Virginia Sapiro

Opinion | U.S. universities have lost sight of their core task It’s time for higher education to get back to educating the workforce of the future.

Hard to know where to begin to cite what is cherry picking, historically short-sighted, and just silly about this editorial. But I'm sure Bezos is happy to have it in his paper. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Those who are less likely to have appropriate proof of citizenship (e.g. birth cert in current name; birth cert plus proof of change of name for those who changed name; naturalized papers; passport) or who haven't tracked: Less educated, women who changed name at marriage, peeps who don't travel.

I am deeply cynical, but I don't actually believe this. Speaking as an election official, if we are required by law to see proof of citizenship to allow someone in to vote we can be arrested for violating the law. It will certainly have differential effects on different groups of people [see next]

Another really snowy night here in NH, but spring is coming (sometime) so I started celeriac, parsley, sage, and rosemary seeds.

Oh, we already all saw that. They sure don't. But the education/party difference is very important too.

They think that if they pay attention to Democrats who appear in the files we'll say, oh, never mind. Clearly they don't get it.

(okey dokey)

We require all this paperwork in NH where I am an elections official and a fair number of people have trouble getting the paperwork together or don't really understand what is required.

Anyone want to remind the Republicans that the majority of people without passports are probably in their electoral base?

At least she wasn't wearing her big old cross when she had to say that of course they might pardon a child abuser and sex trafficker.

So deeply, profoundly stupid.

It's time for winter to be over so I can stop sneaking around to various websites buying dahlia tubers hoping I won't notice.

The Seahawks ruin the ending to a magical Patriots season: ‘This game isn’t a reflection of our year’ - The Boston Globe Don’t let the final stats deceive you: Drake Maye couldn’t do anything when it mattered and much of it was not his fault.

I could be wrong, but I thought the Pats did that all by themselves. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/08/s...?

Quotations from Hegseth to the effect of what I put in the skeet.

From Inside Higher Ed: Hegseth decides top military folk have can't go to Harvard bc they will come back not "warrior class" enough. Indeed: would be sad if they learned something other than what he believes.

And some of us did both!

Not just evil but so entirely utterly completely stupid.

Families are struggling to pay rent, buy groceries, and afford health care.
 
But House Republicans aren't voting on a single bill this week to fix their affordability crisis. 
 
You deserve better.

I stupidly figured in college I loved social sciences so would never need advanced math. LOLOLOLOL….

In truth those fields all overlap so much now bc natural science has become so very interdisciplinary. So I think of (maybe) observational and analytical distinctions? (And I did my BA just when all requirements dropped so later regretted bitterly not doing any college level math or nat sci.)

The natural science (i assume that’s what “science” means) should include one lab.

But then, the neighborhood where I grew up in NYC was mostly Nuyorican —aka the Barrio.

“Lying in feces, throw up, urine… like animals in a cage at the zoo.”

A whistleblower recounts the horrific ICE detention center conditions in Baltimore — a similar story everywhere.

The Wisconsin Idea.

GULF Kid Rock makes music for dudes who are only allowed to see their kids on weekends, but don't

He knows his audience

Even the dogs of the K-9 unit are not allowed to drink the water at the prison I teach at but which inmates must drink.

This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.

Old white lady here. I really liked the half time show. Certainly more than the main event. Not exactly exciting football.

Was thinking about her when I watched.

Kind of says it all.

Among the people who will likely be most hurt by this are folks without passports. Mostly their own base.