Travis

ATTN: Ezra Klein

Republicans turn Virginia into a test case for a bigger fight over civil rights in schools The commonwealth is the only GOP-led state facing an Education Department investigation stemming from gender policies.

Buried in #VAGov story, a little media story.

Most gender/schools coverage in VA comes from one reporter for a Sinclair station in DC market, who works it as part of Sinclair's "Crisis in the Classroom" series. His job before news media? Trump admin spox www.semafor.com/article/08/2...

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

You've likely seen the new $100,000 penalty on high-skill immigrant workers.

Here's the next, separate bomb the White House is dropping on high skill immigration, to be officially published *tomorrow*.

tl;dr: Most H-1Bs now inaccessible for entry-level jobs, e.g. new grads from US universities.

That line is also some great irony.

He’s over-intellectualized it all to the point of absurdity. They want power. They want to hurt people. It’s bad. Who cares how they justify it with some crank Catholic teachings or what a slave owner said in 1792.

I don’t get the constant staring into the abyss of the most nihilistic form of fascism he can find. There are more productive ways to build political dialogue.

Just doing their jobs for them by using a "parents" framing. Can't even be bothered to say "some."

Lemme be absolutely clear *every* H-1B visa employee at my (large cap) US firm was summoned back to the office from wherever they were in the world today for this crap. For some, it was utter panic. Appalling.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.

Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Thank you. None of the news stories contained this information. Seems important!

This has been baffling to watch as a reporter outside the WH. Standing up for your counterparts from other orgs is just something to do as a good person and also important to stand up for our profession generally. We’ve learned that being a quisling will not save you or your org!

Because the NYT stylists got ahold of him and he’s never been the same since.

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I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:

Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

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When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

This captures it perfectly. Don't click the article; don't tie yourself in knots over it. Just meditate on this.

The irony is Klein talks about luck and circumstances all the time! But that has not prevented him from reflecting on how his new NYT circles may be skewing his worldview to the point that Klein from 10 years ago would be ashamed of what he excuses away today.

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

No solidarity. Reporters let Trump talk this way to a woman reporter and then clamor to get their own question answered. He used to do it to April Ryan, Yamiche Alcindor and Abby Phillip.

And that’s why he controls media. No solidarity.

Gross

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oh noooo

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This is why when I asked my students yesterday what % of Americans think climate change was a hoax they guessed between 40% - 60%. It’s actually around 11% and has been for almost 20 years!

But we HEAR from deniers SO MUCH (especially the White House) that people think the numbers are higher.

It’s obviously not a new problem that our government is traveling the world randomly killing people of color with reckless abandon in their own communities, but it should still make us all furious.