Not for nothing my dance and opera/musical theatre loving self is really enjoying watching Timmy C get absolutely dragged bc dude why are you as an actor shitting on other performing arts? Gtfo
If we’re honest with ourselves about who we are as a country, the reality is this goes back far further than Iran-Contra, or Watergate & Cambodia, all the way to U.S. Grant’s original sin of exonerating the racist traitors, Robert Edward Lee & co., at Appomattox in 1865
From Ron Chernow’s “Grant”:
I lied, it's 1997 but the rest stands
This is like half of why I pre order. It supports authors you love and then if you're anything like me, you forget and then you get a present from your past self!
Is my knowledge of popular Spanish language music fixed in the early aughts yes but that is also true of English language pop
Sometimes you just need to listen to Marc Anthony have a vocal and convincing nervous breakdown over some girl in 2004 after you eat vaca frita (insert singer and food or activity of choice)
I ended our faculty meeting with "get in, loser we're defending higher ed" if you want to understand my current level of cringe
It is a real mind fuck to be good at things that are completely contradictory to your values
I love that we have such a specific venn diagram overlap
I don't have another novel in mind but Alfonso Curaón's A Little Princess lives rent free in my head and my DVD collection so really whatever he wants to do.
@heykellyjensen.bsky.social is doing heroic work, I feel like I learn more from her policy briefs than I do from ALA. Also JFC enough with book bans
We've done it but the thing that usually got in the way was ok we've set up this system now we need to operationalize it. We had that up and running for a year and then the AD who had implemented it left and it never got picked up again because ironically, tracking service is probably service 🙃
I know his office keeps saying commutation is on the table but dude read the room.
I keep trying to figure this out. Is this Polis trying to proactively queue himself up for a pardon re: charges for illegally sharing data with ICE earlier in his term?
There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.
Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.
JUST IN: North Carolina's Dem lawmaker Carla Cunningham gave the GOP the decisive vote to pass a law forcing police to comply with ICE. She said "all cultures are not equal."
She just lost reelection BIG in the Dem primary to a progressive pastor & activist, Rodney Sadler. 70% to 22%!
Context:
i'm having wicked dreams
of leaving home for Bree
hear Gandalf's final words
a warning i won't head
won't make that Strider proud
i'm gonna cause a scene
he sees me slip and fall
i know he's gonna scream
"god, what did you do?!
you're a short little fool
and you'll attract the Nazgûl"
MPD body cam footage from DOGE raid on US Institute of Peace RECEIVED 😎
I'll be watching and sharing news and takeaways in the coming days. Stay tuned!
It's like the politics equivalent of a sleight of hand or a pickpocket. Once you realize he has your wallet, he's already gone.
This is the thing, whatever you think about the Clintons, separately or together, they are stone cold political animals. They called Bill Clinton Slick Willy for a reason, he could convince you, even if you were on your guard, that water wasn't wet.
Like seriously, NOW? Ugh
girl wyd
I don't care if Congress authorizes War on Iran. NO WAR ON IRAN. I want people to fucking reclaim their morality.
Truly. This one sounds like a mid 2000s era Will Ferrell movie.
I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu.
He also asked if there were similar responses to the other phone calls they were making and the person hesitatingly said that giving wasn't what they had hoped it would be with his alumni cohort.
My parents met at IU and developed personal and professional relationships that they drew on for the rest of their careers and lives. The one gift goes to a lecture named after one of their mentors. These are the kinds of relationships universities torpedo when they only focus on kissing the ring.
We're a family of librarians so it's not like we're rolling in it but the giving we do have set up is all higher ed focused. Currently that's mostly directed at my and my mother's undergrad alma mater, with scholarships that will be fully funded provided the bottom doesn't drop out.
The plan is to run through a pre-determined target list and then declare victory whenever the list is up or the political/material costs of the operation become prohibitive.
The Xennial thing is so real in terms of being on the cusp. I started college the year FB rolled out to college students and we registered in person. I had one of the earliest cell phones but it was bc I drove myself to town at 15 and the thing lived in a bag in the car or truck.
