At least they have HSR in the pipeline. My main issue with Bakersfield is … too hot and too polluted, and given its difficult geographic position, I wonder how fixable that is. A university can seed a community, but students and faculty are better to want to live there.
Twenty years ago, way, way before edpol became such a dominant factor, I joked UC Merced was a liberal plot to gain a toehold in the interior, but now I think that’s actually true.
I seem to remember that this is one speech he felt necessary to re-write himself as he didn’t feel the speechwriters could convey things as he wanted to. He felt it was difficult.
I think second guessing with someone in particular can be construed as a bit presumptuous. Polite refusal of the prize may also make waves, but is safer. Ultimately he tried to split the difference in his speech, but everyone remembers he got the prize and nothing that he said
It helps that they seem too self aware to claim it. All this make-believe fifties nostalgia, but reference to the war itself appears conspicuously absent.
Practically the first thing Trump did upon taking office last January was unleash Elon Musk on US foreign aid programs. Many warned people would die as a result; the medical journal @thelancet.com projected some 14 million. Kristen Gelineau tells some of their stories. apnews.com/article/myan...
Thread. There is a theory that the Supreme Court issues so many rulings without opinions to muzzle Thomas and Alito. But @mjsdc.bsky.social thinks the Court’s Republicans simply rule as Republicans - against Biden, for Trump. He suggests ideas as to how Democratic President can repair the damage.
It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.
Like, it’s “not that hard” to get accepted to UCSC, have a fine education provided you can hack the housing costs while a student, and live a UMC life presuming you are not stricken. Endless purification of the child’s social environment is not necessary, but it does harm.
The thing is, becoming an accountant or engineer, even a doctor … mostly requires knowing how to do stuff. Some fields, like law, or academic economics have a commercial system fully rotted through by prestige. Putting those aside, I suppose these anxieties seem strange to me, and do public harm.
Not to confuse normative and positive claims: I think this notion of a guarantee is illusory, even in the case of the most prestigious education. I think status, sometimes implicitly accepted, is the driver. For this there is a dampened material mooring.
Is that true? I was pulling stats for people in the 80th percentile that are elderly. They’d have to go through quite a lot. And, the 80th percentile is the marginal UMC by a plausible definition, so it only gets richer from there.
In general, state or local police on the ground can do nothing good in this situation. But putting state & local resources behind identifying all federal personnel involved in unprofessional or illegal behavior and keeping the books for a future Democratic President is something they should do.
People complain about California NIMBYs, and I am sympathetic to that, but it seems like *other than* good forms of path dependency that New York is in worse shape.
well, however cynical we are on here about median voter, whatever, Democratic politicians have us roundly beat.
But just because appeal to continuity of the governing system didn't work, I'm not sure it indicates setting the red line around ACA subsidies is going to work, either.
Once a castle is secured, then the appetite will be for a domain, is what I think. So restraining the appetite best we can manage is, I think, a good thing.
I guess the problem here is I don’t think it’s praiseworthy to set the bar at a castle. The one exemption I can think of is protecting against the life America inflicts on those that acquire a severe disability or disease. But often prestige (note: not the same thing as education) doesn’t help there
Or, we could go all in and make things like South Korea, where little kids cram into the night. I’m at ease with stuff like testing kids to put them in high schools that, logistically, have AP class resources. Or some math electives in middle school, whatever. But kindergarten?
