The element of university collapse that none of the recent reports has taken account of is the rampant overreach of trustees and the total lack of any mechanism for actual university members (faculty; students; staff) to hold them accountable.
This the quintessential story of how sports reflects the state of the world. Thousands of fans have waited for Game 3 their whole lives and now they’re priced out of entering the game and can’t even celebrate outside because one billionaire gets to attend the game for free.
Sam Harris published "if Palestinians laid down their arms, there would be peace" on the same day a 7 month old Palestinian baby was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers.
the baby's name happened to be Sam, too.
@neeratanden@ryangrim Obviously the conservative Supreme Court is more your fault. You worked for Obama and Hillary Clinton. Ryan didn’t. Take some responsibly for once in your life.
I was a premature anti-génocidaire as well, both after 9/11 and 10/7. You only had to have had a minimal historical imagination to have seen what was coming.
On this day in 1944 Amon Carter presented FDR with the deed to the land that would become Big Bend National Park. Famously FDR had nothing else going on June 6, 1944, which you can tell from his extremely relaxed demeanor