There are schools whose names I will seldom know, and little remember, that will make this country better in major and substantive ways that will go largely unnoticed.

The Normal Schools are a great example.
As are HBCUs and HSIs and TCUs and a great many categories entire.

John Adams, to Abigail from Paris, 1780

"I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Painting and Poetry Mathematicks and Philosophy.

My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History...

The beauty of assured addmissions ones is that if you don't make it in out of high school you can come back from CC or with GEDs, the door to learning is never closed. You're not competiting against others you are proving your own self readniess and capacity. Knowledge is earned but not fought over

Theses public campuses also uphold the idea of education not as rationed status symbols but as a means of self enlightnement that we all fund as we understand that the accumulation and dispertion of skills and knowledge will bring benefit to us all.

like Puerto Rican nationalists shot five members of Congress in the House chamber of the Capitol in 1954, Weather Underground almost bombed a state senator's office in California

a lot of conspiracies around assasinations of politicians is that we find it hard to believe that random people on the friges can just *do that* but we came very close to Gerald Ford getting killed by a member of the Manson Family

take the woke urbanism pill !!!
bsky.app/profile/koal...

yeah we're getting another shutdown in Feburary

like if grok was sentient this should qualify computer abuse as rediculous as that sounds

an odd take on ai is that if (add thats a big if) there's even a risk of it resembling sentience or actual intelligence we need a whole different set of regulations to prevent this kind of stuff, making a sentient computer generate self porn for you is deeply immoral

if you endorse and he wins, you're still at risk, unless you're a real rising start like AOC you've limited yourself to back bencher for years at the very least. if you endorse and he loses, especially if youre a new york politician whew youre dead, like truly and utterly dead

cities and states often try excuse their lack of direct funding for new housing with "we'd have to raise taxes" as if the long term cost of a housing shortage isn't orders of magnitude worse for the tax base

the defense of unfuded inclusionary zoning has always been very funny to me like "developers are greedy enough to extract enough profit from renters that they could rent some new units at lower cost but they are not greedy enough to raise rents on other units to simply keep making the same amount"

"change who gets into the uber exculsive club designed to benefit socially connected people" is not a means to meritocracy, if more students are succeeding acedmically we need to create more opporitunities for them (fund public research unis), if they aren't we need to help them (fund k-12)

Also you're not going to make big private school admissions equitable in a broad sense, those schools get their reputation from their exclusivity and regularly rejecting hundreds of valedictorians. More students are striving more but those schools won't open new slots, its not in their interest