One thing we should all expect from ICE getting tens of billions of dollars to create a ruthless and illegally operating boot squad with no meaningful accountability is the creation of cottage industries to perform contract work for e.g. recruitment and supplying. That’s where $ mismanagement lies.

Statement Re: OU Discrimination Investigation Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.

And again, by the grading rubric itself, this would entitle the student to a ZERO in the category requiring the essay to demonstrate the student read the assigned article. Evidently upon reading, the essay did not contain this, but the student cops to as much herself.

I’ve written an R package (RcppArmadillo as the backbone) implementing faster Cholesky update/downdate/drop/add functionality than any existing R package, to my knowledge, on CRAN or otherwise. Beating the SOTA implementation by like 2x. Not public right now for selfish reasons.

I said it then, and it seems to be confirmed now, that ACCORDING TO THE RUBRIC there needed to be evidence in the paper that the student read the assigned article, and her paper did NOT have this evidence in it at all. A flat zero was strongly supported by the grading rubric.

A couple days ago I took to LinkedIn (!) to object to this, and at least one of the BHP’s members asserted the treatment group would receive the vaccine at birth and the control would receive it at the current schedule in Guinea-Bissau, which is right now 6 weeks after birth due to access issues.

look i'm not an "impeach the cheeto!!!!" guy but if this is in fact what happened I'm not really sure what other political response is more prudent

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. " h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social

If I was in a group of people being sat down for the purpose of sharing our opinions on things, and the interviewer felt motivated to ask us about our views of Hitler and the Jews, I’d wonder what the hell was going on even before hearing the answers. Red alarm bells from the get-go.

Does Colin even have a peer-reviewed publication anymore after the retraction spree targeting his publications for (checks notes) fraudulent data practices? Fraud from just his advisor, presumably

This sort of blatant lying and fear-mongering has only the intended effect of justifying oppression and violence.

"we very much should be treated according to our current anatomy and hormones"—very true. There is no place for categorization in medicine, or anything: given the Real Things that make the category, there is zero utility to the category label itself. The category is never Real.

As a white millennial man, I got a response to a postdoc application < 2 hours after sending it in, on a Sunday, so I'm going to at least doubt this bit about discrimination in academia.

"Misssss Bomb, would you like me to susssspend you from teaching?"

“If I didn’t kill him, he might have been able to get help!” I say on the stand as my lawyer peels his skin off

It's a bit surprising that Pete Hegseth asked for two shots when he usually asks for four or five.

This whole ordeal gives very "The Aristocrats!" vibes, but if there was a "The Political Journalists!" version.

Base salary for a Representative is about 70% higher than median household income in Washington DC. They’re all liars.

While we were sleeping, a huge ruling: Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C. “without a pre-arrest individualized determination … of probable cause.” She addresses Kavanaugh stops head on. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you are In Charge ordering the murder of others, you're a murderer. If you are his direct report and you order your subordinates to carry out murder, you're a murderer. If you are a middle-man taking and giving orders to murder others, you're a murderer. If you murder others, you're a murderer.

The essay which the OU student wrote plainly runs afoul of the requirements set out in the grading rubric. Any student who references no more material than is found in sentence 1 of the abstract cannot be said to have demonstrated they read the assigned material, nor directed attention to specifics.

This prefers one aspect of what makes a "reaction paper" at the expense of the grading criteria, and at the expense of the (albeit brief) course syllabus.

This is part of the importance of calling them weird, freaks, segregationists, so on. They are the outcasts, and for (many) good reason(s).

The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.

“We are going to fuck over a bunch of innocent Afghans”, truly evergreen American imperialism. Abroad or at home.

People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.

link 📈🤖 Hierarchical Bayesian spectral analysis of multiple stationary time series (Lee, Coulter, Siegle et al) The power spectrum of biomedical time series provides important indirect measurements of physiological processes underlying health and biological functions. However, simultaneously char

There was some complaining a few weeks ago about how journalists as an aggregate group get unfairly maligned nowadays, but I think there is more than sufficient evidence from the last couple years that the bunch in the mainstream outlets has indeed been spoiled. This reporting is rotten to the core.

The Atlantic has been a haven for charlatans and dim witted schmucks for a while now, so it’s not a surprise they now give this sort of fatuous coverage to the merchant of child death.

MTG resigning isn’t a sign that she’s converted to the left. But it’s a good omen that the left can win.

This whole presser illustrates just how absolutely impressionable Trump is. And Zohran has only met him for an hour—think of the absolute degenerates that surround the President daily, telling him who-knows-what. Remember him admitting the governor of Oregon (was it the mayor of Portland?) told >>

So it’s worse than we thought

This "Soros is funding them" footnote occurs in the middle of an extensive (maybe 20+ pages?) and arguably cogent rebuttal of a mathematical expert's testimony. Page after page of detailed discussion and then BAM, the (((funder))). Perhaps these details come from counter-testimony, but it's jarring.

I have another thing to say about this, specifically relating to the graphic. This is NOT the accommodations effect in raw GPA scale. This is the rotated GPA effect, removing the decreasing trend prior to accommodation. The attached graph shows non-rotated effects on raw GPA scale.

Sorry for the alliteration, but my mantra is education is a merit-maker.

Economic migrants and refugees from countries with median incomes <1/5 that of the US are not causing a housing shortage in the US. But if this was the case then I think we need to recognize they’re simply better than us, and should get to keep the houses.

Megyn here either characterizes for herself, or repeats this person’s words, that 15 is “barely legal”. It gets a little drowned out by the “making this distinction is pedophilia” replies, but it bears clarifying that nowhere in the United States is 15 “legal”, barely or otherwise.

The President of the United States is actively—right fucking now—blackmail prey to an army of people. Politicians, authors and media personalities, billionaires, world leaders. Trump has been a major political contender or President for a decade while being actively blackmailed for his crimes.

Trump raped kids and the guy who wrote the “Fire and Fury” book about Trump’s first administration advised Epstein to blackmail Trump because, again, Trump raped kids. They all know Trump’s secrets and they all use them to extract demands from him. Him walking is a crime; him ruling is a threat.

Along with the first one posted in the other comment, the 2nd one here in particular is so fucking damning. This is exactly the sort of blackmail that so many people have warned Trump would be susceptible to—written out in plain language by the blackmailers.

Caving now will teach Trump and Republicans that they can win any fight simply by threatening to cause terrible harm to regular people. no possible way that could have future adverse consequences

Centrist defenders will really say things like “Democrats were always going to lose so forfeiting is good actually” and, uh, they got visibility and a pinky-swear, and that’s it!

democrats winning would cut into their fundraising

I’m already seeing people insist that even with this capitulation the Democrats will still sweep 2026 because Trump is that bad. It was precisely that attitude that gave us 2024.

Senate centrist Democrats and Democratic leadership have basically telegraphed that their justification for causing all of this pain with the government shutdown was pointless, and that it’s their fault it went on so long.

The Senate Dems will fold for a promise 🤞of a vote so Republican senators will vote against the ACA, while knowing the House won’t take up a vote. Spineless dipshits.

Democratic leadership loves having just enough power to cave to Republicans over and over and over again

The impact of the shutdown is exactly what everyone expected. They aren’t caught unawares, they’re intentionally causing misery as blackmail so they can implement a different type of misery (stripping healthcare from millions of people by pricing them out).