My wife looked at me this morning and said, “The meaner and dumber he gets, the more they love him.”
I have nothing to add.
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ICE needs to be defrosted when the Dems control things. They seem to be an arm of Rump’s administration without any form of check or balance to control them.
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Realization of the importance of foreign students to University budgets (let alone to educational process and intellectual vitality of our higher education and research) would only matter if GOP and Trump valued the contributions of colleges (and education in general) to our country. But they don’t. We always should remember that they love poorly educated.
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This list is impressive, and growing fast. As somebody who works for the California State University system (23 campuses and over 480,000 students) I’m pleased to see both our Chancellor’s Office, as well as 14 campuses so far have joined in already. I would anticipate most, if not all, of the rest joining in by the time the smoke clears on this.
I think these idjits have woken a sleeping giant here and will come to regret this bullshit in the not too distant future. This move looks like it was aimed at immigrants, but it directly threatens the financing of the entire system, so would impact anyone enrolled in a university of college (and their families). Given that there are apparently something like 16.6 million students in higher ed in the U.S., that’s one hell of a cohort to hurt just to feed some bottom-feeder resentment against the “edjumicated”.
“By their idiocy shall ye know them…”
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mental ward section of a medical wing of a federal prison?
I prefer to say “religiosity”, not “religious leanings”, just as they’re “Christianists”, not “Christians”. They’re Republicans, there’s no reason to give them more than they’ve earned…
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“Say the safeword!”
“MAGA?”
“Wrong! (Whack) Say the safeword!”
“Fake News?”
“Wrong! (Whack) Say the safeword!”
“Deep State?”
“Wrong! (Whack) Say the safeword!”
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For every college degree issued there is one less Republican voter
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MAGAts, yes. Suburban white women, not so much.
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Yes, I remember Andrew Sullivan’s astute observation about the RWNJ’s being “Christianists” from years ago. They remain that way, only more so. Fake. Faux. Two Corinthians Phonies.
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I disagree that Republicans “love the poorly educated”.
Rather, because the media has done such a terrible job at doing its job that is so important to a functioning Democracy, educating the masses so they can make informed decisions, Republicans have been able to fool those they least respect or care about into supporting their own demise.
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If I am not mistaken, California State University system did not join Harvard and MIT lawsuit. Many of its campuses filed amicus briefs in that lawsuit but even more critically CSU (together with California community college system) is a part of a separate lawsuit filed by the state of California. And University of California system filed yet another lawsuit.
Sorry for the confusion. Yes, I was actually referring to the list linked to in the article listing amicus brief filings - it include the two Cal Poly campuses, 12 other campuses, plus the CSU Chancellor’s office.
See here:
https://twitter.com/neubadah/status/1281766862632759297/photo/1
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Very impressive list and my alma mater is on it -Sonoma State.
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We agree that Republicans succeed by fooling voters. The more gullible voters there are, the better for the GOP. But it is hard to fool people possessing critical reasoning skills (i.e. educated people). In that sense, Republicans clearly love poorly educated.
I saw it, I just wanted to stress that the amicus briefs were followed by a more consequential step of being a part of the California lawsuit. Having read about CA lawsuit, I was at first disappointed not to see UC as a part of the announcement until I read that UC filed a separate suit. Plus a suit by 17 other states.
I think any one of these suits is strong enough to stop mal-administration on this issue but I hope that having several strong suits increases chances of quickly obtaining an injunction that will at least allow universities and international students proceed with fall semester/quarter plans in as normal an order as covid allows.
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@playitagainrowlf
Either way that’s a lot of school systems, with a lot of law schools, who have alumni that might want to do some “work” on the case.
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The cruelty is the point.
Just remember that when they start whining and complaining under the next administration. People who support kids in cages have no moral standing on anything.
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In Our Dreams.
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Nail, meet head. When people complain about book learnin’, academics and “elitists” and actively discourage higher education within their own circles, they shouldn’t be too surprised to see people from other countries pursuing that education and the resulting jobs.
IOW, Junior Samples, those jobs aren’t becoming less necessary, no matter what you think of them.