Brent Schrader

That honey is so good. We toured the apiary over the summer and I think we might start keeping bees this spring.

Hey, just want to mumble that this is wildly illegal and inappropriate and would prompt impeachment proceedings if we still had a functional Congress instead of one run by a blind, deaf and mute Renfeld wannabe.

Trump and White House Busted Using Red State Footage to Show ‘Chaos’ in Chicago The president posted the deceptive high-octane ICE raid video to his own social media account.

Can’t say I’ve seen too many palm trees here in Illinois.

Maybe in the President’s home state of Florida though.

This is absolutely a lie. There is no reason shutdowns trigger layoffs. They never have before. Trump is simply using the shutdown as an excuse to take federal employees hostages and to further gut the government.
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Wow. Talk about a gigantic serving of humble pie to Green Bay. Awful performance today.

Exactly this

The Lake Wobegon effect. It seems several times a year you can find a madlibs-style headline:

“[Leaders] say [challenge du jour] is deeply worrisome for higher ed, but not at their own campus”

It’s extra fun when it’s two kids and they team up for the third shift.

Another example of civil society censoring itself, creating a simulacrum of normality when things are not normal

I wonder how much of it is operating off of caricatures versus risk tolerance calibrated against the truest embodiments of each. Sometimes, those who fit the description are disproportionately vocal or influential.

a man is holding another man in his arms with the words eagleeeee written on the bottom ALT: a man is holding another man in his arms with the words eagleeeee written on the bottom

This is conflicting. Going to stay cautiously optimistic.

Gavin Newsom is not imitating Trump. He is mocking him.

He is holding up a mirror to what Trump does and how blind his supporters are to reality.

From the 3 hour North Korean style cabinet meetings to all caps nonsense tweets. It’s all worthy of mockery.

I’ll recommend one of my all time favorites: Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha. Every time I reread I take something new from it.

Happy first day of classes to all who celebrate in higher ed. I was pleasantly surprised by the number of students without headphones in or staring down at their phones, and one first-year student even stopped me for directions.

A refreshing breath of optimism on campus.

Finally able to squeeze in a little writing-related work. I'm scheduling interviews for a column on layoffs/involuntary separations in higher ed.

I've got several staff lined up. Wondering if any research faculty, postdocs, or full-time faculty who've been separated would be up for chatting.

Calvinball.

Coastal flooding and dangerous rip currents are expected tonight and tomorrow. Please: 
✔️ Stay indoors if you can 
✔️ Avoid beaches and dunes 
✔️ Sign up for alerts at de.gov/dens 
Let’s keep Delaware safe together.

Love this, might have to give it a go.

We didn’t cross paths during undergrad but when he came to deliver the commencement address, it was pretty special. My hands have never felt smaller than right after giving him a handshake.

Before you have the reflexive American reaction of “haha, the president has no power over this, it’s A Distraction”, consider that the goal here is not to change anything, but rather to prepare the terrain to declare any election loss as having been rigged.

I use Office Lens, part of the M365 suite to scan receipts to my work account and reconcile through concur when I get back. In a past life I used Genius Scan for the same thing, but all receipts stored on my phone.

CBS: “.. A government source familiar with the investigation says the FBI, the Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Justice inspector general are all in possession of a copy of the video that does not cut ..”

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Aaron Rodgers