The “DEI” language in question? The student group “is expected to foster a safe community where diversity, equity and inclusion is embedded in the organization” has been replaced with “expected to foster a safe and inclusive community” statenews.com/article/2026...

some of the most anxious people have no real pressure they are self taut

I have a theory for why the Knicks are winning. It’s not because they are good - were not especially good for most of the season. It’s because New York are is being blessed by the divine for electing Mamdani. That’s the only reasonable explanation.

Pro tip: if you want an 13 and 9 to leave you alone sing a cringey song. Chaka Khan’s “I’m Every Woman” works well.

This really has nothing to do with him and it’s a dumb question, but he can’t help himself from stepping in it anyway.

The purges are likely to continue

At some point, we're going to have a reckoning about inequality.

Paying for Pell by cutting subsided loans instead of, you know, taxing income and wealth, is the sort of choice that pairs well with a provision that requires public colleges to support discriminatory student groups.

Too much BLS trutherism on here

The US economy is incredibly difficult to kill. Has anyone tried holy water or to stab it with a wooden stake?

I don’t indoctrinate students in the classroom. But on the last day of seventh grade, I gave the carpool a little lecture about the SpaceX IPO and pump and dump schemes.

This is a great example of the land grant mission of higher education. And it's also why I get really nervous when warm weather comes too early.

I derive great pleasure from this activity

It started when it began, it stoped when it was happening, and it was over before it ended.

Who and or what is this for?

Sometimes you should decline the invitation for a podcast interview

It isn’t even satire. This is plain as day.

I don’t think this will become law but it’s worth keeping close tabs on it. When @robertkelchen.com said a few years ago he thought a Republican congress might consider getting rid of student loans altogether I thought it was nuts. Well it may be nuts but it’s a live possibility.

Nothing says "intellectual freedom" like forcing students to take mandatory conservative indoctrination classes. Shout-out to all the embarrassing academics who believe any of this was in good faith.

Happy National Cheese Day to all who celebrate, which is pretty much everyone*, the Grand Unification Day of holidays! *Remember to raise an extra slice in the honor of those with restrictions.

Coincidentally, I had a grilled tofu sandwich for dinner tonight. Would recommend.

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Which multi-district states are not gerrymandered? MI, CO, and AZ? Is that it?

Tom Barrett voted for the war powers resolution. I’m pretty surprised, but then again I guess it is too late to file for the primary.

I think people dramatically underestimate how difficult it is to change the constitution to change the way board members are selected. statenews.com/article/2026...

“I’m glad that Americans are confused about our war” to me sounds like the message of a party that’s not fussed about elections.

Watching the fallout associated with sudden resignation of the university president of my employer only reinforces my view that US higher ed is be better off when organizational strategy and management is less dependent on executive leadership.

California always fails the count the damn votes in a timely manor challenge.

All a very normal way to run a country, good leadership

For me, one lesson of the Trump era is that it’s fine to assume that people are who they show themselves to be.

I have no legal training, so help me out: is SCOTUS’ reasoning that it would be very mean to read racist intent in an overt act of racial discrimination, therefore the discrimination is ok because discriminators say they aren’t racists?

I cannot decide if I should allow myself to invest emotionally in this Orioles’ season or not

That’s not Mike Rogers, it’s Bruce Banner transforming before our eyes

Why is it that the things that should be the easiest to write are often the most difficult.

I spoke with Edwin Eisendrath on his show "It's the Democracy Stupid" @heartlandsignal.bsky.social about Iowa's (Orwellian) Center for Intellectual Freedom, attacks on higher education, and critical race theory. @alliancehighered.bsky.social

Has anyone written a comprehensive accounting of ALL of the ways the Trump administration is destroying research capacity in the US? Scientific research, educational research, social science research, etc.

University marketers have lost their minds. Absolute madness.

Cantwell says: There’s a prospect that the Board of Trustees will agree to discuss appointing Professor Cantwell as the university president which is an aspect of deliberations they have previously neglected to address.

Would you like to by a hastily constructed and insipid but absolutely massive home starting in the low $800s just a stone's throw from the intersection of US 23 and I-96? Perfect for getting to the Howell outlets (or Klan rally). Well, Director Pulte has you covered!

university • n. 1. an organization that is simultaneously cutting budgets and breaking ground but insists that these two thinks are unrelated, 2. an institution of higher learning providing facilities for teaching and research and authorized to grant academic degrees.

This profile of Infantino is as good as anything as a primer on how postliberal institutions are building a new world order. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

When the Trump administration chooses to dismantle the system to monitor ocean currents, part of an ongoing attack on science and knowledge more generally by the federal government, I sure wish experts would not say this reflects a lack of understanding. It’s informed bad intent, not ignorance.

Peonies are the definition of “a little too much”

Here's the recording from the admissions panel with Ron from the NYT, Lauren from Northwestern, and me! I go into a fugue state when I do these so I truly have no recollection of what I said. m.youtube.com/watch?v=5tLU...

He’s dropping the instruction payments but is he dropping the Trump family tax immunity?

Trump is less focused on splashy deals that show his dominance over individual universities but this re-focus is, if anything, allowing Vought and others to dismantle the academic research enterprise.

You do not have to take this index as gospel - I'm not 100% convinced on the definitions or the capacity to precisely measure the underlying concepts across countries and time - to see this as extremely worrying. The direction and slope of the trend are plausible.

The AAU says research funding is gummed up and implies that the research performance of a it’s members could decline. www.aau.edu/newsroom/lea...

For no reason in particular I’m going to observe that Clemson University is in Biggs’ district.

Must every kids’ school, activity, camp, team, club have a different app?