Andrew Pyle

There were some very silly moments in this game and I thought for sure [redacted] had it locked down with cheating things into play shenanigans!

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Look, I know we're all sick of hearing "if this had happened with any other president ..." but it's absolutely true and absolutely can't be forgotten.

For some reason, this nation gives this idiotic spoiled brat a free pass from things that would destroy the administration of any other person.

A first I thought the post ended here, I didn’t notice it was a thread - and I was quite confused 😂

You are most welcome

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

“Screw responsibilities, let’s do magic.”

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Highlighted quotation: “As an economist, Low searched for a more precise term to describe how she and other working moms often find themselves stretched for time and energy. She came up with “the squeeze”, and it’s backed by data that shows how women often get burnt out trying to manage competing demands at home and work, especially when they are parenting young children.”

BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name

I've seen a lot of concern about staying within the "rules" of each bracket; and would like to reiterate that these are not rules. They are the average expectations of players in that kind of game. If your deck doesn't meet those expectations, you can ALWAYS mention it to adjust those expectations.

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

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.

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Who’s eating the tariffs? You, mostly.

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My book American Idolatry uses data and history to tell Christians

1: the best way to love God is to love your neighbor and to define neighbor as broadly as possible

And

2: Christian nationalism keeps you from doing #1 b/c it demands you idolize power, fear, and violence

Minstrel?

My high school German teacher passed away this week. She was one of those one-in-a-million teachers who changes the way you think about learning. As a professor, she's one of the teachers I regularly think about as someone I want to emulate.

Today, I'm thankful for amazing teachers.

Thank you for the Fleem love on this one* #TeamFleem

*Didn't even comment about Fleem on the last one this feels like a very serious level of self control

Does the office have a Fleem in residence? #TeamFleem is curious about this

Workers are getting fired, placed on leave over Charlie Kirk posts Reactions to the conservative activist’s killing have become a litmus test for employers’ tolerance for political speech by employees, in public and private.

Lot of unhappy things going on at large and in this article, but one of them is that there a contingent of RW activists searching through social media for comments they can use to get people fired or worse. Be careful.

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‘Radicalized’ Evergreen High School shooter appeared to hold antisemitic, violent views in online accounts Social media accounts that appear to be connected to the 16-year-old shooter are littered with references to mass shootings and antisemitic views, The Denver Post found.

An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish.

The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.

Five Elements of Christian Nationalism Christian nationalism envisions a very particular nation: one that is ordered in such a way that only a certain group remains at the top and in charge while others have limited access to the levers of...

Some claim "Christian nationalism" is just "loving Jesus" & "being patriotic."

Lots of social scientific evidence shows the "Christianity" of Christian nationalism is much more than that.

In fact, it brings with it 5 pieces of cultural baggage.

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THIS IS WHAT IVE BEEN SAYING #TeamFleem #FleemersUnite #AlwaysBeFleemin

But Jim do they have Fleem?

But Brian do they have Fleem? Because he’s a very good boi

Protesters chanted that President Donald Trump is the “Hitler of our time” while he dined at Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab on Tuesday, a rare journey outside the White House to a D.C. restaurant. https://wapo.st/3V6st9v

But do they have Fleem?

ICYMI:

-SCOTUS ruled that "common sense" racial profiling is A-okay when ICE does it

-The WSJ released Trump's vulgar Epstein drawing

-The White House sent out an invitation for the public hanging of the separation of church and state

-The ickiest Murdoch gets to keep control of Fox

Episode 03: Crisis Communication w/ Dr. Andrew Pyle Podcast Episode · Culture Critically · 09/04/2025 · 53m

This week on Culture Critically, @aspyle.bsky.social joins us to talk about the relationships between crisis communication and critical analysis

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Great episode, really fun listen from a couple of “well seasoned millennials”

Episode 02: Social media research w/ Brandon Boatwright Podcast Episode · Culture Critically · 08/21/2025 · 46m

My brilliant friend and colleague @jamesngilmore.bsky.social has relaunched his podcast and you should absolutely check it out!

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This is why "diversity of thought" is a dead end. Equating anti-science quacks with professional scientists is how you end up putting worm-for-brains RFK in charge of spreading measles to Texas families.

Scientific consensus is good, actually.