In order to own the libs, Trump voters elected a moronic despot who got college football cancelled. https://t.co/sUH5agXDjk — Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) August 10, 2020 Why did the Big Ten seem to abruptly change course over the weekend, you ask? "Myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle, has been found in at least five Big Ten …
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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Bad News for the GOP, Good News for the Rest of Us
Huge loss for Republicans. One of their signature issues for the year was punishing international students. Thoughts and prayers to them. https://t.co/yIqGyEsjsu — AdotSad (@AdotSad) July 14, 2020 Standard demurral: Better informed front pagers (Hi, Tom!) will no doubt write about this later, but seriously, it’s good news for the students, for the American universities …
GOP Death Cult Open Thread: Sorry, But Schools Are *Not* Gonna Be Ready to Reopen
Asked yesterday what specifically his administration is doing to help schools reopen, Trump did not say anything. Instead, he demanded that schools reopen and claimed “the fall” is a long way away: “Well, we have a long time to think about the school stuff. Because, you know.” pic.twitter.com/owbeFKHA9l — Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 8, 2020 …
‘Blue tsunami,’ she says…
With the usual preamble about counting chickens, hatchery, etc., this advisory from the Cook Political Report is amaze-balls:* This election is looking more like a Democratic tsunami than simply a Blue wave. President Trump, mired in some of the lowest job approval ratings of his presidency, is trailing Biden by significant margins in key battleground …
Excellent Read: The *Real* Lord(s) of the Flies
So, white British dude imagines that boys marooned on an island will become murderous "savages." Actual children — Tonga people, "savages" as imperialism endlessly frames them — built a commune and took care of each other. https://t.co/aa3bCw3P5e — N. K. Jemisin (@nkjemisin) May 9, 2020 I’d read Kipling’s Stalky & Co. some years before we …
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Open Thread: Absolutely Unsanctioned Online Instruction Tips
Important update: when you start a zoom meeting, by default it uses the most recent background. I found this out at lab meeting today. https://t.co/TYJFVIc8Ui — Michael Baym (@baym) March 12, 2020 Just recorded my first short lecture on zoom and I totally killed it. Got through the whole thing without a hitch. Did I …
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COVID-19 Coronavirus Thread: Universities Face Quarantines
As the coronavirus continues to spread across the US, schools and universities are starting to end semesters early or conduct classes online instead of in person. https://t.co/eUXAJ5dDBK — CNN (@CNN) March 10, 2020 Pulled all this out, as being of immediate interest to some portion of the Jackaltariat: "Morris and others have also emphasized that …
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