in Washington.
reut.rs
December 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
It really is about the notes you don’t play
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“Like prime, but with human beings”
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“Like prime, but with human beings”
And OU voided the extensive, thoughtful work the TA did to justify the zero, which was backed by the lead instructor, and gave this student full credit for the work she admitted she didn’t actually do. I’d be catastrophically livid if I were an OU prof.
University fired the transgender TA for giving a zero on an assignment that the student admits to not actually doing.
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
And OU voided the extensive, thoughtful work the TA did to justify the zero, which was backed by the lead instructor, and gave this student full credit for the work she admitted she didn’t actually do. I’d be catastrophically livid if I were an OU prof.
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so hey anytime you hear "the justice department says" just remember that should be "the president's lawyers say" because that's what "the justice department" is now, ok good talk
December 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
so hey anytime you hear "the justice department says" just remember that should be "the president's lawyers say" because that's what "the justice department" is now, ok good talk
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NEW — Based on the aired ‘60 Minutes’ CECOT segment, several of Bari Weiss’s stated reasons to stop the story are inaccurate.
She said the segment did not present the admin’s argument for deporting people to CECOT. It does.
She said the segment did not detail deportee criminal histories. It does.
She said the segment did not present the admin’s argument for deporting people to CECOT. It does.
She said the segment did not detail deportee criminal histories. It does.
New: Months before Bari Weiss pulled the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, her outlet The Free Press was joking about the megaprison Trump has lawlessly deported people to.
"The hottest campaign spot…the new Jeffrey Epstein jet…the place to see and be seen."
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"The hottest campaign spot…the new Jeffrey Epstein jet…the place to see and be seen."
@andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social
Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador’s Dictator Before Spiking '60 Minutes' Story on His Torture Prison
Weiss touted El Salvador’s brutal leader while her blog published jokes about Trump sending immigrants to the CECOT prison.
zeteo.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:46 AM
NEW — Based on the aired ‘60 Minutes’ CECOT segment, several of Bari Weiss’s stated reasons to stop the story are inaccurate.
She said the segment did not present the admin’s argument for deporting people to CECOT. It does.
She said the segment did not detail deportee criminal histories. It does.
She said the segment did not present the admin’s argument for deporting people to CECOT. It does.
She said the segment did not detail deportee criminal histories. It does.
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All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
This is where America is now
December 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
This is where America is now
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New Forbidden Course at Bari Weiss’s University of Austin: watching bootleg copies of 60 Minutes smuggled in from Canada
December 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
New Forbidden Course at Bari Weiss’s University of Austin: watching bootleg copies of 60 Minutes smuggled in from Canada
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This "did not advance the ball" rhetoric is wild coming from someone who ran the same DEI-run-amok story for years.
this, from Bari Weiss's 9pm editorial call, is just complete and utter horseshit. she can't even do damage control right
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This "did not advance the ball" rhetoric is wild coming from someone who ran the same DEI-run-amok story for years.
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really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
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Edward R. Murrow’s scheduled response to Senator Joseph McCarthy will not be seen tonight.
Bari Weiss has concerns.
Bari Weiss has concerns.
December 22, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Edward R. Murrow’s scheduled response to Senator Joseph McCarthy will not be seen tonight.
Bari Weiss has concerns.
Bari Weiss has concerns.
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These people are gutter trash.
JD Vance: "They are not sending their best. Omar Fateh was Ilehan [sic] Omar's candidate for mayor of Mogadishu-- I mean Minneapolis. Little Freudian slip there."
December 22, 2025 at 4:33 AM
These people are gutter trash.
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the shitstorm that’s already brewing because of Bari’s decision to spike this story is going to end up being vastly more damaging to her and to the admin than allowing the story to air would have been
she’s an evil propagandist hack but she is also very bad at doing it in a way that isn’t hamfisted
she’s an evil propagandist hack but she is also very bad at doing it in a way that isn’t hamfisted
December 22, 2025 at 3:04 AM
the shitstorm that’s already brewing because of Bari’s decision to spike this story is going to end up being vastly more damaging to her and to the admin than allowing the story to air would have been
she’s an evil propagandist hack but she is also very bad at doing it in a way that isn’t hamfisted
she’s an evil propagandist hack but she is also very bad at doing it in a way that isn’t hamfisted