Wednesday, May 08, 2024
Larval Leaders
An occasional justification given for the obsessive focus on elite schools by our demented elite publications is "this is where the future leaders of the country come from," but, my brothers in Gritty, the current leaders of the country all came from them!!! Long before they were WOKE! Before some of them admitted women! And those people have power right now!!!
Who's The Boss
In very general terms, you can divide our glorious Thinkfluencers (columnists, etc.) and journalists into those think their role is to hold the powerful to account, and those who think their role is to hold (select) members of the public to account.
You can put the latter in the point and laugh category.
You can put the latter in the point and laugh category.
Sounds Bad
Don't like this Putin guy.
The remark, which Putin repeated twice during his year-end news conference in December, shed light on a campaign he is waging that has received little attention outside wartime Russia: to imbue the country’s education system with patriotism, purge universities of Western influences, and quash any dissent among professors and students on campuses that are often hotbeds of political activism.
At St. Petersburg State University, this meant dismantling a prestigious humanities program called the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences. For more than a decade, until May 2022, the faculty — or college — was led by Alexei Kudrin, a liberal economist and former finance minister who had been a close associate of Putin’s since the early 1990s, when they were deputy mayors together in St. Petersburg.
“We had many classes on U.S. history, American political life, democracy and political thought, as well as courses on Russian history and political science, history of U.S.-Russian relations, and even a course titled ‘The ABCs of War: Causes, Effects, Consequences,’” said a student at the faculty, also known as Smolny College. “They are all gone now,” the student said, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.
Oh No Elmo
Woke deep state is after him.
The Department of Justice is looking into whether Tesla committed securities and wire fraud around its self-driving vehicle claims, Reuters reports today, citing three sources familiar with the matter.
Red Lines
Starting to question Biden's parenting skills.
(or his honesty, you pick)🚨The White House thinks the Israeli operation to capture the Rafah crossing doesn't cross President Biden's "red line" that could lead to a shift in U.S. policy towards the Gaza war. But this could change if the operation broadens, two U.S. officials told me. My story on @axios…
— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) May 7, 2024
Tuesday, May 07, 2024
Amazing Stuff
Reuters:
Israel still plans to proceed with a 90-day plan to invade Rafah, which Washington is committed to stopping, a U.S. official familiar with truce negotiations between Hamas and Israel told Reuters on Monday.We'll never hear from that official again.
"Netanyahu and the war cabinet have not appeared to approach the latest phase of negotiations (with Hamas) in good faith,” the official told Reuters, asking not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter.
Rage
"soliciting support" truly amazing.
In 1986 @Harvard threatened us as well with suspension for protesting apartheid S. Africa. Our response was similar. Well done. Univ. Pres. Garber emailed alumni today soliciting support for his crackdown. I wrote him back with a counter proposal: that he accede to the students… https://t.co/o7kmcEysP7
— Tom Morello (@tmorello) May 7, 2024
Please Describe Your Crimes In Detail
Sure thing, esquire, I have detailed contemporaneous notes.
The former Trump Organization controller testified about the notes he took during a January 2017 meeting that laid out how the family real estate company was going to surreptitiously reimburse attorney Michael Cohen for fronting the $130,000 that silenced the porn star Stormy Daniels. That payment kept her from going public about her decade-old, one-night stand with Trump in the days before the 2016 presidential election.
The farce was laid out in black and white, with handwritten notes explaining the fuzzy math at play.
The View From Above
She apologized, but this is the kind of thing our overlords - especially of a certain generation (X and older) - believe.
Hochul talking about Empire AI in California
— Zach Williams (@ZachReports) May 6, 2024
"We have, you know, young black kids growing up in the Bronx who don't even know what the word computer is"
Morning
Have we settled on who, exactly, fucked it into the sun yet? Maybe it was Rashida Tlaib.
Certainly wasn't Blinken!
Certainly wasn't Blinken!
Monday, May 06, 2024
Campaign Message
Our good friends, the Republicans, who we hope to work with on many good bipartisan things, are an existential threat to the country.
It has some flaws.
You can't separate Trump from the Republicans when their lips are latched to his buttocks
It has some flaws.
You can't separate Trump from the Republicans when their lips are latched to his buttocks
And you certainly can't separate Trump from his people! Why would you?
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