"But the prison population truly exploded during President Ronald Reagan’s administration. When Reagan took office in 1980, the total prison population was 329,000, and when he left office eight years later, the prison population had essentially doubled, to 627,000."

The replies in this thread are insane. You are cheering him for filibustering zero. There is no legislation on the floor of the Senate. Typical Democrat. All performance. No record to stand on. No desire to fight for the working class and the poor. Staying home in '26 & '28.

Like, for example, when someone is talking about “leftist purity tests” are you talking about leftists terrible habit of holding each other to ridiculously high moral standards while offering no opportunity for grace, or do you just mean “leftists keep asking for civil rights and it’s annoying”?

The field of geology is quite ugly diversity wise. I was told don't do oil field work not safe. I went to grad schl at Carleton University & my first day found my supervising prof was homophobic & transphobic. One of her students attacked me from behind one day & she protected him. No M.S. for me.

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." - Desmond Tutu.

If they can't speak up when core functions of one its premier schools at the medical school over issues of funding, they won't speak up when members of the Harvard community are directly targeted. It's an exercise in cowardice that protects no one.