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New publication:

Preserving Rural School Districts from the Threat of Vouchers and Charters (forthcoming, Idaho Law Review)

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Cuomosexuals in shambles lmao

Conservatives across racial lines have long argued for class-based affirmative action and “high achieving/low income” described the one group of Black and Brown kids elites were willing to help and welcome to elite campuses. Now, that path is also blocked, at least for now.

Adams is polling at like 7-8 percent. His dropping out is not really impactful, right?

Apply!!!! “The Cornell Department of Literatures in English and the Society for the Humanities seek a two-year Mellon Postdoc Fellow for 2026-28. We aim to recruit a candidate specializing in African American literature and culture in any historical period.” academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30459

He will definitely make sure Minn is redistricted if called upon to do so, I think.

I think a major factor in so many people being kind of blasé or in denial about ~all this~ is that they’ve been waiting to be given some sort of paternal-ish permission to start freaking out.

So, here ya go. Here’s the permission.

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

I mean, Sanders is a socialist so that makes some sense on his part. But these megacapitalists thinking it’s a great idea is sort of a head scratcher to me.

Love it. Hope the dem political machine is of a mind to listen.

Micro schools are one of the fastest growing segments of the education sector. In the U.S., education looks different depending on geography. The highly literate and educated are breaking off and doing their own thing. I wrote a book about why: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721962...

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This guy is trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize? When he's bringing war to the American people? He sent the United States Marines into the United States of America."

My department at Princeton is hiring an assistant professor specializing in the study of early Christianity. First round materials are cover letter, cv, and writing sample. Letters will be requested for later stages. Deadline: September 30, 2025.

I poked around for a more in-depth read about this and found this:
thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materia...

I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.

Since @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is so concerned about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social housing maybe he should address his own property tax bill of just $213 a year thanks to a sweetheart deal he supported when he served in the state Assembly that will last through 2032. nypost.com/2022/01/23/r...

My current theory is enough powerful people prefer bigger share of a smaller pie to make this stable. And since the nature of capitalism is that it concentrates economic power in a relatively few people if that segment are on board such a conspiracy against the public can be sustained for some time!

Concluding paragraph:

A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”

holy cow, it’s always important to track universities’ institutional debt, but this stat is wild: 85% of undergrad students’ tuition going to service debt at U Chicago

Whatever they were doing with their money was a financial catastrophe for them. It’s not just their endowment that’s at risk. It’s the whole institution at this point.

It’s true. “Data Driven” became their mantra and big data the supposed answer to every question. This era also made dens very, very wealthy. “How the Democrats Became the Party That Brings Pencils to a Knife Fight” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/m...

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