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Steven Chappell

@grammarpurist.bsky.social

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Grammarian. Two-time Hall of Fame (College Media Association and Associated Collegiate Press) journalism educator. Lover of hot and spicy foods. UAB Blazer who helped lead The Return. Friend of DeSoto. Klingon at heart. #FIRETRENTDILFER

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Steven Chappell @grammarpurist.bsky.social · Jul 21

I just wanted to remind everyone that my old Twitter/X Comminternships feed is now on LinkedIn. I try to post to it multiple times a day as I find jobs and internships that are suitable for college students and recent grads. Please share with anyone you see fit!

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Comminternships | LinkedIn

Comminternships | 228 followers on LinkedIn. This exists to help college students and recent graduates find internships and entry-level jobs in media fields. | This page is a collection of jobs and in...

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Steven Chappell @grammarpurist.bsky.social · 10h

Apparently, @espn.com’s Friday night crew are mostly illiterate.

An ESPN graphic that spells Memphis as MEPMHIS.

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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 21h

Next Saturday Oct 18, millions of people across America will join together to send a clear message: We the people have the power. Find your local event today and raise your voice for the science, facts, and truth we need to counter the authoritarian overreach of President Trump and his enablers.

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power belongs to the people.

www.nokings.org

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21h

"There is no crisis in Chicago that requires the National Guard. To the extent that there is civil instability in Chicago it has been caused by Trump’s surge of federal agents into the city and their lawless assault on the citizens of Chicago."

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20h

Today, Johnson and Marshall are warning Americans not to go to the No Kings rallies because Trump might use the military to break them up. Pritzker is asking all Americans to attend to show their support for the Constitution and democracy and to oppose authoritarian rule by military intimidation.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21h

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 21h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Steven Chappell @grammarpurist.bsky.social · 20h

Today’s @nytimes.com The Morning demonstrates the need for copy editors. It’s an abomination of errors.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
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In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 1d

Letitia James and James Comey have the best lawyers on earth and will almost certainly be fine. The fact that there’s a zillion stories about them and virtually none about NSPM-7 - which affects countless ordinary people - really says something about who the media writes for

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required license plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

Federal immigration officers wear masks and no name tags. Now some are driving cars without license plates.

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

trib.al

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 2d

Try to imagine if federal agents under a Democratic administration had fired pepper balls at conservative clergy protesting--- let's just say --- abortion.

They've litigated and won Supreme Court cases over much less.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a reason academics universally rejected the initial push to canonize Charlie Kirk as a saint devoted to free speech.

We know all too well that’s the exact opposite of reality.

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 1d

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

Response from Sam Lau, Spokesperson, @hrc.org, the nation's largest LGBTQ+ civil rights organization:

"Yes, Lt. Gov. Earle-Sears, that is indeed discrimination. Vote for Abigail Spanberger."

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

AS: My opponent has also previously said that she thinks it’s okay for someone to be fired from their job for being gay. That is discrimination.

WES: That’s not discrimination! (2/2)

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

“Trump thrives on applause. But on ICE, the applause is fading into boos outside the Fox echo chamber. Polls show 64% of Americans want a pathway to legal status, not mass deportation. Support for abolishing ICE has climbed from 21% in late 2024 to 37% now. That’s not a fringe. That’s a movement.”

Pablo Manríquez @pabloreports.bsky.social · 1d

Analysis: ICE is Becoming America’s Most Hated Agency
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Analysis: ICE is Becoming America’s Most Hated Agency

From Pew to Quinnipiac, Americans now say the masked raiding has gone too far. Meanwhile, Trump seems unaware of his steep decline in immigration favorability.

migrantinsider.com

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 1d

Again, Trump has crossed a Red Line no president has ever crossed: personally ordering the criminal prosecution of an American he doesn't like despite DOJ not finding evidence of any crime.

If Trump can do this to the powerful, he can do it to you. That's not freedom, and its not America.

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 1d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Steven Chappell @grammarpurist.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA has always been racist. Its sole purpose is to spread bigotry and hate. It has no other reason to exist.

There’s never been good in MAGA. There will never be good in MAGA.

John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 1d

This knee-jerk, racist mob mentality vitriol directed at #BadBunny is what Trump’s movement has fostered and fomented, and what it demands.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/bad-bunny-...

#americanhalftimeshow
#turningpoint
#HalfTimeShow

Bad Bunny and MAGA's Super Bowl of Racism

Sometimes you don’t have to work to figure out where the racists are.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

We never incited violence, we just called this guy a member of antifa who funded terrorism and told our followers to pay him a visit ha ha and then a totally unrelated group of people threatened to murder him in front of his students ha ha

"The petition to disband our Turning Point chapter is blatantly defamatory," Ava Kwan, outreach coordinator for the Turning Point USA chapter at Rutgers, told Fox News Digital in a statement.
"The accusations of 'inciting violence' and 'making threats' are complete lies," Kwan said. "The same people claiming we're suppressing their free speech are actively trying to silence us for speaking the truth. It's not just ironic, it's hypocritical and absurd."

tpusa_rutgers Do you want to become a socialist? If so, make sure to pay this professor a visit!!!! All jokes aside help us report this professor who has ties to Antifa which now is designated as a domestic terrorist organization. DO YOUR PART AND HELP MAKE RUTGERS A PLACE FOR ALL STUDENTS TO LEARN WITHOUT BECOMING A RADICAL SOCIALIST

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

these people are actually out of their fucking minds and im so sick of being told we need to pretend otherwise

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Steven Chappell @grammarpurist.bsky.social · 1d

Trent Dilfer has not won a single road game since becoming coach.

He is incapable of that feat.

Steven Chappell @grammarpurist.bsky.social · 1d

When you mentioned it on the pod, I had to find the post. I can’t believe this damn thing is real.