Does anyone out there know if Barnes and Noble CARRIES medical journals? What’s this “public” Ed Martin is yammering about? While there are lots of scientific journals out there on the interwebs, a good majority of them require membership in order to access them. A scientific journal ISN’T a general issue magazine that comes out every week. Sometimes all a web surfer can access is the introductory summary.
The school where I used to teach did something similar a few years ago. Their enrollment never bounced back after COVID, so they decided to fire 40+ faculty, mostly tenured and some at the full professor level, on the grounds that their humanities and social sciences programs would be closing down as a cost-saving measure. I’m told that the campus now feels like a ghost town, because enrollments have dropped even further. Why enroll there if your major could be cut at any time?
And the chaser: most of the fired faculty won their appeals for reinstatement, but the university won’t let them teach any classes. The faculty are on paid administrative leave, without anything to do. As a cost-saving measure, this one failed big time.
Most of the elderly people I hang out with have chosen to either keep their heads down or literally flee the country. It will be up to the people under the age of 70 to restore democracy to the US, I guess.
On the other hand, the League of Women Voters has some pretty elderly members who are more than fired up. They have already declared a “constitutional crisis”, something the infotainment media will never do. Watch the League go on the chopping block of “nonprofits to destroy.”
And irrelevant to Abrego-Garcia’s case. Total exploitation of the mother and total propaganda to keep the MAGAs and MAGA adjacent on board.
The part of Bondi being a blonde bubble head certainly is. And a bleached one to boot.
Of course. Because he’s: A Good Boy!
So does Patty Morin, mother of a daughter who has raped and murdered by a MS-13 member, have any thoughts on Trump bringing back to the US the Tate Brothers? Who we know were being held in Romania on sex trafficking and sex-related charges?
I doubt the classes have been canceled in midstream. They’ll finish out the semester. Then the students are SOL.
I guess some kudos for Murkowski, but let’s consider the amount of death threats or retaliation threats facing AOC, Shiff, Booker, etc. Hire more bodyguards, Lisa.
Also loved the “differing viewpoints”. Here we are presenting the latest in treatments for asthma.
Differing viewpoint: Shouldn’t asthma be free to express itself? Why are we suppressing asthma’s rights?
The woman loves Trump more than the truth and is perfectly willing to be used as a political prop. No sympathies from me.
Not just delayed, full out halted.
But Burgum’s decision escalates the Administration’s opposition to offshore wind because the multi-billion dollar project in New York already had its federal permits and had broken ground
“This really is next level offshore wind aggression,” Freudenberg says.
In a letter to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the lead federal agency for permitting offshore wind projects, Burgum wrote that “approval for the project was rushed through by the prior administration without sufficient analysis.”
“BOEM spent two and a half years conducting an environmental review. The final product of that environmental review is an environmental impact statement that’s over 3000 pages long, with all of its appendices, and it’s very thorough,” Eisenson says. " This rationale, it’s very suspect."
Save the whales!
A lot of these contracts fund basic science—the kind of foundational research that has no immediate commercial payoff. Think particle physics, genomics, materials science, climate modeling. Stuff that’s essential for long-term progress, but too risky or slow-burn for private investors. Corporations aren’t lining up to fund a ten-year study on protein folding unless there’s a drug at the end of the rainbow.
Under the Bayh-Dole Act, universities or nonprofits that do the research get to keep the rights afforded in any granted patent, but the government often retains a royalty interest or “march-in” rights (rarely used). These patents can then be licensed to companies that have the capital to actually make something—like a treatment, a device, or a new technology. That process draws in investors, builds startups, creates jobs, and yes—eventually saves lives.
It’s not a perfect system, but without federal funding, we’d probably still be trying to beat measles with cod liver oil, megadoses of Vitamin A and being swole. This isn’t socialism—it’s strategic investment. And we all benefit when it works as intended.
Coming up next–Just waiting for Trump to sign an executive order to remove all solar panels from all buildings…
It said that locks were changed on faculty offices. Recital halls were locked down. Sounds like ending the programs immediately.
The music rehearsal hall has been locked. The music faculty has been fired. How will they finish the semester they paid for?
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Ok what prevents ME from seeing the DoJ as absolutely contemptable? (spits). Put Mr Abrego Garcia on a plane, send him to his family. Let him reacclimate a few days and then begin a host of legal actions on those who defamed and abused him and denied him of due process.
I feel for Morin, but I fault her for allowing herself to be pulled into this. I can say with absolute conviction that if it happened to Mrs VH, she would tell WH Comms in no uncertain terms to fuck off loudly with good effort.