Wow. Great article. 🥲
Gives me a sense of perspective.
Inside the Fight to Keep Rep. LaMonica McIver Out of Prison | Marie Claire
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Opinion | Why So Few Babies? We Might Have Overlooked the Biggest Reason of All. – The New York Times
So many reasons. Everyone has a theory. Demographer types have a new theory: massive uncertainty about the future. It seems obvious, but it’s starting to get official, along with people thinking about how to tackle it.
Media Matters secures complete and total victory against the Federal Trade Commission | Media Matters for America
Is time still on Vladimir Putin’s side? | Vox
https://www.vox.com/politics/487756/ukraine-russia-war-iran-drones
«For the moment, fears that Ukraine’s slow, grinding defeat was inevitable seem to have been premature: It’s in a better position today that many would have anticipated, even a few months ago. But it’s also increasingly hard to see how this uniquely deadly and destructive war will end.»
Accreditation of universities in the US South
Mind blown. Doing some research on accreditation for institutions of higher learning, and I ran across this:
«SACSCOC [Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges] has faced significant challenges in its home territory. Florida and North Carolina have passed laws requiring public universities to switch accreditors every cycle, effectively forcing many to leave SACSCOC.»
Why in the world would NC (and FL) require institutions to switch accreditors every 8-10 years? That’s not cheap, getting completely re-accredited by another accreditor. Why???
«Rather than MSCHE [Middle States Commission on Higher Education] capturing all of SACSCOC’s disgruntled or legally-bound members, a new entity called the Commission for Public Higher Education (CPHE) has been formed by six Southern university systems (including FL, TX, and NC) specifically to challenge what state leaders call the “monopoly” of traditional accreditors like SACSCOC.»
Oh.
Let me guess: after one cycle, the law requiring colleges to switch accreditors will magically be repealed. Maybe even by Democrats. But it’ll be too late.
I actually vaguely recall hearing about this recently (the requirement to switch accreditors), but it got buried under the current flood of awfulness and racism.
And why would an entire state university system be “unsatisfied” with their current accreditor? Well… guess who appoints the governance of said state university system?
Inside the Quiet Republican Effort to Flip Fetterman | Politico
Oh, yeah, absolutely, Democrats going to war with John Fetterman is a GREAT idea. 🙄
«It goes like this: The more one drifts from their political tribe, the more they’re scorned and mocked by that tribe, often in personal terms. This only prompts the person drifting away to accelerate their turn and adopt the language, customs and some positions of the other tribe with an I’ll-show-them determination. Soon, they’re identifying somewhat or entirely with the new tribe. The path only goes in one direction.»
Court blocks mailing prescriptions of abortion pill mifepristone | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-pills-mail-louisiana-ruling-40d60a9bf6212480e527480757b603c3
Why isn’t this all over Mastodon? Have I been blocked by everybody but the creative fringe?
Why Janet Mills ended her Senate campaign — and Graham Platner triumphed | Vox
https://www.vox.com/politics/487494/graham-platner-janet-mills-suspends-campaign-maine
Susan Collins:
«She’s the chair of the Appropriations Committee. In olden times, that was like a guaranteed lock on winning reelection. It is not as powerful as it used to be, but I do think it’s meaningful in a state like Maine that relies a lot on federal money — and she has just absolutely opened the spigots in the past year.
You can go on her website and you can see all the money and all the projects she’s funded, and there’s these little pins on the state of Maine, covering the entire map. When this money falls from the sky, it’s a huge boon.
And a word of caution on the polling. In 2020, polls all had Collins down heading into election day. She had been outspent by her Democratic opponent two to one. And then she ended up winning by 9 percentage points. So it looks very anti-Collins out there — but I think behind the scenes, she has a lot more support than is obvious.»
Alito Pens Decision That ‘Eviscerates’ The Voting Rights Act
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/alito-callais-voting-rights-act
Soooo…. who wants to claim that we no longer live in a racist country?
«The Roberts Court finally achieved its years-long goal of killing the Voting Rights Act Wednesday, publishing a ruling that, the liberal justices say, will make proving racial discrimination in redistricting virtually impossible.
“Under the Court’s new view of Section 2, a State can, without legal consequence, systematically dilute minority citizens’ voting power,” wrote Justice Elena Kagan in her dissent.
“Of course, the majority does not announce today’s holding that way. Its opinion is understated, even antiseptic,” she continued. “The majority claims only to be “updat[ing]” our Section 2 law, as though through a few technical tweaks. But in fact, those ‘updates’ eviscerate the law…”»
Futurism: Climate Scientists Shake Their Heads as First US City Running Completely Out of Water
https://futurism.com/science-energy/texas-water-crisis-climate
Science fiction becomes fact.
«…extremely dry conditions follow decades of warnings that South Texas is posed for a water crisis.
Earlier this week, city manager Peter Zanoni announced Corpus Christi will be forced to cut overall water consumption by 25 percent — nearly 16 million gallons a day — as soon as September. “We have no precedent to follow. There’s no manual, there’s no video,” Zanoni told the city council.
Details are hazy on how the city plans to make those cuts, but the impacts could be massive, as schools, hospitals, and homeowners are forced to do without — to say nothing of commercial and industrial business.»
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