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Thanks for posting this.
In all seriousness when I read this I first started to laugh and then a split-second later thought, you know, they actually may do this
“Hard Hope asks people to take a break from the bubblegum optimism of believing everyone is just moments away from seeing eye to eye… It’s a radical form of hope that’s more about indebted coexistence than enthusiastic camaraderie.”
- Sarah Pessin, University of Denver
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This is why we can’t have nice things.
If you hear someone saying that they hope lawyers are ready to go to court to protect free and fair elections, I suggest you let them know that my law firm is already litigating more than 80 voting and election cases in 40 states.
BREAKING: Democrat Taylor Rehmet flips GOP-held Texas state Senate seat in special election for district Trump handily won in 2024.
Yikes this is like the approach in Rousseau’s Emile, which was never meant as a how to book and which even he realizes is an approach that fails spectacularly. It’s more nuanced than what’s in the article and he had interesting political reasons for taking this approach, but still a failure.
God bless these people.
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
Folks blame government, but: "new work requirements for Medicaid highlight the profits to be made from adding complexity to the safety net. Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants & administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
Conservatives have been complaining about their "free speech" being violated since Allan Bloom and it always amounts to wealthy, elite ppl complaining "Someone criticized me." Then the same free speech warriors are mum when this happens, or profs are fired at Texas A&M. It's always been a grift.
“The political questions facing Texas A&M are the most important questions facing the nation as a whole," writes Christoper Hooks.
Inside state leaders’ efforts to remake one of our finest institutions: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/meltdown-at-texas-a-m-university/
Texas Monthly always does fantastic long form journalism, but this is an exceptional piece. Worth the read.
I love Texas Monthly long form journalism, but this story is just exceptional. Well done and thank you — not only for your insight, but also for your, at times and deeply needed, sense of humor.
“the people united will never be defeated”
There's no better way to end the day. Be well friends. ❤️
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This. ^
But just to be clear… “we are not banning Plato altogether.” Shew! I was really worried about that. I’m so relieved to find out that we’re just doing SOME banning.
Those who initiated the revision are opposed to anything that is not cisgender/heterosexual, but that’s not what the policy says.
Agree with this (and it was brilliant) but I don’t think it’s malicious compliance. Malicious compliance would be refusing to teach anything, bc everything is related to gender identity.
Some who haven’t read Plato were surprised that his dialogues include themes they are trying to ban from the classroom, but their ignorance of philosophy doesn’t make including a relevant text in the course malicious compliance.
Why do you suspect malicious compliance? This is highlighting the absurdity of the policy. But I’m not sure the term fits.
Here’s the course description: catalog.tamu.edu/undergraduat...
@timmiller.bsky.social on JD Vance's comments about Renée Good: "He paints her as an enemy...as a domestic foe, he lies about her, he shows no sympathy towards her. And, and he does so in a lecturing, condescending, smarmy way... It's totally, totally sick, and I find him to be repulsive."
It’s real.
This is the revised rule: policies.tamus.edu/08-01.pdf
“This libertarian manifesto,” The Sovereign Individual, is “loved by Peter Thiel *** Political operators such as former Tony Blair spokesman Alistair Campbell and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen have embraced the book, too.” 9/28/25 … 1/ theconversation.com/this-liberta...
