@goldenstatewarrior.bsky.social's Coach Steve Kerr is standing up for campus freedom!
Coaches across the nation launched a letter campaign calling on elected officials to keep political interference out of our colleges and universities.
We can't have college sports without academic freedom.
Oh I have questions, but sadly I already know the answers
Something especially cursed about the school paying for canvas to monetize student data, paying for ChatGPT so students don’t have to learn, and now paying for spyware to take over their webcams to make sure they don’t use ChatGPT to cheat on tests on canvas b/c they didn’t learn anything in class
An elementary school in the Iranian capital Tehran’s Niloufar Square has been struck in US-Israeli attacks, according to Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei. Baghaei on Friday shared a video on X, purportedly showing Shahid Hamedani School with students before and after the attack, without elaborating on the circumstances or the number of casualties.
The US and Israel have apparently attacked another elementary school in Iran, this one in Tehran.
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”
All Texas universities are under attack.
ALL universities are under attack.
#LetStudentsLearn
Former LA Times managing editor @sarayasin.bsky.social launches The Key, a new publication about Palestine that will be "a home for journalists who have had their stories spiked in mainstream outlets."
Her opening essay is worth every second of your time: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...
I remember in hs we got pulled out of class to go on a video game bus where Air Force guys gave us call signs and let us play a jet simulator where we went on a mission to blow up an enemy ship and then told us how it all has to do w/getting a college education
Rubio (whether intentionally or unintentionally, I believe the latter but you can debate it) seems to have completely blown up the discursive barriers around this. Here is an article in Bloomberg that one could only have imagined seeing in a place like Zeteo before this week.
Ok but you should be criticizing the articles not the advertisements
A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.
Your periodic reminder that if you mention the name "Rahm Emanuel" to any sentient adult from Chicago, they will make precisely the same face as if you were to hand them a dead rat on a platter.
If I ever live up to the fantasy version of me that heterodox guys have built up in their heads over a decade I’d be so proud of my career
Feels like the natural endpoint of our society tbh. Was always going to go this way
He agreed with Ben Shapiro that there wasn’t a genocide. That episode released about 6 weeks ago.
never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.
Athletic coaches are speaking out against political interference in higher ed!
Coaches for Campus Freedom—a new campaign including Steve Kerr, Doc Rivers, Jim Boeheim and many more—is demanding that U.S. universities and colleges remain free and independent.
Sign and share the open letter⬇️
GET HIS ASS KEN
Tangent but I ran a study once and found most people assume that the W does stand for white even tho the original paper doesn’t talk about race. Found some downstream consequences too but got distracted by other stuff
One of those ideas I wish I had thought of
It was very stupid. chappelle’s black bush sketch is still the only one that i remember getting close to how stupid it all was and even that understated it.
It’s funny because the government sent a bunch of random people to CECOT for doing things like wearing a Bulls logo…
Yes it’s those other people whose entire careers hinge on a particular narrative not singal
“Our vision for a fully-funded public education, where a professor can write and teach freely, and can challenge every vapid, cruel argument federal and state governments make, sustains us. It’s what we’re fighting for.”
—Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
I think challengers need to consider how they differentiate themselves substantially from Newsom and others who are now paying lip service to what the base wants. Centrists are adept at saying what people want to hear, and not delivering. Newsom especially. Push the demands further, be specific.
As someone who has survived multiple jaw bone infections and needed several endodontic treatments for tooth infections, let me tell you that this man died in one of the most painful ways possible
They tortured him. An untreated tooth infection is torture.
It was in those spaces, in the late 2010s, that I realized that the fundamentalist Christians I’d grown up with weren’t the only people enforcing rigid ideas about how others should think. After arriving in New York with mainstream Democratic views, I took classes heavy on critical theories that fixated on identity categories and reflexively decried capitalism and the West. Within influential LGBTQ organizations, gay rights had given way to radical queer politics, and academic theories about sex and gender had hardened into doctrine. Widespread revulsion toward Donald Trump had narrowed the boundaries of permissible discussion on the left. The more Trump and his followers opposed something, the more we were supposed to support it. The prevailing view was that any debate within our side would become ammunition for the right.
For a long time, I feared that if I didn’t keep my thoughts to myself, I would lose the only community I’d ever really belonged in. As controversy flared up nationally about pediatric gender medicine, though, I started voicing concerns, rooted in my own experiences, over what looked to me like a rush to medical treatment. For all the sloganeering about protecting trans kids, I heard no discussion about protecting effeminate gay boys from unnecessary medicalization. When I and others asked whether progressive norms might be nudging effeminate gay boys to think of themselves as girls, no one wanted to hear it. Instead of answers, we were given the LGBTQ community’s official line. “Gender identity and sexual orientation are two different things,” the Human Rights Campaign asserts. But the confidence with which people claim that the two have nothing to do with each other is hard to square with research findings: According to data collected mostly before the recent surge in pediatric-dysphoria diagnoses, most prepubescent children who experienced gender distress went on to experience same-sex attraction and ultimately did not pursue a gender transition. Of 70 adolescents whom Dutch clinicians subjected to puberty suppression from 2000 to 2008, the overwhelming majority were attracted exclusively to people of their biological sex.
Straightforward right-wing agitprop. The idea that thousands of kids were pushed into gender-affirming surgeries because the left shuts down debate is a laughable conspiracy theory. The overwhelming social pressure is to be cis, not trans!
Greg Dolezal, a Georgia state senator and conservative Republican who's running to be lieutenant governor, released this bizarre Islamophobic "anti-sharia" ad that, somewhat confusingly, features an AI generated driver that looks exactly like Claire Danes.
One Day they’re going to market some sort of mutually assured destruction gun that you can carry and will start shooting everywhere if you’re ever shot and Americans will be told it makes us so much safer
Yeah I saw that, one of them said that level of research was too much. another guy asked his assistant to politely make up excuses cause he didn’t want to judge. or the other guy made it sound like his wife and friends were aware but they still thought about it. Not exactly profiles in courage.
