Too many kids go to college. That does not benefit society. It only benefits the universities. It's time to unravel the Education Industrial Complex and return it to being a public good rather than big business.

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A Martian arriving here from another planet would see these circumstances and surely wonder: “what good is the Constitution, then?”

I don’t know why anyone would spend time or money on this. This seems like suicide for colleges.

It isn't true that Zohran didn't delete tweets. He used to tweet under the handle zokwma and all those tweets are deleted (if you search you can still see replies/tweets he was tagged in). The tweets that remain are the ones he's proud of.

Bob Dylan reading Baseball Weekly in an empty convenience store. It means nothing. It means everything.

Reminder that as encouraging as it may be to see a handful of nationally prominent schools held to account, the rot of institutional bigotry goes way deeper.

While it is good that Sailer is bringing wider attention to this, no one familiar with the academic market is the least bit surprised.

Flashback: Schumer’s 1986 ‘Agricultural Worker’ Scheme Was Rotten to the Core Those pushing a new farmworker amnesty should know that they are inherently fraud-ridden cis.org/Fishman/Flashb… via Center for Immigration Studies

In my experience, Earth systems scientists who measure stuff for a living tend to far less doom-and-gloom about the planet than people in humanities and soc scis who mainly got into “climate” for the ideological high.

I should probably bet $2k on Mamdani. If he wins, I make money. If he loses, I'll be glad about that.

This appears to have gone largely unreported by the media. John F. Miniclier, the last surviving American veteran from the Battle of Midway, passed away on May 24 at the age of 103. Another World War II soldier fades into history. Thank you for your service. RIP.

Today, NIH announced a new policy to cap how much publishers can charge NIH-supported scientists to make their work publicly accessible. This reflects our broader effort to restore public trust in public health by creating an open, honest, and transparent research atmosphere.

A top NYT reader response: “How about we just don't do it?! The problem with Mamdani's columbia application is the application itself, not the particular boxes he checked. I vote for no more boxes.”

Eric Adams for Mayor (unashamedly!)

People are laughing at this and it’s funny but it also demonstrates perhaps the animating feature of post-2015 DSA politics whereby brooding and self-pitying narcissism and entitlement are transfigured into identity gnosis, fake sociology, and a pretext for political action.

BREAKING: In the clearest example yet of AI displacing white-collar workers, Grok has been appointed President of Columbia University.

Rollins always says she's for no "amnesty," because she defines "amnesty" so narrowly it allows for her plan to legalize illegals as guest workers. This doesn't mean she's abandoned her plan! It means she's deploying her usual BS to protect against the backlash to her plan.

George Washington University has implemented a hiring freeze and announced that staff and faculty cuts are coming. “Effective immediately GW will be further reducing administrative and academic unit FY26 budgets, which may lead to some reductions in the number of staff and

She’s basically someone on The Daily Kos, so that would make sense she said that.