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Dr. Jason Cottrell
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D(M)V Education/Research/public service. Capitals/Nationals & other DC Sports. Love dogs! Especially, my Spud & Raven! Traveling and foods. Let’s go, UVA and VCU!
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“Wicked” star Jonathan Bailey is People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2025.

The magazine's pick was announced Monday night on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” Bailey takes the mantle from “The Office” and “Jack Ryan” star John Krasinski, who was the 2024 selection.
Jonathan Bailey named People magazine’s 2025 Sexiest Man Alive
“Wicked” star Jonathan Bailey is People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2025. The magazine announced its pick Monday night on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”
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This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.
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Under McMahon, ED Is Diminished but Not Dead, Experts Say

Inside Higher Ed spoke with more than a dozen politicians, higher education experts and former department employees; their thoughts on the agency’s status varied, but many tried to remain hopeful. https://bit.ly/3WDv9w1
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ICYMI: I asked more than a dozen higher ed experts, how dead is the Dept. of Ed?

Some tried to stay optimistic, describing the agency as diminished not dead. Others feared the damage has already been done. But across the board, most say ED is in critical condition.
Under McMahon, ED Is Diminished but Not Dead, Experts Say
Inside Higher Ed spoke with more than a dozen politicians, higher education experts and former department employees; their thoughts on the agency’s status varied, but many tried to remain hopeful.
www.insidehighered.com
Welcome to Halloween Town 2025! Jack Skellington (me) for our Halloween Skull de Sac party. With Zero.
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It's been 15 years and nobody's leaked a single bit of this plan, my man
Mike Johnson talks about the Republican "healthcare plan" like it's highly classified information: "We're not gonna be on a conference call explaining all our plans and strategies for healthcare reform, because they're leaked in real time."
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And there it is...

Announcement is made that the US House will be out of session again next week

They haven't voted since mid-September
Ffs
JUST IN: Trump says he has instructed the Department of Defense to start testing our nuclear weapons
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👇🎯 It's incredible how THE explanation for Why Democrats Lost in 2024 - the one the pundits were certain about (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) a year ago, & which was the nonstop centerpiece of the National Conversation™️ for <3 straight years> - has now been completely cast aside as if it never happened.
I'm also frankly pretty floored that, in the sections of this editorial that deal with why Dems lost in 2024, there is no mention at all of inflation. According to the Times, Dems lost because of a bad favorability rating. But their favs weren't bad until after they lost!
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Trump’s Layoffs Gut Office of Postsecondary Ed

College-access advocates say that TRIO and other student support services will face major disruptions as a result. https://bit.ly/4qetVVm

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky
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‼️ this is one of the reasons why the Musk shutdown of USAID broke me, like

Congress said 'we're allocating these funds to save lives'

a random asshole with too much money and unresolved bitterness about the end of Apartheid said 'no you're not'

so the funding disappeared??

and people are dying??
There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)
White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT
This can impact the image folks have of a person. They should sue.
NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

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NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

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Nexstar and Sinclair, which own a combined 20% of local ABC affiliates, will still not broadcast Jimmy Kimmel.

Sinclair is a conservative company that donates to and supports right-wing causes.
The irony of this story posting yesterday.

SN: ED has posted about 25 jobs in the last week looking for folks to replace those who were RIFd on August 1. NAEP, FSA, and OIG
Trump’s push for more admissions data collides with a hollowed-out Education Department
Gutted research offices raise doubts about the agency’s future data integrity, several former ED staffers say.
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The man is losing it.
JON KARL: What do you make of Pam Bondi saying she's gonna go after hate speech? A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech

TRUMP: We'll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. You have a lot of hate in your hate. Maybe they'll have to go after you.
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MAGA now celebrates cancel culture, promotes safe spaces for conservatives, believes free speech should be curtailed, and thinks words encourage violence.

Exact opposite of all their positions.

Its almost as if they're bad faith hypocrites who want power by any means necessary.
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HAPPY GOLDEN GIRLS DAY
Tomorrow is a big day in TV history. 40 years ago, on Sept. 14, 1985, NBC aired the first episodes of two sitcoms that would become sitcom classics: THE GOLDEN GIRLS and 227. Here's how NBC promoted GOLDEN during its fall preview special that year. Pretty awesome.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzGN...
"Golden Girls" on NBC Fall preview show--September 1985
YouTube video by John Flanagan
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Indeed it was illegal. But we can thank SCOTUS for making full relief impossible.