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We (the world at large) are making enough fucking babies. We're cool on the babies. We need to start FEEDING the babies and VACCINATING the babies and WELCOMING the babies to various places, but we have babies out the wazoo. They just might have different melanin levels
November 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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The billionaires, media, and both major US parties cooperate with each other to fuck the American populace. It's going to be hard to keep in mind that all of it needs to be toppled. But it's...everything. Is the whole goddamn apparatus.

We are a failed state.
November 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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The media attacked trans folks calling them groomers and pedophiles. The Democrats attacked Mamdani. Both groups cooperated, collaborated with and/or capitulated to the Republicans as they struggled to bring about a new authoritarian white nationalist cryptochristian fascist state. Everyone's guilty
November 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Both parties and the media are getting their instructions from the same informal conspiracy walled garden party of rich elites playing monopoly with our lives for their profit and pleasure. The billionaires are the true enemy, and the media will be their foot soldiers here.
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in case you're wondering how the cope is going www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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If the Democrats were a real party, they would be full court pressing this, ousting everyone associated with Epstein and bringing the whole Republican party crashing down. But they're gonna do the same old Democrat shit.

We need a progressive movement. I hope one is starting to build.
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Republicans are going to try to distance themselves from this, and the media is going to do their best to let them. It's gonna feel like Bush II remixes, everyone pretending they've never heard of this Trump guy and if they did they were always against him, everyone was. History repeats.
November 13, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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have all been clear that this compact is an illegal overreach, but Vanderbilt's leadership has instead tried to remain neutral. The original letter from Secretary of Education Linda McMahon states that the compact is "largely in its final form" and asks for "limited, targeted feedback." However, there are no minor changes that will make it acceptable. As MIT and other leading institutions have done, it is essential to reject the entire idea of trading away institutional, faculty and student freedoms for government benefits. Vanderbilt's non-response allows and, in fact, encourages the administration to continue to negotiate "special deals" with institutions rather than following our laws and constitution. While I greatly appreciate the Chancellor's acknowledgement that "academic freedom, free expression and independence are essential for universities," such reassurances read hollow without transparency about the feedback given to the administration and the willingness to publicly call a spade a spade. The current proposal is unacceptable and universities should refuse to voluntarily trade away their independence and rights to free expression. University leaders must take a stand for our democracy My message to Chancellor Diermeier (and all university leaders who may soon be faced with a similar choice) is simple. Take a stand. Have the courage to say that this unconstitutional proposal is unacceptable. Freely acknowledge all of the things your university is doing well and where you have room to grow. Like all institutions, universities are imperfect and can always be improved. University leaders should feel free to implement reforms to improve their institutions and align closer to their values and mission. But do not negotiate with the people who are trying to destroy you. Universities can and should have open conversations with the federal government about how to improve higher education in the United States. But they should never sign an agreement that compromises their independence and constitutional rights. In their ideal form, universities can serve as models of possibility for society -spaces for pluralism, fierce inquiry and evidence-based debate. They should also be institutions with clear values and the spine to stand up for the rule of law, the Constitution and our democracy. Lisa Fazio is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development at Vanderbilt University.
October 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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THE TENNESSEAN CONTRIBUTORS Opinion This piece expresses the views of its author(s), separate from those of this publication. Here's why Vanderbilt's response to the Trump higher ed 'compact' is not enough | Opinion The Nashville university cannot afford to remain neutral on the Trump administration's "compact" agreement. Lisa Fazio Guest Columnist Oct. 24, 2025, 5:07 a.m. CT Key Points Al-assisted summary The Trump administration proposed a "Compact for Academic Excellence" to nine universities, offering federal benefits for restrictions on university operations. Most of the invited universities, including MIT and Brown, have rejected the proposal, though some remain open to negotiation. The author, a Vanderbilt professor, argues the university should outright reject the compact instead of just providing feedback. On Oct. 1, the Trump administration sent a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" to nine universities including Vanderbilt University here in Nashville. The compact promises preferential access to federal grants and contracts in exchange for wide-ranging restrictions on university admissions, tuition, grading, student discipline, campus speech and protest rules, faculty and staff hiring, athletics and many other domains. The demands in the compact have been described as "overreaching government coercion," "extortion," "blatantly illegal," and "the most sweeping pile of unconstitutional conditions that any American constitutional lawyer has ever seen in the wild" by legal experts from across the political spectrum. In addition, more than 330 former senior national security and law enforcement professionals who served under both Democratic and Republican administrations describe the compact as "an indicator of authoritarianism" and a "direct assault on the rule of law." In this context, it is clear why universities should be absolute in their rejection of the administration's demands. The nine invited institutions have taken different paths in their responses to the compact. MIT quickly and definitively rejected the proposal, stating, "we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education." Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more! Other universities followed suit with some rejecting the entire premise of a compact in any form (Brown University, University of Southern California, Dartmouth University, University of Virginia) and others rejecting this version but either implicitly or explicitly remaining open to negotiation on future versions (University of Arizona, University of Pennsylvania). Only the University of Texas at Austin has yet to make a public statement. Vanderbilt should reject the compact outright My own university, Vanderbilt, has decided to take another path. Relying on the technicality that the administration only asked for feedback, not acceptance or rejection, Chancellor Daniel Diermeier is providing "feedback and comments" to the administration. Standing alone and forging your own way is often admirable. However, in this case, Vanderbilt is failing in its moral responsibility to push back against rising authoritarianism and political coercion. Vanderbilt should not in good conscience participate in negotiations over unconstitutional restrictions on its speech or the speech of its faculty and students. The Vanderbilt senate, undergraduate students and even a current Vanderbilt trustee
October 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM