And imagine what Lenny Bruce would have had to say.
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"You are not allowed to give up" -Alexei Navalny
Just an old woman with a cane, waiting for the Nazi on the bike to pedal by.
Buy banned books.
Read them.
Protect them.
Protect History. Your life depends on it. I mean it.
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And a 56° dewpoint.
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There is NO bottom. Stop wasting time looking for one.
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It's how lunatics roll.
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How. It's. Done.
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This takes the place of the MMWR, also a casualty of the Regime.
Each Friday I summarize what happened in science 🧪& higher ed. This was Week 28:
- $300M frozen at UCLA + updates on university “deals”
- jobs report, Bureau of Labor Statistics firing & data quality fears
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting shutting down
- more at buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
Week 28
July 28 - Aug 1, 2025 - failing down the garden path
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Each Friday I summarize what happened in science 🧪& higher ed. This was Week 28:
- $300M frozen at UCLA + updates on university “deals”
- jobs report, Bureau of Labor Statistics firing & data quality fears
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting shutting down
- more at buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
Week 28
July 28 - Aug 1, 2025 - failing down the garden path
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Fuck Texas.
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It's always just a matter of time. Probably on a weekend evening.
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the voting rights act is, in its entirety, obviously constitutional under the 15th amendment, which gives congress broad and proactive authority to stop racial discrimination in voting. and you know it is obviously constitutional because roberts has had to invent entire new doctrines to gut it.
The Supreme Court knocked down one of the two pillars of the Voting Rights Act in 2013 in the Shelby County case. It has now gone out of its way to consider whether it should knock down the other, by rescheduling arguments in a case it could have resolved in June under existing precedent.
