This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
25.01.2026 17:20
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This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
100% Disagree. If Trump can dismantle USAID and the DoE, the next Democratic president can sure as hell abolish ICE. And as David Plouffe says elsewhere in today's Times, Democrats need to stop defending broken institutions: "It’s a deadly political place to be."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
This is, I think, the main reason why people go into administration. Still demoralizing, but there are sometimes opportunities for career advancement
UK far right before Trump's visit is like Renfield in the asylum when Dracula visits Carfax: "The bride-maidens rejoice the eyes that wait the coming of the bride!"
Few charts show our current American weakness like this one.
The minute Trump came into office, Putin knew he had the green light to do whatever he wanted and kill as many innocent civilians as he wanted.
2 bits of data from new Economist/YouGov poll.....
13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/
Anyone who works on a faculty senate should be aware of this
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
Reasons to be optimistic. This is the second conservative parliamentary leader to lose his seat in a national election this week
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
I can't believe that book survived the library purge
The Trump administration detains and deports green card holders who protest Israel's war in Gaza, accuses them without evidence of supporting terrorism, while hosting a far-right politician who has a long, documented history of actually supporting terrorism
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Hard to imagine a person less likely to undermine the foreign policy of a government that was actually, seriously committed to peace in the Middle East
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/n...
"I will no longer be able to continue teaching."
Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Very important
The move comes after professors sued and alleged the investigation violated their constitutional free speech rights…
Was just thinking that the problem with the White Lotus is that it has an essentially Obama-era understanding of rich people. This is more like it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_1G...
The $1m Tim Cook spent on Trump's inauguration was a bargain. You have to wonder what else he gave him: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Don't blame them. Stay away, unless you enjoy being treated like pond life by border agents
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
"Therapy is expensive, but this is free."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
You lot better shut it or Trump will suspend your security clearances too
Rinse and repeat
yeah, dismal
"Average salaries for full-time faculty members increased 3.9 percent among public institutions, 3.6 percent among private independent institutions, and 3.0 percent among religiously affiliated institutions." Sigh
www.aaup.org/preliminary-...
These cuts won't heal themselves
The latest in the War on Truth
