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Polls are open!

Nashville, we have an important special election in one of the three congressional districts that now cover the city.

If you live in TN-7, you have an important federal accountability moment.

#Vote #BeAVoter

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Wondering why Ben and Huw have not done an episode on Bari Weiss.
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It's like Jack Benny's routine, where the robber says, "your money or your life!" and Benny can't decide.
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There are some very strange things going on at the Library of Congress. I’m doing searches for news articles from the Civil Rights Era. Political cartoons. That sort of thing. They used to be easily found.

That stuff is VERY hard to find now. Things are missing, people.
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Vandy AAUP on the Compact. Share widely!

"We join the @aaup.org National Leadership in urging the Board of Trust, Chancellor Diermeier, Provost Raver, & the Vanderbilt leadership to completely reject this Trump loyalty oath & any other that seeks to commandeer Vanderbilt’s institutional autonomy."
Statement by the Vanderbilt AAUP Executive Committee on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”
October 6, 2025 On October 2nd, Vanderbilt was among nine universities “invited” to sign a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” with the federal government. The Compact, however, i…
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The Vanderbilt chapter of @aaup.org has issued a statement condemning President Trump's proposed "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" as an illegal assault on civil rights, academic freedom, shared governance, and institutional autonomy.

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Statement by the Vanderbilt AAUP Executive Committee on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”
October 6, 2025 On October 2nd, Vanderbilt was among nine universities “invited” to sign a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” with the federal government. The Compact, however, i…
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Proud that the Vanderbilt AAUP has collectively and publicly declared opposition to the Trump compact for higher education: vanderbiltaaup.org/2025/10/06/s...
Statement by the Vanderbilt AAUP Executive Committee on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”
October 6, 2025 On October 2nd, Vanderbilt was among nine universities “invited” to sign a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” with the federal government. The Compact, however, i…
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I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
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Mostly, the tariffs imposed by the Radical Leftist president of the United States have killed their profits.

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About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey.
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported
About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.
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In case of confusion, consult Genesis 25.
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Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each.

Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture.

Read @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social's award-winning investigation:
The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why.
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
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by Jonathan M. Gilligan

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Nice university you've got there. It would be a shame if something were to happen to it.
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by Jonathan M. Gilligan

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And before you know it, pragmatism calls for everyone to be a second-class citizen except cis-het Christian White men.
The Oprah "You get a car" meme. She's saying, "You lose your rights! And you lose your rights! And you lose your rights! Everyone but Christian white men lose their rights!"
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by Jonathan M. Gilligan

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Folks who have been paying attention will observe that there is a pattern in "reasonable moderate Democrat" rhetoric of first conceding to GOP demands to give ground on trans people's rights, which leads to calls to also give ground on women's rights, on POC rights, on immigrant rights, ...
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by Jonathan M. Gilligan

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Dr. @drjengunter.bsky.social's blog, "Bodily Autonomy Is Not A Bargaining Chip" is an excellent, forceful rebuttal to Ezra Klein's idea that Democrats should be prepared to throw women's rights under the bus to win some red state elections.

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Dear Ezra Klein, Bodily Autonomy Isn’t a Bargaining Chip
Let's see if you're willing to walk the talk
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by Jonathan M. Gilligan

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Vanderbilt is hiring an Assistant Professor of the Practice in Climate and/or Environmental Policy. This is a 3-year (potentially renewable) non-tenure-track teaching position with a 3-2 load and emphasis on interdisciplinary teaching. Details at apply.interfolio.com/173713
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by Jonathan M. Gilligan

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Vanderbilt is hiring a Mellon Assistant Professor in Climate or Environmental Humanities. This is a non-tenure-track 3-year position with a 2-2 teaching load. Any historical period and cultural field, especially folks working in arts or public humanities. Details at apply.interfolio.com/173717
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It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.
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Komabayashi–Ingersoll limit - Wikipedia
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by Jonathan M. Gilligan

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There's a minimum threshold of solar intensity (the Kombayashi-Ingersoll limit) necessary to drive a runaway greenhouse effect of the sort Venus experienced (where entire oceans evaporate). Sunlight is that intense for Venus, but the Earth is much too far from the sun to be vulnerable.
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by Jonathan M. Gilligan

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More persistent than nuclear waste. After 10,000 years, only 0.03% of radioactivity from high-level nuclear waste remains, but 25% of CO2 remains in the atmosphere, according to the Archer paper you cite.

by Jonathan M. Gilligan

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Also, the FAIR model Zeke used here is available as a python module and should be easy to install and run on your computer.

docs.fairmodel.net/en/latest/
FaIR: Finite Amplitude Impulse Response simple climate model — fair 2.2.1+7.gce06ad5 documentation
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by Jonathan M. Gilligan

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You can run this kind of simulation using David Archer's interactive web interface to Robert Berner's GEOCARB model, and download the raw model output: climatemodels.uchicago.edu/geocarb/geoc... and climatemodels.uchicago.edu/geocarb/geoc...
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by Jonathan M. Gilligan

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Makes me think about this thread, which basically reflects on Ezra Klein's inability to acknowledge to Ta-Nehisi Coates, "I really screwed up with my Charlie Kirk column, and I regret it."

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And I feel like Klein should just say, you know, I was very emo after the killing, I freaked out bc I’m a pundit too, in the public eye, it made me feel vulnerable, but in retrospect, I 100% should’ve written that column differently & thought *much* more deeply about how I described that guy…
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Also he never acknowledged that Charlie Kirk spent his entire career calling people things far worse than "deplorable."

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The fundamental point Ezra Klein appears make in his conversation with Ta Nehisi Coates is that Hillary Clinton did politics the wrong way by targeting a group of White people with the same rhetoric that Republicans like Charlie Kirk often use toward Black people, Jews, LGBTQ people, & immigrants.
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by Jonathan M. Gilligan

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Brooks should apply to be salad-bar steward at an Applebee's.

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Brooks thinks Obama wouldn't seem to "fit[] in naturally" at an Applebee's salad bar -- maybe because Applebee's doesn't have them
On MSNBC, David Brooks asserted that "less educated" and "downscale" people "look at [Sen. Barack] Obama, and they don't see anything," adding: "And so, Obama's problem is he doesn't seem like the kin...
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by Jonathan M. Gilligan

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It's harder if you live in a hilly area. When my daughter was a child she really wanted to bike places, but we lived on a 12% grade street in a hilly neighborhood, and that was too much for a young one.

Today, an adult, she lives car free in another city and gets everywhere by bike & transit.
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by Jonathan M. Gilligan

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The increase since 2022 from 20% to 43% of Ph.D. candidates reporting that they've experienced discrimination, harassment, or bullying in their programs is also very concerning.
A chart showing the number of Ph.D. candidates who have experienced discrimination or harassment in their program. 43%, including 47% of international students and 55% of ethnic minorities have. The leading forms of mistreatment are bullying (13% of students) and sexism or gender-related mistreatment (12%).
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Klein's pragmatism is to accept current public opinion as fixed and work within its constraints, whereas Coates believes that his form of truth-telling has power to move public opinion, and thus alter what is practical.
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