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Chuck Tee
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High school ESL teacher and political activist based in Quincy, MA. In my previous life as a media studies professor I wrote three books, including On-Demand Culture and Reinventing Cinema. Chihuahua wrangler.
Jewish night club owner in rural Pennsylvania.
Well, now I'm an English professor...
December 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I sold light fixtures to Keith Sweat at Home Depot.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie

Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Very few people in my circle of friends knew about her horrific racism and homophobia, so I’ve been sharing the Le Monde piece widely.
Absolutely wild watching every American media org incl progressive ones like NYMag remember Bardot as an animal rights defender and not mention her vicious racism

Meanwhile this article from Le Monde English is how I found out she died

It's hard to overstate how much American media fails Americans
“In the 1990s, after withdrawing from film sets, the star adopted those views and married Bernard d'Ormale, adviser to Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the far-right Front National (FN), the precursor to today’s Rassemblement National.”
December 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
So glad this dipshit has millions of listeners who somehow have come to believe his is smart about stuff like this.
Yeah, this dum dum is talking about chicken pox.

Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.
December 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
One of my favorite things about living in Quincy is my semi-annual tradition of going for a jog past the John and John Quincy Adams houses. Round trip it’s just over three miles. This year, snow and wind made it more challenging, but still a pleasure.
December 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
It pays to be a bigot.
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...
Leadership Perks: Riley Gaines Scored Big Bonus From Nonprofit
Gaines, the former Kentucky swimmer turned OutKick commentator, banked $474,313 from the conservative political organization in 2024.
www.sportico.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
So we shouldn't hold the AG and other DOJ officials accountable for protecting sex offenders?
WELKER: Massie and Khanna say they are looking at options including impeachment and contempt for DOJ officials. Would you support those steps?

KAINE: I think that's premature
December 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Did they not realize this would come out?
Confirmed: House Democratic leaders have decided to use a stock trading ban bill as a campaign issue rather than actually pass something that had the GOP support to advance.
Jeffries' team is actively discouraging participation in the bipartisan bill and warning outside groups too.
Jeffries Undercuts Congressional Stock Trading Ban - The American Prospect
A bipartisan solution was gaining momentum, but the House Democratic leader just issued his own bill that will prevent consensus.
prospect.org
December 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Yeah, you don't platform these people.
Re RFK there was a genre of comments and columns like “why didn’t Kamala just treat RFK with more respect” or “why didn’t Kamala accommodate Rogan” and I really hope you can see how that was always a sucker’s bet.
December 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
This is going to destroy so many people's lives.
RFK Jr. is going to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.

It will take a few years before the deaths and disabilities ramp up to a level that even the most vile Republican cannot tolerate.

RFK Jr. will be long gone and unaccountable, as our babies die from preventable illness.
December 20, 2025 at 1:08 AM
But none of the taste and sophistication.
This has all the lawfulness of graffiti.
December 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Yet another reason not to give your money to the Times.
David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.

He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
December 19, 2025 at 1:13 AM
He's desperate.
I feel like he's about to throw over the podium and start slapping someone around. Why is he so mad? He's just spitting nails.
December 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I remember a colleague of mine wrote a really insightful essay about this video and how groundbreaking it was. Such a fun segment.
20 years ago tonight, Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell enjoyed a Lazy Sunday:
Lazy Sunday - SNL Digital Short
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM
We also can’t really agree on much of anything.
"Bluesky users want an echo chamber where their arguments aren't challenged" fails as an argument for the simple reason that essentially everyone on Bluesky was a Twitter user before Twitter was purchased by a white supremacist.
December 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
"They're in the area around Caracas and to the north, south, east, and west, somewhat."
Where are my unknown unknowns
I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.
December 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I don’t love the trailer for Weekend At Bernie’s 3.
The trailer for Melania’s movie is out.
December 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Everything about this post made my headache even worse.
a16z gave a million dollars to a phone farm that's flooding TikTok with AI-generated influencers. A hacker contacted 404 Media to reveal what these accounts are and what products they're promoting www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.
www.404media.co
December 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
And to think it probably took several gallons of water to produce this slop.
Since there are no human-generated ballots being revealed, I took @mordyoberstein.bsky.social's viral Gemini AI prompt idea and applied it to the Hall of Fame election:
December 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Absolutely devastated. Reiner brought me down many good memories over the years, one of which was sharing The Princess Bride with my granddaughter who still claims it as her favorite movie. He made do many great movies and did so much good work.
I can’t gather all my Rob Reiner thoughts at this point in the evening, but my very first favorite grown-up movie that was My Favorite Movie, like I went around telling people for years that it was, was THE SURE THING in 1985. A very big part of the romcom switch being flipped for me.
December 15, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Just brutal. Grok is pushing obvious disinformation about the Bondi Beach mass shooting.
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.

The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
In English 110, does basic competency entail not using AI?
It’s been fun while it lasted: “Purdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students demonstrate basic competency in artificial intelligence starting with freshmen who enter the university in 2026.”

www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
Purdue University Approves New AI Requirement For All Undergrads
Purdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students meet an AI competency requirement starting with freshmen who enter the university in 2026.
www.forbes.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Just amazing. Talk about inhabiting a song and making it your own.
December 14, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I can't imagine the trauma of having to endure *multiple* mass shooting incidents.
so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings.

insanity.
December 14, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Right, I'm perfectly happy if Bill Clinton is removed from office...oh, wait....
Ugh fine let’s impeach Bill Clinton
December 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM