I hope those of you with accepting family never take it for granted. My entire life and future career path would be immensely easier if my dad wasn't so transphobic

There are schools whose names I will seldom know, and little remember, that will make this country better in major and substantive ways that will go largely unnoticed. The Normal Schools are a great example. As are HBCUs and HSIs and TCUs and a great many categories entire.

John Adams, to Abigail from Paris, 1780 "I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Painting and Poetry Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History...

This is the thing that always inspiried me about the US public higher-ed system. That a country could be so wealthy that it can have schools where people build rocket ships under sports stadiums and somehow these are considered "unprestigious" to elitist snobs

he met 4 trans women for lunch and banned polyamory what did they tell him

the fracophone understanding of secularism is actually just nuts

What the fuck.

thanks dad for trying to get me to detransition while I'm doing homework and applying to UCLA! real parent of all time behavior !!!

Been sitting on this one for a while, here is an article I've written going over exclusionary zoning and some of the research behind its effects. timesanddiscourse.substack.com/p/what-is-ex...

I really like the politics of Chi Osse (socialist YIMBYism, pro transit, parks, schools...), I like the boldness, but oh MAN that is a hard race he signed himself up for and he *cant* rely on any endorsements here, Dems who endorse him essentially risk being expelled from the party

going to reiterate a long time take of mine which is that grades and essays are far worse for disadvantaged groups than the SAT. A student in poorly funded school is generally going to have a worse essay and transcript than someone with a private tutor, meanwhile there are SAT guides on youtube

I am paying thousands of dollars to a university that employs and pays this man

It can't be a coincidence that every single person running interference for Russia is like one degree of separation from a pedophile

just so we're being clear the uni with the most name recognition and the largest endowment in the world has is decided to continue to let a a known racist and sexist teach class after it has become public that he was asking the worlds number one child sex trafficker for adivce on grooming a student

God help me

some notable things in this excellent Bloomberg story - www.bloomberg.com/features/202... how much of it connects through Harvard, and how many of these people are now in the AI field.

is 3.4 enough for grad school apps? I basically fucked around my first year and failed shit before I changed majors and got serious

went to the old trolley museum today and I'm smiling like a dumbass from being able to tism out all day :)

new peak woke take that I will defend: car dependency is a means of reinforcing the social concept of child ownership and restricting the independence of women and teens

“What if stayed at the bar and kept drinking with that French girl” is something I’ll be asking myself till the end of time now

Yeah so 9-1 The Planning Comission voted to make citywide missing middle their recommendation to mayor and council

Hey Tucson!! We need your help tomorrow at the Planning Comission Meeting! The Missing Middle goes up for a vote, we have a chance to recommend to Mayor and Council to rezone *the entire city* for more homes and less parking!

grad school it is babyeeee

need a nerdy twink with fluffy hair

Wait when the house reopens to vote doesn’t this force the issue of Grijalva’s swearing in?

Tucson YIMBYs!!! Don’t forget to sign the petition to support citywide missing middle housing, also please consider writing to the zoning commission on your own! tinyurl.com/TfEMM

I don’t know why I’m so obsessed with moving up in organizations and join community boards, meeting with legislators, the chances are I’m never going to be able to see this city after I graduate. What’s the point of it all?

I’m genuinely getting depressed that I’m probably not going to be able to stay in Tucson unless I go to grad school and even then getting a job in this city is not a guarantee. It sucks that I’m one of two people trying keep an org going and that I’m well connected in the city

so just looking at this map of airport cuts (10% flight reductions at each by Nov. 14): - Atlanta, Chicago, Louisville, Cincinatti is nuts thats the busiest airport in the world, and the big passanger and cargo hubs - Denver, both Dallas airports, Phoenix, and LAX. That might kill Southwest

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

And that’s a Zohran W!

TEXAS WHAT

Selina Barajas, Miranda Schubert, Adelita Grijalva!!!!

Vibes are good at the Dem watch party in Tucson with DSA hearing these results come in

We need to really make the argument that we are hamstringing ourselves economically by not allowing as many workers in the country as the job market needs and not processing their applications promptly as humanly possible.

Andrew Cuomo: “Zohran says he wants to turn the Elizabeth street garden into senior housing and that we need to build more housing to get forward. Don’t worry folks by the time I’m done we won’t need housing for seniors in the first place”

I’m so ready for tonight!

to see a friend of mine be endorsed next to Zohran is crazy, LETS GO MIRANDA SCHUBERT!!!

unironically I love smart anarchists

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.

YES ON (the new) 414! YES ON 417! Schubert and Barajas!!!

If you haven't voted in Tucson yet Im BEGGING please just return your ballot at a drop box or go to a polling place on Nov 4. Aside from the council election (vote Schubert, Barajas, and Dhal!!!) there's a school bond override that is necessary for give our tearchers living wages

"Trump’s boat attacks, by contrast, are an almost gleeful bloodletting without any consultation with Congress, evidence, or legality. The people in those boats may or may not have been criminals. The people ordering the strikes are." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-targ...

Happy Halloween!! Remember to take your pills!

a guy who goes out of his way to consider the non 9 to 5 working class in the service industry, hell yeah

Google Doc for Arizona, mostly Pima and Maricopa county information on SNAP, Section 8, LIHEAP, and Head Start. Resource links include lists of food banks, Tucson mutual aid orgs, Tenant legal aid, rent/utility assistance, utility assistance for TEP/APS/SRP/SW GAS docs.google.com/document/d/1...

ICE has shot a man in Phoenix www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...