Ken Carroll
@crumlinfinglas.bsky.social
Retired businessman. Irelans and Leinster rugby fan. Dublin football fan. Living in greater Boston area.
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A UT man has been barred from attending school sport events after "belligerently" accusing a 17-year-old girl of being transgender--even after being told the student had submitted their birth certificate to comply with UT's ban on trans athletes.
“I wasn’t born yesterday, I know that’s a boy"
“I wasn’t born yesterday, I know that’s a boy"
An angry Utah parent accused a high school basketball player of being transgender. Will it keep happ...
A father attending a junior varsity basketball game in Canyons School District was banned from future games after he wrongly insisted a player on the opposing team was transgender.
www.sltrib.com
January 28, 2024 at 2:48 PM
A UT man has been barred from attending school sport events after "belligerently" accusing a 17-year-old girl of being transgender--even after being told the student had submitted their birth certificate to comply with UT's ban on trans athletes.
“I wasn’t born yesterday, I know that’s a boy"
“I wasn’t born yesterday, I know that’s a boy"
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One of the women who travels around fighting to make life miserable for trans people testifies all the time that her daughter’s team lost because of a trans athlete on the other team, despite there being no trans athletes in either team at the game she’s referencing.
These people are delusional.
These people are delusional.
A UT man has been barred from attending school sport events after "belligerently" accusing a 17-year-old girl of being transgender--even after being told the student had submitted their birth certificate to comply with UT's ban on trans athletes.
“I wasn’t born yesterday, I know that’s a boy"
“I wasn’t born yesterday, I know that’s a boy"
An angry Utah parent accused a high school basketball player of being transgender. Will it keep happ...
A father attending a junior varsity basketball game in Canyons School District was banned from future games after he wrongly insisted a player on the opposing team was transgender.
www.sltrib.com
January 28, 2024 at 8:58 PM
One of the women who travels around fighting to make life miserable for trans people testifies all the time that her daughter’s team lost because of a trans athlete on the other team, despite there being no trans athletes in either team at the game she’s referencing.
These people are delusional.
These people are delusional.
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If NYTimes had done just a modicum of critical investigation, they would've easily seen that Rufo's disingenuous claims of plagiarism were cover for white nationalism and eugenics.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...
January 14, 2024 at 4:54 PM
If NYTimes had done just a modicum of critical investigation, they would've easily seen that Rufo's disingenuous claims of plagiarism were cover for white nationalism and eugenics.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...
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A cute kid gets the first question: What would Vivek do first if he becomes president. Vivek says he'd use executive order to kill birthright citizenship.
January 14, 2024 at 4:07 PM
A cute kid gets the first question: What would Vivek do first if he becomes president. Vivek says he'd use executive order to kill birthright citizenship.
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Greg Abbott, pausing before answering the phone to make a wish that it’s news about more dead kids
Greg Abbott, opening a newspaper to the obituaries, clapping his hands like a seal
Dead migrant *kids*? Hoo boy, that’s like Christmas to a ghoul like Greg Abbott.
January 14, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Greg Abbott, pausing before answering the phone to make a wish that it’s news about more dead kids
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Greg Abbott, telling reporters his favorite figure from the Bible is King Herod who, quote “really got things done” unquote
Greg Abbott, pausing before answering the phone to make a wish that it’s news about more dead kids
Greg Abbott, opening a newspaper to the obituaries, clapping his hands like a seal
January 14, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Greg Abbott, telling reporters his favorite figure from the Bible is King Herod who, quote “really got things done” unquote
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It’s hard to believe, but all signs suggest nothing in this world makes Greg Abbott happier than dead migrants.
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar says three migrants are dead near Eagle Pass park after Border Patrol was denied access by soldiers deployed to border by Greg Abbott: www.texastribune.org/2024/01/13/h...
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar says three migrants are dead near Eagle Pass …
Texas officers took control over Shelby Park against the city’s wishes on Wednesday and have since blocked U.S. Border Patrol agents from entering.
www.texastribune.org
January 13, 2024 at 11:20 PM
It’s hard to believe, but all signs suggest nothing in this world makes Greg Abbott happier than dead migrants.
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Dead migrant *kids*? Hoo boy, that’s like Christmas to a ghoul like Greg Abbott.
It’s hard to believe, but all signs suggest nothing in this world makes Greg Abbott happier than dead migrants.
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar says three migrants are dead near Eagle Pass park after Border Patrol was denied access by soldiers deployed to border by Greg Abbott: www.texastribune.org/2024/01/13/h...
January 14, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Dead migrant *kids*? Hoo boy, that’s like Christmas to a ghoul like Greg Abbott.
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Greg Abbott, opening a newspaper to the obituaries, clapping his hands like a seal
Dead migrant *kids*? Hoo boy, that’s like Christmas to a ghoul like Greg Abbott.
It’s hard to believe, but all signs suggest nothing in this world makes Greg Abbott happier than dead migrants.
January 14, 2024 at 2:56 AM
Greg Abbott, opening a newspaper to the obituaries, clapping his hands like a seal
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Greg Abbott, banned from the funeral home for giggling
Greg Abbott, telling reporters his favorite figure from the Bible is King Herod who, quote “really got things done” unquote
Greg Abbott, pausing before answering the phone to make a wish that it’s news about more dead kids
January 14, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Greg Abbott, banned from the funeral home for giggling
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Weekend listening: Why the Reactionary Campaign Against Claudine Gay Is So Dangerous
We discuss the rightwing crusade against higher education, diversity, and pluralism - and why the mainstream media is so eagerly joining it.
New episode of Is This Democracy: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...
We discuss the rightwing crusade against higher education, diversity, and pluralism - and why the mainstream media is so eagerly joining it.
New episode of Is This Democracy: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...
January 14, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Weekend listening: Why the Reactionary Campaign Against Claudine Gay Is So Dangerous
We discuss the rightwing crusade against higher education, diversity, and pluralism - and why the mainstream media is so eagerly joining it.
New episode of Is This Democracy: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...
We discuss the rightwing crusade against higher education, diversity, and pluralism - and why the mainstream media is so eagerly joining it.
New episode of Is This Democracy: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...
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More than three-quarters of child labor violations in the first nine months of 2023 were in food service with most of those at franchised brands.
Fast-food giants overwork teenagers, driving America’s child labor crisis
More than three-quarters of child labor violations in the first nine months of 2023 were in food service with most of those at franchised brands.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 14, 2024 at 6:35 PM
More than three-quarters of child labor violations in the first nine months of 2023 were in food service with most of those at franchised brands.
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Donald Trump: The more I use this Hitler-esque rhetoric the more my supporters seem to like it.
Pizzagate guy: HOLD MY LEDERHOSEN WHILE I WHIP THIS OUT!
Pizzagate guy: HOLD MY LEDERHOSEN WHILE I WHIP THIS OUT!
January 14, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Donald Trump: The more I use this Hitler-esque rhetoric the more my supporters seem to like it.
Pizzagate guy: HOLD MY LEDERHOSEN WHILE I WHIP THIS OUT!
Pizzagate guy: HOLD MY LEDERHOSEN WHILE I WHIP THIS OUT!
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The rightwing crusade to get Gay fired was the latest iteration of the eternal reactionary grievance campaign against higher education and a crucial battle in a much broader struggle aiming to extinguish whatever progress towards diversity and integration has been made.
Weekend listening: Why the Reactionary Campaign Against Claudine Gay Is So Dangerous
We discuss the rightwing crusade against higher education, diversity, and pluralism - and why the mainstream media is so eagerly joining it.
New episode of Is This Democracy: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...
We discuss the rightwing crusade against higher education, diversity, and pluralism - and why the mainstream media is so eagerly joining it.
New episode of Is This Democracy: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...
January 14, 2024 at 2:28 PM
The rightwing crusade to get Gay fired was the latest iteration of the eternal reactionary grievance campaign against higher education and a crucial battle in a much broader struggle aiming to extinguish whatever progress towards diversity and integration has been made.
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But wait, even if bad actors were behind it, did Claudine Gay not still plagiarize? We assess the substance of the plagiarism allegations against her in detail, looking at concrete examples, placing it all in its actual academic and disciplinary context. Friends, there is no there there.
It was also part of an attempt to re-capture the institutions of American life that “the Left” has supposedly hijacked - something that far-right activists like Christopher Rufo, who orchestrated this campaign, are obsessed with: They dream of a reactionary “counter-revolution.”
The rightwing crusade to get Gay fired was the latest iteration of the eternal reactionary grievance campaign against higher education and a crucial battle in a much broader struggle aiming to extinguish whatever progress towards diversity and integration has been made.
January 14, 2024 at 2:37 PM
But wait, even if bad actors were behind it, did Claudine Gay not still plagiarize? We assess the substance of the plagiarism allegations against her in detail, looking at concrete examples, placing it all in its actual academic and disciplinary context. Friends, there is no there there.
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"Reports of plagiarism against the academic Neri Oxman, wife of billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, are 'accurate and well documented,' the chief executive of Business Insider has told staff." www.ft.com/content/9bc0...
Internal review backs Business Insider reporting of Oxman plagiarism claims
Owner Axel Springer says it ‘stands by’ publication amid dispute with academic and her husband Bill Ackman
www.ft.com
January 14, 2024 at 7:07 PM
"Reports of plagiarism against the academic Neri Oxman, wife of billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, are 'accurate and well documented,' the chief executive of Business Insider has told staff." www.ft.com/content/9bc0...
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Some people are taking this as a sweet nostalgic cat’s-in-the-cradle thing but no I was definitely talking about dropping an extremely offensive and unsustainable amount of money to educate three kids.
Wife just high-fived me for making last college tuition payment for first of three kids, which is kind of like celebrating the successful removal of the first of three limbs
January 14, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Some people are taking this as a sweet nostalgic cat’s-in-the-cradle thing but no I was definitely talking about dropping an extremely offensive and unsustainable amount of money to educate three kids.
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This campaign could not have succeeded without the mainstream media eagerly joining it - a decision emblematic of “neutrality”-theater journalism’s tendency to favor “balance” over accuracy and of an increasingly reactionary, anti-“woke” stance on the center.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...
January 14, 2024 at 2:41 PM
This campaign could not have succeeded without the mainstream media eagerly joining it - a decision emblematic of “neutrality”-theater journalism’s tendency to favor “balance” over accuracy and of an increasingly reactionary, anti-“woke” stance on the center.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...
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NEW: Judge Kaplan files an understated memorandum and order reiterating his denial of Trump's request to postpone the E. Jean Carroll trial because of his mother-in-law's funeral. (Trump is not obligated to attend the trial.) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 14, 2024 at 7:20 PM
NEW: Judge Kaplan files an understated memorandum and order reiterating his denial of Trump's request to postpone the E. Jean Carroll trial because of his mother-in-law's funeral. (Trump is not obligated to attend the trial.) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The billionaire hedge fund manager has unreservedly brought all his boardroom firepower and his social media influence to bear in a bumbling effort to squelch this story without so much as a nod to propriety, and it all hasn’t worked so far, which is perhaps worth celebrating.
"Reports of plagiarism against the academic Neri Oxman, wife of billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, are 'accurate and well documented,' the chief executive of Business Insider has told staff." www.ft.com/content/9bc0...
Internal review backs Business Insider reporting of Oxman plagiarism claims
Owner Axel Springer says it ‘stands by’ publication amid dispute with academic and her husband Bill Ackman
www.ft.com
January 14, 2024 at 7:35 PM
The billionaire hedge fund manager has unreservedly brought all his boardroom firepower and his social media influence to bear in a bumbling effort to squelch this story without so much as a nod to propriety, and it all hasn’t worked so far, which is perhaps worth celebrating.
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The principal of an Iowa high school who was shot while trying to distract a gunman at the campus has died, Gov. Kim Reynolds announced Sunday.
Iowa high school principal who tried to distract shooter dies, governor says
Dan Marburger, 56, had tried to distract the senior who opened fired at Perry High School on Jan. 4 so students could escape, his daughter said.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 14, 2024 at 7:43 PM
The principal of an Iowa high school who was shot while trying to distract a gunman at the campus has died, Gov. Kim Reynolds announced Sunday.
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When Ted Cruz said on 1/6 that "recent polling shows that 39% of Americans believe that the election...`was rigged,'" he didn't mention that he, most elected GOP officials, the President, and the right-wing media had been amplifying this bs since the election.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Analysis | Ted Cruz’s electoral vote speech will live in infamy
The senator from Texas exemplified the erosion of honesty that destabilized the nation.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 14, 2024 at 8:03 PM
When Ted Cruz said on 1/6 that "recent polling shows that 39% of Americans believe that the election...`was rigged,'" he didn't mention that he, most elected GOP officials, the President, and the right-wing media had been amplifying this bs since the election.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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It is often assumed that moderate Republican leaders abandoned Goldwater in 1964, but, as I've written, many of them, including the leading moderate, Nelson Rockefeller, circled the wagons as Election Day approached, as this Sep 25, 1964 article in the Binghamton Evening Press shows./1
January 14, 2024 at 8:20 PM
It is often assumed that moderate Republican leaders abandoned Goldwater in 1964, but, as I've written, many of them, including the leading moderate, Nelson Rockefeller, circled the wagons as Election Day approached, as this Sep 25, 1964 article in the Binghamton Evening Press shows./1