suburban women have always been the core of the anti-Trump movement, and more reliable than any other group when it comes to showing up

This is my favorite bit

"I was trying to get them, with little
success, to appreciate the value of the principles at stake and the cost of sacrificing them"-- as has every faculty member who has spoken with any member of any university board over the course of the last two years.

"It is also fair to say that simply because
someone in power does not like a policy, that does not automatically make the policy illegal." Who knew.

State universities should admit all Black in-state students who want to study there, as a contribution to national atonement for past and present racism.

TCW coming about against people trying to be decent and figuring out what that means is not a particularly surprising development. if you have compromised so thoroughly, what else are you gonna say?

Oh, so like Canada?

"vague reporting" is, I have come to believe, entirely key to how to deal with MAGA

the chancellor of UNC just declared that "AI is our north star." The infuriating thing is that I don't even think these bozos are bribed. That at least would be a rational response.

@umich.edu did as well! 92% yes.

Yes, Garrett! We talked a lot during the Ono drama...

I know a guy at the Miami Herald who cut his teeth there, he's fabulous.

so it'll be a few hundred bucks per author -- still more than we usually net from academic publishing :)

minus lawyers fees? or is that already deducted?

so this guy pissed on his hands when he goes to the loo?

wait til he hears about the number of home insurance policy holders whose house never burns down