Dr. D. Cullen

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J.D. Vance's horrendous record of homophobia and transphobia www.advocate.com/politics/jd-...

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Supreme Court Decision Weakens Education Department After the justices struck down a 40-year precedent last week, experts warn of chaos for higher education amid doubts about the future of Title IX and gainful employment, among other policies. #HigherEd bit.ly/4cOdXKp

Supreme Court decision weakens Education Departmentbit.ly After the justices struck down a 40-year precedent last week, experts warn of chaos for higher education amid doubts about the future of Title IX and gainful employment, among other policies.

But I thought climate change was a future problem. You mean we have to deal with catastrophic weather? Not just some vague "future generations"? Us!? Now?! But the oil industry paid politicians and pundits to tell us all is fine [for us, anyway... who cares about "someday" problems].

Hurricane Beryl is now a “potentially catastrophic” Category 5 hurricane, the earliest ever to reach that strength in the Atlantic. Grenada and the nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines were reeling from a storm that probably will be the region’s most intense hurricane on record.

Hurricane Beryl at Category 5 strength after making landfall in Caribbeanwww.washingtonpost.com Beryl shattered records as it strengthened in unusually warm waters, churning through Grenada’s Carriacou. It was predicted to skirt Jamaica on Wednesday.

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The institutions of US democracy are hanging by a thread, and the Supreme Court just frayed it. I cannot emphasize this enough: the 2024 election is effectively an up-or-down vote on Constitutional democracy. All else is secondary, because democracy and rule of law are how we address other issues.

The Institutions of American Democracy are Hanging by a Threadwww.arcdigital.media Trump has brought the United States further down the path of democratic backsliding than many realize. The election is the only barrier left.

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Not going any better in higher ed, either.

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Chris Geidner

Jackson is reading from her dissent — meaning all three Democratic appointees have read from their dissent in one of the big administrative law cases decided over the past week, a clear attempt to highlight the importance of these decisions. (Not that SCOTUS lets you hear.)

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I wrote about Snyder v US, and how the Supreme Court yesterday legalized vast swaths of corruption for state and local officials of the kind that just happens to look a lot like their own personal conduct. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The US supreme court just basically legalized bribery | Moira Doneganwww.theguardian.com By sheer coincidence, this ruling concerns the sort of generous ‘gifts’ and ‘gratuities’ that justices have been known to accept

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Title IX Legal Challenges Target LGBTQ+ Protections Judges have temporarily blocked the new Title IX regulations in 10 red states so far. Experts expect a long legal fight that could end at the Supreme Court. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3VH2HIF

Title IX legal challenges target LGBTQ+ protectionsbit.ly Judges have temporarily blocked the new Title IX regulations in 10 red states so far. Experts expect a long legal fight that could end at the Supreme Court.

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MORE MISERY. MORE DEAD BABIES. As the third year of Dobbs begins, the Republican plan to end autonomy is going exactly as planned. A new study finds infant mortality rose 8% after Texas’ abortion ban.

Infant mortality rate rose 8% in wake of Texas abortion ban, study showsapnews.com A new study shows the infant death rate in Texas went up in the wake of the state's abortion ban. The analysis published Monday out of Johns Hopkins University is the latest research to find higher in...

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Per new filing, Secret Service has now paid the Trump campaign $947,000 for air travel. (Trump campaign, in turn, pays a Trump company for use of his plane.) docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form... Previously--

Is Trump’s Business Generating Revenue From Flying Around Secret Service Agents?www.forbes.com The protection agency is supposed to keep a careful eye on its expenses–not that it always does.

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A History Instructor Complained About Parking Fees. It Cost Him His Job.www.chronicle.com The military veteran had taught at Tarleton State University for over a decade. His colleagues were stunned.

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One of the biggest legacies of the Trump presidency is nuclear proliferation. Lied that North Korea no longer posed a nuclear threat and did PR for Kim Jong-un. Let Iran out of nuclear restrictions in exchange for nothing. Bush and Obama had the world united against both.

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Me in the NYT on the Supreme Court’s inexcusable delay in the Trump immunity case - which makes a pre-election verdict less and less likely www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/o...

Opinion | Something’s Rotten About the Justices Taking So Long on Trump’s Immunity Casewww.nytimes.com It shouldn’t take so long for the justices to consider an outlandish claim.

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The modern Right will absolutely destroy the lives of thousands of harmless children for a drop of political power. They know that hate and fear are powerful and gleefully cultivate them.

stories like this give the lie to the idea that the right is interested in protecting these children. per their own narrative, this girl is a victim of “gender ideology” or whatever. but the reaction from the right is always hostility, ostracization and violence.

Mom of transgender girl athlete says Florida's investigation has destroyed her daughter's lifewww.yahoo.com A Florida public school employee who faces firing because she allowed her transgender daughter to play girls high school volleyball assailed those who outed her child, saying Tuesday that the ensuing ...

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Fun fact: Both Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott have signed laws forbidding municipalities in their states from requiring companies to give heat/water breaks to people who have to work outside. Other fun fact: Today it will be 95 in St. Petersburg and 106 in Presidio, TX.

Service sector workers in Atlanta, Charleston, and Durham will rally today to demand relief from excessive heat at work

We keep making terrible choices that make us look awful in the press! Could we act better? Make better choices? No! Change ourselves? "Act better," for crying out loud! You fool. No, just fire the whole communications department. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

UT Austin fires 20 communications staff over “crises”www.insidehighered.com The University of Texas at Austin is abruptly dismissing nearly two dozen staff members in the communications and marketing department after a tumultuous year of crisis communications, KUT News report...

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will not renew the contract of a professor whose classes they recorded without his permission.

UNC dismisses professor after secretly recording his classeswww.insidehighered.com The university recorded Larry Chavis’s class without his consent for a professional review. Last week he was told his contract would not be renewed.

Congressional Republicans are furious that the Biden admin wants to protect LGBTQ+ students. They are on the side of hate and angry that anyone would want to protect the vulnerable from the bullies they love (and are). www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

House Republicans advance legislation to block Title IX regswww.insidehighered.com In a busy Thursday meeting, the education committee also advanced the first legislation to combat antisemitism on campuses and block student athletes from unionizing. But LGBTQ+ protections sparked th...

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Mark Joseph Stern

Bump stocks increase an AR-15's rate of fire from 180 rounds per minute to 400-800 rounds per minute. They inflict mass carnage by allowing the gunman to shoot automatically, without pulling the trigger. Yet the Supreme Court declares that they do not create a "machinegun."

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US Income Tax Revenue: $2.2 trillion US Imports: $3.8 trillion This would be a $1 trillion annual handout to the top 1%, paid for by massive inflation in consumer goods, something like 55%-60%. Breaking the economy to give the richest even more, that's the Republican way.

Trump floats eliminating U.S. income tax and replacing it with tariffs on importswww.cnbc.com Trump also talked about using tariffs to leverage negotiating power over bad actors, a source told CNBC.

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I'm still not over that this happened last year and it's had absolutely zero bearing on our political landscape and no one ever mentions it anymore

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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow

Even if ProPublica *were* blatantly ideological, (a) facts are facts, and (b) ProPublica does not have the power to strip Americans of basic rights.

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When students are encouraged to use genAI as a co-pilot, I think we're actually risking the outsourcing of learning to a subcontractor, leaving students out of the loop almost entirely. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...

AI as “co-pilot” in learning is more like “outsourcing”www.insidehighered.com Treating AI as a co-pilot is tempting, but in learning, the bigger temptation is for students to use it as a subcontractor, and that’s not good.

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Every sentence of this report is jaw-dropping. No one who helps this man become the most powerful person on earth should ever be forgiven. EVER.

‘Like Talking to Your Drunk Uncle’: Trump’s Closed-Door Rant to House Republicanswww.notus.org Donald Trump came to Capitol Hill to talk about his agenda for a second term. He instead spent an hour delving into House GOP drama, cracking jokes and saying weird things about Nancy Pelosi’s daughte...

I always appreciate a smart John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social l piece in @insidehighered.bsky.social. I can't get the last two lines of this out of my head. I, too, fear we sleepwalked into a dystopia we're now living in. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...

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Me in December when SCOTUS took the abortion pill case:

The Supreme Court took another abortion case, but the real threat is the media narrative. SCOTUS will likely swat the sham lawsuit away on standing grounds, earning it headlines about “protecting abortion.” But it won’t change the fact that a GOP president could still enact a national ban in 2025

Abortion Access Will, Once Again, Be Decided by the Supreme Courtjezebel.com Experts think SCOTUS will rule against a challenge to mifepristone—which could trick voters into believing they “protected abortion” in a crucial election year.

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This will be held up as "SCOTUS isn't political," which overlooks how the case was outrageous and absurd in the first place. Kacsmaryk and the 5th Circuit brazenly violated basic principles of standing taught to every 1L. It shouldn't have made it this far.

First SCOTUS decision of the day is the mifepristone case! SCOTUS unanimous (by J. Kavanaugh) holds that the doctor's group challenging the 2000, 2019, and 2021 FDA approvals lack standing. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

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Even worse, an activist who clearly wants America to become a "Christian theocracy" infiltrated the actual Supreme Court itself, disguised as a justice and everything.