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Trump’s attacks on DEI may hurt men in college admission A government order that colleges disclose details about their applicants suggests that advantages by gender may face the same heightened scrutiny as purported racial preferences. That threatens to acc...

When I worked at Brown, it was an open secret: many more women applied than men, so to keep a rough gender parity in the student body, men got a big boost in admissions.

Trump's attacks on DEI may hurt men in college admissions.
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Treasury, IRS seek comments on federal school choice program The agencies are seeking input into policies for scholarship-granting organizations that will distribute the funds contributed by taxpayers.

The U.S. Department of Treasury and Internal Revenue Service are collecting comments from the public for the new federal voucher program…”about several factors, including the policies and procedures guiding the scholarship-granting organizations that will distribute the funds.“

It’s just open white supremacy at this point.

EVERCORE: Despite questions about how long RFK Jr. might last, “he has learned how to operate in this Admin and is now well-entrenched .. Additionally, he brings an independent base of political support that Trump is keen to retain. When it comes to .. vaccines, he’s just getting started ..”

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@bostonglobe.com

this really isn’t an exaggeration

House Democrats on Wednesday released photographs and videos of the disgraced billionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s home on the private Caribbean island where his accusers have said that he trafficked underage girls for sex.

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Hegseth 'Responsible' for 'Murder': Family Files Formal Complaint Over Killing of Colombian Fisherman According to the official filing, Trump's Defense Secretary "has admitted that he gave such orders despite the fact that he did not know the identity of those being targeted for these bombings and extra-judicial killings.”

"The family of Colombian fisherman Alejandro Carranza Medina, [..] killed by the US military in a boat bombing in the Caribbean Sea on Sept. 15, has filed a formal complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights accusing [..] Hegseth of murder."
#USA #Colombia #Water #Drugs #Military

CDC's vaccine advisers meet to question long-used vaccines Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention will scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule and may start to upend it.

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention will scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule and may start to upend it.

They really thing if they say "cultures" it's not clear they mean "people" bsky.app/profile/just...

This guy hasn’t said a single helpful thing… if sucking was a sport he’s an olympian

Seeking accountability against the perpetrator of a crime is how the legal system is supposed to work. Vetting asylum seekers and other immigrants is necessary for the safety of us all. But punishing law-abiding immigrants, children and adults alike, for the violent acts of one man is anathema to our justice system and betrays our nation’s highest ideals.

I’m an Immigration Lawyer. Trump Is Shattering My Clients’ Lives. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...

Welcome to Washington Treylon 👏🏾

lol what on earth

Translation: Pete may well go down for this. But I’m not going with him.

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NBC: “FDA claims COVID shots killed 10 children and vows new vaccine rules”

When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.

“.. Since late October, Republicans’ approval has dropped by seven points ..”

@thehill.com
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Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.

“.. Three years into the generative-ai wave, demand for the technology looks surprisingly flimsy.

“.. the employment-weighted share of Americans using ai at work has fallen by a percentage point, and now sits at 11% ..”

@economist.com
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“Merit based and colorblind” is when you determine who is good and bad purely by the coincidence of where a person or their ancestors were born

Consumer confidence hits lowest point since April as job worries grow The board's Consumer Confidence Index slumped to 88.7, a drop of 6.8 points from the prior month for its lowest reading in seven months.

New data shows consumers are increasingly pessimistic about the economy and their prospects for good paying jobs and economic stability. Not just in times of economic uncertainty, unions are able to advocate for better wages and stability for our members. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/c...

local man clearly suffering from economic anxiety

Everyone in politics, everyone in media knows what’s happening here: the White House is controlled by a repellant white supremacist who waits with bated breath for any opportunity to run nonwhite people out of America. They know who it is, what he’s doing. But they won’t SAY it.

Footage of deadly ICE shooting in Chicago suburb challenges official narrative Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was pulled over and eventually shot by an ICE agent.

More on that one www.reuters.com/world/us/pol...

A Tragic Homecoming For Man Killed By ICE Agents In Franklin Park After nearly two decades in Chicago, Silverio Villegas González returned to Michoacán in a coffin. His death at the hands of federal agents left two families divided by borders, shattered with grief, ...

Or this one blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/20/a...

ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.

Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...

21 states sue Trump admin over changes to immigrants’ SNAP eligibility Democratic attorneys general in states like California and New York argue that new guidance illegally blocks legal permanent residents from receiving food stamps.

21 states sue Trump admin over changes to immigrants’ SNAP eligibility

Democratic attorneys general in states like California and New York argue that new guidance illegally blocks legal permanent residents from receiving food stamps
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If we want to talk affordability, you know what would really help? Re-jiggering how we pay for college. There's a lot to learn from my native Australia, which has an incredibly fair and efficient system of income-based repayment.

Wealth growing faster than income since 1995