FIRE often warns of the dangers of political overreach in higher ed, but rarely are accusations so stark as the ones Texas A&M now faces. Censuring and investigating criticism of state officials is the polar opposite of expressive freedom.
https://texastribune.org/2023/07/25/texas-a-m-professor-opioids-dan-patrick/

Freight trucking company Yellow is shutting down and laying off employees at all of its locations.

this is after the Gov 'loaned' them $700 million

Ron White is right, you can't fix stupid

Two teachers in eastern Germany warned of students using the Nazi salute and threatening to beat up immigrant classmates. A backlash against the teachers, who left town, aroused fears that the far right has gained a stronger foothold than many thought.

https://apnews.com/article/germany-far-right-students-teachers-school-threats-23117cba33831f38da80055478d1264c

On Trump legal fees

He was spending $1.5 million per month last year this time

Now we found out his legal fees had jumped to $6.7 million per month ($40.2M in first 6 mo of 2023)

Marjorie Taylor Greene's prevous attempt to cut Ukraine funding failed embarrasingly with a vote of 89-341. Today, she's back for round two – this time with an amendment to cut funding for NATO.

This nonsense helps only one person: Vladimir Putin.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1684289717213224963

My question to Special Prosecutor Jack Smith,...

How many of these assholes are you indicting along with Trump?

A Massachusetts DA announced his office's investigation into Florida's decision last year to transport flights full of migrants to Martha's Vineyard.

https://theintellectualist.com/ron-desantis-faces-multiple-investigations-over-mistreatment-of-asylum-seekers/

Tuberville is making Putin and Xi absolutely ecstatic. — Army, Navy Will Be Latest Services Without Chiefs as Senator Maintains Block on Confirmations

I believe the term they use is 'useful idiot'

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/07/28/army-navy-will-be-latest-services-without-chiefs-senator-maintains-block-confirmations.html

Lori Vallow Daybell sentenced to life in prison for the murders of two of her children and conspiring in the murder of her husband's first wife https://cnn.it/3KnzduG

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The Failed Promise of Electric Cars

https://youtu.be/0_DJ1UKjk-o

Misogynistic white nationalist incel Nick Fuentes insists that "sex is a gay act" and therefore "if you seek sex, you will become gay." That is why the straightest people are those who remain celibate .... like priests.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1686017950690488320

Tuberville vows to fight Biden's Space Command decision: ‘This is absolutely not over’ https://trib.al/3CP0qP6

Dissatisfaction is rising in Russia. For several days in a row, military enlistment offices around the country have been attacked with molotov cocktails.

I'm gonna pin this post to hang on to it,......

MARK MY WORDS, Walt Nauta, the Trump Valet whose charged in Trumps Conspiracy will flip

HE WILL ROLL ON TRUMP

Nauta faces six charges, including conspiracy to obstruct justice and concealing evidence, which holds a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, and knowingly making false statements to law enforcement, which comes with a maximum five-year prison sentence.
He could easily get a lot more.

HE WILL ROLL, and when he does, Trump is Fucked