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@cassiciacum.bsky.social

Making Texas higher education great again. While avoiding β€œcontroversial topics.” No more teaching Latin grammar I guess….πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

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Censorship and Governance: The Modern Assault on Higher Education For the nation to thrive and for higher education to continue to serve as a vehicle for democracy, it’s essential colleges and universities have the freedom to foster the exchange of ideas without cen...

Facing constitutional headwinds, the strategy pivoted. If they could not legislate the curriculum, they would capture the institutions...partisan loyalists to boards of trustees and threatened budget vetoes to infiltrate colleges and universities.

www.theeduledger.com/opinion/arti...

09.03.2026 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is the Republican endgame for higher ed: unaccountable rw taxpayer funded institutes as incubators for rw snitches

09.03.2026 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Iran's Foreign Minister says in an exclusive with β€œMeet the Press” that Russia and Iran have a β€œvery good partnership” and Russia is helping Iran β€œin many different directions.” NBC News has reported that Russia is providing intelligence to Iran on the location of U.S. forces in the Middle East.

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Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school.
thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...

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I understand that there are a lot of folks on the left who instinctively recoil from religious language, and with good reason given its use by the right.

But please listen to this, and focus on how he's trying to realign "Christian values" so they align with and advance progressive policy goals.

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Study Finds That Execs Are Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI The same class of business executives who heaped AI onto us by the shovelfull aren't immune to its effects.

Outsourcing their what now?

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Trump bought Netflix and Warner Bros bonds at height of bidding war with Paramount U.S. President Donald Trump bought more than $1.1 million of Netflix bonds over the last three months as the streaming giant unsuccessfully fought Paramount Skydance to ​buy Warner Bros Discovery , ac...

Trump bought Netflix and Warner Bros bonds at height of bidding war with Paramount
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

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Honestly, the ablative is the most interesting case. It becomes especially fascinating in Late Latin. One of my favorite parts of teaching advanced Latin is introducing students to the chaotic ablative!

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the whole point of globally intertwined economies is it’s an even better deterrent than nukes!

until you elect a giant pack of coddled, know-nothing fuckwit narcissists

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i now estimate the chance of the average price of diesel reaching $5/gal in the next month at 85%

08.03.2026 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 190    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 11
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In accepting his WGA award, Stephen Colbert named and said something funny about each of his 20 writers so they’d be hired when his show ends πŸ₯Ή

@wgaeast.bsky.social
#WGAAwards

09.03.2026 01:35 β€” πŸ‘ 962    πŸ” 145    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 15

We are governed by idiots, dependent on idiot boxes to function:
"A documentary about Jewish women’s slave labor during the Holocaust? The focus on gender risked β€œcontributing to D.E.I. by amplifying marginalized voices.”"

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Iran's leadership has chosen Mojtaba Khamenei, the previous leader's son and aide, as the new supreme leader. So President Trump's war has succeed inreplacing one Supreme Leader Khamenei with another who is younger, healthier, just as hardline and has close ties to the IRGC.

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Bombed a school & then, 30 mins later, bombed it againβ€”ensuring any kids who survived & any rescue workers would be killed

β€œPeople were pulling out children’s arms and legs. People were pulling out severed heads”

One of the worst war crimes in modern history.

It was a schoolβ€”not an IRGC base.

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I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

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The article also points to the corruption of the selection process for new NEH grants.

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If you don’t have an HEB near you, I just feel sorry for you.

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When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!!

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

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Um, Fort Campbell middle school would like a word. We have many schools on bases, and Bolton knows it. More ghoulish nonsense from war Hawks to justify the murder of little girls.

07.03.2026 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3613    πŸ” 1355    πŸ’¬ 424    πŸ“Œ 119

Sorry bud, I just can't give you your $175B. Left it in my other jeans.

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An advance look at the cover for next week’s issue: β€œWar-a-Lago,” by Barry Blitt. #NewYorkerCovers

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So immigrants were β€œtaking our jobs”…

but now fewer immigrants means fewer jobs?

The math on their propaganda never works.

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a graph of year-on-year change in US Blue Collar Employment

a graph of year-on-year change in US Blue Collar Employment

The US continues losing blue-collar jobsβ€”year-on-year job losses have hit 238k as manufacturing, transportation, & mining industries lose jobs at a rapid pace, while growth in construction remains low

06.03.2026 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 218    πŸ” 80    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 12

The print press should always quote him exactly and TV should quote him exactly too, the way they do here:

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Hegseth: "The dumb, politically correct wars of the past were the opposite of what we're doing here. They had vague objections with restrictive, minimalist rules of engagement. No more."

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US Employers Unexpectedly Cut Jobs, Unemployment Rises
February data call labor market stabilization narrative into question

US Employers Unexpectedly Cut Jobs, Unemployment Rises February data call labor market stabilization narrative into question

Congrats to everyone who voted for Trump and a Republican Congress "for the economy." This is what you get, a sputtering job creation engine that can't make progress like before and keeps rolling backwards.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands Global survey shows young men and boys hold more traditional views about gender roles than older generations

I sense twice as many Gen Z dudes will not be getting anywhere near a woman anytime soon

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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Let’s hope it’s last rites.

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Screw Covid, I'm going to Sturgis. Troy Tassier is a professor of economics at Fordham University and the author of The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us during Outbreaks.

"Screw Covid, I'm going to Sturgis!" The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, held in August 2020, was the epitome of the individual choice mindset. Of course it spread cases outward and caused infections, illness, and death. A new research paper allows us to watch the Sturgis Covid wave spread across the US.

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Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the β€œemergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

DHS invoked the β€œnational emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign, which has secretly benefited a firm with ties to Kristi Noem.

(Published Nov. 2025)

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