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media and cultural studies | author of Football and Manliness | co-author of Forming the Public | views are my own

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The president, who drones on about protecting women’s sports, publicly mocked the women’s gold-medal hockey team. A reminder this was never about protecting women’s sports and it was always about transphobia and misogyny.

23.02.2026 19:01 👍 5081 🔁 1381 💬 51 📌 33

Michael Scott level attempt to win hearts and minds

22.02.2026 02:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Exactly my reaction. I appreciate how well made it was. It must be hard to sustain a sense of tension for two hours with such a low stakes story. But I will never see it again and kind of wish I’d done something else with my 2.5 hours

22.02.2026 02:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

18.02.2026 19:00 👍 26481 🔁 6434 💬 552 📌 1078
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What is the “equal time rule” and why did CBS enforce it?

19.02.2026 01:31 👍 245 🔁 55 💬 3 📌 4
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Student debt is a generational injustice. Why are we squeezing graduates harder than the super-rich? | Gaby Hinsliff Reform of this stealth tax is long overdue – and with it, a shake-up of the whole university system, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Student debt is a generational injustice. Why are we squeezing graduates harder than the super-rich? | Gaby Hinsliff

16.02.2026 18:33 👍 267 🔁 99 💬 22 📌 2

They won’t let the science stop them from doing nazi style purges of trans folks from public life. It’s never been about evidence or data.

04.02.2026 13:58 👍 14 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

Wow. This is devastating.

www.science.org/content/arti...

27.01.2026 02:14 👍 1629 🔁 801 💬 31 📌 71

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

25.01.2026 02:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Never change, AFCON

18.01.2026 22:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.

15.01.2026 03:08 👍 6545 🔁 2800 💬 168 📌 161
Bans of transgender athletes about erasure, not fairness | Opinion U.S. Supreme Court will hear challenge to bans on participation of transgender athletes, with far-reaching implications.

The Supreme Court will hear two cases today challenging state bans on transgender athletes.
These bans are about erasure. Not fairness.

13.01.2026 13:35 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

Twitter is owned by a fascist, Facebook and the Washington Post have gone MAGA, and now CBS News is about to be turned into far-right state TV. Here’s why America has a liberal media bias problem.

05.01.2026 17:17 👍 2016 🔁 394 💬 19 📌 13
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Minnesota department finds child care centers targeted in viral video operating normally The state Department of Children, Youth, and Families said it visited the nine facilities at the center of right-wing claims of fraud and found them "operating as expected."

Minnesota’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families said that investigators have found child care centers at the center of recent fraud allegations were operating as they should.

03.01.2026 04:32 👍 264 🔁 105 💬 14 📌 27
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Thinking this is wrong is not radical.
Thinking it isn’t is.

01.01.2026 21:33 👍 4496 🔁 1897 💬 150 📌 75

What about Gose (beer)?

31.12.2025 04:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Total buyouts for 15 fired coaches in 2025: $228 million. That's a record by nearly $100M.

Kelly $54M
Stoops $38M
Smith $33.5M
Napier $21M
Freeze $15.8M
Gundy $15M
Wilcox $10.9M
Pittman $9.8M
Franklin $9M
Pry $6M
Foster $5M
Bray $4M
Dilfer $2.4M
Beck $1.7M
Norvell $1.5M

Total buyouts for 15 fired coaches in 2025: $228 million. That's a record by nearly $100M. Kelly $54M Stoops $38M Smith $33.5M Napier $21M Freeze $15.8M Gundy $15M Wilcox $10.9M Pittman $9.8M Franklin $9M Pry $6M Foster $5M Bray $4M Dilfer $2.4M Beck $1.7M Norvell $1.5M

This year, universities are giving $228 million to football coaches who failed at coaching football so that they won't coach football anymore.

02.12.2025 19:23 👍 650 🔁 270 💬 53 📌 113
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Opinion | Trump and MAGA’s rules of civility only apply to their critics A recent report found more than 600 people faced sanctions for speech after Charlie Kirk's killing. But the president and his supporters put no limits on their own incendiary words, says Anthony L. Fi...

Over 600 people were sanctioned for comments made after Charlie Kirk's killing. (One man spent 37 days in jail for sharing a meme about Republicans' indifference to gun violence.)

But Trump can implicitly threaten to hang Democratic members of Congress and it's old news before the weekend's over.

25.11.2025 14:07 👍 148 🔁 41 💬 2 📌 1

Could the Epstein Files kerfuffle take down Trump? Sure, maybe. Which could end up with Russell Vought and Steve Miller transferring allegiance to a MJT or Tucker Carlson or whomever. Don't take your eye off the big picture. It's the fascism, stupid.

19.11.2025 17:43 👍 197 🔁 35 💬 16 📌 5

I lost a job for calling Charlie Kirk a Nazi, but this is cool.

18.11.2025 18:32 👍 2149 🔁 461 💬 29 📌 0
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Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Amy Johnson to transition into senior advisory role This latest personnel change comes just weeks after UNC announced that Rachelle Feldman, vice provost for enrollment, would be leaving her own role. These changes are part of a larger restructuring, w...

“Reimagining” is a fancy term for austerity.

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

08.11.2025 00:12 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More via @ConsumerReports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

15.10.2025 20:53 👍 5083 🔁 3079 💬 41 📌 45

You hang up first. No you hang up first. Ok, we’ll count to three and hang up. 1. 2. 3. You didn’t hang up either! 🥰

16.10.2025 17:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#WarRavagedPortland

08.10.2025 11:23 👍 36207 🔁 11242 💬 1264 📌 1804

Republican Sunday: YOU HAVE AWAKENED A DRAGON OF WHITE RAGE WE WILL SWIM IN THE BLOOD OF OUR TERRORIST ENEMIES AS THEIR CHILDREN WORK OUR SLAVE CANPS

Republican Monday: we’re sweet widdle puddy tats what never hurted a fly and the mean man’s post fwightened us so bad we cwosed up our widdle eyes

23.09.2025 01:39 👍 2389 🔁 516 💬 82 📌 10

“Americans are free people, and we do not take infringements upon our liberties lightly. The time has come for resistance and to reclaim our God-given right to free expression.” Rand Paul in January. Also Rand Paul:

17.09.2025 17:01 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11

16.09.2025 20:20 👍 4108 🔁 2239 💬 133 📌 265

No word has ever done more work for rightwing politicians & pundits than “they”

15.09.2025 23:27 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Self proclaimed Christians

14.09.2025 01:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mamdani 1 FIFA 0

10.09.2025 15:29 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0