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Eric Parrish
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he/him/his, director, singer/actor, educator, union member, gay, voter, Christian, son, uncle, Gustavus and UNC_Colorado grad
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Eric Parrish @prince-bge.bsky.social · Nov 24
The demonstration of the lack of knowledge about the structure of the musical form from critics across the world is embarrassing and proof that a liberal arts education is the only thing that will save the world from itself. My lord the stupidity for clicks enticement is disgraceful. God help us!
theatlantic.com The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Nov 24
The “Wicked” sequel takes a dreary turn from the irresistible first film, David Sims writes—Even stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande “can't keep the film from collapsing under the lightest scrutiny.”
The ‘Wicked’ Bubble Has Burst
The musical started on a high note but ends on a drastically lower one.
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prince-bge.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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startribune.com
Immigration enforcement officers told religious leaders they won’t raid Minnesota’s churches this holiday season, the state’s highest ranking Catholic leader said Tuesday.
Archbishop: ICE agents don’t plan to raid churches over holidays
Archbishop Bernard Hebda’s statement comes after Gov. Tim Walz warned of a possible surge of ICE agents in Minnesota in the next two weeks.
bit.ly
December 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
prince-bge.bsky.social
I cannot tell you how often students don’t follow the directions and are shocked they get a zero. Participation points have killed thinking.
maxkennerly.bsky.social Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 6h
Paper linked below. The grading criteria, given to students in advance, was based on whether the student demonstrated they read the article and if they provided a reaction to some aspect of it. The student made no effort to do either; they blathered about the Bible.

drive.google.com/file/d/1qxnV...
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
December 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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theatlantic.com
For 100 years, Ireland’s Abbey Theatre has shown that a publicly funded troupe can deliver cultural riches and hard truths. Talya Zax on the instructive history of the institution that inspired America’s Federal Theatre Project:
The Pro-Democracy Case for a National Theater
For 100 years, Ireland’s Abbey Theatre has shown that a publicly funded troupe can deliver cultural riches and hard truths.
bit.ly
December 24, 2025 at 4:15 AM
prince-bge.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 3:58 AM
prince-bge.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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pbsnews.org
When customers choose faster shipping and earlier delivery dates, the system shifts from optimized routing to whatever gets the package out fastest, and that means higher emissions, said Sreedevi Rajagopalan, a research scientist at MIT.
https://to.pbs.org/48R6NFY
Fast shipping has environmental impact as delivery becomes more polluting
Fast shipping has become a staple of online shopping, promising delivery within a day or even hours.
www.pbs.org
December 24, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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alicecann.bsky.social
So many aspects I could quote from this, but this was the first that stood out to me. read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
Excerpt from Critical AI article: ‘As they promise gains in efficiency and productivity, LLM research assistants purport to “streamline”—or bypass—the challenging, recursive, and often messy work of identifying, evaluating, analyzing, and synthesizing the existing research on a given topic. Over decades of practice, educators have come to understand these processes as themselves integral to building students’ intellectual abilities and skills. Indeed, from the standpoint of learning, the process of research and writing is often more valuable than the final product handed in for a grade.’
December 23, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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strandjunker.com
Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Trump has sued over jokes, tweets, interviews, and news articles but not once over any of the countless accusations of child rape. — That silence says everything.
December 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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thedanrather.bsky.social
Meet an American hero.
One Courageous Correspondent
What happened inside “60 Minutes” this weekend
steady.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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motherjones.com
DHS shared an AI-generated video of Santa working for ICE, proving yet again that the official voice of the US government is still cruel, gross, and weird.
The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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insidehighered.com
2025 Most-Read Opinions | AI and Higher Ed: An Impending Collapse

Universities’ rush to embrace AI will lead to an untenable outcome, Robert Niebuhr writes. https://bit.ly/497ULGW

#EDUSky #HigherEd
An illustration of an AI chatbot emanating from/hovering over a computer keyboard.
December 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Biden tried to forgive student loans.
Trump is going to seize their pay.
Any questions?

These 2 CNBC headlines really say it all about who Trump cares about👇🏽😕
December 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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moxiest.art
call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else.

unplug the machine.
December 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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markjacob.bsky.social
ICE has posted a video of Santa Claus arresting immigrants. Your government is hijacking a symbol of charity to spread fear and hate. it’s up to all of us to defeat these twisted fascists.
December 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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sarahbca.bsky.social
Dear Kentucky Trumpers…

Tarrifs and Canada boycotting American whiskey.

Trump did this.

Merry Christmas!

apnews.com/article/jim-...
Cloudy future for bourbon has Jim Beam closing Kentucky distillery for a year
Jim Beam is pausing production at a Kentucky distillery for at least a year starting in 2026. The decision comes as the whiskey industry faces tariffs and declining demand.
apnews.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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advocate.com
Dianne Hensley is the new Kim Davis as she sues to overturn marriage equality with the hopes the Supreme Court will hear her.
Texas Judge who refused to officiate same-sex weddings sues to overturn marriage equality
www.advocate.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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theguardian.com
‘Money mule’ cases surge as criminals target young people on social media
‘Money mule’ cases surge as criminals target young people on social media
Fake job adverts and promises of quick money are drawing thousands into type of money laundering Criminals are increasingly recruiting young people on social media to become “money mules”, with official figures showing that cases are rising sharply. “Money muling” is a type of money laundering in which criminals move stolen or fraudulent money via an intermediary, who receives it in their bank account before transferring it to another, obtaining a commission along the way. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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unicornriot.bsky.social
NEW: Data Centers, the Climate Crisis, and Community Defense

How Local Activists are Interrupting Big Tech AI Investments

unicornriot.ninja/2025/data-ce...
Data Centers, the Climate Crisis, and Community Defense - UNICORN RIOT
As Trump’s Energy Secretary Chris Wright claims you should “build data centers” if “you want low electricity prices,” more than 200 environmental organizations have joined to “demand a halt to the bui...
unicornriot.ninja
December 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
prince-bge.bsky.social
Also known as we’re polluting the moon too…
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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mprnews.org
With jars of well water in hand and concerns about what might be inside them, residents from across southern Minnesota gathered in Fairmont this month to answer a question many private well owners hadn't ever bothered to ask: Is our water safe?
Private well owners in Minnesota encouraged to test for arsenic, other contaminants
A group of nonprofits are holding free water screening clinics throughout the state for private well owners to test their water supplies. Arsenic is a naturally occurring metalloid and has been linked...
www.mprnews.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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ndhapple.bsky.social
The press release from Friday. www.paramountpressexpress.com/cbs-news-and...
“Airs 7:30-8:30 PM, ET/7:00-8:00 PM, PT, After NFL Football, on the CBS Television Network and Paramount+ INSIDE CECOT – Earlier this year, the Trump administration deported hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, a country most had no ties to, claiming they were terrorists. This move sparked an ongoing legal battle, and nine months later the U.S. government still has not released the names of all those deported and placed in CECOT, one of El Salvador’s harshest prisons. Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi speaks with some of the now released deportees, who describe the brutal and torturous conditions they endured inside CECOT. Oriana Zill de Granados is the producer.”
December 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now.

It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
December 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Bari Weiss is even more hamhanded than I imagined her to be.

Gift link:
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM