This one hit home for me, since it's at my old university, and specifically about what I was doing there: UC Davis Law School suspends Law Student Association over Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions legislation This is kind of the moral equivalent of a city passing a bill declaring themselves a sanctuary city, and then the state government dissolving the city, seizing all of their land, and dismissing all of the elected leaders -- not because they disagree (they actually secretly agree), but because the President doesn't like it.
The last line says no sanctions have been taken against the undergraduate student council, and that's because they won't. ASUCD owns the city's bus service, and is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in its own right -- any sanctions attempted there would drag in the city and county government, and probably be ineffective. They'd have better luck trying to get the IRS to revoke their tax status, honestly. The whole thing makes my blood boil, despite my longstanding policy to not comment at all about the Israel-Palestine conflict, because the response was disproportionate to an organization that was going to have zero effect on said war anyway.
It's reminding me of a story that a friend of mine told me last month. She used to go to school, and every morning everyone would have to say "Heil Hitler!" as they came in to greet the teacher. One morning she decided to find out what happened if you didn't say it, and came in and told the teacher "Guten Morgen!". The teacher immediately slapped her twice, knocking her head from side to side, and back again, and demanded she greet him the right way. If it annoys the leader, it doesn't matter how small the infraction, I guess.
Anyway, more stuff:
US orders French companies to comply with Trump's diversity ban -- in France
Trump is 'not joking' about third term -- where there's a will to power, there's a way
Musk said 'The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.'
RFK Jr. Says Maybe We Should Just Let The Bird Flu Run Rampant
Apparently I missed it but our country's Defense Secretary has a tattoo of Deus Vult on his arm in Gothic font. Deus vult sounds like a good enough casus belli against Canada for me!
Rob's article already mentioned the professors moving to Canada. One of them, Dr Synder has his entire course on the history of Ukraine on Youtube, which is well worth watching -- you don't have to do the reading since you don't need to take the midterm exams. He also has a pretty good Substack; there's an essay on antisemitism where he relayed this quote of Trump, "Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I'm concerned. He's become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He's not Jewish anymore. He’s a Palestinian." And how that's basically the same as how Putin does it.
The last line says no sanctions have been taken against the undergraduate student council, and that's because they won't. ASUCD owns the city's bus service, and is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in its own right -- any sanctions attempted there would drag in the city and county government, and probably be ineffective. They'd have better luck trying to get the IRS to revoke their tax status, honestly. The whole thing makes my blood boil, despite my longstanding policy to not comment at all about the Israel-Palestine conflict, because the response was disproportionate to an organization that was going to have zero effect on said war anyway.
It's reminding me of a story that a friend of mine told me last month. She used to go to school, and every morning everyone would have to say "Heil Hitler!" as they came in to greet the teacher. One morning she decided to find out what happened if you didn't say it, and came in and told the teacher "Guten Morgen!". The teacher immediately slapped her twice, knocking her head from side to side, and back again, and demanded she greet him the right way. If it annoys the leader, it doesn't matter how small the infraction, I guess.
Anyway, more stuff:
US orders French companies to comply with Trump's diversity ban -- in France
Trump is 'not joking' about third term -- where there's a will to power, there's a way
Musk said 'The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.'
RFK Jr. Says Maybe We Should Just Let The Bird Flu Run Rampant
Apparently I missed it but our country's Defense Secretary has a tattoo of Deus Vult on his arm in Gothic font. Deus vult sounds like a good enough casus belli against Canada for me!
Rob's article already mentioned the professors moving to Canada. One of them, Dr Synder has his entire course on the history of Ukraine on Youtube, which is well worth watching -- you don't have to do the reading since you don't need to take the midterm exams. He also has a pretty good Substack; there's an essay on antisemitism where he relayed this quote of Trump, "Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I'm concerned. He's become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He's not Jewish anymore. He’s a Palestinian." And how that's basically the same as how Putin does it.
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