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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, and those who can remember the past are like, what the hell, man?
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Where I work, grad student enrollment in Engineering and Business is down 70% and 40%, respectively.
Now, to cover the loss in revenue from these Departments, the rest of the colleges have to take MASSIVE hits. History Dept alone has cut/closed 6 TT lines. Forget about raises or salary equity. 🫠
Now, to cover the loss in revenue from these Departments, the rest of the colleges have to take MASSIVE hits. History Dept alone has cut/closed 6 TT lines. Forget about raises or salary equity. 🫠
Enrollment by international students from China dropped by 3 percent, from India by 4 percent, and enrollment from students from Mexico has flatlined. Here are the likely consequences for Texas' education and economy:
The High Cost of Targeting International Students in Texas
The Trump administration’s bans and airport detentions are derailing the academic dreams of students who carry out important research—and sometimes pay hefty tuition—to attend Texas institutions.
www.texasobserver.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Where I work, grad student enrollment in Engineering and Business is down 70% and 40%, respectively.
Now, to cover the loss in revenue from these Departments, the rest of the colleges have to take MASSIVE hits. History Dept alone has cut/closed 6 TT lines. Forget about raises or salary equity. 🫠
Now, to cover the loss in revenue from these Departments, the rest of the colleges have to take MASSIVE hits. History Dept alone has cut/closed 6 TT lines. Forget about raises or salary equity. 🫠
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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In 1855 Elizabeth Jennings Graham brought a suit that initiated the desegregation of NYC transit. Raised by politically active parents (her was mother formerly enslaved, her entrepreneur father was awarded a patent in 1821) Ms. Graham was a teacher, organist, & kindergarten founder.
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In 1855 Elizabeth Jennings Graham brought a suit that initiated the desegregation of NYC transit. Raised by politically active parents (her was mother formerly enslaved, her entrepreneur father was awarded a patent in 1821) Ms. Graham was a teacher, organist, & kindergarten founder.
I hope Khan doesn't hear about this
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I hope Khan doesn't hear about this
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Vahid Abedini has now been released.
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Vahid Abedini has now been released.
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
Curiously, a poultry farm was robbed around the same time, forcing detectives to finally answer the age-old question...
November 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Curiously, a poultry farm was robbed around the same time, forcing detectives to finally answer the age-old question...
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EGGS POACHED
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How the theft of 720 eggs led police to a car stolen from the DC Police Department
Police say the eggs were poached by two men using a car stolen from the Metropolitan Police Department.
www.wusa9.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
EGGS POACHED
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www.wusa9.com/article/news...
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Democrats must step in where Republicans have proven they won't: addressing families’ daily needs so they can believe in the American Dream again. Affording groceries, becoming a homeowner or taking a vacation feels out of reach. It's time we fix that.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | This slap in the face to rural America is a chance to turn it blue
Democrats should be the party of aspiration — and talk like normal human beings.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Democrats must step in where Republicans have proven they won't: addressing families’ daily needs so they can believe in the American Dream again. Affording groceries, becoming a homeowner or taking a vacation feels out of reach. It's time we fix that.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Why don't they do their jobs instead of whining anonymously to the press?
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
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November 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Why don't they do their jobs instead of whining anonymously to the press?
Racecraft alert
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November 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Racecraft alert
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This week's @runforsomething.net feel-good update: A deep-dive into our 43 (!!) red-to-blue flips, including trends we identified & what's scalable to everywhere in 2026 & beyond. rfsfeelgoodupdates.substack.com/p/rfs-feel-g...
November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This week's @runforsomething.net feel-good update: A deep-dive into our 43 (!!) red-to-blue flips, including trends we identified & what's scalable to everywhere in 2026 & beyond. rfsfeelgoodupdates.substack.com/p/rfs-feel-g...
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Someone bought a bunch of the turkeys and hams at our local grocery in town and told the manager to make them available for free to folks that need them. There’s a whole freezer case with a sign on it that just says “If you need one take one, if you don’t then leave it for someone else.”
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Someone bought a bunch of the turkeys and hams at our local grocery in town and told the manager to make them available for free to folks that need them. There’s a whole freezer case with a sign on it that just says “If you need one take one, if you don’t then leave it for someone else.”
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
"It's our generation's moonshot," said startup CEO Drake Ulla
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"It's our generation's moonshot," said startup CEO Drake Ulla
As thinly-veiled allegories of opposition to mass deportation go, Wicked For Good is excellent.
November 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
As thinly-veiled allegories of opposition to mass deportation go, Wicked For Good is excellent.
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
I realize this sounds like a reactionary post from the 1920s
Muting every post that has a "zz" in it
November 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I realize this sounds like a reactionary post from the 1920s
Muting every post that has a "zz" in it
November 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Muting every post that has a "zz" in it
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After this I started following some of the sewer authorities and by golly, they are lit.
Every new post tonight is like Dems have flipped the Mehaden town sewer authority, long dominated by conservatives, by a +38 margin
November 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
After this I started following some of the sewer authorities and by golly, they are lit.
"From Texas to Pennsylvania to Ohio, Democrat-backed candidates ran successful campaigns in some of the nation’s largest school systems and in political battlegrounds."
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
"From Texas to Pennsylvania to Ohio, Democrat-backed candidates ran successful campaigns in some of the nation’s largest school systems and in political battlegrounds."
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Thomas Moran, Slave Hunt - Great Dismal Swamp (1862)
November 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Thomas Moran, Slave Hunt - Great Dismal Swamp (1862)
"An experiential research method allows us to envision more things that we want to know about the past." - @sethrockman.bsky.social in @publicbooks.bsky.social
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Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving - Public Books
“But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England's leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”
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November 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"An experiential research method allows us to envision more things that we want to know about the past." - @sethrockman.bsky.social in @publicbooks.bsky.social
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When the dead sperm whale that washed up in Nantucket is your timeline cleanse...
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Sperm whale tugged off Nantucket's north shore
(Nov. 21, 2025) One of Trevor Barrett’s excavators and a Robert B. Our tugboat were used to remove the dead sperm whale from Nantucket’s north shore Friday.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
When the dead sperm whale that washed up in Nantucket is your timeline cleanse...
www.ack.net/news/sperm-w...
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