The New York Times is sure tickled by the story about the Des Moines school superintendent. Just can’t get enough of it. Gleeful, in fact.
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“We are home now. We marched from the park to ICE, very peaceful crowd. We were standing around ICE pushed us down, sprayed us with chemical and I was hit in the head with a projectile. This was so unprovoked. People have to know that the Feds are attacking people with NO provocation whatsoever.”
by Sarah Roberts — Reposted by: Alan Richardson
At UCLA, senior leadership is silent except when chastising the professoriate. Why aren’t they strategizing like this, instead?
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Why universities must flatly reject Trump’s ultimatum
Universities need to form a large and powerful bloc to resist attempts to illegitimately remake higher education.
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Two things:
1. The NYT elevated this person to prominence through _opinion_ pages. She has never been a journalist.
2. Substack paid her and several others to come to their platform. I have no idea why so many of you are (still/ever) on there but you need to rethink it.
1. The NYT elevated this person to prominence through _opinion_ pages. She has never been a journalist.
2. Substack paid her and several others to come to their platform. I have no idea why so many of you are (still/ever) on there but you need to rethink it.
Bari Weiss is the editor in chief if CBS News. You cannot make this up.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...
Paramount Buys The Free Press, Ushering in a New Era at CBS News
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We are in an era of such deep quackery that it is killing people. This is just one example. But you don’t need to look any further than who is in power and why, either.
“The raw vegans I spoke to didn’t see any connection between fruitarianism and disordered eating. Karolina didn’t die from solely eating fruit for the last seven years of her life — she died, they argue, because she had essentially lost her will to live.”
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The Woman Who Only Ate Fruit — New York Magazine
Karolina Krzyzak went to Bali to meet the raw-vegan influencers she’d followed for years. She never made it back home.
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…and calls on the medical school and hospitals to stop life-saving gender-affirming care.
Does that sound like states’ rights? Draining the big government swamp?
Does that sound like states’ rights? Draining the big government swamp?
As reported by the LA Times, the letter (rife with spelling and grammatical errors) makes sweeping demands to put ideological and operational control of UCLA in the hands of the Feds. It alleges things that are already disallowed, demands specific interference with curriculum and research…
UCLA faculty unequivocally told UCLA administration and UC Office of the President to show us the 28-page DoJ extortion letter being held tightly for reasons that are only bad for faculty, bad for students and bad for the public.
116-0.
116-0.
There is more big news out of UCLA and UC:
“UCLA Legislative Assembly members voted via the Academic Senate Data Management System on the Resolution to Request the Department of Justice Letter.
The Legislative Assembly received a total of 116 votes cast: 116 Approve, 0 Oppose.”
“UCLA Legislative Assembly members voted via the Academic Senate Data Management System on the Resolution to Request the Department of Justice Letter.
The Legislative Assembly received a total of 116 votes cast: 116 Approve, 0 Oppose.”
The UC system and individual campuses have been capitulating to the feds. The only ones holding the line are faculty.
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timesofsandiego.com/education/20...
Faculty says UC releasing personal information to federal investigators
The association is requesting transparency around the release of personal information that was reportedly shared with the federal government.
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These pre-approvals and multiple submissions for reimbursement are not cost-neutral. Overburdened staff are having their time wasted. Nothing else goes on but begging for permission to do our normal business and begging for reimbursement on the other side.
Despite having funds set aside for the purpose, instructors could not take TAs out to lunch as a part of the team building orientation process because the newly-mandated pre-approval did not go through.
A course I will be teaching in this year has had a 25% enrollment cap increase (it is full at the new limit). No forewarning, no discussion with instructors, no additional TAs.
Don’t know who needs to hear this but…an increase in class enrollment caps without an increase in teaching staff is an increase in production without commensurate pay.
I.e. it’s a pay cut.
Pass it on.
I.e. it’s a pay cut.
Pass it on.