Disgusting what women in academia deal with to have a baby. I was lucky it was my dept head trying to screw me and the Assoc Dean was being reasonable or it would have been a much messier, scarier fight. Been on a year-to-year contract for 20 years. That’s a topic for a whole other thread.

They tried to do the “you can teach for free in summer to repay us” thing with me, too. I pointed out the illegality and thankfully they backed off.

Trump’s current front-runners for SecDef are Mark Harmon’s character from NCIS reruns, Colonel Sanders, a Mar-a-lago gardener who wore camo cargo shorts once, and an AI-generated image of his face on Rambo’s body.

Repeat after me:
"Fuck you, make me"

Grievances 16-19 in Declaration of Independence
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"