Marcus Masciarelli
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The same people who think we need to bring back real standards to academia also want to give all students a “suspend my professor” button if they don’t like how things are going
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
December 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The same people who think we need to bring back real standards to academia also want to give all students a “suspend my professor” button if they don’t like how things are going
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The repeated pattern (see also Washington Post) is that these choices to veer rightward are not economic decisions: they turn off the core audience. Editorial choices are loss leaders for bigger corporate goals.
Major advertisers appeared to sit out a new CBS News town hall telecast Saturday, moderated by Bari Weiss and featuring an interview with Erika Kirk.
Lack of Madison Avenue support could challenge the viability of the format, which Weiss wants to expand
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Lack of Madison Avenue support could challenge the viability of the format, which Weiss wants to expand
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Big Advertisers Appear Wary of CBS News’ Bari Weiss Town Hall Format
Many major advertisers appeared to sit out a new CBS News town hall format moderated by Bari Weiss and featuring a conversation with Erika Kirk
variety.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:35 AM
The repeated pattern (see also Washington Post) is that these choices to veer rightward are not economic decisions: they turn off the core audience. Editorial choices are loss leaders for bigger corporate goals.
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At the time of Charlie Kirk's death, he was largely unknown outside of a narrow group of right-wingers and college students (24% name recognition, according to YouGov), so there is little doubt that the number who care about his wife is even smaller. Weiss confuses the GOP info-bubble with America.
I just have trouble believing that the median American is as obsessed with Erika Kirk as Bari Weiss is.
Lets check in at how things are going at CBS News
December 14, 2025 at 3:51 AM
At the time of Charlie Kirk's death, he was largely unknown outside of a narrow group of right-wingers and college students (24% name recognition, according to YouGov), so there is little doubt that the number who care about his wife is even smaller. Weiss confuses the GOP info-bubble with America.
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I have...I have no words. All I can do is hand Andy Serkis his well deserved "worst adaptation of an important literary classic in the history of film" trophy and find a nice corner to cry in.
youtu.be/g8wLmj9SiKM?...
youtu.be/g8wLmj9SiKM?...
Animal Farm | Andy Serkis | Official Trailer | In Theaters May 1 | Angel
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December 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I have...I have no words. All I can do is hand Andy Serkis his well deserved "worst adaptation of an important literary classic in the history of film" trophy and find a nice corner to cry in.
youtu.be/g8wLmj9SiKM?...
youtu.be/g8wLmj9SiKM?...
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ultimately, no one even grieved Charlie Kirk. he was just another thing for the worst people on earth to get outraged over. and when the outrage of real events wasn't enough, they invented new ones.
not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
my read is they were trying to whip up the usual frenzy, but then the effort got blown up by Candace Owens saying The Jews did it
It’s kind of incredible how little has been published about this guy and how little conservatives seem to care. Did people just forget these people were screeching for civil war when they thought he was a liberal?
December 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
ultimately, no one even grieved Charlie Kirk. he was just another thing for the worst people on earth to get outraged over. and when the outrage of real events wasn't enough, they invented new ones.
not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
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It’s so wild that “a random online leftist said something I found annoying once” is legitimately a huge driver of modern politics in a way that “online right-wingers with significant sway over powerful people say literal Nazi things” isn’t and likely never will be
Literally nobody has ever referred to her as a "birthing person," yet the existence of the term was enough to turn her into a full-on anti-trans crusader.
Ana Kasparian claims the left turned on her over her opposition to being called a "birthing person".
Ana Kasparian: "I don't have kids, I don't want to have kids, and I don't want to be called a 'birthing person', I find it super insulting."
Ana Kasparian: "I don't have kids, I don't want to have kids, and I don't want to be called a 'birthing person', I find it super insulting."
December 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
It’s so wild that “a random online leftist said something I found annoying once” is legitimately a huge driver of modern politics in a way that “online right-wingers with significant sway over powerful people say literal Nazi things” isn’t and likely never will be
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Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew speaks out after ICE arrest: I think what I would have to say to Karoline is just because you went to a catholic school doesn't make you a good catholic.
December 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew speaks out after ICE arrest: I think what I would have to say to Karoline is just because you went to a catholic school doesn't make you a good catholic.
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Which views the BBC considers unacceptably political in its presenters is particularly telling, isn't it?
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Which views the BBC considers unacceptably political in its presenters is particularly telling, isn't it?
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Was trying to think what movie this reminded me of and realized she's Kathy Bates in Misery here.
December 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Was trying to think what movie this reminded me of and realized she's Kathy Bates in Misery here.
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this is a stupid idea on its own but the idea of giving any new power to this administration at all, for any reason, is unconscionable
do better
do better
Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.
December 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
this is a stupid idea on its own but the idea of giving any new power to this administration at all, for any reason, is unconscionable
do better
do better
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Because this has already been shown to be a complete fucking disaster in Australia where the same policy went into effect 3 days ago... John Cornyn wants to bring it to America.
PUNCHBOWL: Cornyn “said he plans to introduce a bill “soon” that would ban users under age 16 from social media.”
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
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@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
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December 13, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Because this has already been shown to be a complete fucking disaster in Australia where the same policy went into effect 3 days ago... John Cornyn wants to bring it to America.
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Everything is really shitty.
But what if we could make it even shittier?
But what if we could make it even shittier?
Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.
December 13, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Everything is really shitty.
But what if we could make it even shittier?
But what if we could make it even shittier?
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Add to this that social media age checks in Australia are being outsourced to KWS, a US-based subsidiary of Epic Games -- created by startup SuperAwesome (youth-targeted ad strategies).
"We may share your information with our Epic Games family of companies" www.kidswebservices.com/en-US/partne...
"We may share your information with our Epic Games family of companies" www.kidswebservices.com/en-US/partne...
December 13, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Add to this that social media age checks in Australia are being outsourced to KWS, a US-based subsidiary of Epic Games -- created by startup SuperAwesome (youth-targeted ad strategies).
"We may share your information with our Epic Games family of companies" www.kidswebservices.com/en-US/partne...
"We may share your information with our Epic Games family of companies" www.kidswebservices.com/en-US/partne...
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Avi Shlaim - a British historian of Iraqi Jewish descent
“This Genocide is unusual because countries that commit genocide usually try to conceal it, while Israeli leaders keep announcing that they want to wipe Gaza off the earth”
“This Genocide is unusual because countries that commit genocide usually try to conceal it, while Israeli leaders keep announcing that they want to wipe Gaza off the earth”
December 13, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Avi Shlaim - a British historian of Iraqi Jewish descent
“This Genocide is unusual because countries that commit genocide usually try to conceal it, while Israeli leaders keep announcing that they want to wipe Gaza off the earth”
“This Genocide is unusual because countries that commit genocide usually try to conceal it, while Israeli leaders keep announcing that they want to wipe Gaza off the earth”
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Nuzzi is straightforwardly lying here. Her book does not say a single word about RFK's career in public life. She has explicitly refused to discuss his record at HHS.
December 13, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Nuzzi is straightforwardly lying here. Her book does not say a single word about RFK's career in public life. She has explicitly refused to discuss his record at HHS.
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An executive order is not Oz the Great and Powerful. It is the frantic gesticulations of an old man behind a curtain. The media ought to act like it.
Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That’s Legal
The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you'd think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across major outlets are breathlessly…
The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you'd think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across major outlets are breathlessly…
Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That’s Legal
The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you'd think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across major outlets are breathlessly reporting that Donald Trump "blocked states from passing AI laws" with an executive order. Except, that's not how any of this works, and anyone who stayed awake during middle school social studies should know better.
www.techdirt.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
An executive order is not Oz the Great and Powerful. It is the frantic gesticulations of an old man behind a curtain. The media ought to act like it.
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Everyone who thinks feminists have gone too far winds up going full fascist crazy. Many such cases.
Ugh why would they publish this not 48 hours after we recorded the Cursties on @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Everyone who thinks feminists have gone too far winds up going full fascist crazy. Many such cases.
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Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
I think about this, also in terms of vaccines, and really struggle with how you have a free society that doesn’t fall into this trap in one way or another. solved problems become invisible and the solutions become the source of conspiracy theories.
This seems logical but Dems solved* the whole problem of old-age health care costs in the mid-1960s and then they lost five of the next six presidential elections because by 1968 it was a solved problem and no one cared about it.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
December 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
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my favorite reaction to this was "what if i need to flee an emergency"
December 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
my favorite reaction to this was "what if i need to flee an emergency"
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again, ignition interlocks are one of those things where there basically *really is* a technological solution to the problem that greatly mitigates that tradeoffs, and it's a policy failure that they aren't mandatory for five years after your first DUI.
“Drunk and drugged driving is now so common in car-centric California that drivers routinely rack up four, five, six DUIs. One woman in Fresno just got her 16th.”
California has some of the weakest DUI laws in the nation. Here, DUI-related deaths have been rising more than twice as fast as the rest of the country.
But this fall, a state bill to strengthen DUI penalties was gutted at the last minute. calmatters.org/investigatio...
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But this fall, a state bill to strengthen DUI penalties was gutted at the last minute. calmatters.org/investigatio...
8/9
December 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
again, ignition interlocks are one of those things where there basically *really is* a technological solution to the problem that greatly mitigates that tradeoffs, and it's a policy failure that they aren't mandatory for five years after your first DUI.
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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Graham Linehan has such little self-awareness he *really* doesn’t understand how totally unhinged he seems in his ‘woe is me’ batshit crazy ranting! 😬
He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!
He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!
December 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Graham Linehan has such little self-awareness he *really* doesn’t understand how totally unhinged he seems in his ‘woe is me’ batshit crazy ranting! 😬
He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!
He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!