If you've been to any decently-old cemetery you'll have noticed the dozens of tiny gravestones marking the graves of dead babies.
There's a reason modern cemeteries don't have those, and we're just throwing it away.
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New, from me: Trump finalized his Schedule F policy, allowing him to remove job protections from career civil servants.
The new rule is dishonest and unmoored from reality in its effort to formalize the politicization of the federal government 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...
$3 gets you two big hot dogs and two drinks from Costco. What more do you need?
Wonder what @mirandayaver.bsky.social thinks of this
Two of the most counterproductive political system choices you can make, which increase corruption but sound good, are:
1) low salaries for elected office holders and bureaucrats
2) term limits for legislators
It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
Just find someone with the last name of Lewis or Lewison and mumble a lot.
If there exists a category of people who don't have due process rights, then either there's a process for determining who fits in that category or there isn't. In the first case due process is still being observed for everyone, and in the second it can be denied to anyone. There are no other options
So many echoes from this article for US politics....
Think of an economy as like baking a cake. H1-B visas exist so that if you're out of a specific ingredient, you can Instacart it and keep baking. Add a $100k delivery charge and you'll choose to:
1. Quit baking; or
2. Use an inferior recipe; or
3. Import cake instead of making it
NEW: Hours before a new entry ban is supposed to go into effect, the federal government officially acknowledges for the first time that the restrictions do NOT apply to people who currently have H-1B visas.
Link: www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...
This H1B thing is a DISASTER for the USA. Phone your representative and senator NOW and demand action to protect America.
This is an attack on the American economy and American technological and scientific advancement. Not to mention a truly awful thing to do to half a million people.
Don’t call me out like this when I’m not even at APSA this year!
From Princeton Professor of Politics and International Affairs, @jshapiro.bsky.social.
Maybe, but I guarantee a bootlegging course would be way more interesting and fun.
Acceptable answers are much shorter than you think (I am so very sorry)
Come to SPIA at the University of Pittsburgh for your MPA and you too can become like Jessica Chastain
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
New, from me:
America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism.
This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
@purekimminess.bsky.social mentioned this during the faculty assembly meeting today, so now it’s in the official minutes which means you HAVE to do it.
Our constitutional republic does not have any provision which allows a president to enact a criminal statute by executive order that would put people in prison. bsky.app/profile/atru...
I know this won’t reach folks who don’t already know it but just in case:
If you are a parent and your kid is going to college, there’s no time when you reaching out to their professors, choosing their classes, or doing their assignments is helping them.
Go get a hobby.
a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel
In 1949, Superman told schoolchildren “our country is made up of Americans of MANY different races, religions and national origins. So…
“…if YOU hear anybody talk against anyone else because of his religion, race or national origin — don’t wait: tell him THAT KIND OF TALK IS UN-AMERICAN.”
The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
Brown's capitulation to the state is as great a threat to academic freedom in America as Columbia's cowardice. Anonymous student course evaluations have been potentially weaponized to punish speech that might anger students in the classroom. A serious chilling effect. www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...
