Blue. Jays.

NEW: These are all the Education Dept. offices that staffers and managers say have been impacted by layoffs since Friday, according to the union for the agency’s employees.

They include workers that supported HBCUs, tribal colleges, charter schools, civil rights reviews, special ed & more.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The best job in America is to be a failed power conference college football coach.

Yeah but I’m a poster, not a barker

the puppy *hates* leaf blowers

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

Is luxury defined in terms of expense and appointments or social status? You can find a $10 million place on the lake that’s very fine. But this place is not occupied by luxurious people in the global sense. It’s local maxima people - surgeons and pork belly traders. Not masters of the universe.

Actually I think he should have given a raise.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/670...

This confused "kids these days" lament that offers very little empirical support for a set of remarkable bold assertions. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

I’m really letting the side down

*Overreacting

(Although I am almost certainly doing both)

On a family car at a youth soccer complex. You might think I’m overeating but I think this kind of thing is a sign of cultural rot.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

The compact would essentially disestablish these criteria, which then powerful normative signals to the sector, which would both challenge the authority of the AAU but also by extension its most incumbent members.

AAU membership is assessed not only on grant funding but on *competitive* funding through open competitions. Do NSF and NIH grants count a lot but Ag or DOE funding awarded to facilities of for extension don’t count as much. In AAU parlance this is “phase 1”’ vs 2.

www.aau.edu/who-we-are/m...

1. It seems to reject the idea that political deals and research funding are / can be linked.
2. It rejects the idea that some universities (read AAU members) would be granted special access to funds over others.

I’ll say one more thing about the second post in the next post.

I will add that as @robertkelchen.com noted, the statement is constrained, and it does not exclude engagement with the government on renegotiation the research university - fed relationship. But it seems to reject the compact on two grounds (next skeet).

The AAU did a “what MIT said” letter.

I missed this yesterday: the AAU has come out against the compact. I am pleasantly surprised. I think it makes it pretty hard for any university to accept the deal now, with a possible exception of Texas. www.aau.edu/newsroom/pre...

Such a complaint should be FOIAable so it would be foolish of him to lie about it.

Ha ha ha they're like authoritarians www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Maybe I’m wrong but it seems to me that everything more or less comes down to SCOTUS and the army. Dems job is help people understand that so that court and army feel like they have to provide a backstop.

Whatever you wanna say about Schumer, he was seemingly right that Trump would use a government shut down to consolidate power. The problem, of course was that Trump was always going to use all opportunities to consolidate power no matter what.

I get the idea that you don’t want to create unnecessary barriers but come on, fine my lazy ass