Sara Watson

Finding it hard to trust Pam Bondi...

Opinion | Republicans Will Use Paperwork to Kick Americans Off Health Care

Because, yes, administrative burden IS a thing.

The fascist solution of the impasse reached by liberal capitalism can be described as a reform of market economy achieved at the price of the extirpation of all democratic institutions, both in the industrial and in the political realm. The economic system which was in peril of disruption would thus be revitalized, while the people themselves were subjected to a reeducation designed to denaturalize the individual and make him unable o function as the responsible unit of the body politic. This reeducation, comprising the tenets of a political religion that denied the idea of the brotherhood of man in all its forms, was achieved through an act of mass conversion enforced against recalcitrants by scientific methods of torture.

I submit that the single most important book of social science in modern history is Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation. Want to know what the hell is happening in the 2020s? Read Polanyi on the 1920s.

Yeah. They're saying there's no truth except what people say.
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What big bucks??? In many disciplines, polisci included, many of us operate on shoestring research budgets.

Nik came home after frisbee practice on Sunday, upset because he'd heard about this from some of his affected friends. Seems like CCS threw the baby out with the bathwater in complying with the bathroom bill? Everyone should write letters to the board and superintendent asking them to fix this.

Columbus Schools changes student profiles to birth names after dropping transgender policy Columbus City Schools changed the names and genders of transgender and gender-variant students to their name and biological sex in district systems.

No idea what Columbus City Schools was thinking. The law they cite as justification says nothing about students' preferred names and pronouns. There was no reason to do this.

And I am not encouraged by the new Board candidates. The party line seems to be "we need to consult the community more."

No. The Board needs to Do The Hard Thing so that CCS stops universally under-serving its students.

- Provided an opportunity for a hearing and made an express finding of noncompliance on the record
- Filed a written report with Congress
- Waited 30 days after filing the report.

Has any of this happened?

According to federal law, the Education Department may not suspend, terminate, or refuse to grant or continue federal financial assistance until it has:
- Notified the recipient of noncompliance
- Attempted and failed to secure compliance through voluntary means....

Trump Administration Cancels $400 Million in Federal Funds to Columbia University The Trump administration blamed the university’s failure to protect Jewish students from harassment during protests last year over the war in Gaza.

The DOE 2/28 FAQ acknowledges there is a process for addressing Title VI violations. Federal law says the DOE may not suspend, terminate, etc, federal financial assistance until it has followed a process. Shouldn't Columbia be filing a lawsuit on Monday morning?

If you read one thing this month, make it this paper.

Reminds me of Bartels' "Homer Gets a Tax Break" too...

A puny little torture defender has thoughts on what a hero must do. Glad I cancelled my subscription to Bezo's POS newspaper.

Down for me in Ohio.

I am white. Ohio State anti-diversity actions make me ashamed of my alma mater. | Letter Letter: DEI helped me, and I am straight, white and privileged.

"The common misconception is that diversity, equity, and inclusion programs took away opportunities from people like me. I am writing today to share this is so far from the truth."

'Complete, utter disaster' - Lindsey Graham reacts to Zelensky meeting The US senator, a formerly staunch supporter of Ukraine, suggested President Volodymyr Zelensky should resign.

Every would-be dictator needs his Goebbels

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Zelensky has more courage and honor in his left pinky than Trump, Vance, and Rubio combined. What an embarrassment. That was nothing but an ambush by a bunch of bullies in an attempt to make a well-known hero look bad.

Millions of Americans saw a traitor disgrace himself and the office of the presidency, flanked by his toady and a roomful of lickspittles.

The President of the United States—the leader of the free world—just chastised a staunch U.S. ally and democratically-elected foreign leader for defending his country against a brutal dictator. And he did it in the Oval Office.

Embarrassing and dangerous.

Any university still using X and promoting it on its web site is making a mockery of "institutional neutrality."

Omg, this NIH overhead announcement. One of the justificatons they are giving in the order seems to be that some other foundations (like Smith Richardson, Carnegie) have lower overhead rates.

But how much basic science (w/ heavy lab components) is funded by those foundations??

100 percent.

I couldn't teach college students truth if zombie bill passes. It must die | Opinion The Orwellian doublespeak in Senate Bill 1 should chill every Ohioan.

There are so many threats to Higher Ed coming at the national level, but in Ohio we have another set of attacks coming from our own legislature.

Air Guardsman Jack Teixeira Gets 15 Years for Discord Leak Airman 1st Class Jack Teixeira was sentenced to 15 years in prison for leaking top secret documents to online chatrooms.

Thinking of the young air national guardsman who illegally shared classified material on Discord to impress people he played video games with online.

If he had waited a few years, he could’ve been placed high in the Office of Personnel Management, downloading US secrets with White House permission.

Mine is hemmed in by an institutional neutrality policy which they are interpreting very narrowly right now- ie, if it's not about internal univ stuff, they can't (won't) comment. We'll see if that changes this week.

Yes, the old mass parties that Mair talked about actually *connected* people to politics, and in the process created durable political identities and communities.

Trump *is* building an autocracy: asserting new executive powers and substituting arbitrary rule for institutions. It’ll be a patrimonial, personalist, utterly corrupt, creaking ramshackle of an autocracy, but one nonetheless

But these are matters which extend INTO the university.

Many of us are very demoralized.

The official line seems to be: "We comply w/ the law & refrain from taking institutional positions on matters that extend beyond the university"-- even if that includes federal research funding freezes, DEI bans, bans on gender-inclusive group restrooms, etc.