Colleen
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The “culture war” frame is a weasly way to avoid saying that this segregationist administration is institutionalizing white male supremacy in the nation’s military academies.
“white supremacist purge strikes West Point” is more accurate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
“white supremacist purge strikes West Point” is more accurate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
The Pentagon’s Culture Wars Strike West Point
www.nytimes.com
May 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The “culture war” frame is a weasly way to avoid saying that this segregationist administration is institutionalizing white male supremacy in the nation’s military academies.
“white supremacist purge strikes West Point” is more accurate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
“white supremacist purge strikes West Point” is more accurate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
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Academic freedom is dead at West Point. Philosophy professor resigns his tenured position because of admin interference in curriculum and research, which now must bow to Trump’s agenda. “I cannot tolerate these changes, which prevent me from doing my job responsibly.”
Opinion | West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate
www.nytimes.com
May 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Academic freedom is dead at West Point. Philosophy professor resigns his tenured position because of admin interference in curriculum and research, which now must bow to Trump’s agenda. “I cannot tolerate these changes, which prevent me from doing my job responsibly.”
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“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
nymag.com
May 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
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“No matter what you have done before,” he wrote, “your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
How the U.S. Naval Academy Is Bending the Knee to Trump (Gift Article)
Even before the presidential election, the school began preparing for Donald Trump’s potential return to power. Now faculty members are resigning in protest.
www.nytimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“No matter what you have done before,” he wrote, “your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
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Great piece that really dives into what I'm getting at. And it's only talking about Mars. H/T to @anita1270.bsky.social for pointing it out.
Gift link of that article. Hella good read. defector.com/neither-elon...
Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic ac...
defector.com
April 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Great piece that really dives into what I'm getting at. And it's only talking about Mars. H/T to @anita1270.bsky.social for pointing it out.
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If you are actively culling your library to keep books like "The Bell Curve" while removing criticisms of the book, you are building a white supremacist library.
Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
If you are actively culling your library to keep books like "The Bell Curve" while removing criticisms of the book, you are building a white supremacist library.
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OK, since people are responding so strongly to this, here is the broader context. Go nuts.
April 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
OK, since people are responding so strongly to this, here is the broader context. Go nuts.
These Are the 381 Books Removed From the Naval Academy Library www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...
These Are the 381 Books Removed From the Naval Academy Library (Gift Article)
The office of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the college to adhere to an executive order from President Trump banning educational material related to diversity, equity and inclusion topics.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
These Are the 381 Books Removed From the Naval Academy Library www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...
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he can't attend a dignified transfer *by definition*
April 4, 2025 at 1:29 AM
he can't attend a dignified transfer *by definition*
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Yes, I've just punched you in the face. But if you retaliate, it will only escalate things.
April 3, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Yes, I've just punched you in the face. But if you retaliate, it will only escalate things.
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Nothing - absolutely nothing - prevented news organizations from running this headline before the election, when it was equally true as now and could have made a difference.
April 2, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Nothing - absolutely nothing - prevented news organizations from running this headline before the election, when it was equally true as now and could have made a difference.
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it's important that today we put our differences aside to come together and say eat shit Strom Thurmond you desiccated corpse
April 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
it's important that today we put our differences aside to come together and say eat shit Strom Thurmond you desiccated corpse
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This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
March 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
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Hegseth's office ordered the U.S. Naval Academy to review all 590,000 books in its library for content at odds with an executive order banning “radical indoctrination” in K-12 schools, even though it is a college. MLK, Einstein books already identified for removal www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
Naval Academy Takes Steps to End Diversity Policies in Books and Admissions
The defense secretary’s office has ordered that some books be removed from circulation in its library, and the academy has ended the use of affirmative action in admissions.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Hegseth's office ordered the U.S. Naval Academy to review all 590,000 books in its library for content at odds with an executive order banning “radical indoctrination” in K-12 schools, even though it is a college. MLK, Einstein books already identified for removal www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
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That facial recognition system at Madison Square Garden sure has been REALLY great for proving that all the worst predictions and fears us researchers have had about facial recognition were accurate and valid:
www.theverge.com/news/637228/...
www.theverge.com/news/637228/...
Madison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design
MSG uses tools like facial recognition on attendees.
www.theverge.com
March 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
That facial recognition system at Madison Square Garden sure has been REALLY great for proving that all the worst predictions and fears us researchers have had about facial recognition were accurate and valid:
www.theverge.com/news/637228/...
www.theverge.com/news/637228/...
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The Times has to issue a correction here. An Executive order can’t “require” any such thing. Calling it ‘an aggressive push to catch” fraud is bad editorial judgment. The first part is demonstrably false. Those who have any voice to the Times need to demand this. Might as well say pigs fly.
President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that will require proof of U.S. citizenship on election forms. The move is in an aggressive push to catch and combat voter fraud, which is exceedingly rare but constantly cited by Trump as a reason he lost the 2020 election.
Trump Signs Executive Order Requiring Proof of Citizenship to Vote in Elections
Administration officials cited cracking down on immigrants illegally on voter rolls as one of the executive order’s main goals, amplifying Mr. Trump’s grievances about electoral integrity.
www.nytimes.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The Times has to issue a correction here. An Executive order can’t “require” any such thing. Calling it ‘an aggressive push to catch” fraud is bad editorial judgment. The first part is demonstrably false. Those who have any voice to the Times need to demand this. Might as well say pigs fly.
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The first and most important thing to know about last night's Exec order is that it's intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it's intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt.
March 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The first and most important thing to know about last night's Exec order is that it's intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it's intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt.
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Somehow people still balk when it’s pointed out that a primary use case for this tech is to poison and degrade everything.
Possession of AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery may be protected by First Amendment in some cases, judge rules
In February, a district judge tossed out a charge against a Wisconsin man of possession of the obscene material but allowed other charges to move forward.
www.nbcnews.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Somehow people still balk when it’s pointed out that a primary use case for this tech is to poison and degrade everything.
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I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard.
Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.
Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.
March 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard.
Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.
Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.
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A few words on journalism, risk and what I actually said.
March 14, 2025 at 1:42 AM
A few words on journalism, risk and what I actually said.
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This development is a horrifying and further escalation of the very topic I wrote about yesterday evening: The Trump administration’s move from governmental changes to individual attacks focused on political opponents. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-test...
March 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This development is a horrifying and further escalation of the very topic I wrote about yesterday evening: The Trump administration’s move from governmental changes to individual attacks focused on political opponents. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-test...