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Or maybe the campus climate has changed in imperceptible but still-worth-an-article ways, and now someone might scribble something on a bathroom stall? You could get an opinion piece out of a republican governor on that for sure!

This kind of bottle-shaming is a not-so-subtle way to push women out of the workforce.

But maybe some student scribbled something on a bathroom stall at a university, maybe the NYTimes could report on *that* instead?

hey a fun thing is that if congress is delegating authority to an independent agency then by definition that agency is not "unaccountable." it is still accountable to congress. and it is interesting (read: extremely frustrating) to me that these people just write congress out of existence here.

Opinion | I was a red state governor. What I saw at Harvard surprised me. The spirit of association remains alive in unexpected places.

Eric Holcomb www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

“I went to a place and didn’t find the bizarre caricature our propaganda had painted over the last few years.
So perhaps the immense damage and considerable civil rights abuses we did based on our own lies … are finally working their magic?”

Opinion I was a red state governor. What I saw at Harvard surprised me. The spirit of association remains alive in unexpected places. Students walk through Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Charles Krupa/AP)

What I've experienced may be a natural return to Harvard's more moderate bearings, following noisy displays of intolerance by campus agitators in recent years. Or it may be due to the Trump administration's forceful executive orders and fiscal pressure. Either way (and it's probably both), let's take the win and learn the broader lesson. From Ivy League campuses to neighborhood associations, service clubs and faith-based groups, communities of all kinds can restore themselves. And they need to.

Which stage of campus panic is this?

Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Not every student will strike this bargain when offered. Probably not even that many conservative students. But given these incentive structures, why wouldn’t a non-negligible number of students take this opportunity when offered it? Which is why wealthy donors created it in the first place. (4/4)

This is why. This student got to write a shit essay, got to bully a minority she evidently hates, got to get a member of that group straight-up fired, got to go out and do softball interviews and now is gonna receive wingnut welfare for a few years. (3/4)

I’d like to frame that story and hang it in the office of every journalist who’s met my skepticism about rw cancel culture stories with a question like “but then why are there so many of these stories?” (2/4)

As we follow the trajectory of the student at OU who wrote an essay citing zero sources and making no argument, got the instructor fired by claiming her 1A rights were violated, went on a tour of rw media and now seems poised to become a part of the TPUSA speaker circuit: (1/4)

Just legal Calvinball. Obviously lawless.

Sabrina walking the dog

Sabrina Carpenter made the White House delete their fuck ass tweet.

Opinion | Actually, the Supreme Court Has a Plan

Pretty embarrassing that NYT times published this Isgur essay, which is full of historical errors and tendentious arguments that show a lack of understanding of the legal basics and the relevant scholarship. Who even is this person?

From behind the Paywall: Episode 51: The George Circle Podcast Episode · In Bed With The Right · 07/08/2025 · 1h 35m

“Pre-disappointment as a stance of a kind of reactionary politics - I think we’re going to see a lot of that in the next year or two in the United States as things get darker” @adriandaub.bsky.social on New Year’s Eve 2024

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.

Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.

Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Like this is just some Madison Grant-level nonsense. Pure race science gobbledygook

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still waiting for intelligent longform cultural criticism with psychomarxist explanation of the "everything is butthole" logorrhea in the AI space

Publishers Marketplace Deal Report Category: Non-fiction: History PROJECT 1933 By Adrian Daub Imprint: Astra House December 2, 2025 Co-host of the podcast In Bed with the Right, author of WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING, and professor in the humanities at Stanford University Adrian Daub's PROJECT 1933, a comparison between the beginning of Donald Trump's second term and Hitler's first year in power, exploring the truths of living under fascism for readers of polemics by writers like Thomas Piketty, Rebecca Solnit, or Jason Stanley, to Maya Raiford Cohen at Astra House, at auction, by Ayla Zuraw-Friedland at Frances Goldin Literary Agency (world English).

So excited to finally get to share the news that PROJECT 1933 is going to be a book!!!

For anyone who knows anything about genocides and the incitement of genocidal violence, this is the kind of hair-raising stuff you find in transcripts of testimony before special tribunals.

Thank you so much for listening!!!

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oh my god someone made it (and kindly tipped their hat to me) bsky.app/profile/harp...

Accommodation Nation America’s colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem. By Rose Horowitch

The administration is extorting universities for billions of dollars and attempting to destroy free speech, academic freedom, and independent thought but the Atlantic talked to a few professors at elite universities who think the problem is that some students need a little extra time on exams

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