stcohen.bsky.social
She/her. Part time classicist. I spend a lot of time thinking about ancient Rome but not the way you think.
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Oh shit.
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I have to admit that was my first thought as well.
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I guess the good news for the rest of the world is that firing all your competent generals and replacing them with loyalists normally makes your military forces less successful too.
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So the mechanism here is pretty worrying: Trump gives money to states he likes. Democrats get nothing. Question: are there any Republican states that are net donors to the USA? Texas, I guess? Maybe Florida?
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I guess I don’t understand you, then. In my experience it isn’t about “types”. The job of the legal office is to protect the institution; universities are highly vulnerable to govt pressures; the office will always advise over-compliance unless some equal threat emerges.
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My experience of this was in the UK not the US but the advice from university lawyers was to comply with extra-legal governmental threats in advance, so I wouldn’t actually rely on them.
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That is delightful!
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Yes, but won’t the republican response to complaints about the price of eggs be to stop culling infected flocks? I guess if we all die of bird flu at least the government will be smaller.
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I have them and my representative in my contacts now, but I just leave voice messages. I feel bad about just calling to rant at their staffers!
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This morning I reported the ADL to the ADL — they have a form for antisemitc incidents, so it’s pretty easy.