Deb Seltzer
@debseltz.bsky.social
Syracuse & Indiana grad. Bville to Btown to Bmore and back again.
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Part of the lesson here is that Trumpists, like many bullies, don’t handle it well if you stand up to them rather than caving. If Trump or Vance or their supporters had any character this petulant display and Zelenskyy’s defiance would be humiliating to them.
Zelenskyy gives a thumbs up after getting berated by a visibly agitated Trump
February 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Part of the lesson here is that Trumpists, like many bullies, don’t handle it well if you stand up to them rather than caving. If Trump or Vance or their supporters had any character this petulant display and Zelenskyy’s defiance would be humiliating to them.
@rseltzer.bsky.social was on @think.kera.org talking about what dismantling the Department of Education would mean for higher ed think.kera.org/2025/02/27/d...
Do we really need the Dept. of Education? - Think
Rick Seltzer writes the Daily Briefing newsletter at The Chronicle of Higher Education. He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss what the Department of Education does on a daily basis.
think.kera.org
February 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
@rseltzer.bsky.social was on @think.kera.org talking about what dismantling the Department of Education would mean for higher ed think.kera.org/2025/02/27/d...
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Our service members are among the best and bravest our nation has to offer.
They are patriots who put their lives on the line to keep us safe.
To demean thousands of transgender service members' sacrifice by removing them is cruel and stupid – and makes us all less safe.
They are patriots who put their lives on the line to keep us safe.
To demean thousands of transgender service members' sacrifice by removing them is cruel and stupid – and makes us all less safe.
Transgender troops will be removed from the military, Pentagon says
The policy goes further than the trans military ban that President Donald Trump instituted during his first term, which allowed some trans troops to continue serving.
www.nbcnews.com
February 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Our service members are among the best and bravest our nation has to offer.
They are patriots who put their lives on the line to keep us safe.
To demean thousands of transgender service members' sacrifice by removing them is cruel and stupid – and makes us all less safe.
They are patriots who put their lives on the line to keep us safe.
To demean thousands of transgender service members' sacrifice by removing them is cruel and stupid – and makes us all less safe.
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The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit
February 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit
Higher ed seems to be in desperate need of a leader to stand up for their professed values. Disappointed it appears @syracuseu.bsky.social won't be it.
Trump wants to kill diversity efforts in higher ed. Will CNY’s big schools give in? By @maggiehicks.bsky.social
www.syracuse.com/education/20...
Trump wants to kill diversity efforts in higher ed. Will CNY’s big schools give in? By @maggiehicks.bsky.social
www.syracuse.com/education/20...
Trump wants to kill diversity efforts in higher ed. Will Central NY’s big schools give in?
A directive Friday threatened to pull federal funding from colleges offering race-conscious programming.
www.syracuse.com
February 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Higher ed seems to be in desperate need of a leader to stand up for their professed values. Disappointed it appears @syracuseu.bsky.social won't be it.
Trump wants to kill diversity efforts in higher ed. Will CNY’s big schools give in? By @maggiehicks.bsky.social
www.syracuse.com/education/20...
Trump wants to kill diversity efforts in higher ed. Will CNY’s big schools give in? By @maggiehicks.bsky.social
www.syracuse.com/education/20...
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"Our state courts handle so many of the cases and issues that end up impacting our daily lives, and we must in turn carefully consider who sits on them. Don’t let the shock and awe distract you from the real impacts you can still make."
Don’t Let the Shock and Awe Distract You From the Importance of State Courts
Opinion | We must both hold the line on our federal courts and also turn to state courts as a critical defense for our civil rights, health and safety.
www.democracydocket.com
February 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
"Our state courts handle so many of the cases and issues that end up impacting our daily lives, and we must in turn carefully consider who sits on them. Don’t let the shock and awe distract you from the real impacts you can still make."
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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
February 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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lol let me put it more simply: He's cosplaying productivity.
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OK honest question what is the root of this? Is this just how you think on drugs?
February 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
lol let me put it more simply: He's cosplaying productivity.
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IRS employees in Syracuse abruptly fired: ‘There’s a lot of crying, and it’s not good’
IRS employees in Syracuse abruptly fired: ‘There’s a lot of crying, and it’s not good’
IRS begins mass layoffs of almost 7,000 employees nationwide after order by Trump administration.
www.syracuse.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
IRS employees in Syracuse abruptly fired: ‘There’s a lot of crying, and it’s not good’
"They are not discouraged. How hard can that be after their short lifetimes of making shoes and sewing denim? After the last snowfall, they went out and had a snowball fight in their yard...
They are just now getting to be children."
www.syracuse.com/news/2025/02...
They are just now getting to be children."
www.syracuse.com/news/2025/02...
Could they beat the clock? A frantic push to get hundreds of refugees to Syracuse before the door slammed shut
InterFaith Works worked around the clock to welcome 430 refugees to Syracuse in less than three months.
www.syracuse.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"They are not discouraged. How hard can that be after their short lifetimes of making shoes and sewing denim? After the last snowfall, they went out and had a snowball fight in their yard...
They are just now getting to be children."
www.syracuse.com/news/2025/02...
They are just now getting to be children."
www.syracuse.com/news/2025/02...
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Dear Democratic Party: why are you not screaming this from every rooftop? Why are you not holding press conferences with these poor fired people - putting a face on what the richest man is destroying?
“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”
Yesterday many thousands of federal employees were terminated. This is a Reddit thread for federal employees that got laid off.
February 16, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Dear Democratic Party: why are you not screaming this from every rooftop? Why are you not holding press conferences with these poor fired people - putting a face on what the richest man is destroying?
My eyes cannot roll harder
February 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
My eyes cannot roll harder
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Under President Biden, a 30-day eviction notice rule was made permanent. A new bill would erase it and landlords would be allowed to give tenants in federally-subsidized housing three days’ notice or less before evicting them. @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/r...
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Some Tenants Could Get Only One Day’s Eviction Notice, Under Federal Bill (Gift Article)
Legislation would end tenant protections that were first put in place during the pandemic.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Under President Biden, a 30-day eviction notice rule was made permanent. A new bill would erase it and landlords would be allowed to give tenants in federally-subsidized housing three days’ notice or less before evicting them. @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/r...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/r...
The Jerry Rescue: Syracuse's resistance to tyranny is a useful lesson today
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The meter of history: The Jerry Rescue and the struggle against slavery
Abolitionist Rev. Jermain Loguen called Syracuse's Jerry Rescue of 1851 “earthquake voice through the land” against slavery.
www.syracuse.com
February 13, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The Jerry Rescue: Syracuse's resistance to tyranny is a useful lesson today
www.syracuse.com/living/2025/...
www.syracuse.com/living/2025/...
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Serena Williams was on the field longer today than Harrison Butker.
February 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Serena Williams was on the field longer today than Harrison Butker.
...of the last game of the season
Brady starting to loosen up in the booth with three minutes left in the 4th quarter
February 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
...of the last game of the season
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US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more.
- US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID
- $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes.
- Food stranded in Houston
- Aid stopped in transit.
The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.
- US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID
- $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes.
- Food stranded in Houston
- Aid stopped in transit.
The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.
Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses
U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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“If they had the votes they’d be voting”
Exactly that
Exactly that
One way to think about the DOGE effort is it's an outgrowth of 20 years of hardliner conservatives frustrated by their inability to get the votes in Congress to do what they want to do. 1/
February 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“If they had the votes they’d be voting”
Exactly that
Exactly that
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Whatever man he looks like the maitre d of the steakhouse in Circus Circus
February 7, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Whatever man he looks like the maitre d of the steakhouse in Circus Circus
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We'll say it as many times as it takes: Gender-affirming care is life-saving care.
We will not back down.
We will not back down.
February 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
We'll say it as many times as it takes: Gender-affirming care is life-saving care.
We will not back down.
We will not back down.
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I, on the other hand, would prefer members of Congress to bellyache quite a bit about what they believe to be unconstitutional exercises of presidential power vis-a-vis the execution of Congress's spending decisions.
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February 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I, on the other hand, would prefer members of Congress to bellyache quite a bit about what they believe to be unconstitutional exercises of presidential power vis-a-vis the execution of Congress's spending decisions.
www.notus.org/congress/tru...
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Berry pickers quarters and cooking shacks, Baltimore, MD, late #c19th
These images were meant to shock, but also exposed the harsh conditions agricultural workers faced at the time.
Factories were bad, but so we're fields
🗃️ #roadpeople
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These images were meant to shock, but also exposed the harsh conditions agricultural workers faced at the time.
Factories were bad, but so we're fields
🗃️ #roadpeople
LOC
flic.kr/p/daFofM
February 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Berry pickers quarters and cooking shacks, Baltimore, MD, late #c19th
These images were meant to shock, but also exposed the harsh conditions agricultural workers faced at the time.
Factories were bad, but so we're fields
🗃️ #roadpeople
LOC
flic.kr/p/daFofM
These images were meant to shock, but also exposed the harsh conditions agricultural workers faced at the time.
Factories were bad, but so we're fields
🗃️ #roadpeople
LOC
flic.kr/p/daFofM
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Syracuse wins lawsuit brought by landlords, can continue to demand apartment inspections
Syracuse wins lawsuit brought by landlords, can continue to demand apartment inspections
A federal judge ruled in the city's favor in a case involving the rental registry.
www.syracuse.com
February 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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This is a fantastic essay and is certainly going to piss off some space advocates. As it should. A lot of folks haven't really thought this through. Zach and Kelly have.
Regarding the president referring to our "Manifest Destiny" in the stars: foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/21/s...
Space Isn’t the Final Frontier
Mars fantasists still cling to dreams of the Old West.
foreignpolicy.com
January 21, 2025 at 2:09 AM
This is a fantastic essay and is certainly going to piss off some space advocates. As it should. A lot of folks haven't really thought this through. Zach and Kelly have.