She knows some Italian

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

Later in the 1970s, Roger Freeman — a key educational adviser to Nixon then working for the reelection of California governor Ronald Reagan — spelled out quite precisely what the conservative counter attack was aimed at preventing: "We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective on the we allow to go through higher education. If not we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people." The two most menacing institutional sources of the same described by Freeman were obviously those two great public university systems charging no tuition: the University of California and the City University of New York. Governor Reagan was able to wipe out free tuition at the University of California. Source: Vietnam and Other Fantasies, by H Bruce Franklin

"We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite!"

Ray

Separation of church & state, like 1st Amendment protections, are optional depending on where you live

Dem leadership overrepresents folders vs fighters, but even on Bsky there are still Dem voters who haven‘t learned these lessons

How Pirates Navigated Their Ships (it wasn't easy...) YouTube video by Gold and Gunpowder

Navigating in the 17th and early 18th centuries was a tricky business.

#maritimehistory #17thc #c18th

Also agreed that the bigger danger is they're sowing the narrative of election denialism. That's what they're up to. On risk assessment, the danger of one of these crackpot sheriffs rolling up on election night and taking all the ballots before they can be counted is not zero, but it's not high.

I think we’ve begun to see this
terminal crisis of reproduction in scholarship, too: there’s a widening gulf between the type of work that can be done by appropriately resourced scholars w/ levels of support that were general 20 yrs ago, but which are now confined to a tiny sliver of elite schools

Electoral interference is a crime even when cops or national guardsman do it

This rules

Yes: "any attempt to roll back the destruction of Trump & Trumpists is going to be a partisan project, and will require Dems to run candidates willing to challenge Trumpism wherever possible, and in every state, ideally

disqualifying

Dave's Dark Place™️ is like McDonaldland but Mayor McCheese is a decaying mafioso and Grimace won't ever shut up

a matryoshka doll of failures

It’s weird how cops had armored troop carriers & swat teams but still couldn’t enter Uvalde classrooms or Hortman‘s house while she was dying

Read Smollett ffs

Long list of things to do, but disqualifying every person who denied Trump’s electoral losses seems crucial; otherwise we’ll be fighting with them all over again about their Big Lie

#18c !

Attempts to appease political and pseudo intellectual critics has been a dominant trend in higher ed over the last decade—to the point of cooperating with unprecedented levels of state/federal censorship of teaching + research and political interference in university self-governance.

First, stop it. We are <constantly> looking in the mirror & if you haven’t done any of the trainings or gone to any of the talks/meeting about that, I can’t help you.

Second, we don’t have time. We’re constantly meeting about how to survive as 25% of our budget is illegally cut off by the fascists.

Vote Blue No Matter Who: Party Politics As Political Agency Politics is a collective enterprise aimed at controlling the state, and requires working together as co-partisans.

"In America today we have a party of ordinary governance and a personality cult party. Those are the two options we are now offered every general election, and it really is that simple." www.liberalcurrents.com/vote-blue-no...

and why are we at the point where it is up to a corporation to say reading is important?

Once again I am begging my fellow legal academics to remember that judges are the objects of our study, not our bosses, priests, or revered elders.

An underrated 21st century skill is knowing what level of digital friendship you should have with somebody. Getting that Instagram request and being able to say, "no, LinkedIn mutuals is right for us." Tough when you realize belatedly that you don't actually want to know what your gym trainer thinks

Is this the “college readiness” policy promises?

It is DEEPLY important to get non-millionaires, non-tech-industry-hacks, and non-Wall-Street people onto Boards of Trustees of Colleges and Universities. I've seen @syed.nyc in action in the Working Families Party and hope you'll vote for him if you're a Wesleyan grad.

At this point court-packing isn't enough. We need to jail and disbar some SCOTUS justices.

We need to start distinguishing between higher education pre- and post-ChatGPT the way we distinguish between higher education pre- and post-pandemic.

Dems find new ways to fund the police every day bc they regard their unions as "labor" not "gangs." I can say, though, that locally in Houston, there's a lot of anger at our mayor for ignoring his constituents to curry favor with Austin.