One of the politics podcasts (NPR, NYC, or 538) made the point that the only reason that the Clinton foundations donor roles are even public is cause of a deal worked out with the Obama administration when she became Secretary of State.

Yup, and like by the time it gets to the Supreme Court, usually loads of damage has been done. And loads of bad laws/funding decisions never even make it to the courts for all sorts of reasons.

Possibly even more than the national races to some extent. Like most anti-abortion planned parenthood is the devil bills are passed by state governments, as are things like bathroom bills and religious freedom acts. I know it’s fiendishly difficult to find info in state senate and state rep candidates, but like…

For the longest time, the thinking was that companies supplying casinos with slot machines and the like would be good at making locked down hardware cause casinos old freak out if their machines could be hacked.

I feel like the fact that they never had children, even pre-Gilead emphasizes that to an extent.

I had to urban dictionary it the first time I saw it, so it stuck.

Originating from the eponymous Eminem song about a crazy fan, Stan is now slang for really big fan who defends/praises the artist.

I’m so realizing this is possibly my NYC privilege showing, which is breaking my brain a bit. I’ve always been in a union, from writing center tutor through graduate student & adjunct lecturer jobs and my advisor is in the same union. (And hell, I was technically in a union even in high school working for my public…

If I understand this correctly having a national labor union protecting graduate students may mean actual reform.

Good to know/useful (my own union is problematic so I kinda get)...but I’m not sure what it has to do with my point that gov’t agencys are working with plenty of unionized schools already.

I especially find the 2nd quote funny (the first is just all eyerolls) ‘cause everyone at CUNY is unionized (have been for decades now) and yet my advisor still doesn’t seem to grok our economic relationship. On the flip side, some of my best working relationships have been with faculty who do grok that economic…

I’ve heard so many horror stories of students not getting paid on time or not getting paid for all the hours they put in

Many (possibly most) public universitys are already unionized at all levels: grad student, adjunct, faculty, so pretty sure if it was an issue it’d already be an issue considering how much research is done at the big public uni systems (New York’s and California’s for example).

Tara looked like she wanted to go join Bakari and Angela's side a couple of times during that discussion.

the makeup business needs more women of color chemists,

The campus health center is also great as a stop gap when you’re between practioners. I had to switch doctors between my second after my second HPV shot, and so ended up getting the 3rd on campus (a CUNY like Lehman).

How would this ban help those women? If they’re being forced into burkinis, they’ll just be forced into not going swimming. All this ban does is take something else away from them and isolate them further. If you really want to help these women, the way to do it is to give them greater access to the secular world.

I wish I remembered.

My electromagnetics professor went off on rants about the dangers of wifi...

Granted, almost all the religious people I know go to women only pool (and beach in Israel) times ‘cause that’s by far the easiest way to swim while following modesty guidelines, but I do hope the rules don’t get too constrictive ‘cause I go to a pool in a clean t-shirt and knee length shorts. Pretty sure the burkini…