Trump is holding far fewer campaign rallies than in previous elections but filing far more lawsuits and it's pretty obvious what's going on
Republicans are filing a barrage of election lawsuits in the final weeks of the presidential campaign. The cases may be a road map for a legal battle over the results.
Maryland mail voters: this is your warning that the official return envelope they provide is thin enough that someone determined could see through it and predict your votes depending on how you orient it. Wrap it in an extra sheet of paper, or drop it at a drop box.
It's just something people don't realize--more than a few American faculty who are Jewish have lost job opportunities, and been harassed and so forth for their views. Somehow, this is not antisemitism. Rather, it is supposed to be because of their antisemitism. Does this make sense? Not to me.
what repercussions for the student being a creepy little fuck with no life?
“I wasn’t fired for anything I said in the classroom. I was fired because of a charge brought by a student I had never met, let alone taught, who had been surveying my social media account for months.”
Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College may have become the first institution since Oct. 7 to oust a tenured faculty member for such statements, though the professor is appealing the decision and still rece...
It was obvious that the right-wing "cancel culture" panic was bad-faith bullshit to everyone but the nation's most prestigious news organizations.
“I wasn’t fired for anything I said in the classroom. I was fired because of a charge brought by a student I had never met, let alone taught, who had been surveying my social media account for months.”
Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College may have become the first institution since Oct. 7 to oust a tenured faculty member for such statements, though the professor is appealing the decision and still rece...
This is an excellent thread. E. Lily Yu’s position/post is disappointing and exhausting and ultimately… I just woke up, I can’t think of a word small enough for someone who espouses these views. Her post can just fuck off.
Something I have been chewing on lately is that while I COMPLETELY understand shock and grief in the face of new disability, there’s a particular arrogance to assuming your experience of suffering is unique. We have been disabled. We have been fighting the fight longer than you’ve been aware of it.
Wholly ineffective and pretty obviously racist’: Inside New Orleans’ struggle with facial-recognition policing www.politico.com/news/2023/10...
Records obtained and analyzed by POLITICO reveal the practice failed to identify suspects a majority of the time and is disproportionately used against Black people.