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Fixing Higher Ed

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The higher education system is so broken. Between skyrocketing tuition and fees leading to massive student debt, a lack of state funding, the proletarianization of faculty including the rise of waves of contingent workers, massive administrative bloat, and an aging population that is no longer being...
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https://twitter.com/kpoulsen/status/1394344671761993731 https://twitter.com/kpoulsen/status/1394344672953208832 https://twitter.com/kpoulsen/status/1394347960171843584 A poem for Stephen Breyer: The Emperor of Ice-Cream BY WALLACE STEVENS Call the roller of big cigars,The muscular one, and bid him whipIn kitchen cups concupiscent curds.Let the wenches dawdle in such dressAs they are used to wear, and let the boysBring flowers in last month's newspapers.Let be be...
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The Broken Game of Baseball

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There was a very long time when I did not watch the NBA. The early 90s Pistons teams brought in a brutality to the game that was hard to watch. Then the Pat Riley-era Knicks perfected that style of basketball and it spread around the league....

Sanctuary States!

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Republican governance--very serious actions taken by very serious people. Just south of Oil City, where Louisiana representative Danny McCormick is from, is the predominantly Black city of Shreveport. Residents there.

Mississippi Goddamn

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As always, Mississippi leads the nation in laughably ridiculous justifications to halt the will of the electorate. On Friday, Mississippi's conservative-dominated state Supreme Court obliterated the state's entire ballot initiative.

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