Yeah, I think of all the stellar Purdue CS grad students and so many of the hardest working folks I have worked with were from China. It’s so insane and counterproductive.
23.02.2026 03:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@itsananas.bsky.social
midwestern observer / aspiring coastal grandmother
Yeah, I think of all the stellar Purdue CS grad students and so many of the hardest working folks I have worked with were from China. It’s so insane and counterproductive.
23.02.2026 03:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I live in West Lafayette, and our city loves the multicultural community of Purdue. This is so disheartening to many people who work with and for the university.
23.02.2026 03:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes, this makes my brain hurt.
23.02.2026 03:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Idk, I never saw affirmative action as having implications for foreign policy/national security…but the post as I read it sees to conflate things that I don’t see as related. 🤷🏻♀️
23.02.2026 03:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Next week, Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie will force a vote to stop Trump’s march to an illegal, disastrous war with Iran.
Call 1-833-STOP-WAR (1-833-786-7927) to connect with your Reps to urge them to vote YES on the Khanna-Massie War Powers Resolution.
NEW: Natasha Korecki at NBC reports that in light of the SCOTUS tariff ruling, Gov. Pritzker sent President Donald Trump an invoice of $8.6 billion.
20.02.2026 21:21 — 👍 10357 🔁 2917 💬 438 📌 365Oh, it’s okay when the USA does it. 🤦🏻♀️
19.02.2026 14:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement
19.02.2026 12:20 — 👍 13449 🔁 3462 💬 128 📌 127What?! No way. Who could have predicted this?
#tariffs #MAGA #economics
LAVA - Local And Very Angry
15.02.2026 14:09 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Glad you’re worrying about the important things.
15.02.2026 13:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We are Quakers and whenever the come over, the poor little missionaries say things like “but you use electricity?” etc. 🫣🤣
13.02.2026 00:36 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Never said there was a problem doing it that way. I was merely saying the guy is a bozo for trying to say buying a beer was harder than voting…
12.02.2026 18:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yeah, mine won’t since I changed my name :-/
12.02.2026 17:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The House passed it yesterday. What are you talking about?
12.02.2026 17:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Interesting!
12.02.2026 13:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0All the while not paying any star sales tax. 🫣
12.02.2026 13:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What? When you vote, don’t you show your ID? That’s how we do it in Indiana. I’m confused.
12.02.2026 13:35 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 7 📌 0It was a hella good game of keepy-uppy!
12.02.2026 01:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes, hooray for all those Dow dollar bucks!
12.02.2026 01:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And it creates barriers to the ballot box that could block millions of American citizens from voting.
Text SAVE to 63033 to tell your senators to oppose this bad bill.
Well, f@ck!
12.02.2026 00:49 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Covid isn’t the only virus. In fact, I am home with Flu A right now that my son undoubtedly picked up at school :(
11.02.2026 23:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My son and I have been down with #influenzaA for 6 days, including his birthday. Never forgetting a flu shot again.
#MAHA #flu #flushot #influenza #virus
Rep. Jesús García comes out swinging: "You're one of the worst attorney generals in our history and an instrument of Donald Trump's lawless authoritarian agenda, and I'm glad the American people are seeing who you are."
11.02.2026 19:10 — 👍 5447 🔁 1385 💬 137 📌 99But Tom Homan puts on his grandpa glasses and pats the sheriff on the head and everyone ignores the actual terror campaign on the ground, and pretends there’s some sort of immigration emergency that requires a standing federal army rolling around my city in unmarked cars threatening children.
11.02.2026 11:08 — 👍 979 🔁 149 💬 8 📌 4He should care more about not looking like an idiot 🤦🏻♀️
10.02.2026 17:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#Hoosiersky
10.02.2026 01:28 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0You’ve really made it when you have both the little glass and big carafe!
09.02.2026 21:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“And if your hands were metal, that would mean something.”
09.02.2026 21:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0