Nils Gore

Seems more like a credential with this bunch

Pretty much what you get when you hire a kid to do work that should be done by an experienced adult. Not rocket science

There's no way they could have gotten a decent set of architectural drawings done in time. Especially considering all of the engineering, coordination, detailing, approvals, etc. for a project of this scope, and in such a sensitive location. They are flying by the seat of their half-assed pants.

Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 8 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

2 glasses of beer: Yakamaniac and Octoberfest

Post-protest refreshment at Free State Brewing. Then home to chill my No Kings ESB.

Many thanks! I’ll use it and credit you if that’s ok.

View into a brewing vessel showing the wort (future beer)

Perfect timing. 10 minute hop stand before I can leave for the #nokings protest in my Kansas town. (making an ESB for autumn weather). I’ll chill it afterwards. #homebrew 🍺

Pretty sure they’re still there.

Maybe the Yankees could

2 people in spooky costumes

2 people in spooky costumes

1 person in super-creepy costume

2 children in spooky costumes

from last night: ZombieWalk, an annual event in Lawrence, Kansas. (Benefit parade for Humane Society).

I wish I had more confidence in KU. I wouldn’t want to bet on them doing the right thing. The Provost just announced this week that she’s stepping down. Wonder if it’s connected?

Oof. I wish I had more confidence in my university (1 of the 3 listed here) to do the right thing.

Have you been to the Evel Knievel museum in Topeka? (I haven't...)

Again, every time a Democrat gets in front of a microphone they need to bring this up.

Victor Ray, a sociology professor at the University of Iowa who studies race, said in an email that OSU’s decision to interpret federal guidance in this way “reflects the real pressure universities face as the Trump administration and Republican legislators attack higher education.” But, Ray added, it may also be exposing the true colors of many universities that were broadcasting their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion when it was politically expedient to do so just a few years ago. “The swiftness with which these organizations have complied with legally dubious orders shows that their commitments to diversity were often paper-thin before this administration’s pressure,” he said. “In many cases, administrators with existing qualms about diversity, perhaps going too far, now have political cover to take anti-equitable actions.”

I fear that schools being willing to drop diversity programs without a fight shows how flimsy their commitment to inclusion was in the first place. People fight for things they truly believe in.

Thus spake the peace prize guy

True. So maybe they take the job offered and keep looking with no real commitment.

If red state schools do this, no faculty of any value will want to work for them. Reap what you sow.

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

“Profa” is pretty low-hanging fruit

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

And from me:

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Yeah, but at the fed minimum wage rate, so not exactly getting rich.

Seems like arson in CA would be a crime there, not in FL.

Ed Zitron covers this pretty well. bsky.app/profile/edzi...

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

“Oh what have I done? I’ve killed the wabbit.”

My brother had to go to the ER because of Diazo fumes. The bad old days.

The USA and the Democratic Party, or at least what it looks like to the rest of the world.

Allan Grant, Fire Resistant House, 1949

is that Aaron Rodgers?!?