Enrollment by international students from China dropped by 3 percent, from India by 4 percent, and enrollment from students from Mexico has flatlined. Here are the likely consequences for Texas' education and economy:

I just can’t with calling these horrible humans “kids.” Ever notice when it’s a Black 18-year-old male, he’s a “man,” but when it’s a white 27-year-old male, he’s a “kid.”

Dry, Rinse, Repeat…Sassy Politics on YouTube.

The best part of this tweet from January is she limited who could reply to it

“In some ways, this bears a family resemblance to the Red scare of the 1950s." The only bright side is that courts are likely to rule in favor of many who were fired from public institutions.

In the last 5 years, 81 people have been killed by political violence in the US. Right-wing terrorists account for over half of those murders, some 54%, according to research by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. Islamists account for 21%, and left-wingers for 22%.

So now MAGA is saying that Tyler Robinson was friends with a trans person. Donald Trump was friends for 15 years with a child sex trafficker and they didn’t bat an eye.

More Talarico and less Kirk

Last November I wrote that Republicans wanted to “socialize the means of cancellation” through the creation of a “Snitch State.” Feels relevant now. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Trump’s actions relative to the Federal Reserve amount to an effort to limit/eliminate the central bank’s independence, according to 82% of respondents to the September CNBC Fed Survey. Those actions will result in weaker growth, higher inflation and unemployment and a lower value for the dollar.

Gonna put up a few links to C&L that reflect the REAL Charlie Kirk, not the one you see through the gauzy whitewash of cable tv and newspapers. Again, these things don't mean he should be shot. But they do suggest that hate speech is bad and more hate speech is worse.

“They’re taking our jobs” was always a lie. Alabama proved it. Alabama tried a “tough” immigration law, and it backfired hard. Immigrants fled, crops rotted, and farms collapsed. Americans tried to step in but couldn’t last a day. They’re not taking your jobs; they’re doing the jobs you won’t do.

What the media is NOT covering about who Charlie Kirk was

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

Today is the day we honor those who died overseas stopping the same thing many of you are ignoring here at home--fascism.

This is how you use your white privilege! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP86cQjsu/

Springsteen knows what’s up. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj5UF4rQ/

They Believe Poor Americans Have Too Much…

worth every second

The Nazi Mother’s Cross was a medal presented to women who had four or more “genetically fit” children. The women also got various perks, including priority treatment in public services, the best food and clothing, and assistance raising their children. Trump is the cheapskate Nazi.

The outright IP theft ought to raise eyebrows, too

“JD, no couch” 🤣🤣🤣https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP827K9Wu/

🇫🇷 French MEP Raphael Glucksmann calls for the US to return the Statue of Liberty, claiming America no longer upholds the values it was gifted for. “We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it.” www.france24.com/en/france/20...

SIMPLE AS THAT…👇

www.texastribune.org/2024/07/17/g... This guy is from Pennsylvania!! He is a Billionaire! Why is he so interested in what #Texas and #Abbott are doing? Largest single donation. Who does #Abbott represent? #Uberwealthy

Another resource to share widely. Stream it in your home. If you can quietly get your hands on the remote for the TV playing in local coffee shops, etc.-- find it & just let it play quietly. Especially if you're in a red area. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory #Opposition www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com

Veterans fired under Trump speak out… Trump: “We take good care of our veterans.” Truth: There’s no evidence of that. They make up 30% of the federal workforce, but many new hires were purged under Trump’s push to shrink government—led by Elon Musk’s DOGE. Now, they say their service was ignored.