@jakegronie.bsky.social
Very left of center. BA History Kent St MS Int'l Studies St. John Fisher. Aspie. An odd fellow who steams a good ham. Rochester, NY. #BillsMafia Cavs Kent State Orioles Flyers Arsenal BVB Amerks Cubs Cuse #MACtion
TPUSA's "professor watchlist" and the cadre of students they've deputized to report on their professors and fellow students is the ground operation, but it's the bureaucratic long game that Vought and the Project 2025 folks are carrying out that's the far more substantial threat to US higher ed.
This is all part of the American right's broader project of "laying siege" to all of the institutions that have historically served as pillars of our liberal democratic society, such as it has been. bsky.app/profile/seth...
So if your uni illegally kept demographic data on all applicants from the past 5 years, then you are compliance with what is now the law. If your uni followed the law and discarded that demographic data, then you are at risk of running afoul of the federal gov't which can rescind access to fed funds
A dispatch from the annals of Project 2025 authoritarianism: Universities are now being required to provide demographic data on all students who applied to their schools for the past 5 years so the feds can sniff out illegal affirmative action. Until last year, tho, keeping such data was not allowed
i still find it absolutely fucking incredible that Marco Rubio has a imagined version of Chiang Kai-Shek that he's turned into a ancestor spirit for the GOP
WTF is up with that dude's face?
I do not give the IRGC or any entities associated with Iran permission to mine the Strait of Hormuz. With this statement I give notice to the IRGC it is strictly forbidden to mine the Strait. The violation of ukase can be punished by law (UCC 1308 11 308103 and the Rome Statute).
It was about a year or so ago we were told we should silently concede them the right to illegally rendition people to overseas torture camps in the name of addressing immigration. That was the *savvy* political play we were told.
tfw a country's DMs aren't open and they don't follow you back
In today's newsletter: MLB seems content to tell Latin players "if you follow the rules you'll be OK." I'm not sure how you can say that when an arbitrary, and capricious authoritarian government is unleashing its secret police force.
Also: fuck Rob Manfred. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
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I can't look at a POW-MIA flag and not look at it was the equivalent to a W1G1GA flag.
New for @theverge.com: i wrote about how Kansas' trans ID law and the "age verification" systems popping up everywhere tie into larger efforts to force trans people to out themselves both IRL and online
GOP Congressman Vies for Most Racist Thing Said in Recent Memory: “Muslims Don’t Belong in American Society” www.jezebel.com/muslims-isla...
Witkoff to CNBC: The Russians told us they aren't sharing intel with Iran.
"We can take them at their word."
AYFKM?
How is that “you got no cards” statement playing out now?
We have narcissistic fools running us into the ground.
JFing Christ, I'm not computer savvy because I can use the internet.
Trump Antisemitism Inquiry Demanding List of Jews at Penn Heads to Court www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
Here is a photo of the woke sharia court that now decides things like mandatory windmills and recycling and gender in the UK.
What can you even say? These people deserve their inevitable humiliation and the nation deserves journalists with more self-respect.
BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.
Boebert: Have you reviewed any Epstein files that were released that you believe reference or relate to those specific 2016 claims regarding the Podesta emails Comet ping pong pizza used as code possibly.
Clinton: Pizzagate was totally made up. I can't believe you're even referencing it
