Kevin Reuning

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

Dream turns to nightmare for midwest town in grip of US migrant crackdown An imam’s detention, firings and police violence have sown fear among immigrants who helped revive an Ohio town

Our local sheriff's anti-immigrant obsession is getting attention from The Guardian

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“We do not accept lessons in democracy from those who kill civilians. Athens, the capital of a democratic country, fully respects its visitors and upholds the right of its citizens to free expression. As the city’s municipal authority, we have proven our active opposition to violence and racism,” Doukas said. “We do not accept lessons in democracy from those who kill civilians and children waiting in line for food aid, from those who lead dozens of people to death every day in Gaza, through bombs, hunger, and thirst,” he added. Furthermore, the mayor criticized the ambassador’s focus on graffiti. “It is appalling that the Ambassador focuses solely on graffiti (which, obviously, is being removed) at a time when an unprecedented genocide is taking place in Gaza,” he said, adding that Golden Visas granted to Israeli citizens have increased by over 90%. Ambassador Katz had criticized Athens municipal authorities in an interview published in Kathimerini’s Sunday edition, accusing them of failing to respond effectively to antisemitic graffiti that makes Israelis in Athens uncomfortable.

Israel's Greek Ambassador accused Athens of allowing antisemitic graffiti.

Mayor's reply:

"We do not accept lessons in democracy from those who kill civilians…the Amb. focuses solely on graffiti (which, obviously, is being removed) at a time when an unprecedented genocide is taking place in Gaza."

Really thought you just meant tweezers.

This is your time to guess which two current actions heros who have fought will one day be governors. I assume The Rock will be one of them.

Today I learned (or remembered?) that the 1987 Running Man features two future governors of US states in a fully choreographed nearly five minute hand to hand battle to the death.

VIDEO: Ross Twp. trustee David Young apologizes, but won’t resign over racist comments One day after Ross Twp. Trustee David Young was asked to resign by his fellow trustees, he told the Journal-News he’s sorry for the racist comment he made on his Facebook page reacting to the violence...

>"I said something wrong. I said something, I’ll admit, if you want to look at it as being racist, but I’m not a racist person,” said Young.

That might be the most non-apology apology ever. www.journal-news.com/news/ross-tw...

NEW: 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 The Trump Administration has cancelled the research grant of America's foremost mathematician,

He did this for Israel and their fake “antisemitism” crisis.

They’ve halted research into cancer.

Trump and zionsim are destroying America in every conceivable way.🤬🤬🤬

BREAKING: Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 79 Palestinians, including 41 aid seekers, since the early hours of this morning, medical sources told Al Jazeera.

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The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

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.

American tradition

tried and failed to find an old tweet being annoyed about bayesian epistemology, but i did find this incredibly annoying and pedantic meme i made about people misuising 'priors' in the popular discourse, so the day is not a total loss

The ADL's hypothetical scenario involving flyers critical of Israel's demolition program encapsulates many other issues that those who reviewed the material or completed a training raised. The scenario begins with a student leaving their dorm room to find a flyer taped to the door "warning that your residence hall will soon be demolished" "The rest of the flyer contains 'facts' about how many Palestinian homes have been demolished by the Israeli military to collectively punish and 'ethnically cleanse' Palestinians," the toolkit continues. The ADL is referring to the highly charged debate over Israel's mass expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank. The training material then offers the Israeli narrative around the demolitions, claiming they target "terrorists" and "deter others from terrorist action". *. Other homes were demolished because they were "built without proper permits", the ADL states. "While you may agree or disagree with these Israeli government actions, the charge that Israel has demolished these homes to 'ethnically cleanse' Palestinians is inaccurate and inflammatory," the ADL material states.

According to the Guardian, the ADL is now creating education materials for schools in which the civil rights organization justifies Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes in occupied Palestinian territory.

David Byrne must be protected at all costs.

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

Trump And Miller Compel Colleges Not To Enroll International Students Trump officials are using rules, policies and agreements to compel and discourage U.S. universities from enrolling international students.

Wow. Had not realized that Columbia’s settlement with Trump admin included a commitment to decrease international student enrollment. In what way does this help “combat antisemitism,” which is supposedly the administration’s objective?
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

The headlines about Trump's tariffs bringing in revenue are making me crazy. Of course they are bringing in revenue, but who is that revenue from?

From a director at the … American Enterprise Institute

You will not hear me say this often but good for the AEA. And oddly bold for the profession given the animus directed at Ivy League schools by Trump. Probably helps that the current AEA President is a prominent labor economist who made his bones on all things public use data like the CPS.

@pricelaborecon.bsky.social

These people really want to believe they are part of a street militia so this must have been very embarrassing for them

Stupid world

Can someone actually stop a divorce from happening if they refuse to sign the papers? Like for years?

Or is this just a TV trope

Last week a student at a coffee shop ask me what my major is.

I am 37.

Of course he has his phone out filming it.

This is becoming a nearly annual traditional for Gov. Cox.

The situation then also included party control changes. In 2002 Republicans took control of all branches in both states so re-redistricted in order to have a freer hand

Found this law review piece on mid-decade redistricting in Colorado and Texas in 2002. They say: "mid-decade redistricting is virtually unheard of in the modern era; in fact, Texas and Colorado are the only states to have done so"

scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Missouri Senate leader says special session is ‘likely’ to redraw congressional map  • Missouri Independent Momentum is building for the Missouri Legislature to redraw the state’s congressional districts with the aim of gaining a Republican seat.

Missouri looks to be following Texas's lead.

What is the precedent for mid decade redistrict?