Because Republicans are so evil, it's easy to lose sight of how bad Democrats are on public higher education. They tend to have a deeply condescending, classist view of public education as job training. Intellectual curiosity is to be reserved for those who get into private institutions.

That was always annoying to me about the lab leak / wet market "controversy". We don't have good data supporting either scenario, but the wet market origin would not be better! That's how the first SARS emerged and China should have better regulations. Risk is risk, lab or market.

Been buying these like greedy hoarders since they appeared at TJ. Remarkable

My spouse pointed out that we are literally losing money at the local level as people lose jobs and grants (my spouse was working on a DOE grant for 5 years that was canceled and I'm an academic...many like us!). They had no response and the Dems are doing nothing.

Hopefully this would also limit the cultural hyper-focus on Top 20 Ivies and adjacent that warp peoples' views about academia. Most universities are not elite reproduction machines. They play an important role in social mobility!

They also don't seem to understand that the "massive fraud" DOGE is supposedly uncovering puts all of their government benefits at risk. But of course they deserve their benefits while everyone else can go to hell.