didn't know that "helping people vote is illegal" was explicitly on the table again but good that this is the ruling I guess
A federal judge has ruled that parts of the Texas voter security law SB1 is unconstitutional, and Texas can no longer investigate voter assistance efforts as a criminal act.
The judge ruled on Saturday that Texas can no longer investigate alleged cases of illegal vote harvesting. He said the state law is too vague and restrictive.
This is the Lower Ed Tressie's book foresaw. It never was just about for-profit insts. It was about what happens to *all* insts when the profit motive became too dominant. Heck, just compare the high-pressure marketing tactics in her book to this article. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/29/u...
Hundreds of universities have lent their names to online programs, plugging budgets but alienating students who feel misled.
The thing that makes me angriest as an educator is that it's not so much a "failure" (implies accidental omission) as it is a tactical move to keep students ignorant of our history. Texas & Florida, noted for "anti-woke" stances, dominate a big part of the textbook market & determine content.
I think those phrases work because America is HUGE and we all have very different history teachers and texts, so those phrases will inevitably ring true for *someone* on social media. ...and creators noticed you get higher engagement when you say those things.
There’s actually something missing here: universities take student protests seriously as security threats and respond to them not as social justice actions, or civil disobedience, but as the work of violent bad actors. This becomes evident in universities’ responses to protests over the last decade.
The party of political violence, ladies and gentlemen. Oh and projection.The party of political violence, ladies and gentlemen. Oh and projection.
Democrats are being targeted by vandals and hostile neighbors in deeply red Washington County. “This is Trump country... You should be grateful for the privilege of being allowed to live here," one woman said a man told her after seeing her Kamala Harris shirt at a concert in St. George.
Harris backers in southern Utah's Trump country meet hostility and threats.
Muhlenberg College of Rabbis intervenes in an intra-religious dispute among Jews over Zionism to pick which sect's beliefs constitute divine revelation, and hence to squash their employee's freedom of religion.Muhlenberg College of Rabbis intervenes in an intra-religious dispute among Jews over Zionism to pick which sect's beliefs constitute divine revelation, and hence to squash their employee's freedom of religion.
“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...
Student mobilization around Gaza was countered by (a) large donor mobilization against the students and (b) targeted congressional hearings. The modern American university system, after decades of defunding higher ed, is MUCH more attuned to the will of Bill Ackman et al than of the student body.
Nate Silver mansplaining what is political science to the sitting President of the Society for Political Methodology is *chef's kiss*.
According to WashPo, the main munitions used in the Haret Hreik strike were US-made BLU-109s (2000 lbs). They're a form of "bunker buster" designed to penetrate hardened structures. Remember that many people were likely vaporized by the explosions, so won't be represented in casualty counts.
Videos shared by the IDF show fighter jets they say were involved in the Nasrallah operation carrying BLU-109s, an American-made 2,000-pound munition.