Dr. Sean Peters

From May 2024 to May 2025, the average price of electricity in the United States increased 6.5%. But theres $170 billion for ICE. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

we all know that the proof for the administration that an institution is not implementing affirmative action will be the percentage of nonwhite admits. the lower the better. any more than a smattering of black and Hispanic students will be evidence of illegal discrimination (against whites)

Federal funding for research no longer exists. Sure there will be funding to study the genius of Trump’s tweets or how vaccines kill or the benefits of slavery or why the word genocide is antisemitic. But serious government funded research is over - universities, stop doing tricks to try to get it.

"These NSF grants included those to educators that promoted Marxism, class warfare propaganda, and other anti-American ideologies in the classroom, masked as rigorous and thoughtful investigation."

🙃

See what staying "non-political" has gotten us?

Our adversaries just make shit up.

Katrina, Sandy Hook, Jan 6: three watershed moments where we could have risen to our ideals, but instead just paved the road to modern American hell

“we reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and completely ignored it all because we are fuckin dumbasses who want millions of people to die”

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Why Universities Must Not Capitulate to the Trump Regime Colleges that settle with the Trump administration have no guarantee of safety from further retaliation.

"Columbia and other colleges are trapped in a no-win situation, but even difficult moral dilemmas have wrong answers, and that’s what Columbia’s leadership has chosen."

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If you're ruthless for the right, you get money put behind you. If you're ruthless for the left, you get money put against you.

America First Legal got >$50 million in funding. A left version of the same would get attacked by Dem orgs and donors, and everyone associated with it blacklisted forever.

University sidelines scientist who exposed toxic metals in Lake Maurepas The SELU scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in Lake Maurepas was abruptly removed from her research position without explanation.

A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation

DISGRACEFUL 😡

Actually heartbreaking, the list of colleagues that have run the show behind the scenes for so many years who are saying their pre-emptive goodbyes and taking literally thousands of years of amassed knowledge and expertise with them.

Not to mention camaraderie and community.

Morale is ... bleak.

The Nazis did things like this with German universities

Utter fascism. And further proof that institutions can’t love you back and will sacrifice the most vulnerable for their own survival.

a man says cool beans in a kitchen Alt: Adam Sandberg says cool beans in a kitchen

No judgment. Long hair Andy Samberg was an era.

Trans women can no longer attend:
- Columbia University in New York
- Harvard University in Massachusetts
- Brown University in Rhode Island

And they tell us we'll be safe in blue states. And they tell us it's not a pogrom.

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Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up to $500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute

I see the brave defenders of the American democratic system are all caving. Maybe they think Trump will be gone in a few years, and they'll have Democrats again. And that Democrats will continue to play nice. And that no GOP president will ever do this stuff again.

In other words, they're idiots.

In the context of the proposed 40% budget cut, this will effectively eliminate all new awards for the foreseeable future, probably until around 2030. Even with a CR next year at FY24 levels (that's a budget cut), this will severely restrict new funding in FY26.

How Liberalism Sabotages Itself Our intentional blindness to bad faith is a loophole fascists use to gain respectability and power.

“The liberal commitment to free speech is inviolable. But it does not follow that liberals must extend the presumption of good faith to everyone engaged in free speech. Right-wing operators in particular are groomed and trained to embrace bad-faith argument as a tactic.“

I must admit I still don’t know what bitters are 😂 but I finally learned that I detest vermouth.

Something something now release the Epstein files 😭

JULY 2025 It’s peak summer! Time to grind and reflect. SONG INSPIRATION This month’s blog is inspired by Yung L.A.’s 2008 track Ain’t I. SWITZERLAND – ANOTHER WEEK OF SCIENCE Despite the oppressive heatwave that descended over Europe in late June, I had a wonderful time in Zurich and Geneva. While the cultural differences in either city and its respective canton were fascinating, I treasured their similarities: efficient mass transit, walkability, and cleanliness.

JULY 2025

It’s peak summer! Time to grind and reflect. SONG INSPIRATION This month’s blog is inspired by Yung L.A.’s 2008 track Ain’t I. SWITZERLAND – ANOTHER WEEK OF SCIENCE Despite the oppressive heatwave that descended over Europe in late June, I had a wonderful time in Zurich and Geneva. While…

Pause to consider what this means: The Trump administration will audit admissions data by race, color, and test score.

RACE AND COLOR. COLOR. That’s exactly what Columbia agreed to do.

When’s the last time that someone asked you what color you are? Are you sure the Trump admin agrees with you?

The DoD has collaborated with Marvel on certain films. And those movies are definitely cop and military propaganda.

I understand that. And I’d argue fantasy is also guilty in terms of the audience and messaging. I’m just reluctant to throw a whole genre away esp given aspiring writers from historically excluded backgrounds who want to introduce quality sci-fi / fantasy to their communities.

Sure, but those people have a bastardized version of sci-fi driven by their own (lack of) morality. They definitely didn’t read sci-fi rooted in feminist or queer culture. Perhaps what we’re really talking around here is technology and ethics, which admittedly are huge aspects of sci-fi.