Michael Trice, the Sturm Brightblade of Rhetoric

Begging reporters to make this distinction. She did not "cite" the Bible, she *invoked* the Bible.

"Citing" is this: "According to the Genesis account, 'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth'" (Genesis 1:1, KJV)."

Just saying "the Bible says" before your claim isn't citing.

trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties

As skeptical as I was about A&M but it is a possibility. Still think it’s Texas.

For every generation, there is a lupine from Disney that causes—a certain confusion.

My favorite moment in zootopia 2 was when Nick the Fox put on a tux to go undercover and the 20-something behind me whispered to her friend, “smash.”

Wouldn't mind playing that Florida game again.

Poor Aggie.

SEC Championship Game is overrated, and you didn't really want to have to play it anyway. Plus, you're still in the playoffs.

Well done, little bro. #HookEm

Resumption of Operations at NSF Information for NSF staff and the research community regarding the agency's resumption of operations after a lapse in appropriations.

Science People: We at NSF are still recovering/catching up/getting our lives together. But the agency posted these FAQs about post-shutdown resumption of operations which might answer a lot of Qs for you: www.nsf.gov/resumption-o...

Two years running. And just no real parity in how the various games played out.

"Legal experts point out that this effectively hands Trump the authority to unilaterally execute civilians who are not waging war against the United States in any recognizable sense."

Read that again, I had to.

The Texas beats OU, OU beats Bama, Bama beats Georgia, Georgia beats Texas cycle is my favorite quirk of the new SEC.

Going from "woah, Paul Rodgers is looking great for age!" to "OMG, that's Chris Robinson."

I really have better things to do than start shopping for fantasy-themed urns.

Well, several blue governments that occasionally elect Republicans did not elect Republicans today.

Draw trends and conclusions with care.

Trolling the middle schooler:

"What number did they give the chicken jockey?"

"Don't do this."

"SIX SEVEN"

*dies a little on the inside*

OU-rated

Healthy Texas D is making the OU line look like the Texas O-line.

Center for Dangerous Clickbait

Not sure I believe in fate, but Clemson football crashing as the admin cowers to political pressure is still rewarding.

Can Jimmy Kimmel sue Brendan Carr, or other federal actors, for violating his First Amendment rights by coercing ABC to suspend his show, and maybe eventually to fire him?

To teal deer it, yes, but without an effective remedy.

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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

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i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

Weapons was A LOT MORE Tales from the Dark Side than I expected.

Is it strange that the two leading figures in suburban horror are former sketch comedy guys?

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

Acts of political violence aren’t acceptable. Non-political school shootings aren’t acceptable. Sacking the legislature isn’t acceptable. Military occupation of peaceful American cities isn’t acceptable. Abductions conducted in courthouse hallways by masked agents of the state aren’t acceptable.

Assassination is as deadly to democracy as state violence.

Human rights are innate. Thus, a government willing to deny those rights to any of us will eventually deny those rights to all of us.

Kennedy's picks for vaccine advisory panel raise concerns about anti-vaccine bias A few of the new members Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appointed to the federal panel have promoted misinformation about vaccines and public health.

I’d missed that Kennedy had appointed Robert Malone to a board that advises the CDC on who should get certain vaccines.

Malone is one of the worst purveyors of vaccine misinformation. He’s so bad he was banned by Twitter.

Dude doesn’t know enough to be on Twitter but he’s advising the CDC.

OMG they finally figured it out. THIS is what college looks like for the majority of people.