'The NSF has only committed $500 million of the $8 billion it was appropriated for the fiscal year, which began on Oct. 1. The NSF will lose the billions of remaining funding if it does not spend it by Sept. 30.' thehill.com/homenews/adm...
yiiiikes
Hell, why have modern medicine in the military at all? Let's get back to vicious battlefield amputations. Anesthesia is woke.
North Carolina hasn't passed a comprehensive state budget since 2023, largely due to disagreements among legislative Republicans.
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BREAKING: The Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces investigation by Justice Department over past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.
Homeland Security klogo: More Third World Violence: ICE Requests Texas Not Release Illegal Alien Who Murdered His Co-Worker with a Sledgehammer Release Date: April 20, 2026 If you import the third world, you become the third world WASHINGTON — The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged an arrest detainer requesting local authorities not release Josue Abraham Chirino-Leonice, a 19-year-old criminal illegal alien from Venezuela, who is charged with murdering his co-worker to death with a sledgehammer.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is using official press releases to message that Westerners (they mean white people) are superior to people from the Global South (they mean non-white people). This is a dangerous, backwards position for our government to take.
/also, "murdered .. to death"?
Hungarian taxpayers paid American “post-liberal” Rod Dreher $105,000 last year to produce propaganda for Orban’s regime. www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strang...
Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding
They will build market rate homes for 6 families on a lot that used to be a tangle of invasive species and Durham Nextdoor people lose their minds.
In that case, if Trump continues with his war, he will be violating the War Power Resolution—in addition to usurping Congress's authority under the U.S. Constitution.
It's the work week again, and the ADL has yet to comment upon the US Secretary of Defense's attack on the "Pharisee press," which alludes to the older Lügenpresse.
Frog, ever the know-it-all, points out all the shortcomings of Toad's housekeeping. It is true, though, that Toad's house is a mighty mess, including a pile of dirty dishes in the sink. From "Tomorrow" In *Days with Frog and Toad*
“Your windows need scrubbing,” said Frog. “Your plants need watering.”
“Tomorrow!” cried Toad. “I will do it all tomorrow!”
Canadian doctors obeying a U.S. executive order that doesn’t even apply to Canada is deeply offensive to both trans people and to Canadian legal sovereignty.
Hopes are high that we'll get a state budget soon. UNC System asks:
"Top budget priorities…include $169.7 million to cover enrollment funding, building reserves, and repairs and renovations across the 17 campuses…[and] funding 'commensurate with state agencies' for faculty and staff."
New: We found out how much money Nick Fuentes makes from "superchats": $900,000 since the start of Trump's second term. Here's the story of Kristine in Ohio, a food-truck operator who became his most frequent donor, despite not making much money herself: wapo.st/4mERkhv
This is part of a broader push the Trump admin began in term one (that Biden didn't roll back in any way). First each visa applicant had to disclose your social media handles. Now under Trump 2, the U.S. government demands that you make your social media accounts public so they can scan 'em.
Investigation reveals how Horus, a company led by ex-military intelligence officials, was hired during protest movement.
North Carolina’s public schools are being squeezed from both sides—and the pressure is building at exactly the wrong time. ncnewsline.com/2026/04/20/d... #ncpol (commentary)
“At the beginning of April, the conservative-dominated North Carolina Supreme Court put the final nail in the coffin of equitable education funding in the state.” www.liberalcurrents.com/equal-on-pap...
i support whichever candidate will vow to eradicate palantir and its owners
Sarah Longwell: We are committing superpower suicide in real time. Trump is making China Great Again. Poll: People in *every single one* of the top US-allied countries now believe it’s better to depend on China than on the US. The global balance of power is clearly tilting away from the US and toward China.
BREAKING: New data shows ZERO oil tankers passed through the Strait of Hormuz today, signaling what appears to be a complete shutdown of the Strait for the first time in history.
The Strait normally carries about 20% of the world’s oil supply.
"The American Academy of Pediatrics — which has come out in favor of gender-affirming treatment for minors —declined NPR's request for an interview. The group's media representative said every pediatrician she approached was too scared of retaliation to comment publicly." www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...
“In 2025, 48% of Americans ages 18-29 could not name a single concentration or death camp… Another 53% of surveyed Americans said that they had encountered Holocaust ‘denial or distortion while on social media.’”
Time to write to these corporations and ask them why they are destroying our multi-religious history.
In addition to the attack on German memory culture, the use of the verb “neutering” here reveals how much of this is really about gender anxiety.
Imagine thinking we don’t need Gender Studies as an academic discipline.
The technological right has to bend toward explicit eugenicism and a belief that all human difference is natural and innate, to deal with their anxiety that they do not deserve what they have and that the public could take it from them at any moment.
I think its because they are selected for that quality, responsibility of the position lends itself to a conservative affect, and because they mostly interact with each other and other similar elites and index to their peers.
My informed but not definitive assessment is that there are very few college and university presidents or provosts at all institutional types and historical missions who are willing to say the truth about the political and cultural realities facing higher ed in the US.
