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Texas A&M University board of regents just approved a ban on academic instruction of race and gender

Vote them out Vote them all the way the feck out

Less than a week after shocking upset wins across the country by Dems Broad consensus that republicans are to blame for the shutdown and the associated harm Uncountable opportunities to capitalize on public sentiment And Senate Dems just give up entirely.

Nobody owns the libs like the conservative dems own the libs.

i’m ready for something different than whatever the fuck this is

There is nothing more flattering than someone taking time to read your work, except people taking time to engage your work. Thanks @amcneely.com and @contexts.org .

Failed country.

So glad to be able to write this. Thanks to @davidyamane.bsky.social for the inspiration of the original article, and big thanks to Contexts blog editor @elenavanstee.bsky.social for her help and guidance in the writing!

I'm hearing these SNAP benefit updates: -100% Washington state -100% Michigan -100% California -Partial Illinois -Partial North Carolina -1/2 Vermont (Note that not everyone in these states received money today because their typical day of the month for benefits may not have passed yet)

lmao

God this makes me so angry and sad. The fact that higher Ed is pushing AI into the lives of students at every turn is irresponsible and unethical in every way.

Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL

How is this not the story of every Democrat team right now? Literal low hanging fruit

Lectured on this as part of a unit on inequality and space/place. Really enjoyed talking about the "paradox of secular iconoclasm" wherein proponents of religious symbols in the public sphere have to actually argue for secular meaning, and secularists insist on religious meaning

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Given this and Trump's past comments about groceries (he calls the term "old-fashioned"), there is a legitimate, I'm-just-asking-this-as-a-factual-inquiry-purely-based-on-the-president's-own-rhetoric question to be asked: Does President of the United States know what getting groceries, like…is?

Creating civic spaces generates civic engagement...who knew???

Also of broader note: Leo says "many people who have lived for years and years not causing problems have been deeply affected by what's going on right now." That appears to be a reference to the large number of immigrants detained in the U.S. who have no criminal record.

NEWS: The Trump admin's decision to suspend SNAP benefits due to the shutdown has been blocked. In two cases, both judges found the government action is likely illegal. Although a judge in Mass gave the admin until Monday to reverse course, a judge in Rhode Island issued a TRO from the bench today.

They would never

For Natives in more rural areas, there are food distribution centers for commodities which low-income Natives rely on because they are situated in food deserts. These centers will also NOT be distributing food, so this isn't just a scatter of individuals in need but entire communities.

I love that this is literally just we realized we weren't connecting with Black people so we tried talking to more Black people and Black people like us much better now

starting to wonder if pod is really interested in saving america???

Oh (emphasis mine): “University of Texas at Dallas Professors Rosemary Admiral and Ben Wright endured violations of their constitutional and contractual rights due to the actions of the Defendants, which include *religious and associated ancestry discrimination*…”

Two professors at the University of Texas at Dallas are suing the institution, as well as Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton, over their arrest at a pro-Palestinian protest. Included in the lawsuit is a photo I took of one of the professors before they were arrested.

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Okay, Charlie Kirk memorial event has wrapped, with Trump and Erika Kirk embracing before walking off together. One of the most prominent — in terms of the political power wielded by participants — intermingle-ings of religion and politics I've ever witnessed. Anyway, hire more religion reporters.

As much as value the opportunity to do peacekeeping at protests in my community, I worry about this in particular. When someone tries to get chant going and calls "show me what democracy looks like!", And the response comes from a line of almost uniformly older white faces, it's troubling

Starting to think not all dads force you to watch Jeremiah Johnson several times a year when you were growing up

When Campus Reform and Turning point came after professors and created the professor watchlist, administrators didn't pay attention..Now they are being fired and attacked. Maybe institutions should have done more to protect academic freedom....

“Schooling has been on a steady march of alienating students.” That’s it. That’s the whole thing. By the time students get to my classes, I’m trying at the very least not to make it worse and - at best - to provide a bit of a salve.

HIGHER ED REASONING: Wikipedia: open source, non profit, cites verifiable sources, human oversight - "This is harbinger of death for all learning and academic rigor" GenAI: steals information, 45bn dollar industry, controlled by festering tech oligarchy - "you have an ethical obligation to use it"

Interesting

"my dearest Florence, Our troop have departed the blood soaked fields of New Jefset and begun our long trek home to New Nakamia. Half our number was lost to the guns of the rebs. The other half was lost on the road because they got confused and went north to New Jefst. An easy mistake to make."

Everyone drop your favorite lexicon obscura! Atavistic! Atrabilious! Incohate! Suzerainty! Aquiline!

Like, not sure we really need to literally bring old nuclear reactors back online (and build new ones) to make a machine that mostly just helps college students cheat on paper assignments.

Duckduckgo has an ai summary in their search that you CAN TURN OFF. Highly recommend

I often use food prep preference as an example of how we learn culture in my classes. Mostly it's an excuse to at this for the students though youtu.be/qu4xsHkdTzU?...

They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis.

A hiaku of my spam folder Dear McNeely sir Your work we read with honor Invite to publish

We need a full scale reformation of academic journal submission guidelines websites. They are, almost universally, inscrutable and tedious. First thesis: put accepted article types and word limits up top, clear as day

So like, a normal scientific poster session

The em dash is HIGH LITERATURE. I am aghast at them coming for the em dash as an AI giveaway. Pry it from poets & fiction writers who write sentence-long paragraphs' dead hands!

If you have the urge to dunk on Texas because of this flood, may I remind you that there are a significant number of people including little kids who were at camp who are dead. Their loved ones will have to identify their mangled bloated bodies. So have some sense and STFU.

Memetic facetious sophistry is my favorite genre of social media post

In Florida, “free speech” and “institutional neutrality” mean that a Nazi arguing that nonwhites have no rights wins a prize while a course with “race” in the title is censored for violated the law. Congratulations to all the credulous centrists who helped this along.