Perhaps a bold sports commentator could bring this up during the next OSU football game When is that airing? The dirty laundry needs to be hung out to dry

"Training our attention" ... News alert Bari: Journalists work to safeguard public trust, not to act as your fucking show ponies

"So they killed Cassandra first 'cause she feared the worst / And tried to tell the town..."

How many buildings at OSU bear the pedophile Wexner name? Too many to count? ... Uni admin can't pretend they didn't know. They're stained in blood money that never washes away.

Les Wexner -> Ohio State University -> Assistant Wrestling Coach Jim Jordan, now Re. Jim Jordan -> Sexual abuse by Richard Strauss, team doctor!

People should be looking a lot closer at Alan Dershowitz, who produced the "Epstein Sweetheart Deal" (w/ Acosta & Starr) to protect himself. Everything he says and does exposes his guilt. He's also an Epstein/Israel connection like Ehud Barak. We were chasing him before Brown began reporting on it.

Attorney General Bill Barr, who allegedly went to Interlochen Academy summer camp with Epstein in the 1969, who’s father Donald Barr hired Epstein as a teacher at the Dalton School in 1973, recused himself and then unrecused himself 24 hours later to personally involve himself in the Epstein case. —

Interlochen is a big deal for kids who are into orchestra and classical music, not to mention theatre, visual arts, dance and some other things. The summer boarding program is visited internationally (well, maybe not so much now thanks to someone). This intersects with so many things.

And there were monsters lurking right there in the backyard Don't look away

Larry Nassar was PROTECTED by Michigan State University for 20 years, every single person in the administration knew what he was doing and they spent millions to cover it up. Fucking crazy that Epstein was able to influence @michiganstateu.bsky.social like this, but it tracks.

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

"The irony is almost too much to bear. Weiss built her brand warning about censorship in mainstream newsrooms. Now she runs a mainstream newsroom and she’s the one doing the censoring."

People must grasp the idea of “media capture.” It’s when authoritarian regimes and/or their powerful allies take control of media to stifle independent voices holding the government to account. It’s one way Hungary’s Viktor Orbán keeps power. In the U.S., it’s what the Ellisons have done with CBS.

Wanted for the premeditated murder of higher ed too

There's a corollary here for higher ed to witness but no one is watching while the ivory tower, like our media systems, burns from the inside out

"The public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship." Hell yes, we will. Thank you, Sharyn, for your brave public advocacy. F$ck off, Bari, for your cowardly capitulation.

A reminder: Bari Weiss signed the Harper's Letter.

Bravo, Sharyn! More of this. Now, please.

What's the opposite of Merry Christmas...? This. It is this.

"Look the other way," says the man standing next to the criminal sex offender

It's a shell game. Trump is taking money from soldiers' housing subsidies to "give" them $1,776 "warrior dividend" checks.

UNC system: pays Belichick $10 million a year Also UNC system: cuts six research centers to “save” 4.8 million total

"The growing representation of private equity and hedge fund managers on university boards of trustees is analyzed to show how this increasingly wealthy sub-group of financiers gained elite social ties despite the decline of bank-based interlocks between corporate boards."

Lobbyists campaigning to kill the earth can go straight to hell. "Project Sail, a $17 billion data center to be built on about 831 acres of the county’s rural conservation land — the equivalent of 600 football fields — has ignited opposition from residents."

Today is the MPSC meeting and the special contract for DTE is on the agenda! Join the meeting at 1pm today: go.mi.gov/anw2h1547

We the People can't be the insurer of last resort for data centers. If the AI bubble bursts, or technology becomes more efficient, or a data center relocates, ratepayers should not be left holding the bag for costs to build that infrastructure. open.substack.com/pub/monicatr...

This from a huge story about the buildout of methane gas plants to fuel data centers for the AI bubble written by @emdashsanders.bsky.social and edited by @emorwee.bsky.social. Today's must-read! open.substack.com/pub/heated/p... 2/2

Big Tech is worried that, in the wake of recent elections in NJ, VA and GA, politicians will truly address voter concerns about data center impactss. Rather than reducing those impacts, it is unleashing a massive lobbying campaign aimed at political elites. @gabbymiller.bsky.social

‘Uniquely evil’: Michigan residents fight against huge data center backed by top tycoons - The Guardian

"The future projected in these developments is, to put it mildly, decidedly undemocratic..." "... it should trouble scientists that their research, in the service of “public good,” will be institutionally tied to, and mobilized as cover for, the expansion of a violent state apparatus."

"Listen to the Township Council when it says this project is not going to be good for the community. Listen to faculty that are showing up in tears to council meetings. Listen to the Ypsilanti residents whose livelihoods are on the line."

It's bad.

"The company’s support for the Advancing Data Center Sustainability initiative comes as it proposes a $12 billion data center campus in Dane County, north of Madison, near DeForest." With "friends" like these who needs enemies? Stop taking blood money U-Mad Wisconsin

"The money for the university is not dependent on the DeForest project moving forward, QTS spokesperson Stephanie Blakely said." Does anyone believe this bullsh$t??? Shame on universities for taking dirty money from industries that prey upon small town communities

Way to go, Indiana! This is even bigger than a winner against OSU!!!

If you're feeling hopeless about the current political landscape, listen to Rev Warnock

Listening to the good Rev Warnock speak and thinking, my God, this man should be our President

Jimmy Kimmel has signed a yearlong contract extension with ABC. The agreement would keep him on air through at least May 2027 — despite Trump's wishes.

"Sadly, carving up the Indianapolis Black community is not a new tactic in the Hoosier State. In fact, what Trump, Vance and their lemmings are trying to do there hearkens back to a past era of dilution of the the city’s diverse electorate."

"So, they killed Cassandra first 'cause she feared the worst And tried to tell the town..."

"Here is a sampling of who will be better off: Trump, Republicans loyal to Trump, corporations kowtowing to Trump, billionaires ingratiating themselves to Trump... Here is a partial list of the casualties: Congress, the First Amendment, journalists, whistleblowers, the civil service, unions..."

Big tech banking on rural communities to acquiesce ... not so fast, we fight back

"Time and again, he let the interests of financial elites, spreadsheet obsession, and ingrained biases create troubling blind spots. The consequences for ordinary people and the planet simply faded into the background."

"Why was an economist who made mistake after mistake treated like a seer by these institutions? The answer, I think, is that if you are the American oligarchy, Larry Summers is exactly who you want making economic policy for Democrats."

Good on the economists for doing this. But the problem is not unique to a single discipline. When will other scholarly organizations and academic institutions be brave enough to stop shielding those who abuse their power?

"A 2019 survey by the American Economic Association, documented widespread sexual discrimination and harassment. Almost half of the women surveyed among the association’s members said that they had experienced sexual discrimination that interfered with their careers..."

Song of the Day: Booker T & the MGs - Silver Bells #Music #MusicSky #NowPlaying #SongOfTheDay

What happens when data centers come to town? This is a must read:

A routine part of higher ed admin searches now is to secretly fly a bunch of candidates into an airport where they are interviewed by a secret professional HR consultant firm & maybe the BoT without _ever even visiting campus_, let alone meeting faculty or students, before their hire is announced.

"And yet the Department of Education seems unlikely to declare admissions preferences for athletes an illegal racial proxy..." "The Trump administration appears to have already made its conclusions about higher education, and is now seeking to backfill the data that will justify them."