Joshua G. Schraiber

If you put the DOGE guys on a desert island where the only way out was to say the magic words “I’m not sure what the answer is, let me consult someone who has worked on this problem for a long time” they would all starve to death

In a crisis, campus papers can really shine and The Crimson is respected by the both faculty and campus administration which gives it leg up when reporting.

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

Your question assumes we're in law-world, where the reasoning of a prior decision is to control like cases until overruled

In fact they'll just do it and be legends

The Crimson has been really killing it with reporting this situation

I don't know why people are so hostile to your take here lol, most Dems have been talking about how they lost the rust belt due to insufficient protectionism. I think rationalization by the next dem president is much more likely than scrapping them.

Harvard “is seriously considering resolving its dispute with the White House through the courts rather than a negotiated settlement.”

The university president said “the suggestion that Harvard was open to paying $500 million is ‘false’”

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

I’m sorry but the NYT is spot on. If the economy doesn’t crater, it’s more than likely that the tariffs become a permanent part of the US tax regime

Let's fucking go

“Garber, in a conversation with one faculty member, said that the suggestion that Harvard was open to paying $500 million is ‘false’ and claimed that the figure was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials...”

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Here's the thing about throwing your hands up and saying that gerrymandering, no matter how brazen, is judicially unreviewable: Legislators are absolutely right to do anything in their power to stop it. There is no other backstop.

We should also prepare to shut down the government for most of 2027-2028 ngl. What’s left that isn’t shut down? And what do appropriations matter when Trump asserts the right to spend or not spend any money he wants?

My Democratic colleagues and I just left the state of Texas to break quorum and stop Trump’s redistricting power grab.

Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections right before our eyes. But first he’ll have to come through us.

It’s time to fight back.

To your point, it is arguably improper to impeach him now for things he did prior to the 2024 election

However, conveniently, he has provided us with, by my rough estimate, one thousand new impeachable offenses in the last six months, so

Actually kind of cool that they got the Wealthy Capitalist Ogre from all those 1930s editorial cartoons to run the IRS

Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

Amazing how hard it is to write “Trump is an authoritarian.” Despite headline, important analysis: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

I think really the story of the past ten years was people taking for granted 21st century liberalism was locked in and therefore you could just kinda be fashy for a laugh only to realize a moment too late Skinhead Steve wasn’t joking after all.

Trans people are now banned from UPenn, Harvard, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, intntnl track & field, the Olympics, chess, darts, most federal jobs, the US military & intelligence services, federal facilities, public bathrooms in most states, & many local sports. Seems bad! Let me know what I missed!

Absolutely horrific stuff. International students are a huge boon to America, American education, and we're so much worse off by catering to the racist whims of the administration

Absolute madness. The entire concept of this is chilling.

Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.

Gen Z is about to vanquish feminism and Gen Alpha is about to rediscover it from first principles a few years later.

Panic! At The (Re)disco There is exactly one state where setting democracy on fire will do Democrats any good.

why yes samwang.substack.com/p/proportion...

This story is so important: US legal fees are so high that pro bono work provides one of the few ways for the non-wealthy to access justice. Now that’s being choked off as law firms bow to Trump.

The worst ones are people like Hassett, who are very aware that they are lying to the American people week after week on Sunday shows to cover for Trump, but do it effortlessly with a smile. In many ways worse than the brainless cultists. bsky.app/profile/atru...

It’s not just the dollars. It’s the goodwill the US generates, the connections we create student by student—what a devastating loss

Destroying one of America's greatest achievements and strongest influences on the world because of pure racist animus

Masked ICE agents hauled workers out of a pizza place in my Massachusetts town today.

Do I feel safer? No, the opposite. Do I feel wealthier? Not a bit. Do I feel that justice is being served? No, not that, either.

I’m mostly infuriated by armed, masked men roaming around and grabbing people.

Yeah, I think Citizens United is wrong for various reasons (largely about the corporate law of it all, not that I'm a bizorgs expert lol), but it's clearly within the confines of legitimate law

Shelby County is not