apps.texastribune.org/features/202... Here are details on run-offs. This November midterm election is crucial for higher Ed policy going forward in texas. Pls be sure to make your vote count in in the run-offs! Last day to register to vote by mail is May 15!

"My apologies. Convicted pedophile, rapist & traitor."

#18c! this guy is still around I think

James Garner, here in a dune buggy oh shit I hope he doesn't do something COOL AF

oh ok this too www.pandora.com/artist/david...

Just want to say that this gave me some strength this morning www.pandora.com/artist/david...

this is how you criminalize political dissent

I'm tired, man. Wake me up if someone succeeds.

order has been restored! it's business as usual in the content factories!

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

A lot of folks are underestimating how much the public hates & distrusts the people enabling this regime

Preview.

a therapy dog for when they want you to feel worse

“Soon, the A.A.U.P., which was established in 1915, plans to step up its fight. It is hiring a political director for the first time & even plans to endorse candidates it deems supportive of its vision for higher education. The group just unveiled a platform including a call for free public college”

Give this video a Peabody, an Emmy, a Pulitzer even though it’s not eligible, literally every award possible.

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Here's my "Eleven Ways of Looking at the Declaration of Independence," for the Imagining Liberty project at Columbia TC. Tried to accessibly synthesize the literature & develop the meaning of multiple valid interpretations & my take on the "palimpsest" of slavery. www.tc.columbia.edu/media/center...

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Ideally, court packing would be the stick to go with the carrot of a constitutional amendment for fixed size + 18 yr. terms. That's the off ramp. But the status quo in perpetuity isn't an option. You can't expect half the country to accept forever that SCOTUS is a self-perpetuating GOP aristocracy.

I see a lot of reasonably anti-Trump people angry at this, but at this point that requires being in a state of denial about how bad SCTOUS has gotten. Court packing is bad in the same way nobody wants their leg amputated, but it's the lesser evil when it's only way to save the patient from gangrene.

Howling wolf, southern Siberia, 500-200 BCE (www.clevelandart.org/art/1986.26) 🗃️

This is such an important initiative! I applaud the Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities (AGB) for taking the lead on this crucial issue! agb.org/advocacy/hig...

We didn’t get here by accident. This is the outcome of a war designed to undermine education as a public good. Public education has shifted from a fundamental right to “woke indoctrination,” a framing that’s coming from the highest levels of government. College is a now a financial burden by design.

16. State-level attacks on K-12 have expanded to higher ed; we’re seeing erosions of academic freedom, attacks on free speech, outright bans on entire subjects, and more states eliminating tenure. 17. Majors and programs that support critical thinking are disproportionately targeted by budget cuts.

15. …Are driving a widespread shift in higher education away from a mission-driven institution dedicated to a well-educated, civic-minded, and upwardly mobile public. By treating colleges and universities as businesses, the emphasis shifts to the student experience and “workforce development.”

Meanwhile, in higher ed: 12. Public colleges and universities have seen state funding slashed to a fraction of what they were prior to the 1980’s. 13. State governments are stacking boards with conservatives who select presidents, and hire 14. Consulting firms like Huron (the Enron guys) who…

Education is in crisis. Important thread:

It would have been easy to ignore TAH's claim, in The Atlantic, that Mellon "controls" the humanities. But the legitimizing reception that his tale received in prominent media shows that elaborate and specious pretexts for censorship of academic freedom continue to proliferate. shorturl.at/SxymE

Excellent letter to @The Eagle Editor written by Mike Collins re TAMU Policy 08.01, TAMU’s Symposium on Civility, which was silent about Policy 08.01 until @Texas Tribune posed the question, and the protest outside the Symposium over Policy 08.01’s restriction of Academic Freedom

The piker stuff is just running back the Chapo stuff from a decade ago. Eternal recurrence. Structurally meaningless, best read as interpersonal beef among media types who want each other's jobs. Rich kids throwing food at the other table full of rich kids in the high school cafeteria.

". . . turning a blind eye to science’s potential for harm tends to harm marginalized people the most."

What will outlive ICE, regardless of what happens next, is a governing instinct that has become second nature to Democrats. https://bit.ly/4tpRRX8

A group of A&M alums have formed Aggies Forward, a new alumni group advocating for academic freedom and institutional independence. Please sign and share this with alumni and allies -- and anyone you know who wants to protect free speech and academic freedom in Texas and across the country:

When a Border Collie has no sheep to herd …and the Cat being so Catlike 😸

This is the kind of thing Hannah Arendt was talking about when she said people have a responsibility to think.

let all the children boogie

Obviously it does not matter to the people who think he's a business genius, but Trump not understanding percentages gives an indication of just how much actual work he's done managing his own businesses

Are you facing an impossible contradiction? An insoluble problem? Let's ask the guy who DOESN'T HAVE A FUCKING CLUE what he thinks.

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

An old tree can be the shade that keeps other plants from getting any light. Or, in dying, it can be a genuine resource. If it falls I would like it to fall on the political forces that make our jobs unpleasant and unlivable.

This is treating Trump v. United States as law. It is not law. It is anti-law. It belongs in that category of Supreme Court decisions which were not merely wrong, they were illegitimate and non-binding from the day they were issued. It is owed no more respect than Lincoln gave Dred Scott.

Ladies & Gentlemen, the person everyone is afraid of.

What we are learning in every domain is that there is no button you can push to turn off the fascism

It’s hard when people describe your existential fight as a conversation

Dems are led by people who still live in the Biaggi era in their heads; I think anti-crime Dems thought they’d control the cops & now cops prevail over the party at every level

Adding a picture of the very pretty cover

I’m beginning to think that this temporary insanity is actually permanent.

I want the discussion of “declining trust in universities” to incorporate some acknowledgment of the increasing number of censorship policies being enacted in higher education.