This statement is hilariously stupid. "You have the freedom of expression, unless the university or the governor thinks what you're saying is bad, or you're being compensated for professional services" oh well that's fine then
"It is important to note that we did not deny anyone their academic freedom, we just said you cannot say or do anything that will upset Emperor DeSantis and cause his assistant to send us an angry email"
"At the University of Florida, our faculty have the right to take any position on voting rights, as long as it's in opposition"
Not only is the stuff about "paid outside work" nonsensical, it's a pretext UF only came up with ex post facto; indeed, they didn't even seem to know if the faculty were being compensated at the time:
"Most embarrassing Greenwald moment of the Trump years" is an impossible question to answer with dozens of candidates, but his fawning interview with that not-actually-remoreseful abusive misogynist is certainly in the running thecut.com/2020/08/why-we…
I assume that he was able to bring single-payer to Kansas as a minority backbencher though
The idea that overruling Roe would "just" "send the issue back to the states" has always been deeply misguided. Congress and/or the Court could easily make Gilead national. Among the movement that dominates the federal judiciary it's already very thinkable
(And even if it were true, pundits making the "don't worry, if Roe is overruled they won't ban abortion where *I* live can go straight to hell without passing Go in any case) prospect.org/features/men-o…
And...there we go. I have to say trotting Dungy and Tiricio out to go to the mattresses for Gruden yesterday was pretty bad then and looks even worse now
Matt Taibbi's ShakeShack is (pretending to be) OUTRAGED by stories that point out that COVID treatments are promising but no substitute for vaccines that prevent people from getting sick in the first place
Imagine THIS being the COVID-related media coverage you find objectionable (as opposed to, say, the massive Fox anti-vaxx disinfo campaign.) I had no idea it was biologically possible to be that far up your own ass
And needless to say this is the DeSantis party line: why worry about stopping people from getting a deadly virus if you can treat some of the people who get extremely sick
This is not actually the way I would like the Mariners to solve the problem of me having to chair an APSA panel in the middle of their first meaningful Game 162 in 20 years 🙃🙃🙃
At least I will receive $450 in compensation for performing this service [taps earpiece] oh I will PAY $450 to be able to do this I see nothing at all abnormal about my profession
In retrospect having Tom Glavine throw out the first pitch was a bad sign
Gottenheimer/Sinema oppose two of the most broadly popular provisions in the bill (cheaper prescription drugs/upper-class tax increases)! There is no empirical basis for what is asserted here as unassailable fact at all
A lot of elite reporters and politicians alike have views in the "socially liberal, fiscally conservative" empty quadrant and love to project them on the public in the face of overwhelming contrary evidence
Would also love to hear an explanation for why Kyrtsen Sinema feels pressured by constituents (LOL) to oppose the radical leftism of [checks notes] Joe Biden, when Mark Kelly with exactly the same constituents does not