Richmond Eustis

I have a brilliant idea on how to counter Russia and China. We could focus on building up our partners in Asia and the ongoing conventional fucking war in Europe instead of a pointless war in South America.

Someone make me a senior fellow. This shit's easy as hell.

Bruh.

I'm sorry to see the model spreading elsewhere. I really like and admire my colleagues, at least.

I'm in the Department of English, Modern Languages & Cultural Studies.

the "fellas" memes have dictated our current reality

One thing this world absolutely does not need is an opinion, on any topic, from Elliott Fucking Abrams.

Ugh. Also: disappointing and deeply weird of them.

The Trump admin submitted a sworn declaration under oath that Costa Rica had changed its mind and would no longer take Mr. Abrego.

Costa Rica has now said publicly that that this is false, that they have not changed their position at all, and that they will still take him.

I think a lot of administrators and some faculty in some fields would really like to, but we don't really have the resources or expertise, and there's a good bit of skepticism and resistance.

(The programs with the most money are probably most excited about it, so maybe it takes hold there.)

Alas, I think you're right. It's going to be training via "AI" for those fit only for a lifetime of labor, and real education only for those fit for freedom and rule. Again.

Want an education to live a full life? Not narrow skills training and AI smoke and mirrors? Want to know the joy of encountering the amazing things humans do, instead of being shaved down to an adequate-fitting cog in an economy that will never fulfill you?

You want the humanities.

Every regional public university should be blasting this message in every possible medium.

Congress wrote into the law that someone who overstays a visa while applying for asylum is not considered to be accruing “unlawful presence,” but it didn’t explicitly say those people couldn’t be arrested and detained — because it was presumed that they wouldn’t be. Well, Trump is doing it.

Gotdamn that was a pathetic display. Congrats on eking one out against the Hilltoppers or whatever.

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Tigers, what on Earth are y'all doing? #LSU

How I find your email.

You the one that robbed them little dudes out they shoes last night, ha
You don't go in the projects when it's dark, ha
You claim you a thug, and you ain't got no heart, ha
You came in the 'Nolia on New Year's Eve, ha
You got stuck in that bitch, and you couldn't leave, ha

Paid to Sit Through 30 Days of Right-Wing Dogma Over the past decade I’ve developed an addiction to spending most of my summer enriching myself through professional development. The majority of my “time off” the last two summer…

1/ In early 2000s, US govt spent ~$11M for (mostly) Hillsdale profs to teach high school teachers American history.
This was described in 2020 by NJ teacher Bob Fenster: “Paid to Sit Through 30 Days of Right-Wing Dogma”
fensteroneducation.home.blog/2020/02/27/p...

Fantastic thread about what the Right has in mind when it spouts off about "education":

ICE is affirmative action for Police Academy rejects.

The gent's evening wear! His shirt! Why? For what purpose?

I swear by all the gods if I start hearing vaccine "skepticism" from someone I mentally cast them into the outer darkness with other half-educated conspiratorial fools.

Zelenskyy says Ukraine has impossible choice as Trump pushes plan to end war US president demands that Kyiv accepts plan that would mean giving up territory to Russia

This surrender deal was drafted by Kirill Dmitriev and Steve Witkoff. Witkoff is among the dimmest of bulbs in an exceptionally low-watt array. Dmitriev sensed Trump's desperation and rolled him. That the US is trying to impose this on Ukraine is disgraceful.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

“its position”

Looking out my window into the square , I am thinking how we still get international visitors (many are in from conferences or vacationing), the music playing, the artists out, families, groups, workers etc. LIKE WHY COME AND BOTHER US? Why come and taint with such hatred?

Ruining our juju

Local news is reporting that the “feds” are saying there are two Mexican cartels operating in the city.
If that isn’t a bunch of bullshit. And shame on our local news for reporting that. This city is tiny. Ain’t no fucking way.

Black and white photo of James Boggs, wearing a light-colored sweater, seated with his forehead resting in his hand.

"If the black revolt does not succeed... Americans are going to discover what it is like to live as the black man has been living all these years, in constant terror of violence from the mob & from the police, never certain what rights he can exercise under the law & under the Constitution."

Imagine ICE arresting Creoles 😩

New Orleans just might be the place to stop this mess.

ICE Suddenly Loses Key Evidence One Day After Being Sued ICE says the evidence disappeared in a “system crash.”

Immigration enforcement under Trump seems to continuously flout the law, with little recourse available except for lawsuits. At best, legal action seems to only slow the Trump administration’s actions. trib.al/xfHHNbI