Dr PattiJones
drpattijones.bsky.social
Dr PattiJones
@drpattijones.bsky.social
Same one as on twitter
Adding my Ohio State Fandom so people know to follow ;)
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my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.

It's a surreal--and troubling--read.

drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Jim Ryan's letter is not just surreal and troubling; it provides a series of deeply sobering lessons—about the perils facing public universities today; about what it means to "work with" this Department of Justice; & about what leadership does (and doesn't) entail at this especially fraught moment.
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.

It's a surreal--and troubling--read.

drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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The guy admitted that he lied to the feds when he took a plea deal! Come on, man.
law.stanford.edu/2020/05/11/d...
NEW: DOJ has been in settlement talks with Michael Flynn -- Trump's first national security adviser seeking $50M for his prosecution by ex-special counsel Robert Mueller -- and Stefan Passantino, a Trump I White House lawyer who accused the House Jan. 6 committee of privacy violations
bit.ly/4hWdolc
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Kind of wild that there are three children alive on this planet who have both a father AND a mother who have built homicidal chatbots that burn children alive named for a Heinlein novel concept neither of them 👀 understood the true meaning of
November 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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(AP) — A confidant of Bill Pulte .. provided confidential mortgage pricing data from Fannie Mae to a principal competitor, alarming senior officials .. who warned it could expose the company to claims that it was colluding with a rival to fix mortgage rates.

apnews.com/article/fann...
November 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends.

It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.

You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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This guy! Born in 1988!! He's a year older than Taylor Swift!
November 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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WFAE reports: Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden said that U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are expected in Charlotte for an immigration operation as soon as Saturday.

www.wunc.org/2025-11-13/m...
Mecklenburg sheriff says Border Patrol agents are heading to Charlotte
Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden said Thursday that U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are expected in Charlotte for an immigration operation as soon as Saturday.
www.wunc.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Really, the only relevant time to share this....

My dad's best man invented the navigable channel guide, got rich selling the company fraudulently to Rupert Murdoch, and then, as the walls of justice were closing in, wired himself millions overseas and has never been seen since.
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Dismantling pandemic preparedness
@science.org
www.science.org/content/arti...
November 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Are you telling me that we *already* have two "missing tape" stories *this week* when all of Watergate only had one?!
An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today:

ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
He can use the Tuesday night ESPN time to do some Oscar PR work. Win-win.
Guest chair Timothée Chalamet: "Look, I have no idea what half of those rankings even meant -- and if I may emphasize -- I don't think anyone in there did, either. It was mostly us just listening to that Dantonio guy grumble."
November 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Guest chair Timothée Chalamet: "Look, I have no idea what half of those rankings even meant -- and if I may emphasize -- I don't think anyone in there did, either. It was mostly us just listening to that Dantonio guy grumble."
November 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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NSF is open again!

A few comments:

*Please be patient.
During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails.

*Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th.

*POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Final release of data & findings from Oct @catawbacollege.bsky.social YouGov Survey of 1,000 North Carolinians:

NCs Trust Vaccines, Want Renewable Energy Behind AI Boom

Bipartisan backing for renewable energy & vaccines, but partisan divides on vaccine choice

catawba.edu/news/all-new...

#ncpol
YouGov #19
Catawba College is ranked #4 among the best colleges in the South. Located in historic Salisbury, NC, it is a private, coeducational liberal arts college established in 1851. Our mission is to enrich ...
catawba.edu
November 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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The Gallup poll finding that 4 in 10 (!) young women would like to move out of the U.S. is striking. But it's also probably a symptom of a deeper problem: a lack of confidence in the American system and its ability to self-correct. www.pbump.net/o/the-subtex...
The subtext to the surge in young women saying they hope to leave the U.S.
Polling, like anything else that involves human beings, is not strictly analytical. There is an emotional aspect to the results, a natural side effect of asking people how they feel about candidates o...
www.pbump.net
November 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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this dweeb doesn't even seem to be a US citizen. He's a student from the UK. hard to prove from the evidence online that he's not naturalized. (even then the below would be pretty rich). But he seems to be some posh brit here on a student visa.
According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.

Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
dailyfreepress.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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1) Mitchell is a great reporter. I'd be thrilled to publish freelance works from him, and I hope he gets a job soon.

2) Vox needs to either let SB Nation sunset with dignity or commit resources to actually run it. Doing this slowmotion bleed out is unfair to readers, staffers, and shit, even brands
Hitting free agency soon.

DM’s are open.
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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just a reminder this guy slashed the tires on his much younger female coworkers tires to trick her into getting in his car

he was married at the time
"All they could do to distract from the Schumer shutdown cover-up is leak Epstein emails ... What a sleazy leak."
Jesse Watters attacks Democrats for releasing Epstein emails
www.mediamatters.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Canadian Travel to the U.S. Declines for 10th Straight Month www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Canadian Travel to the U.S. Declines for 10th Straight Month
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM