No better evidence that our colleges and universities have become the Academic Industrial Complex. Right along with the outrageous compensation packages of their presidents, which rival any CEO’s. Entirely corrupted system.
This is going to be remembered for all time as Columbia’s response to having a student protestor kidnapped and held prisoner by a budding authoritarian regime. It is unspeakable cowardice.
March 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
No better evidence that our colleges and universities have become the Academic Industrial Complex. Right along with the outrageous compensation packages of their presidents, which rival any CEO’s. Entirely corrupted system.
Depeche Mode as used here reminds me of the line from “People are People” re: hate: “It just takes a while to travel from your head to your fist” 😎
March 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Depeche Mode as used here reminds me of the line from “People are People” re: hate: “It just takes a while to travel from your head to your fist” 😎
Very thoughtful, excellent persepctive from emptywheel ↓ Don't let them divide us!
One reason self-imagined lefties are nuts to attack Ryleigh Cooper is bc that's what Russ Vought wants.
Another is that her story, told locally, is the quickest way to educate people what government really is.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/28/r...
Another is that her story, told locally, is the quickest way to educate people what government really is.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/28/r...
Russ Vought Got His Trauma - But Not the Villains He Imagined - emptywheel
Russ Vought set out to make people like Ryleigh Cooper villains. Thus far, firings of government workers around the country have instead made the functions of government visible, and cherished.
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February 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Very thoughtful, excellent persepctive from emptywheel ↓ Don't let them divide us!