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Plaintiffs have submitted overwhelming evidence. Across 74 declarations and more than 700 pages of supporting documents, Plaintiffs show that the Administration and its executive agencies are engaged in a concerted campaign to purge “woke,” “left,” and “socialist” viewpoints from our country’s leading universities. Agency officials, as well as the President and Vice President, have repeatedly and publicly announced a playbook of initiating civil rights investigations of preeminent universities to justify cutting off federal funding, with the goal of bringing universities to their knees and forcing them to change their ideological tune. Universities are then presented with agreements to restore federal funding under which they must change what they teach, restrict student anonymity in protests, and endorse the Administration’s view of gender, among other things. Defendants submit nothing to refute this. It is undisputed that this precise playbook is now being executed at the University of California. Defendant Leo Terrell, who heads the Administration’s Task Force to Combat AntiSemitism, publicly stated in a news interview that the UC had been “hijacked by the left” and vowed to begin investigations. The Department of Justice and Department of Education have

I mean, the first paragraph lays it all out.

The President, VP, and Agency officials, including the head of the Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, told us exactly what they intended to do & then did, which was use pretextual civil rights claims to impose ideological control on universities.

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Toward an Understanding of Fade-out in Early Childhood Education Programs John A. List & Haruka Uchida X LinkedIn Facebook Bluesky Threads Email Link Working Paper 33027 DOI 10.3386/w33027 Issue Date October 2024 An unsettling stylized fact is that decorated early childhood education programs improve cognitive skills in the short-term, but lose their efficacy after a few years. We implement a field experiment with two stages of randomization to explore the underpinnings of the fade-out effect. We first randomly assign preschool access to children, and then partner with the local school district to randomly assign the same children to classmates throughout elementary school. We find that the fade-out effect is critically-linked to the share of classroom peers assigned to preschool access—with enough treated peers the classic fade-out effect is muted. Our results highlight a paradoxical insight: while the fade-out effect has been viewed as a devastating critique of early childhood programs, our results highlight that fade-out is a key rationale for providing early education to all children. This is because human capital accumulation is inherently a social activity, leading early education programs to deliver their largest benefits at scale when everyone receives such programs.

"...the fade-out effect has been viewed as a devastating critique of early childhood programs, our results highlight that fade-out is a key rationale for providing early education to all... largest benefits at scale when everyone receives such programs"
#EconSky #PolicySky
www.nber.org/papers/w33027

my man out here in a child's sports coat

while we're on the topic, though, people keep mentioning legislators that they like as candidates for who to get the senate leader job, and, gang, you don't want someone you like in that job, because, sure as the sun will rise, you will come to dislike them

the thing about predicting russia's collapse is eventually you'll be right you just have to wait anywhere from a few weeks to seventy years

Was looking at this again data yesterday. The BEA’s breakdown of PCE shows that the top 10% don’t even account for 50% of spending *within the categories for which they account for largest proportion of the total*.

This is what sent him into a week long crashout

trump in a suspiciously shaped suit, looking rather frail and pale, his hair is entirely white now

looking great, mister president, top notch, they're saying things like "no one's ever stuffed more padding into a suit", and, "everyone can notice how great you look, you know, considering the circumstances" and "it's great when a man finally learns to stop worrying about his hair"

And they say deterrence doesn’t work

This is part of why, although I don't click the links and wish most wouldn't, I do think it's worth talking about the moral rot embodied by this piece and this career, even tho people say that's why Nuzzi types get promoted. I'm really not sure that is the main reason, and condemnation is important

I dream of a day when corporations have to reapply for every tax break, contract, and grant every six months, with a requirement that it is the CEO who must complete the paperwork, and attest under penalty of law that they personally did so.

Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online.

Affidavits reviewed by WIRED cite previous @mattburgess1.bsky.social reporting revealing the use of Starlink systems in scam compounds in Myanmar:

This seems to be a common misconception. *There is nowhere to go* for most faculty & staff. The academic labor market is incredibly inflexible even in good times, we haven't been in good times for decades, and we're now in a *contracting* phase, not expanding. For most people, there's nowhere to go.

Condé Nast abruptly fires 4 staffers after HR confrontation The firings were an unsubtle message to its employee union that the publisher was taking a harder line in its dealings with employees.

By the way, Olivia Nuzzi employer Vanity Fair is owned by Condé Nast ... which recently fired four employees for union activity www.semafor.com/article/11/0...

every lawyer who participates in this subversion of law, bribery, and corruption should be disbarred and go to jail.

alright let’s get something more pleasant going. what two books would you leave out on your coffee table so a reporter can mention you have them. doesn’t matter if you’ve read them. for me it’s Pale Fire (which I did read) and Ulysses (got like 15% of the way in)

Ate at a Thai/Jewish fusion food truck named L'Thaim and it was fantastic. Curry latkes.

Not only a job but a promotion!

The blast that killed 16 people at a Tennessee workplace set off 24,000 pounds of explosives, authorities say | CNN The catastrophe at a Tennessee explosives plant started in a building that made devices used for mining and detonated more than 24,000 pounds of explosives, authorities said Friday.

Remember when that train derailed in Ohio and we heard about it for months?

Contrast - what have you seen about this since the week it happened?

www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/u...

Nice job senate republicans you fucking clowns

who gets this kind of shitty romanticizing prose written about them, and who gets dry commentary, depends on being in the club or not. as a journalist I find little more obnoxious than the idea of going to bat for somebody who violated basic professional ethics simply because she's in the club

you know, it's not the only thing going on here, but how the fuck does an english professor at harvard misread lolita this badly

addendum to agree with this. yes the writer is attempting to do the NYT patented knowing, above-it-all house style. it just is a) exceptionally ill-judged b) done poorly in any case c) coupled with a glamorous, high-status photo shoot and a plug for the book bsky.app/profile/davi...

Oh my god...

capping a week of stories about elite depravity with a story about a journalist who broke basically every possible ethical rule (and was rewarded for it) to elevate an unqualified wealthy failson who is trying to destroy american public health is, well, it's a lot, tbh

Ignoring reporters and responding with an instagram reel titled “Why I talked to Jeffrey Epstein” is insanely childish, and this decor is hideous

All the NYT defending on journalism ethics grounds and then they do this, lmao

Also one more article praising Sweden, which killed an unnecessarily big share of its population at the start of the pandemic by not taking the same common-sense measures other countries took.

This is like doing a glowing profile of the unwell women who’d write Charles Manson in prison. The only difference is that Kennedy has killed more people.

end of empire vibes. the most decadent media. all vice is virtue to them.