Jerry Rosiek
@jerryrosiek.bsky.social
lol. Burn baby burn. This history is better remembered in books, with critical commentary. Not by polishing it up at great expense and fetishizing wealth built on slavery. #Reparations
Largest antebellum plantation house in America destroyed by fire
The fire spread through the iconic 64-room historic building in White Castle, Louisiana, on Thursday.
www.newsweek.com
May 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
lol. Burn baby burn. This history is better remembered in books, with critical commentary. Not by polishing it up at great expense and fetishizing wealth built on slavery. #Reparations
My ballot recommendations for Eugene area education related elections...
LCC Board
Director Zone 1, 4 Year Term - Jerry Rust
Director Zone 3, 4 Year Term - Devon Lawson
Director Zone 4, 4 Year Term - Austin Folnagy
Director Position 7 At-Large, 2-Year Unexpired Term - Jesse Alejandro Maldonado
LCC Board
Director Zone 1, 4 Year Term - Jerry Rust
Director Zone 3, 4 Year Term - Devon Lawson
Director Zone 4, 4 Year Term - Austin Folnagy
Director Position 7 At-Large, 2-Year Unexpired Term - Jesse Alejandro Maldonado
May 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
My ballot recommendations for Eugene area education related elections...
LCC Board
Director Zone 1, 4 Year Term - Jerry Rust
Director Zone 3, 4 Year Term - Devon Lawson
Director Zone 4, 4 Year Term - Austin Folnagy
Director Position 7 At-Large, 2-Year Unexpired Term - Jesse Alejandro Maldonado
LCC Board
Director Zone 1, 4 Year Term - Jerry Rust
Director Zone 3, 4 Year Term - Devon Lawson
Director Zone 4, 4 Year Term - Austin Folnagy
Director Position 7 At-Large, 2-Year Unexpired Term - Jesse Alejandro Maldonado
ICE is no longer an immigration enforcement agency, it has become an ideological suppression agency operating outside the bounds of immigration law and outside the constitution.
April 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
ICE is no longer an immigration enforcement agency, it has become an ideological suppression agency operating outside the bounds of immigration law and outside the constitution.
As my friend David Luebke asks, what would “woke pulmonology” even look like!?! To be clear, the rhetoric of science has long been the tool of racist eugenics, patriarchy, heteronormativity, etc. but this sense that even basic scientific knowledge can be ideologically gaslit via memo feels new.
Medical Journals Get Letters From DOJ
At least three journals received letters from a U.S. Attorney asking about 'competing viewpoints'
www.medpagetoday.com
April 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
As my friend David Luebke asks, what would “woke pulmonology” even look like!?! To be clear, the rhetoric of science has long been the tool of racist eugenics, patriarchy, heteronormativity, etc. but this sense that even basic scientific knowledge can be ideologically gaslit via memo feels new.
“ We, as faculty, must commit to organizing—within our institutions and across them…We should not continue the historic, often elitist, separation between college campuses and k-12 school corridors…They are shared challenges that link all those devoted to education and learning across the lifespan.”
Trump threatens all education, not just universities
<i>Updated April 10 at 7:53 p.m.</i>
www.columbiaspectator.com
April 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
“ We, as faculty, must commit to organizing—within our institutions and across them…We should not continue the historic, often elitist, separation between college campuses and k-12 school corridors…They are shared challenges that link all those devoted to education and learning across the lifespan.”
“In the New York village of Sackets Harbor, teachers launched a days-long effort to secure the release of three students. Less than two weeks later, the students were back in their classrooms.”
Trump border czar’s town stood up for 3 kids detained by ICE — and won
In the New York village of Sackets Harbor, teachers launched a days-long effort to secure the release of three students. Less than two weeks later, the students were back in their classrooms.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
“In the New York village of Sackets Harbor, teachers launched a days-long effort to secure the release of three students. Less than two weeks later, the students were back in their classrooms.”
If any of us who do research in the applied social sciences held on to hope that rational evidence based logic based research drove policy, or even that coherent but malevolent ideology drove policy, this should put that fantasy down for good.
The ridiculous real story behind the tariff plan that turned Donald Trump into a global disaster
YouTube video by MSNBC
youtu.be
April 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
If any of us who do research in the applied social sciences held on to hope that rational evidence based logic based research drove policy, or even that coherent but malevolent ideology drove policy, this should put that fantasy down for good.
Reposted by Jerry Rosiek
Reposted by Jerry Rosiek
Another disappointed Trump voter, who thought the face-eating leopard would not eat his face. ICE was well within its rights to deport his wife, Alicia Muñoz, on grounds that she had overstayed her original visa...
#Coup
#ICE
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
#Coup
#ICE
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.
ICE's deportation actions signal that anyone who isn't a U.S. citizen is 'at risk – period,' immigration attorney says.
www.usatoday.com
March 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Another disappointed Trump voter, who thought the face-eating leopard would not eat his face. ICE was well within its rights to deport his wife, Alicia Muñoz, on grounds that she had overstayed her original visa...
#Coup
#ICE
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
#Coup
#ICE
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
This.
Columbia University’s immediate submission & betrayal of the core mission of higher education reflects cowardice and capitulation to a government that appears intent on destroying US higher education.
Full statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson:
www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...
Full statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson:
www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...
Cowardice and Capitulation: Columbia Has Sacrificed Its Own Students to Authoritarianism
The AAUP condemns in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government. Columbia University’s decision to punish students ...
www.aaup.org
March 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This.
I just saw this. Guess it’s time to dump Google. It’s not the volume of things coming out of the WH that is overwhelming. It’s the cartoonishness of it.
February 13, 2025 at 6:20 AM
I just saw this. Guess it’s time to dump Google. It’s not the volume of things coming out of the WH that is overwhelming. It’s the cartoonishness of it.
Hmm. It’s unfolding so fast it’s hard to keep up.
Federal judge halts Trump freeze on federal grants and loans for a week
The order from U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan came minutes before the funding freeze was scheduled to go into effect.
www.pbs.org
January 29, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Hmm. It’s unfolding so fast it’s hard to keep up.
The premise of this article is that in the current political moment, policy research may be becoming irrelevant. It asks what might be done about this.
In This Brave New World, Does Scholarship Still Matter?
If the recent past is no longer a useful guide to seeking change in the present, what good is policy-adjacent scholarship?
lpeproject.org
January 29, 2025 at 1:33 AM
The premise of this article is that in the current political moment, policy research may be becoming irrelevant. It asks what might be done about this.
"By almost every metric, the harm to civilians from the first month of the Israeli campaign in Gaza is incomparable with any 21st century air campaign. It is the most intense, destructive, and fatal conflict for civilians that Airwars has ever documented."
gaza-patterns-harm.airwars.org#conclusion
gaza-patterns-harm.airwars.org#conclusion
Airwars Gaza Patterns of Harm
Airwars monitors, assesses and preserves civilian casualty claims resulting from explosive weapons use in multiple conflicts.
gaza-patterns-harm.airwars.org
December 14, 2024 at 12:27 AM
Oh my. Give that person a raise.
December 10, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Oh my. Give that person a raise.
Arise, arise, Family chefs of Thanksgiving! Fell deeds awake, fire and sauté! Spatulas shall be shaken, potatoes mashed, a knife-day, a brine day, ere the sun rises! Prep now, cook now!
November 27, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Arise, arise, Family chefs of Thanksgiving! Fell deeds awake, fire and sauté! Spatulas shall be shaken, potatoes mashed, a knife-day, a brine day, ere the sun rises! Prep now, cook now!
November 16, 2024 at 6:40 PM
And now we will test the thesis that some things are so self-parodying that they are beyond satire.
November 14, 2024 at 11:31 PM
And now we will test the thesis that some things are so self-parodying that they are beyond satire.
