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Michael Trice, the Sturm Brightblade of Rhetoric @mikertrice.bsky.social · 17d

Center for Dangerous Clickbait

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Michael Trice, the Sturm Brightblade of Rhetoric @mikertrice.bsky.social · 19d

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

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21d

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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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24d

Some personal news:

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

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

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.

substack.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24d

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

Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson

By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.

www.thecrimson.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 25d

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.

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Michael Trice, the Sturm Brightblade of Rhetoric @mikertrice.bsky.social · 27d

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

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Michael Trice, the Sturm Brightblade of Rhetoric @mikertrice.bsky.social · 27d

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

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 29d

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.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29d

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.

Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.

Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.

It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 29d

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.

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Michael Trice, the Sturm Brightblade of Rhetoric @mikertrice.bsky.social · 29d

Assassination is as deadly to democracy as state violence.

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Michael Trice, the Sturm Brightblade of Rhetoric @mikertrice.bsky.social · Sep 8

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.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · Sep 3

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.

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.

www.nbcnews.com

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · Aug 25

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

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 25

"There are more than 19 million college students in the US. Most are well removed from corridors of wealth+power..43% of undergrads attend community college. 25% live with their parents."

a listicle for everyone, especially for the NYT editors themselves to learn

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...

The Typical College Student Is Not Who You Think It Is

www.nytimes.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Aug 24

Silly as this is, there is a version of it that would actually reveal something about the person answering:

Would you publicly praise Trump if it meant he’d exempt you from the bad policy he’s inflicting on everyone else?

That’s an actual measure of principle. And it’s one too many are failing.

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Michael Trice, the Sturm Brightblade of Rhetoric @mikertrice.bsky.social · Aug 24

Anyone writing on false profundity, BS, and GenAI results, especially conversational chat?

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · Aug 23

"But when we systematically looked at all these posts, a broader trend emerged: The larger the Black share of the population, the more a city was mentioned alongside the phrase “voter fraud” in the aftermath of the 2020 election..."

Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · Aug 23

Two troubling new studies find that lies about the 2020 election tapped into racist attitudes and white America’s long-standing fear of a real multiracial democracy. Read about the studies here: bit.ly/3Jqxp6A

The Racist Foundation of the Big Lie of a Stolen Election

New research shows how racist beliefs enable lies about voter fraud to spread.

www.brennancenter.org

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Michael Trice, the Sturm Brightblade of Rhetoric @mikertrice.bsky.social · Aug 22

West Marches-style Critical Role and WotC playtesting Dark Sun. What a time.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · Aug 22

This sort of admission—the VP is involved in prosecutorial decisions, the "concerns" arise from political actors, and the administration knows they don't have probable cause—would have prompted the Founders to impeach everyone involved.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 22

JD Vance: "We're in the very early stages of an ongoing investigation into John Bolton ... if we think Ambassador Bolton committed a crime, of course eventually prosecutions will come ... there's a broad concern about Ambassador Bolton."

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · Aug 20

New York Times and Washington Post:

Trump's Executive Order Reinstating Slavery Has Invigorated His Supporters. But Some Question Whether It's Legal.

Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · Aug 20

If Trump excreted an executive order legalizing slavery, every right wing site on the internet would instantly co-sign.

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Michael Trice, the Sturm Brightblade of Rhetoric @mikertrice.bsky.social · Aug 20

And Olyphant’s delivery of “presents as flora but may be fauna” was all-time.

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Michael Trice, the Sturm Brightblade of Rhetoric @mikertrice.bsky.social · Aug 20

Who has the best book on how American stand up and preaching culture intersect?

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Michael Trice, the Sturm Brightblade of Rhetoric @mikertrice.bsky.social · Aug 20

I enjoyed Romulus on the one viewing I gave it. May have been context, but passed the easy test for third place in Alien film lore. That said, these first two episodes offer some argument for belonging with the original two in terms of concept and execution.

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Michael Trice, the Sturm Brightblade of Rhetoric @mikertrice.bsky.social · Aug 20

Derivative in highly functional ways.

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POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · Aug 9

For those not tracking, in the fallout of the OGL 1.1 scandal, @mattcolville.bsky.social announced that MCDM would be creating their own system. Not a 5e derivative, but something built on a unique chassis. Draw Steel is the #TTRPG, and you can read about it here! 1/2
www.polygon.com/draw-steel-m...

The highly ambitious TTRPG Draw Steel aims to build a better DnD

'We saw people who’d been running DnD saying ‘I can’t go back.'

www.polygon.com

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