The College Republicans of America have named Kai Schwemmer as the organization's political director. Schwemmer is an avowed and overt supporter of racist antisemitic white nationalist Nick Fuentes. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
So if your uni illegally kept demographic data on all applicants from the past 5 years, then you are compliance with what is now the law. If your uni followed the law and discarded that demographic data, then you are at risk of running afoul of the federal gov't which can rescind access to fed funds
A dispatch from the annals of Project 2025 authoritarianism: Universities are now being required to provide demographic data on all students who applied to their schools for the past 5 years so the feds can sniff out illegal affirmative action. Until last year, tho, keeping such data was not allowed
There have been multiple contradictory statements on whether the strait is closed and to whom, for instance. (In practice, chaos and uncertainty means it’s closed to everyone anyway)
It is important to remember that the Iranian govt also talks a lot of shit.
the U.K. right doing a reverse ferret over the war is very funny
the greatest example of this was Michael Lewis and others watching Sam Bankman-Fried playing a shitty autobattler badly during meetings and concluding he must be a genius
these are outdated vessels, the capacity has been replaced with more flexible littoral combat ships and a bunch of those are deployed or were redeployed to the region in January.
yup, but the US is also in a much more aggressive posotion rather than just a proportionately retaliatory one
a different situation in lots of ways but also the best point of comparison we have right now, I'd say!
since it's likely to be relevant, the US spent over a year escorting tankers through the Strait during the Iran-Iraq War.
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Putting these two posts together like pieces of a lost amulet and watching a lesson about geopolitics emerge like a genie
this implies that the Umbrella founder was an ancestor of Princess Diana
if I remember James Loewen right, college students were *more* pro-Vietnam than their peers of the same age. this shouldn't be that surprising given who was getting drafted!
he was a devout Methodist and also the inventor of the "Raccoon method" in industrial canning.
damnit William Garibaldi Raccoon could have made it into the Financial Times
I was pretty proud of Garibaldi as a middle name as being both authentic to 19th century naming habits and the kind of thing a Japanese developer would do.
(not the Umbrella Corporation bit, though, that is in fact the name of the evil megacorp)
just to be clear I absolutely made this up.
named after the great 19th century industrial philanthropist William Garibaldi Raccoon, founder of the Umbrella Corporation.
I suspect this is more Trump being angry that he didn't get to wet his beak.
'personal corruption? not on President Donald Trump's watch!!!'
if this happens we will know for sure we are in a divergent timeline
There was a German in valet parking. A Belgian and a Swiss at odds over vol-au-vents in the kitchen. A small contingent of African spies (Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Gabon) on the janitorial staff, relatively careless about Francophone eavesdroppers. She spotted a very young and nervous Turkmen agent shoving a dead-drop spike into the eye of a gaudy reindeer statue at Christmastime, and duly stole it, learning his real name (Kasymguly) and workname (Kevin) in the process. The waitstaff had a Russian agent named Vladimir and a Ukrainian agent named Volodymyr and they'd nearly killed each other in the west parking lot one night. The Polish agent Wtodzimierz, who was considerably older and world-weary, smoked a cigarette, watched them brawl, and predicted they'd both be fired for coming to work with visible bruises. He was right, which was a pity; Volodymyr had been very handsome indeed. They were replaced, in due time, by Dmitri and Dmytro, at which point she began to wonder if Kyiv and Moscow were being deliberate about all this for their own inscrutable reasons.
sorry to poast too much about this but its my first published fiction since high school and i had fun imagining the many many spies at mar a lago
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Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:
2008: 0.3%
2024: 19%
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it is very strange that we impose our own ideas about what the dignity of the dead required on people who wrote very explicit instructions all over their gravesites on that precise topic
like, the guy who the mummy used to be paid a huge proportion of his mortal wealth to make sure that the mortuary cult would take care of his immortal soul if his family forgot to. he would not understand the argument that he should not be visited and, in a sense, on display.
i do think that if you are going to put egyptian mummies on display, that the room they are in should at least have a Ka door, and that there should be food placed on the lintel. the Rosicrucian Museum has one of those upstairs in the Akhenaten exhibit and it changed my opinion on repatriation.
yes, that's why it's a useful metric!
this is a really useful teaching tool for a media class.
