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@heinrich.senate.gov please change your position and support and protect Section 106. Respect Tribal sovereignty and the input of local communities. As a NM Democrat, I am so disappointed in you. Section 106 is so important to protecting the Cultural Heritage of our state.

The NY Times saves its harshest skepticism for progressives. Instead of being impressed by 3,000+ coordinated protests, NYT dismisses the value of “hitting a number” and asks if No Kings will be “a primal scream that fades into a whimper.” F off, NY Times. We'll defeat fascism w/o you. (Gift link)

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Keith Ellison: I want you to know, as your Minnesota Attorney General, that justice is not optional. Accountability is coming.

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Trump’s US raises sanctions on Russia, which is supplying drones to Iran, which is using them to attack US bases in an attempt to kill American soldiers? In olden times, US had a Congress www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Donald Trump paused his wartime cabinet meeting for a critical discussion ... about Sharpies?

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Daily Memo: ICE Is Ramping Up Operations With New Vehicles and Coachella Valley Is Being Targeted This Week

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from 1868 to 2025 there was little dispute about what the birthright clause meant and the idea that the past year has been some great scholarly debate is absurd. a handful of partisans and hacks have churned out junk so that the president can get what he wants. that’s it.

The article notes that declines in international students are fueling the budget crisis. That’s entirely pain inflicted by the Federal government. But the solution is not directly responsive to that; I sincerely doubt those lost international students were coming to study classics. 1/

2/ universities across the spectrum use budget crises (including the ones created by the current regime) to allow them to take actions they long to implement for other reasons. This article reveals one common claim: the programs/majors being cancelled have low enrollment. But let’s examine that.

3/ I haven’t found the Syracuse specific information but enrollment numbers cited in similar moves always, when I follow up, are based on *majors*. Not students taking courses: those numbers tend to be defensible. Nonmajors take classes from programs like these. We can even increase that effect.

4/ how? By teaching courses with more relevant foci. Using accessible language. Finding ways to fulfill distribution requirements. Inviting students forced to be STEM and business majors to enjoy their passion in courses intended for non majors. Engineers have loved archaeology of sex and gender.

5/ the core problem with majors as a metric is that students are told that to get a job they need to major in a narrowly defined suite of fields. That’s the biggest battle faculty either never wage or lost already (on good days I hope it’s the former because we could take it on even now).

6/ data show that liberal arts BAs can find rewarding employment. Data for my discipline (anthropology) suggest a BA is no longer the entry-level degree in most analysis-based jobs (what the liberal arts prepares students for). That’s a key challenge: letting students know the BA is a start.

7/ but fundamentally we need to decouple education and preparing for employment and help students with both. Humanities (and social sciences) gives our students skills in research, analysis, persuasive argument, and writing that are valuable. And not tied to a job market analysis that is outdated.

8/ job-oriented majoring is often, perhaps always, chasing a past labor market demand. We need students and families to understand that the future is not so easily predicted and what they need are flexible skills— not a repertoire of facts specific to one imagined job.

9/ I still think it is useful to represent the kinds of careers students from our majors pursue. I spent much of my teaching time introducing students to cultural heritage and museums as fields of practice. But the two other things I routinely did in counseling students are different.

10/ first, I reassured students that the major they chose didn’t lock in their future. The data show employment trajectories are unpredictable and diverse: why are we telling students they will get a degree and be hired and stay in one field, career track, or job?

11/ second, I urged students to use the freedom of college to understand what brought them joy, what excited them, because the decades that follow college need to be joyful and exciting. Either through their future careers or their personal lives.

Postscript from the clownshow that is the GOP as I was writing up this summary:

15. Things are fluid and maybe these dynamics change over the next few hours. But it's your regular reminder that there is no overlap in the Venn diagram between a government that works and a Congress under GOP control. /fin

14. It's so maddening. Government workers should be paid. You shouldn't have to wait on lines in airports, or worry about Coast Guard preparedness, or whether FEMA can handle the next disaster. But you do because of the utter lack of character in GOP leadership.

13. So even if His Accidency's plan works, it serves only to call Senators back into town for a vote that won't pass, leaving huge parts of government unfunded, just because that's easier for him than standing up to Trump or his wingnuts.

12. 'Cause remember: Senators have just proven there aren't votes to fund ICE without reforms. And this CR would still take 60 votes in the Senate. So while he might be able to jam this bill through the House on a party line vote, that just goes back to step 2 above.

11. And so he is taking the coward's way out. Let's kick the can down the road for 60 days with a continuing resolution to fund everything. Except that this doesn't work, for completely obvious reasons.

9. He got his job SPECIFICALLY because the wingnuts voted to remove Kevin McCarthy specifically for allowing a funding bill to pass on the floor overwhelmingly with democratic and non-wingnut republican support. www.cnn.com/2023/09/13/p...

8. In theory, this doesn't matter. Johnson is the Speaker of the House. He could pass the bill on the floor with all Dems and most Rs. But that would make his wingnuts angry. And Mike Johnson not only owes his job to the wingnuts but...

7. House should have come in today, passed that bill and gone home. But we can't do that because the wingnuttiest members of the Republican caucus (a) love fascist ICE thugs and (b) hate democracy so refused to support.

6. Once the Mad King said he'd fund TSA, they could finally get through this without risking a flying ketchup bottle next time they went to his house. So, they finally let - functionally, the Rosa Delauro bill - pass the Senate late last night. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

5. Congress could have fixed this too. But Congressional republicans have no animating north star other than falling in line behind Trump. No matter how irrational, inconsistent, angry or spiteful Trump is, they don't dare stand up to him. HOWEVER...

4. TSA lines got longer, Trump sent ICE goons into airports which predictably became politically toxic so he finally said he'd use $10B slush fund from OBBB to fund TSA. He had that power all along. But because he's an ass, he didn't use it. apnews.com/live/tsa-gov...

3. Dems, led by @delauro.house.gov countered with bill to fund all of DHS except ICE (Coast Guard, FEMA, TSA). Note this would have left ICE with 3x normal funding because of the OBBB. Rs could have taken that as a win. They blocked it.

2. "Members of Conscience" = Democrats. Republicans of course have the majority in the House and Senate but passing this bill requires a 60 vote supermajority in the Senate. So they passed an immoral spending bill in the House and stalled in the Senate. Predictably.

1. First, DHS hasn't been funded because of the illegal, immoral, murderous behavior by ICE. No members of conscience were willing to fund that agency, especially since they already had 3x their usual budget through the OBBB.

House procedure is normally a snoozefest that only insiders care about. But this one is just such a perfect distillation of the incompetence in the GOP, failure of Trump as a leader and weakness of Mike Johnson. Let's roll the video tape:

10. So Johnson - a man with no leadership skills, no political capital and no moral compass - is in a jam. If he brings a bill to the floor that would fully fund TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard with full funding AND leave ICE with 3x historic support, his wingnuts would get mad.

The number one rule for No Kings 3 tomorrow is DO NOT INTERACT WITH COUNTER PROTESTERS! Do not talk, do not argue, do not react to their words, their single-finger salute, or their rolling coal. DO NOT ENGAGE!!!! You safety team is ready to deal with any negative people.

Speaker Johnson is rejecting a funding bill that funds TSA and that every single Republican Senator supported. He has no plans to pass anything that could pass the Senate. He owns this shutdown.

Is No Kings enough? Here’s our National Press Coordinator @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social & @raw-story.com (Raw America Media) discussing how No Kings may not be enough on its own, but that it’s an important first step for activating people and strengthening the anti-Trump resistance.

"As acting US Attorney for Rhode Island, she spent the past year overseeing federal prosecutions under the Trump administration. She now begins a new job at Mass Deportation Defense, a nonprofit created to provide counsel for those facing immigration proceedings..." turnto10.com/news/local/l...

Every single House Rules Republican voted to continue the shutdown instead of passing the Senate’s bipartisan TSA/FEMA funding bill. Republicans said it themselves: this shutdown is on them.