Gray Cats

The United States Government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The Government's contention otherwise, and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable.

The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Why the cartoon? Real pictures aren't doing it for em anymore?

THATS THE TATTOO THEYRE CALLING A GANG SYMBOL?!?!

Laura freaking Ingram. The only "angle" I see is deliberately obtuse.

I will never not love the serendipitous nature of browsing library stacks. The book I was looking wasn't here. But ALL of these that I wasn't looking for were. Bonus, books just smell good. I love ebooks, but brick & mortar libraries are still the best.

I will never not love the serendipitous nature of browsing library stacks. The book I was looking wasn't here. But ALL of these that I wasn't looking for were. Bonus, books just smell good. I love ebooks, but brick & mortar libraries are still the best.

If you don't know how phones work, Mikey, just say so. You're making it so much worse by trying to blame Goldberg for your flaming stupidity.

I really do love it when people assume I don't know how to do my job. I've been a higher ed professional for 20 years. This isn't my first, or even 10th rodeo. When I ask for past spending data to draft a budget, I don't need a lecture on how zero based budgets work.

Friendly reminder: the pain is a feature, not a bug. The senseless cuts, the fear, the confusion is intentional. The 3 ring circus of astounding stupidity, however, is a neat bonus. Whee! Can't wait for WW3.

Hey, #edusky... I know the world is burning right now, but can we put our heads together and figure out how to make our higher ed infrastructure a little more student friendly? I'm looking at you, central admin. It shouldn't take a phone call and 3 degrees to figure out a hold on my acct.

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

*CACKling*. Good job, sir.

I'm going to go traumatize my son with this one. Thanks!

The Politics of Higher Education: The Battle Over the Control of Knowledge in Africa - Higher Education Policy Education is the pillar of social development. Higher education in particular teaches how to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills. For the better opportunities of tomorrow, forward-loo...

Neat article in Higher Ed Policy talking about how authoritarian regimes in Africa manipulated higher education to maintain control. I'm sure there are no possible parallels we could draw that would apply to the US. Its not like WE are authoritarian, right?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In the continued series of "jaw dropping research rabbit holes": Dissident Knowledge in Higher Education, ed. by Marc Spooner & James McNinch. I'm adding this to the list of "cool shit I wish I had more time to read more deeply", along with Critical Pedagogy in Times of Uncertainty.

Something to think about

Seriously. Next time you're in New Orleans, check out Ernst Cafe.

And there's a DOG!!!

And the bartender just took someone outside "to talk". 🤣🤣🤣

Aw hell yeah. They're playing HWJ Family Tradition. The gumbo is stellar, and the beer is frosty cold.

I have gleefully eaten my way through NOLA at NASPA. I can tell I'm getting old bc I haven't been tempted to drink...until tonight. The cafe down the street has $1.50 PBR. We're going to pretend, for at least an hour, that it's 2002, which was my first NOLA conference.

Black Saturday: The Day the United States Ceased to Be a Constitutional Democracy Black Saturday, March 15, 2025, will be remembered as the day the U.S. ceased to function as a constitutional democracy. A sitting president defied a federal court order, proving that judicial authori...

theintellectualist.com/black-saturd....

I didn't think Zuck could be any further up Trump's backside, but every time I open Facebook I get pro Trump, pro Musk "suggested" videos and posts. It's like they're TRYING to lose more users than they already have. Jesus wept.

Post from user @acnewsitics 'Alex Cole' states, "If boycotting Tesla is making conservatives buy electric vehicles, I think liberals should start boycotting books next and see if MAGA accidentally discovers reading."

It. Could. Work.

There are a lot of folks that have the "we'll be ok if we just comply" mentality, borne out of the mistaken idea that if we survived last time, we'll survive this time. But we DIDN'T all survive last time. And telling us to sit down and be quiet is going to get us killed.

This prgrm let food banks buy fresh produce from local farmers, offering a cheaper and faster source for FRESH fruits and veggies (+ supports local ag). We can get canned food easily, but anything fresh is usually donation, which is unreliable. What a waste.

YouTube video by Malvina Reynolds - Topic It Isn't Nice

A reminder for Dems: nice never worked. music.youtube.com/watch?v=cBJG...

I find it darkly amusing that the right assumes they have all the guns. I am also all too aware that my personal stash isn't going to do jack against the toys of the police state. Still want an AR, though. I hear they're fun.

What you can do to one of us, you can do to all of us. I would love to see my libertarian friends/family up in arms over this, but I strongly doubt they'll care.

Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”