Laura Jones-Pettit

I remember when a friend’s grandpa told me he didn’t approve of Johnny Cash because he was a cop-hater and thinking oh, we’re different types of Country. Townie conservative and hillbilly come at things different.

So he’s fine with taxpayers taking a loss on student loan revenue but ONLY if nobody benefits. Right. Brilliant guy.

a wizard is holding a magic wand in front of a fire demon ALT: a wizard is holding a magic wand in front of a fire demon

It means they’re hellbent on digging too deep, awakening ancient foes, so on, so forth.

I understand the impulse to highlight the acceptable things that can be found in the "compact" and imagine how those could be built on.

But those elements are a disguise. The gov't doesn't care about them. The *purpose* of the compact is unconstitutional federal control over higher education.

What people cannot seem to get through their heads is that the justifications the Trump administration uses to attack higher education is a *pretext* not the actual reason. There is no reasonable permanent compromise available, because their actual goal is control.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

May they never work in education and have to interact with students who would definitely sense their weakness and torment them for sport 😅

John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine

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Spending Soars, Rankings Fall at New College of Florida Student outcomes and rankings are slipping at the liberal arts college while spending is up. Critics believe the college is at risk of implosion, and some are calling for privatization.

DeSantis gave it a right-wing overhaul in 2023. Since then, ~40% of the faculty has resigned. It spends more than 10x per student what the other schools do & ranking fell from 76th to 135th.

www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

The scenes of ICE coming out of Chicago are absolutely horrific and absolute bullshit.

Zero chance this does not result in more widespread violence and it's entirely driven by the Federal government against peaceful citizens, engaging in their right to protest.

This is coming to other cities...

I’m mostly just bemused by how easily everyone is calling an it a she when so many people act like pronouns are sacred and exact and real and precious.

Wow, they did all that and got *two* suspected gang members? Suspected? Wow. And two of them? Wow.

Plus a guy with a previous charge of marihuana possession? Wow.

Wow, that is impressive. Wow, when are we throwing these heroes a parade? Wow.

Big shoutout to Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)

Daniel Tiger

On the enshittification of technology: Microsoft Word keeps telling me I have spelled "education" wrong, which I have not.

Well boss, we looked into the Palantir and Who Could Have Ever Guessed, it had been perverted by deep evil and now we don’t know who has our information and this seems quite bad

Lol my industry DOES NOT just have jobs willy nilly, you literally have to pick up and move to Wherever, USA, and even if I WAS close to family, both sets of grandparents are BUSY and UNWELL. "Just live near the grandparents" is ridiculous advice.

NE Ohio Regional Sewer District really out here single-handedly keeping the vibes bright

While I'm not theoretically opposed to grammar tools, I am profoundly opposed to the moments when limited-vocab tech tries to "correct" me. For instance: synecdochal is indeed a word, I will not be changing it, get that red line outtahere, autocorrect should be illegal.

Things that used to be baseline expectation of public behavior from leaders: courtesy, dignity, maturity, probity, professionalism, fundamental seriousness.

Polite performance can mask all sorts of violence. But the embrace of the sheer opposite is consequential, notable.

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

FAFSA is open!, says the government that is closed.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ctd.166978/gov.uscourts.ctd.166978.1.0.pdf

1/9 A lawsuit claims the National Shooting Sports Foundation secretly created a database of gun owners' personal information to target them with political ads since the 2000 elections. The data was allegedly obtained from major gun manufacturers without customer consent.

"Dems will get blamed for a shutdown" as opposed to what, all the friendly coverage and positive credit they'd get for caving yet again? This whole premise is built on a delusion about what the alternative is. There's no cowering in the corner and being so inoffensive they won't still attack you.

Yes, once in awhile some jagoff fires a few bullets into the sky near downtown of this college town late at night, drunk and up to no good, but it will never come near to comparing to the amount of random frivolous gunfire in the sticks where I grew up. People just want to be mad and suspicious.

this business model should be flatly illegal

taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome

ban it completely