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Still amazing that the official government policy is universities can't do DEI except for hiring professors whose politics better align with the regime in power.
Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3d agoTime to add another formerly respected institution to the garbage pile, this time @aau.edu, which just worked with the Trump admin to endorse resegregation in high education, embedding MAGA fraudsters as faculty, and banning student expression. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
A thread on how heroes like Dr. Anthony Fauci make Trump and the Republicans look like criminals by comparison. That's why they tried to destroy his good name. That's the story.
Covid exists in a superposition where it is simultaneously a hoax, an overblown flu, and a bioengineered super weapon, and you can only determine its position at any given moment by asking which version is the most politically convenient
This includes people who came here legally on a visa, applied for another form of status, and are just waiting for the US government to decide their case. People who haven’t done a single thing wrong.
Hamed Aleaziz@haleaziz.bsky.social · last wk.NEW: The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired visas as they travel through airports, according to documents obtained by The Times and interviews with lawyers — a tactic that opens up a vast new pool of people for deportation. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...
All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
Chemjobber@chemjobber.bsky.social · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
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I personally would have enjoyed watching this game much better without having to see the face of the worst human in the world.
It rules that the list of cities to host a World Cup Final is like London, Berlin, Rio De Janeiro, East Rutherford, NJ
X (it's not Twitter any more and hasn't been in years) is the red state diner of the internet: the place lazy journalists go to get a sense of what they think "real" americans believe based on a ridiculously reductive and wrong definition of what it is to be a real american.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3w agoTwitter was wrong about Platner, wrong about the Odyssey, wrong about pretty much everything, but you know, it really reflects the mood of the people, you know?
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
April Glick Pulito@aprilglick.bsky.social · 3w agoStop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
“no talking about climate change and wildfires tonight" why? "you talk about it everytime, it's embarrassing" ok [after one beer] uh oh y'all it's gettin kinda hazy
In a perfect world, we would just pay beetle moses an endless stream of cash to create magical characters like the Bongo Dolphin or Big Binky. I had to voice the Bongo Dolphin. I couldn't rest until I chittered into a microphone. Your heart might break, but the Bongo Dolphin's rhythm is eternal.
beetle moses@beetlemoses.bsky.social · 3w ago
low info voters are constantly being convinced that Republicans have more moderate policies (and Democrats more left wing policies) than they actually do and the mainstream media is a huge accomplice in this effort.
McJulie@mcjulie.bsky.social · 3w ago2004 was when I read an article about how voters liked Kerry’s policy positions **much** more than GWB’s policy positions, but they thought, incorrectly, that GWB had those positions.
Eyy Paulie why don’t you go ovah there tomorrow and talk to Johnny Infantino about the no-bid contracts and that Ballahgoon thing
Your two options in American politics are the "let's raise taxes and give rural America subsidies" party and the "let's cut taxes and give it all to billionaires" party. I think it would be neat if there were a "raise taxes and invest in urban areas" option!
A very good articulation of what seems to me the very obvious point that, no, you shouldn't "bring AI into the classroom."
Welcoming Claude Into the Classroom Risks the Soul of Education
Faculty have a responsibility to protect classrooms as a training ground for thinking, and proliferating LLMs endanger this core mission of the University.
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nobody understands that their imagined immigration system is much friendlier and more orderly than the one we have under even the most pro-immigration presidents
About Trump v. Barbara: Do not give the Court and the CJ credit for reading and upholding the Constitution. It's a travesty that this is not a unanimous decision... it's also a travesty that the Court let this question percolate for a year, giving credence to a crank theory of citizenship.
on a sincere level: being a dad rules, kids can be challenging but there simply isn’t anything like raising a little human being and watching them turn into a person in front of you I love my boys very very much and I feel so lucky to have them
They came here fleeing persecution; rather than give them refuge, Marco Rubio’s state department will send them to die in countries they’ve never been to. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...
Women Who Fled Iran Are to Be Deported to Central African Republic, Lawyers Say
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the death of 60 minutes and the rest of the VRA on the same night really brings home how the current conservative project is to kill the progress and ideals of the mid century