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Thanks, NYT, for clarifying that you’re looking for quality, not quantity, in protests.

Trump is more Imperial Wizard than wannabe king, drawing upon a history of homegrown hate to intimidate and terrorize.

That Trump is still alive, “exceptional” health or not, shows how many American lives are lost early because of unequal access to health care.

Dada Antifa vs Ubu Roi (King Turd).

Trump is a Don Quixote dictator, brain-addled from watching Fox News, tilting at wind turbines, waging “glorious” battles without provocation or cause, enjoining employees to play along with what they know to be preposterous nonsense.

Stephen Miller must’ve studied Nazi Germany and concluded, the only thing they did wrong was invade foreign countries instead of German cities.

Just learned that Kant had dementia in his 70s, so never mind doing brain teasers and Sudoku.

Reading Peniel Joseph’s Freedom Season (about the fight for civil rights in 1963) to remind myself how very, very hard it has always been to make any progress toward social justice.

If this were 19th-century Japan, every single one of those generals would have committed seppuku.

Regarding those who vote for the feels, how can Dems give them more than their glee from hatred, revenge, breaking things, and inclusion in a dominant group? Dems need to focus on those who don’t vote out of despair, cynicism, and/or inertia. Which Mamdani is doing.

Congress and SCOTUS have bestowed almost unlimited executive power on a man who does not have power over himself.

My point is that the best college prep education available bypasses the education field entirely.

So true! Upper class in US attends elite private schools, where generally they are taught by PhDs in subject areas with no education course work/certification.

So why wasn’t there a significant decline in autism rates for US babies born in 1983?

My mother’s rural Midwestern church prayed for Charlie Kirk’s assassin to be a leftist. These fools want civil war.

The academics I’ve known love their jobs and would like more hours in the day in which to do them; I’m supposing (with no firsthand knowledge) that a few might fall prey to using shortcuts in order to get more done.

Yes, this is all enjoyable, satisfying work that sounds like a perfect match for you! I’m retired but see former colleagues having difficulty keeping up. Again, not defending use of LLMs and don’t know personally anyone using them. I do get desperate people acting desperately.

Not defending this, but academics must develop courses, prepare lectures with extensive reading, comment on/grade student writing, advise & tutor students, mentor colleagues, serve on committees/run dept, do community outreach, participate in conferences and journals, research, write, and publish.

My only worry about Trump’s failing health is that he’s so vindictive, he’s going to try to take all of us with him.

But yes, this is bad and should not be encouraged, certainly not mandated. Would also add the cost
of guarantor services (landlords require if income
is below 40x rent), usually one month’s rent every year.

When the National Guard
takes over Times
Square, I hope tourists plug their gun barrels with Statue of Liberty tchotchkes.

Brad Lander reported in Jan 2024 that 52.1% of New Yorkers are rent burdened. Numbers have no doubt increased and would be even higher without subsidized housing. Cuomo’s proposal is stupid, but paying over 30% of income for rent is common and expected for many “affordable” housing lottery units.

I, too, love NY—but holy fuck is it expensive to live here. Manhattan Buy Nothing Groups are the new Filene’s Basement. Instead of fighting over discount wedding gowns, we compete for free toilet paper and dry beans.

In future, when the United States is ready to reckon with the crimes of the Trump administration, the Republican party should be banned.

And yet millions of us do it every day without incident.

Yes! The comments section, already closed when I got there, showed broad consensus that the article was not newsworthy.

Same scum who posed for photos with their families and purchased souvenirs at lynchings.

Plus his father is a prof of African Studies at the same uni where he applied (not accepted) and no doubt discussed the particulars of his ethnic/cultural backgrounds in his personal statement. But somehow this merits the same scrutiny as Adams’ bribes and Cuomo’s sexual harassment.

New Yorkers aren’t as insulated from economic inequality as Americans in other areas. For example, I’m in a low-income apartment building facing a luxury high-rise. Based on what I see on their giant TVs, rich people are complete idiots.

Are we going to decriminalize euthanasia for people who need care but can’t pay for it, or are we just putting them in camps?