So if I am reading this right UVA made permanent concessions in its admissions policy in return for a “pause” in an investigation. Just … why!?

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

The University of Virginia has capitulated to Trump on transgender and race (affirmative action) issues. The details are currently sparse, but reporting suggests they've agreed to define trans people out of existence and ban trans students from facilities. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.

i hope that a governor spanberger and a democratic general assembly uses its authority to discipline the university for its capitulation and to remove these BOV members who have decided that they work for donald trump and not the people of the commonwealth

I had planned to reread the summer DOJ guidance later tonight after I finished teaching to see what they agreed to. This is simply awful. I hope the state democrats, faculty, staff, and students are working to think about how to reverse this next year. bsky.app/profile/mady...

i expect to be UVA in the hot seat again next year when its black enrollment has not dropped to 0%

I’ll say it straight: It is unbecoming, undignified, cowardly, and shameful for a institution as revered and respected as the University of Virginia to grant an audience in 2025 to those who are committed to destroying science, free thought, human rights, and the rule of law.

This aligns with what we saw in early reporting. UVA pays nothing and will not receive an outside monitor. I'll have to read a few more times but I'm not actually clear on what DOJ got from this.

Big picture please. Keeping Miyares as AG will be devastating for UVA and other public institutions in this time of Trumpian extortion

And there i was thinking we all kinda hated the Nazis

i don't get it. omen sushi in nyc is cheaper than nobu in malibu, where you dined last year without your wife

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

I don’t understand why anyone’s debating this — a Nazi tattoo is a non starter, full stop. This is a race for a U.S. Senate seat. The bar for candidates to clear doesn’t have to be insanely high, but it should at least be off the ground

mom they won't let me be the special counsel that arrests the people who were mean to me online

1/ Thanks to Comey's lawyers, we have the appointment order for Lindsey Halligan in EDVa that the gov't has been trying to hide for weeks. I think it means Halligan is not long for this job & the Comey and Tish James indictments not long for this world. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

the conversation we should be having is that AI is developing and will certainly displace many workers, and we should develop government programs to even out the losses and gains between workers and capitalists. but instead we argue about whether a trans person was on netflix

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

We needed some good news!

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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

“The burden, according to the researchers, is now shifting to US consumers. They calculated that two-thirds of the “expense shock”, more than $900bn, will be absorbed by Americans. Last month, the Yale Budget Lab estimated tariffs would cost households almost $2,400 more a year.”

My som just emerged from his room, sees the TV, and says “we’re getting cooked by Dallas”. Yes, son, we are.

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

My daughter: “how many days until Christmas?” Me: “why would I know that?” Her: “67” said as “6-7” 😒.

They're gonna torture ICE detainees with this stuff. Surely they'll try with the prison population. And I bet they're gonna do even more horrifying shit in those detention centers just for funsies. After all, haven't they been shutting out Congressional reps from getting access to these facilities?

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails

Try to imagine the media reaction in 2009 had Barack Obama done something like this for the Tea Party protests. David Gergen's face would have melted. Maureen Dowd would need a fainting couch. Let's never treat this debased crap as normal or acceptable.

The University of Virginia has declined an offer by the Trump administration to join a compact that would potentially give preferential funding in exchange for a list of changes to school policy.

hey uva this is absolute bullshit, support for this student & all our incredible student journalists who are literally the only press holding this lame duck administration to any sort of account augustafreepress.com/news/shame-o...

Klaus Doldinger, the German saxophonist and composer who created the soundtracks to Wolfgang Petersen’s Das Boot and The NeverEnding Story, had died. He was 89.

The government said they aren’t releasing SNAP benefits in November — but ALDI is helping families out. Their Thanksgiving meal bundle feeds 10 people for just $40! 🦃 Available now through Christmas Eve, it includes 21 items (like a 14-lb turkey + sides). Share this with everyone!

M.I.T. Brown. Penn. USC. Now UVA — “the fifth school to rebuff a White House proposal to give universities preferential treatment if they uphold a set of White House demands.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Good.

An IMMEDIATE block.

Around 1,000 people rallied today to ask UVA to risk this extortionate and unprecedented threat to academic freedom

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

What’s the holdup, UVA?

This. They are outlawing opposition of any kind. In the process, they're outlawing democracy.

"Even applying great deference to the administration's view of the facts, ... there is insufficient evidence that protest activity in Illinois has significantly impeded the ability of federal officers to execute federal immigration laws." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

This UVA rally — which is sponsored by student, faculty, & staff groups — will protest the Trump regime's efforts to take over American universities & demand that UVA not cooperate, as it did this summer. Friday, noon, at the Rotunda. C-ville community members are encouraged to attend.

And yet Trump can never be prosecuted because of that Supreme Court ruling. The justices have legalized murder, exactly as was argued in court at the time

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

so what's in the news today

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat. Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇