Brian Cubbage
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
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OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal
October 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal
Make yourself read works in their original languages rather than depending on translations. I mean, trying to read Mishima after two weeks of Japanese on Duolingo isn’t happening, don’t even try it, but if you have a decent basic foundation in a language already? Take a shot!
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Make yourself read works in their original languages rather than depending on translations. I mean, trying to read Mishima after two weeks of Japanese on Duolingo isn’t happening, don’t even try it, but if you have a decent basic foundation in a language already? Take a shot!
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so it seems the big deal comedians had with "cancel culture" is that we plebes didn't pay them to shut up
October 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM
so it seems the big deal comedians had with "cancel culture" is that we plebes didn't pay them to shut up
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What makes this work is that I think for many in MAGA world this really is describing a hellscape that they actually do think justifies a military response.
As someone living in "war torn" Portland, I saw this on Reddit and it really made me laugh.
Good --- very good.
Good --- very good.
October 2, 2025 at 5:19 AM
What makes this work is that I think for many in MAGA world this really is describing a hellscape that they actually do think justifies a military response.
Some days it’s like we are living in a nightmare simulation trained exclusively on Vico’s New Science
like fascism is just the unfortunate passage of time
September 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Some days it’s like we are living in a nightmare simulation trained exclusively on Vico’s New Science
Yes, over and over again for thirty years! But as Kang (or was it Kodos?) said, “the politics of failure have failed: it’s time to make them work again”
the best way to earn the respect of political enemies who think you’re irredeemably immoral scum? well, have you to tried sacrificing your allies to them?
September 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Yes, over and over again for thirty years! But as Kang (or was it Kodos?) said, “the politics of failure have failed: it’s time to make them work again”
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the best way to earn the respect of political enemies who think you’re irredeemably immoral scum? well, have you to tried sacrificing your allies to them?
September 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
the best way to earn the respect of political enemies who think you’re irredeemably immoral scum? well, have you to tried sacrificing your allies to them?
In many years of drafting, and reading, federal complaints, this is only the second time I have seen a judge *look at* a complaint before the defendants filed responsive pleadings, and the first to strike under Rule 8.
OMG - the judge in Florida just sua sponte struck the complaint in the Trump v NYT case for -wait for it - violating Rule 8.
Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
September 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM
In many years of drafting, and reading, federal complaints, this is only the second time I have seen a judge *look at* a complaint before the defendants filed responsive pleadings, and the first to strike under Rule 8.
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OMG - the judge in Florida just sua sponte struck the complaint in the Trump v NYT case for -wait for it - violating Rule 8.
Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
OMG - the judge in Florida just sua sponte struck the complaint in the Trump v NYT case for -wait for it - violating Rule 8.
Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval
September 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval
Coming to all networks in late night: An hour of the Trololo Guy singing to a ten-foot-tall poster of Charlie Kirk, every night
September 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Coming to all networks in late night: An hour of the Trololo Guy singing to a ten-foot-tall poster of Charlie Kirk, every night
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Une commission d'enquête de l'ONU accuse Israël de vouloir "détruire" les Palestiniens.
✏️ Le dessin du jour, par Coco
✏️ Le dessin du jour, par Coco
September 17, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Une commission d'enquête de l'ONU accuse Israël de vouloir "détruire" les Palestiniens.
✏️ Le dessin du jour, par Coco
✏️ Le dessin du jour, par Coco
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from my latest: "The trans-shooter myth largely began circulating in 2023 around the Nashville shooting, 'as the right began rolling back LGBTQ rights in earnest'... Two years later, and just a decade after the so-called trans tipping point, anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage."
September 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
from my latest: "The trans-shooter myth largely began circulating in 2023 around the Nashville shooting, 'as the right began rolling back LGBTQ rights in earnest'... Two years later, and just a decade after the so-called trans tipping point, anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage."
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What is a scroad? A scroad is a member of a far-right online hate group. They split off from the groinks in 2017 after the Glunt War, which took place on fapchan. One of their members is a U.S. senator
September 16, 2025 at 5:50 AM
What is a scroad? A scroad is a member of a far-right online hate group. They split off from the groinks in 2017 after the Glunt War, which took place on fapchan. One of their members is a U.S. senator
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I know I risk offending the sensibilities of this website, but it's almost like the leadership of higher ed, the media, and many of the other commanding heights of our institutions are staffed by idiots, cowards, opportunists, and social climbers.
September 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I know I risk offending the sensibilities of this website, but it's almost like the leadership of higher ed, the media, and many of the other commanding heights of our institutions are staffed by idiots, cowards, opportunists, and social climbers.
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Reporters talking with everyone who has ever met the shooter asking if the shooter knew any trans people. Healthy society we have here for sure.
September 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Reporters talking with everyone who has ever met the shooter asking if the shooter knew any trans people. Healthy society we have here for sure.
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on the one hand this reads as nakedly authoritarian and all that. on the other hand it reads as a drunk guy stumbling through a public park yelling that this land is his plantation, damn it, and his rules
September 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
on the one hand this reads as nakedly authoritarian and all that. on the other hand it reads as a drunk guy stumbling through a public park yelling that this land is his plantation, damn it, and his rules
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a question I often find myself asking these days: "are these the moves of a movement that feels that it's winning or one desperately afraid that it's about to lose everything?"
what we’ve seen from the right is the most insane case of cancel culture i’ve ever witnessed. the left has never even done close to a fraction of a fraction of what they want to do now
September 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
a question I often find myself asking these days: "are these the moves of a movement that feels that it's winning or one desperately afraid that it's about to lose everything?"
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a reminder that most of the time what appears to be hypocrisy is in fact a coherent statement of values
September 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
a reminder that most of the time what appears to be hypocrisy is in fact a coherent statement of values
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posters joking about charlie kirk were held to a higher standard than the wall street journal this week
September 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
posters joking about charlie kirk were held to a higher standard than the wall street journal this week
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I see, fighting antisemitism by putting Jewish names on a list and giving it to the government so they can decide punishment.
UC Berkeley has given the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty, and staff as part of an investigation into antisemitism on campus. One of them is Judith Butler. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe
UC Berkeley gave the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty and staff and info about their “potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism” — sparking due-process...
www.sfchronicle.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I see, fighting antisemitism by putting Jewish names on a list and giving it to the government so they can decide punishment.
“A spokesperson for the FBI added, ‘We believe that, like beloved cartoon characters such as Donald Duck and Homer Simpson, the shooter only owns one outfit.”
September 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
“A spokesperson for the FBI added, ‘We believe that, like beloved cartoon characters such as Donald Duck and Homer Simpson, the shooter only owns one outfit.”