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Linguist at UW-Milwaukee. Syntax & semantics, higher ed, Wisconsin politics &c.
I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
Four more top #CDC officials have submitted their resignation in the past few hours - Debra Houry (chief medical officer), Demere Daskalakis (director of NCIRD), Daniel Jernigan (director of NCEZID) + Jen Layden (director of OPHDST) www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
It is horrifying
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them?
This is an insane person.
RFK needs to be removed from office as soon as possible
Susan Monarez was confirmed as the CDC’s director in July. Three top agency officials announced resignations as the Trump administration pushed her out.
Tom Clancy's The Sound Pattern of English
Tom Clancy's Black Skin, White Masks
I’m going to simply say as ever that the ostensible identity and inscrutable motives of any given mass shooter are of vastly secondary salience compared to the obvious structures and clear social priorities that make their act thinkable in the first place
It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives
There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
maybe because they don't support this narrative. I wrote about how the decline in support for Democratic candidates among Black Milwaukeeans is easily exaggerated.
faculty blog post: law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/... newsletter version: bluebookmke.substack.com/p/the-declin...
Deep dive on the extremely Trumpy guy leading the administration's attacks on higher ed
As a Black, Christian, former Democrat with little previous engagement with Jewish causes, Leo Terrell seemed an improbable pick to eradicate anti-Semitic harassment in higher ed. But his zeal and foo...
Italian photographer Ray Giubilo with a one-in-a-million shot of Jasmine Paolini at the US Open
