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Award-winning community college prof, writer, editor, historian of Texas Jews. Alte kaker in training. Neither Fish nor Fowl: A Mercantile Jewish Family on the Rio Grande (2024), https://tinyurl.com/273bscwn Corpus Christi, TX www.BryanEdwardStone.com
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I'm way too busy to make a list of the top five things I got done last week.

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yet another reminder that an EO is not law and no one should be doing a single thing to change their research or teaching or DEI programs. Do Not Comply In Advance.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Jews: Yes. And?

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

If you want to know where the real change-work, the most committed teaching, and the most effective student-success initiatives are happening, *and* where those all receive the best institutional commitment and support, it's at our community colleges.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

decades of buying into the cost-cutting, austerity narrative has left Dems unable to defend the important work of our government

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

Can federal employees be fired during a shutdown?

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Republicans are pro-Israel and anti-Jewish.

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The US media, the Democrats and the EU spent over a year making anti-semitism a meaningless political insult without real content and now these dudes can heil hitler on stage and journalists will be like "wow! Controversial gesture!"

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Unconstitutional, obviously, but assuming the Reaper doesn't stop him from running again, who will?

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Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

submitted 1 day ago • 561 comments

Is there actually more Elon over on X than there is here, because truly that seems impossible.

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Excellent article by @dahliasc.bsky.social in Haaretz www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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You can't make an omelet without breaking a few hundred dollars' worth of eggs.

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Why should it take 51 Senate votes to confirm a nominee but 67 Senate votes to remove them? www.cbsnews.com/news/kash-pa...

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The American Experiment 1.0: What if we try democracy? The American Experiment 2.0: What if we don't?

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You know what's harder than writing a 60-minute public lecture? Writing a 10-minute public lecture.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Obviously the simplest way to get rid of the asteroid is to abolish the federal agency that keeps telling us about it.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This wasn't just predictable, it was predicted. Over and over. Everywhere. By everyone except the people with the power to do something about it.

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So, ridicule Americans who want to flee abroad all you want. But remember, there’s a reason why Germany produced the most Nobel laureates before World War II, but the U.S. took the lead afterward.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

Running a government like a business means doing what business executives have always done: enrich yourself by tearing down what others have built.

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Hearing of plans to rename the Truman Balcony the Stalin Mezzanine.

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Great investigative work into the racist online life of an ICE agent operating of of the Dallas area.

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Lol

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"Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other." -- Thomas Paine, "Common Sense"

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Living in 2025 is not knowing whether to celebrate or despair about the asteroid’s increasing chances of hitting us.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

He's only unqualified if the goal is to do the job well. He's perfectly qualified to do it badly.

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Yosemite 2024: Avoid bears. Yosemite 2025: Avoid bathrooms.

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