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Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.

“Officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

It’s like Rambo. Lots of people forget that Casablanca was the second movie (after Casablanc and before Casablancest).

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I don't think the Justices understand the extent to which they are playing with fire. The more they do this, the more District Courts will engage in open disrespect of the Supreme Court, because what other response is there to open disrespect directed at them? That's bad for the Judiciary, period.

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Texas Tech Puts Race and Gender Lessons on the Hot Seat Texas Tech orders sign-off for race and gender course material; unapproved content could be removed.

Andrew Martin, president of the Texas Tech chapter of the AAUP, called the memo a “profound disappointment” and said it swaps out faculty judgment for political judgment. “I’m not going to deny part of the identity of some of my students when they walk into the classroom.”

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Second wave of strikes at British Library announced - Research Professional News Union says lack of stable leadership after chief executive’s departure has “undoubtedly undermined staff confidence”

Breaking: Second wave of strikes at British Library announced

Union says lack of stable leadership after chief executive’s departure has “undoubtedly undermined staff confidence”

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You said it, friend.

According to this article, one professor has resigned because of this.

At the very least, faculty experts should be doing the reviews.

Actually that's a very good question.

Flow chart from TX Tech memo showing that most class materials must be reviewed by chair, dean, and provost, and that all curricular material must be disclosed

TX Tech has a flow chat for guidance on what can be taught in the university system. Two things:
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.

The thing I keep coming back to about this is it’s the OU administration coming out against… learning

the social stigma against projectors should return, it was doing something important

My kid used to say "More Eagle" when she was a toddler.

I love the retreating to regroup.

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

When did Jack White become America's Dad?

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People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.

It mostly worked well. It takes up a lot of class time, and I had to provide extra time outside of class for those who didn't finish in the allotted time, but it was easier to handle that than pulling my hair out over GenAI answers.

I did a lot of in class writing for my surveys this semester, I called them "reflections." Basically gave them a prompt based on primary source readings. They had the sources ahead of time (hard copies) but not the questions. They could have the sources in front of them while they wrote.

Plate of huevos rancheros and beans, smothered in red and green chile.

Last night someone asked for more food content, so here's huevos rancheros with Christmas chile in Santa Fe today. 🌶️🎄

In Texas, where basically the only thing that made it tolerable was the fact that there was usually money. Not anymore, I guess.

Oh no...

We Put the Spring in Springfield!

Anyone in Dublin?

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Oh dear. Many Rivers to Cross.