By Perfect Blue Go To Post
I assume there have been fuck all actual talking points from the trial given that every mention I've seen from it has been body language analysis
I figured Trump would pick a woman as a running mate because of the whole Roe vs. Wade situation but Noem is really shooting herself in the foot (and in her dog). There's only one option now:
Donald Trump’s Florida trial for allegedly mishandling classified documents and obstructing government efforts to retrieve them has been pushed back indefinitely, U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon ruled Tuesday, increasing the chance that Trump’s New York criminal trial may be the only one to happen before the November election.Haha wow of course she did. "Activist judges" amirite
By Perfect Blue Go To Post
😘
That's not a data post.
I don’t know I saw that biopic video of RFK narrated by Woody Harrison that Elon Musk shared and Meta is censoring, left convinced 🤷♂️
By reilo Go To PostHaha wow of course she did. "Activist judges" amiriteNo way he gets out of this one
By DY_nasty Go To PostNo way he gets out of this oneSurely not
Last month, the Pomona College economist Gary N. Smith calculated that the number of tenured and tenure-track professors at his school declined from 1990 to 2022, while the number of administrators nearly sextupled in that period. “Happily, there is a simple solution,” Smith wrote in a droll Washington Post column. In the tradition of Jonathan Swift, his modest proposal called to get rid of all faculty and students at Pomona so that the college could fulfill its destiny as an institution run by and for nonteaching bureaucrats. At the very least, he said, “the elimination of professors and students would greatly improve most colleges’ financial position.”
Administrative growth isn’t unique to Pomona. In 2014, the political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg published The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters, in which he bemoaned the multi-decade expansion of “administrative blight.” From the early 1990s to 2009, administrative positions at colleges and universities grew 10 times faster than tenured-faculty positions, according to Department of Education data. Although administrative positions grew especially quickly at private universities and colleges, public institutions are not immune to the phenomenon. In the University of California system, the number of managers and senior professionals swelled by 60 percent from 2004 to 2014.
But many of these jobs have a reputation for producing little outside of meeting invites. “I often ask myself, What do these people actually do?,” Ginsberg told me last week. “I think they spend much of their day living in an alternate universe called Meeting World. I think if you took every third person with vice associate or assistant in their title, and they disappeared, nobody would notice.”America rules
The world has more pressing issues than overstaffing at America’s colleges. But it’s nonetheless a real problem that could be a factor in rising college costs. After all, higher education is a labor-intensive industry in which worker compensation is driving inflation, and for much of the 21st century, compensation costs grew fastest among noninstructional professional positions. Some of these job cuts could result in lower graduation rates or reduced quality of life on campus. Many others might go unnoticed by students and faculty. In the 2018 book Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, David Graeber drew on his experience as a college professor to excoriate college admin jobs that were “so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence even though, as part of the conditions of employment, the employee feels obliged to pretend that this is not the case.”Rodeo Clown described something very similar teaching at his high school
Another reason to care about the growth of university bureaucracy is that it siphons power away from instructors and researchers at institutions that are—theoretically—dedicated to instruction and research. In the past few decades, many schools have hired more part-time faculty, including adjunct professors, to keep up with teaching demands, while their full-time-staff hires have disproportionately been for administration positions. As universities shift their resources toward admin, they don’t just create resentment among faculty; they may constrict the faculty’s academic freedom.
https://gazette.com/news/wex/the-republican-winning-an-indiana-house-primary-is-deceased/article_3d4fd04d-50de-580c-b426-92566e8e5504.html
Incredible
A candidate who reportedly passed away after the deadline to remove names from the ballot was winning the Republican primary in Indiana’s 7th District, which includes the majority of Indianapolis.
Jennifer Pace was declared the winner by the Indianapolis Star with over 99% of precincts reporting. She had received 31.2% of the vote as of early Wednesday morning, besting retired Army Lt. Catherine Ping who had 29.9% of the vote, retired postal worker Phillip Davis came in at 25.7%, and former Evansville mayor candidate Gabe Whitley, who received 13.1% support.
Ping has ran for the 7th District seat four times in the past including in 2008, 2012, 2014 and 2016.
The Associated Press has yet to declare a winner at the time this article was published.
Pace, 59, died suddenly in early March according to reporting from the IndyStar and WIBC Indianapolis and had previously run for the nomination in 2022, earning 12% of the vote.
Incredible
It's almost rather quaint seeing someone who just seems so naturally empowered and self-assured by their own hardcore racism.
By Laboured Go To PostIt's almost rather quaint seeing someone who just seems so naturally empowered and self-assured by their own hardcore racism.Ngl I forgot Ann Coulter existed. Looks like she’s upped her game to compete with the surplus of right wing crazies these days.
By Laboured Go To PostIn a great many ways, they are right.
Yes the greatest impediment will be the votes.
Current law allows 16 and 17-year-olds to get married with parental consent.
“There’s just enough members in that committee that don’t think that’s a good idea.” One of those lawmakers is Rep. Dean Van Schoiack, a Savannah Republican and vice chair of the committee. Van Schoiack said in an interview that he knows people who got married as minors, including a woman at roughly age 17. The couple, he said, is “still madly in love with each other.” “Why is the government getting involved in people’s lives like this?” Van Schoiak said. “What purpose do we have in deciding that a couple who are 16 or 17 years old, their parents say, you know, ‘you guys love each other, go ahead and get married, you have my permission.’ Why would we stop that?”
By inky Go To PostNever been to one. Who gets the shotgun again?
The father of the bride brings it, the groom might "get it" if things go off script
By Laboured Go To Post
“Why is the government getting involved in people’s lives like this?”What's the over/under on this dude being transphobic, homophobic and anti-abortion?
By i can get you a toe Go To PostWhat's the over/under on this dude being transphobic, homophobic and anti-abortion?
yes
By Perfect Blue Go To Post
This is effortless racism, generational first ballot hall of fame racism and her ancestors smiling up at her with pride.
The way Vivek still found common ground with her rather than getting offended was masterful.
Class. Act.
Class. Act.
She's a special white woman breed of it's okay to fraternize with POC but I don't want them as president or as Dy already said...
By DY_nasty Go To PostThat is factory settings white woman racism.
Why is he focusing on crime instead of more important things like how to make trans kids' lives more miserable?
By Pedja Go To PostWhy is he focusing on crime instead of more important things like how to make trans kids' lives more miserable?He figured some policies were too obvious to advertise
By Perfect Blue Go To Post
The outward racism is kind of funny but the overton window has shifted an insane amount in the last like 2 years. This Trump election cycle is basically him just flat out admitting to pretty much whatever facist idea you can think of, and it's super normalized at this point.
At this pace Civil War would probably be inevitable within 20 years. The main question is *if* Trump and the reds lose terribly this fall, will they continue to double down on this type of energy regardless or will the moderate wing gain some clout in order to cool the temperature?