It's not new at public universities, which have been dealing with decades of defunding. Ours (a small public university that only gets ~8% of our annual budget from the state) has a student housing crisis now because they've pushed enrollments to the limit.
Yes, yes, these are common problems in the young backsliding democracies of the former Soviet bloc and in much of autocratic Africa and East Asia, but -
What's that? He's describing the United States?
It’s still hard to believe the simple fact that this is all self-imposed. Everything that’s happening right now wasn’t the result of some foreign adversary destroying the country. We did this all to ourselves by electing the dumbest motherfucker to ever rule a nation.
This tweet turns two years old this month.
S&P is up 47% since. 💰
Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States
2 day change -1,400
(always a tweet)
The press needs to frame this accurately.
It isn’t a pause on aid. That’s language designed to soft pedal it, make it go down easier.
“In a bid to help Russia achieve victory on its preferred terms, Trump stops all aid to Ukraine”
EU foreign policy chief:
“.. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader.”
@kajakallas.bsky.social
This is appalling behavior. Shocking even for a dumb toad like Trump who can't help but choose the worst possible position on every single issue. We're in deep(er) sh*t.
Hard pass.
We have his work on constant rotation around here. Been rewatching The Return this week. I'm so sorry to hear this. 💙
this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
I have several savings accounts w/them & noticed last year that one of the larger ones wasn't earning any interest, so I called them. They said it was an older 360 savings instead of 360 "performance" savings. So I had to close the old account and open a new one to get the correct rate. Ridiculous.
(Bloomberg) - Europe’s largest pension fund sold its entire €571 million ($585 million) stake in Tesla Inc. in the third quarter partly due to disagreement with Elon Musk’s remuneration package.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Hey Elon Musk bought Twitter and so he push racist lies like this to hundreds of millions of people. The world’s biggest welfare queen is also the world’s biggest racist.
a graph of PIT homelessness estimates over time, which rise from 567k in 2019 to 771k in 2024
a map of changes in the number of people experiencing homelessness by state, which jumped by 55k in NY and 14k in Illinois
Today HUD released data showing homelessness has reached a record high in 2024, jumping roughly 120k compared to last year
The jump was especially pronounced in New York, which saw a 55k increase compared to last year, and Illinois, which saw a 14k increase.
Please take him. Please.
Thank you! Good to see you here! I hope all is well there.
It'd be great if JD Vance could take Hegseth and Kennedy to make the rounds with R senators next
Mandarin and Arabic, though my French and Spanish are so bad now that I may as well not claim to speak either.
Last year's news, but I wanted them to be my first post. Good to see you, old friends. Here's to new beginnings, even in dark times.
