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This has to be a deliberate hamstringing of American science capabilities; all of this is going to remove the U.S. from any hope of competing in scientific research for decades to come.
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All US universities and colleges that have named departments, buildings, medical centers, and athletic facilities for rich donors should remove those stupid sponsorships until those same rich families take action to undo the harm they’ve caused in helping to bring this abomination of an administration to power.
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Yeah, this is a fucking nightmare… But I will note that this stuff was happening in the humanities way back in the late 2000s after the housing crisis. Far too many people brushed it off as not mattering, after all no one can get a “real job” studying history or whatever", but I think that it’s easy enough to connect the attack on the humanities (who, after all provide important context and historical memory of the university as a set of institutions in American life) to what’s happening now. it’s straight shock doctrine 101. But even other historians and humanities scholars dismissed people concerned about things like hiring freezes and gutting of graduate programs as being hysterical. I wish that more people back then had actually listened and done more than sending strongly worded letters… but far too many people are just unwilling to entertain worst case scenarios enough to head them off at the pass… 
And so here we are.
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No, I optimistically covered that. I wrote:
I agree that this is an ideal possibility.
If I do write an additional installment on this subject, it would be about the Blue and Green light rail lines that have recently been constructed in Minneapolis/St Paul. The light rail there is starting to reform the retail and residential development. Why? Because business and people see the benefit of being near it. If the Twin Cities are able to integrate the expanding light rail system with buses it might be something good.
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My only hesitation in hoping for a poltergeist Jimmy Carter is that I want him to have a chance to rest before he has to attempt to fix shit yet again.
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They should be renamed Geese of America.
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Its good that at least they’re bred in captivity, but it is quite distressing that they are having a hard time finding them in the wild.
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