Dave Singleton
@dfsingleton.bsky.social
📝 Test 4 Echo Newsletter. Higher Ed advocate and administrator. I’ve won and lost on Jeopardy! and the Game Show Network.
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If you're wondering what org it is, yes, it's FIRE.
And of course some of lawsky like Ken White are trashing the article despite him being quoted accurately.
And of course some of lawsky like Ken White are trashing the article despite him being quoted accurately.
NEW: A prominent free speech group helped right-wing dark money score a legal win against an Ohio school board and its anti-bullying policy, which protected transgender and nonbinary students.
www.importantcontext.news/p/how-a-free...
www.importantcontext.news/p/how-a-free...
How a Free Speech Group Helped Right-Wing Dark Money Undermine Protections for Trans and Nonbinary Students
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression weighed in on a case brought by Parents Defending Education in Ohio.
www.importantcontext.news
December 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
If you're wondering what org it is, yes, it's FIRE.
And of course some of lawsky like Ken White are trashing the article despite him being quoted accurately.
And of course some of lawsky like Ken White are trashing the article despite him being quoted accurately.
The Hawai'i Bowl is a Christmas Eve tradition for a reason.
So on Christmas Eve there is
no women's college basketball
no NBA
no NHL
no NFL
Doesn't this violate one of the Constitutional amendments? Like most Americans, I have never read that document. But surely national sports are required on Christmas Eve!
What are we supposed to do today? 🤣
no women's college basketball
no NBA
no NHL
no NFL
Doesn't this violate one of the Constitutional amendments? Like most Americans, I have never read that document. But surely national sports are required on Christmas Eve!
What are we supposed to do today? 🤣
December 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The Hawai'i Bowl is a Christmas Eve tradition for a reason.
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it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.
The Other Way the ‘Super Woke’ Left Discriminates
Race and gender aren’t the only categories that determine who gets special treatment.
www.theatlantic.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.
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Amy Wax becomes a free speech martyr, this grad student is ignored. The "campus free speech" crusade has always been a grift, a lie, a brazen effort to ensure only the "right" people have actual free speech. Anyone who took those people seriously helped get us here.
December 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Amy Wax becomes a free speech martyr, this grad student is ignored. The "campus free speech" crusade has always been a grift, a lie, a brazen effort to ensure only the "right" people have actual free speech. Anyone who took those people seriously helped get us here.
It's all brute force.
Which is not a bad thing, if you are the opposition. It's hard to fight, but you can fight because it's all telegraphed.
Which is not a bad thing, if you are the opposition. It's hard to fight, but you can fight because it's all telegraphed.
it really is something that no one affiliated or allied with trump seems to have any sense of how to use power with subtlety and finesse.
December 22, 2025 at 3:52 AM
It's all brute force.
Which is not a bad thing, if you are the opposition. It's hard to fight, but you can fight because it's all telegraphed.
Which is not a bad thing, if you are the opposition. It's hard to fight, but you can fight because it's all telegraphed.
I mean, school's out for the semester. So it wouldn't be the normal campus environment.
Just today NC State playing Ole Miss in Greensboro and Clemson playing Cincy in Greenville, instead of in better on campus environments. Great work everyone
December 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I mean, school's out for the semester. So it wouldn't be the normal campus environment.
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Debate also treats meaning, principles, positions, topics, etc as empty and interchangeable and essentially unimportant. Winning is the ONLY thing that matters, and you should switch up your positions to whatever achieves it. It's a deeply, deeply creepy thing to teach kids.
December 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Debate also treats meaning, principles, positions, topics, etc as empty and interchangeable and essentially unimportant. Winning is the ONLY thing that matters, and you should switch up your positions to whatever achieves it. It's a deeply, deeply creepy thing to teach kids.
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I have said it before and I will say it again, Debate Kids are the ones actually ruining the country.
Ask any gay person what "theater kid," when used as an insult, means. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
Move Aside, Snowflake: ‘Theater Kid’ Is the New Go-To Political Insult
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I have said it before and I will say it again, Debate Kids are the ones actually ruining the country.
James. Madison. Belonged.
Oregon 51, James Madison 34
Ducks advance to play Texas Tech in the quarterfinals.
Column from Eugene coming.
Summarize Oregon’s win in three words…
Ducks advance to play Texas Tech in the quarterfinals.
Column from Eugene coming.
Summarize Oregon’s win in three words…
December 21, 2025 at 6:06 AM
James. Madison. Belonged.
That was a horrible FG operation by the Bears right there.
December 21, 2025 at 4:04 AM
That was a horrible FG operation by the Bears right there.
A) Close doesn't mean good.
B) Let's see what happens with the G5 entrants this evening. Because if they both get dogwalked, the screeching will be loud.
B) Let's see what happens with the G5 entrants this evening. Because if they both get dogwalked, the screeching will be loud.
The 8-9 and 7-10 matchups of the CFP first round were very close games. That’s a step in the right direction after four lopsided games last year (with messed-up seeding).
December 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
A) Close doesn't mean good.
B) Let's see what happens with the G5 entrants this evening. Because if they both get dogwalked, the screeching will be loud.
B) Let's see what happens with the G5 entrants this evening. Because if they both get dogwalked, the screeching will be loud.
There is no need to be rude to an author, but the hed and subhed are not doing anything to highlight the central thesis, so that's part of the dissonance. (paywall is not an issue because it just requires a burner email to read the piece.)
The way people are being vile and rude to me is actually unacceptable and is disproportionate to what is in reality a very mild critique: that symbols outlive their usefulness which is why different political factions want to alter them. One of those factions is successful while the other isn’t.
December 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
There is no need to be rude to an author, but the hed and subhed are not doing anything to highlight the central thesis, so that's part of the dissonance. (paywall is not an issue because it just requires a burner email to read the piece.)
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If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻♂️
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December 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
In May, Twitch deleted 100K speedruns among millions of other videos. With the help of ArchiveTeam and @archive.org we saved these speedruns and 500K+ other popular Twitch videos. My search tool for viewing these archives is now live! archive.speedrun.club
Hey @governor.ca.gov.
The vote in the House today, and the vote in Senate last week…partly your fault.
If you ARE one of the people fully aligned to this shit, then just say it with your full chest so people know EXACTLY where you stand.
bsky.app/profile/jane...
The vote in the House today, and the vote in Senate last week…partly your fault.
If you ARE one of the people fully aligned to this shit, then just say it with your full chest so people know EXACTLY where you stand.
bsky.app/profile/jane...
Alabama rep cites Gavin Newson's vote to out trans kids to parents as precedent that the federal government should follow
December 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Hey @governor.ca.gov.
The vote in the House today, and the vote in Senate last week…partly your fault.
If you ARE one of the people fully aligned to this shit, then just say it with your full chest so people know EXACTLY where you stand.
bsky.app/profile/jane...
The vote in the House today, and the vote in Senate last week…partly your fault.
If you ARE one of the people fully aligned to this shit, then just say it with your full chest so people know EXACTLY where you stand.
bsky.app/profile/jane...
Well. As this heads to the Senate, something else for me to yell at my feckless Senators about. I mean, I already yelled at them about their last vote about the trans sports ban.
Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.
December 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Well. As this heads to the Senate, something else for me to yell at my feckless Senators about. I mean, I already yelled at them about their last vote about the trans sports ban.
I think the agita comes from viewing this through the lens of "pivot to video", which wrecked a LOT of folks prospects and cost them their jobs.
I also think, well...there is going to be an inherent bias towards "pretty people". Some of us have faces for radio. Some of us have faces for writing.
I also think, well...there is going to be an inherent bias towards "pretty people". Some of us have faces for radio. Some of us have faces for writing.
i'm still getting angry replies about it too. absolutely furious. you'd think i walked up to some of these people and spit directly in their mouths
December 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I think the agita comes from viewing this through the lens of "pivot to video", which wrecked a LOT of folks prospects and cost them their jobs.
I also think, well...there is going to be an inherent bias towards "pretty people". Some of us have faces for radio. Some of us have faces for writing.
I also think, well...there is going to be an inherent bias towards "pretty people". Some of us have faces for radio. Some of us have faces for writing.
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the full speech is something to see & is one of the reasons it is good to have a trans member of congress
youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...
youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...
Rep Sarah McBride on the steps of the Capitol
YouTube video by David Steinglass
youtu.be
December 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
the full speech is something to see & is one of the reasons it is good to have a trans member of congress
youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...
youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...
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I honestly cannot think of a current celebrity who is more suited to being a scene partner for the Muppets than Sabrina Carpenter
The Muppet Show revival is airing on ABC and Disney+ on February 4, with Sabrina Carpenter as the big celebrity guest. Get excited, I guess/hope.
December 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I honestly cannot think of a current celebrity who is more suited to being a scene partner for the Muppets than Sabrina Carpenter
Basically banning Black folks from Africa (along with others). Cool, cool, cool.
NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.
December 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Basically banning Black folks from Africa (along with others). Cool, cool, cool.
ACC, just see if James Madison wants to join and call it a day. This is preposterous.
NEW: The ACC says 12 teams will play nine ACC games next year, and 5 teams will play eight ACC games, due to contractual obligations and scheduling balance.
Here are the 2026 ACC opponents for everyone:
Here are the 2026 ACC opponents for everyone:
December 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
ACC, just see if James Madison wants to join and call it a day. This is preposterous.
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Great to see so much interest in our original game, Athletic Director Simulator 4000.
To celebrate, I'm turning the paywall OFF for the rest of the year.
Now everybody can play ADS4000! Enjoy!
ads4000beta.netlify.app
To celebrate, I'm turning the paywall OFF for the rest of the year.
Now everybody can play ADS4000! Enjoy!
ads4000beta.netlify.app
ADS4000
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December 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Great to see so much interest in our original game, Athletic Director Simulator 4000.
To celebrate, I'm turning the paywall OFF for the rest of the year.
Now everybody can play ADS4000! Enjoy!
ads4000beta.netlify.app
To celebrate, I'm turning the paywall OFF for the rest of the year.
Now everybody can play ADS4000! Enjoy!
ads4000beta.netlify.app
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Another way to restart the world’s idea machine is to restore funding and grants to universities, researchers, and artists.
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Another way to restart the world’s idea machine is to restore funding and grants to universities, researchers, and artists.
Okay, @alexkirshner.com. I think it's time to hop on a call (you and I) and have a chat with this young man.
bsky.app/profile/chri...
bsky.app/profile/chri...
Quarterback TJ Finley announces he's looking for a 7th school to play for and an 8th year of eligibility.
LSU (2020)
Auburn (2021-22)
Texas State (2023)
Western Kentucky (2024)
Tulane (spring 2025)
Georgia State (fall 2025)
LSU (2020)
Auburn (2021-22)
Texas State (2023)
Western Kentucky (2024)
Tulane (spring 2025)
Georgia State (fall 2025)
December 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Okay, @alexkirshner.com. I think it's time to hop on a call (you and I) and have a chat with this young man.
bsky.app/profile/chri...
bsky.app/profile/chri...