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Hi @Jaysyn . I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Alternet.org has a reliability score on the Media Bias Chart below this magazine's required threshold. Threshold is 32 and Alternet has a score of 25. I am removing this submission in accordance with our magazine's community guidelines/submission rules.
Hi @Athena5898 - I'm really happy to see someone post a video on the sub, especially with really well researched and quality content like this! Would you be so kind as to edit the title and add the label "Analysis:" or "[Analysis]" please? Thank you!
Please take a look at our submission rules in the sidebar, or in the stickied thread in our magazine.
I've seen drag queens talking about how anti-trans laws are written in such a way to not only harm trans people, but also cispeople who are not gender conforming, whether gay or straight. It is seriously alarming how broad these attacks are.
I've been waiting my whole life for a transman comedian to tell the joke: I don't know why republicans hate me. I'm a self-made man. Isn't that what they want?
Hi @rdeets, I know it's been several hours since you've created this post, but the Mod Team needed time to discuss the nature of this submission. I would have preferred to give you very quick input on this, but this was a situation that we didn't anticipate happening and as such don't have a current rule in place.
It is apparent that you have posted content that you are the author of, for which a couple of us dislike the self-promotion and some of us feel indifferent/support self-promotion. It is clear that this is a self-published blog and not a reputable source of information vis a vis our media bias chart, in which case the Mods reserve the right to remove content based on personal discretion about reliability, not about viewpoint alignment. It seems as though the content of this submission is researched and balanced enough. However, the fact that it exists behind a soft paywall of sorts (intrusive pop-up on site encouraging registering at substack.com) rankles the majority of the Mod Team, despite the fact there are no other visible ads on this blog site. I also am going to point out that the publication date for this (July 11) is more than two weeks old, and the title is lacking a label, which is something I have commented to you before to please include when submitting to our magazine.
The Mod Team has decided not to remove this content at this time on the basis that we did not have any direct rules running contrary to such action, and that to create a rule today would be evidently reactionary to you in specific.
What I will add though is that we came to a consensus that content like this - though permissible here - should never be posted in the future as a Link submission, presenting itself on par with current journalism. Instead, we ask that in the future if you want to post content like this, you should create a Thread submission, label it "Discussion:"/"[Discussion]", include a title that is a clearly stated prompt or question to generate discussion, and then type something in the body of the submission to start the conversation in which you can include a link to your blog. By posting as a Discussion Thread, you gain the added benefit of checking the "OC" box (if present in the submission form from lemmy.world).
Ultimately, your blog meets our expectations as stated in the sidebar for educational/informative, but it should not be presented as tantamount to journalism. This is a research paper at best, and offers little to no analysis. The feedback provided in this comment passes absolutely no judgment on the viewpoint/skew of the content in this submission.
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Edit to add: the Microblog feature of the Fediverse is a more appropriate place to promote your blog.
The difference is that the GOP will discard him immediately in order to fill his vacancy with a useful idiot unlike Feinstein who refuses to go.
I liked the episode!
But I was going into it with expectations that it was going to be kind of mid like the first season of Disenchanted. I was very pleasantly surprised that there was like a legitimate plot line, even though it was kind of silly. It seem like the same level of incredulous shenanigans that Futurama has always gotten itself into.
They're catering to the fact that their core audience is getting older and harder to understand fast-paced speech lolol (said by one of those people who is starting to get old)
I fully clutched my pearls when I heard that 30% figure. You just simply cannot run a large state, public university to scale when you're down that many critical staff members. Something is suffering there.
I go back and forth whether it's really the case that politicians like DeSantis are big-picture minded enough to actively downgrade the quality of education across a state like Pol Pot did in Cambodia, to discourage critical thinking and increase dogmatic loyalty. Instead, I think it's more likely that people like DeSantis are myopically cruel and just want to hurt a subset of people so badly that they don't see the larger consequences.
Anyway, regarding Texas A&M, it's quickly about to no longer be the largest university in America in the next two years. The former president was so unpopular there and she introduced such huge changes to the institution (a big reason why I left) that they just can't be undone with a new university president. This is such a mess that I can't imagine who on God's green earth will take on this role. Chancellor Sharp is unlikely to hire anyone with a spine to dissent to him and the good ol' boys who exert quiet influence over the school. And anyone with half a lick of ethics and integrity is going to see the institution as radioactive at this point. I can't help but predict that only grifters will self-select into the president's chair. A&M is going to race itself to the bottom.
I have ties to this university, and I asked my colleagues who are still there. It sounds like professors at A&M are really shaken by this revelation and the other brouhaha around the failed hiring of Kathleen McElroy. I wouldn't be surprised if professors start abandoning the university in droves.
I have a colleague who works at a state school in Florida who said at an online virtual panel a few months ago that "the Great Resignation" had her institution down 30% of all staff/faculty roles because of COVID. I audibly gasped hearing that. But also, she's dead wrong - that isn't the COVID Great Resignation anymore, that's the consequence of DeSantis eroding professor autonomy and tenure protections in the state of Florida. Texas appears soon to repeat these issues.
I used to do standup, so I still write jokes every now and then. It's a shame I'm cisgendered and probably could never tell this joke on stage lol