Jamie K

What about #mavity anyway? That's still out there

Harvard Professors Sue Trump Administration Over Threat to Federal Funds The administration is reviewing about $9 billion in federal funding that the university receives.

The NYT can do better. Instead of “The Trump administration has been on a campaign against elite universities that it views as being too lax on antisemitism” they should say the T admin is using the false pretext of antisemitism to cripple higher education
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...

I'm not going to stop saying this. We need to stop calling it "deporting." It may not always be fair or humane, but deportation has a process. And it means you're sent back to where you came from. These people are being trafficked and sold to slave prisons. Not deported.

Well it’s Tennessee

Leaders of Harvard’s Middle Eastern Studies Center Will Leave (Gift Article) Harvard University has been under pressure by the Trump administration to follow directives related to diversity and combating antisemitism.

@nytimes.com has not turned comments on, but I’ll just say @harvard.edu has a $50billion+ endowment they could take a stand www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...

Opinion | Trump Promised Retribution. Turns Out He Had a Very Big Target in Mind. It is hard to describe the president’s first month and a half in office as something other than a retribution campaign against the American people.

i am going to keep coming back to this piece i think. trump is fighting a retribution campaign against the entire american people. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/o...

Agree! Get some progressives FFS!

I loved her translation of the Odyssey as well as her incredibly thoughtful introduction

How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy (Gift Article) The operation was driven with a frenetic focus by the billionaire, who channeled his resentment of regulatory oversight into a drastic overhaul of government agencies.

Required reading #2: Elon Musk's long game to dismantle the Federal Government
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

One Word Describes Trump A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.

Required reading #1: the right word to describe Trump
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Firefox

Well it looks like Apple Maps has also gone MAGA 🤬

Making Censorship Real Again The Trump administration is capitalizing on a false conspiracy of censorship to usher in the real kind

OK here is an excellent explanation: open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Restoring Freedom Of Speech And Ending Federal Censorship – The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and section 301 of title 3, United

I am not sure what to make of this so-called "restoring free speech" exec order. Govt suppression of protected speech under 1st amndmt has always been verboten. Seems to be about not combatting lies on social media (private companies, not free speech forums). www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I never understood Eraserhead, but images from it still linger in my mind

Jamie K on Substack Bluetooth is the worst excuse for a solid sound transmission technology. It has absolutely ruined my experience of listeing to music at home. I have a pair of bluetooth speakers and my music collectio...

substack.com/profile/3647...

Not an easy to understand guide