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Dr. Mangala Subramaniam Appointed VCU Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs

Dr. Mangala Subramaniam will become senior vice provost for faculty affairs in the Virginia Commonwealth University Office of... read more

Howard University Will Host AP Summer Institute for African American Studies Course Pilot

The Howard University School of Education will be hosting the Advanced Placement Summer Institute July 11-15 for the College Board’s... read more

Women Still Behind in Leadership Roles in Massachusetts Higher Ed Institutions

Women make up just 34% of all sitting presidents at Massachusetts’s 88 postsecondary institutions, climbing just one percentage... read more

ED Propose Improvements to Student Debt Relief Programs

The Department of Education has proposed new regulations that aim to expand major federal student loan discharge programs. read more

ERRORS: We pivot away from our own tribe's mistakes...

"How It Really Is"

the daily howler1 day ago

*THURSDAY, JULY 7, 2022* *...in search of some comic relief: * Provisionally, we issue a promise! We promise that, on the morrow, we'll return to this week's supposed project. On Tuesday, we said that we would be suggesting that our own tribe's very occasional, tiny/small errors might help explain the unhelpful way our political leaders are viewed. In truth, we find that project depressing. For today, we go in search of the comic relief which lets our species fight on. For today, we'll move to the terrain of our second ongoing series, the collection called "Took the Gödel Challe... read more

The Free Thought Project1 day ago

Court Rules Child Who Killed Her Sex Trafficker Cannot Be Charged for Murder, Paves Way for Acquittal

[image: court]“We hold that [the law] is a complete defense to a charge of first-degree intentional homicide.” read more

Virtual Mirage1 day ago

Random Thoughts

Bullet Points * $5 billion was way too much to pay to secure America’s Southern Border against the invasion that is still underway. $50 billion is still nowhere near enough to secure Ukraine’s border… The crew in DC keeps up their war against America that the half-blood prince promoted. * Disney’s wokeness – […] The post Random Thoughts appeared first on Virtual Mirage. read more

PrairiePundit1 day ago

California losing battle with Florida

Red States: For some idiotic reason, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) decided it was a good idea to burn money by making ads encouraging Floridians to move to California because the Sunshine State’s Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is just a terrible leader or something. This is despite the fact that people are leaving California in droves, opting for states like Texas and Florida where the cost of living is cheaper and freedom is on the march. As we previously reported, Newsom’s gubernatorial reelection campaign bought $105,000 in ads to run in the state, with the first one running on Ind... read more

PrairiePundit1 day ago

Chicom tariffs not cause of inflation

Washington Examiner: President Joe Biden is considering lifting his predecessor's stiff China tariffs as a means of easing historic inflation , even as some of his closest political allies urge him not to alter the Trump-era policies . The Biden administration has been carrying out an extensive monthslong review of the Trump administration's trade policies with China. The first stage of the four-year process closes Tuesday at midnight. Numerous reports say that the president will announce a loosening of the Section 301 tariffs as early as this week, yet White House officials str... read more

PrairiePundit1 day ago

The Jan 6 committee is a fiasco

Julio Rivera: The past several weeks of farcical hearings initiated by the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 attack have displayed the lengths to which the American political left will go to in their efforts to derail the prospects of a second Trump administration. The hearings began with a June 9 televised hearing on prime-time TV that was carried by virtually every major network in the United States. Holding them when television viewership is at its highest for the day was obviously no accident, as an audience of at least 20 million Americans tuned in to w... read more

PrairiePundit1 day ago

Red states pushback against woke Wall Street

Reuters: Republican-led states have unleashed a policy push to punish Wall Street for taking stances on gun control, climate change, diversity and other social issues, in a warning for companies that have waded in to fractious social debates. Abortion rights are poised to be the next frontier. This year there are at least 44 bills or new laws in 17 conservative-led states penalizing such company policies, compared with roughly a dozen such measures in 2021, according to a Reuters analysis of state legislative agendas, public documents and statements. While some of the individua... read more

MintPress News1 day ago

15 Years of Failed Experiments: Myths and Facts about the Israeli Siege on Gaza

"The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.” - Dov Weisglass, Advisor to Israeli PM Ariel Sharon The post 15 Years of Failed Experiments: Myths and Facts about the Israeli Siege on Gaza appeared first on MintPress News. read more

PrairiePundit1 day ago

US wheat farmers deal with Biden pushed to increase production

USA Today: Clay Schemm's great-grandfather moved to Kansas in the 1920s with a tractor and not much else. The cash crop was wheat. Today, Schemm, 26, continues that tradition at farms in his home of Sharon Springs, Kansas, near the state's western border and a few hundred miles away in eastern Kansas. On the other side of the world, Russia's war in Ukraine has Schemm rethinking this year's harvests, just as the Biden administration is encouraging U.S. farmers to produce more wheat in response to the disruption of the market caused by the war in Ukraine, one of the world's top ... read more

The Free Thought Project1 day ago

WATCH: Uniformed Cop in Patrol Car Pulled Over Wasted With Beer in His Car

[image: dui]An officer was pulled over in his patrol car, drinking beer and five times over the legal limit. read more

PrairiePundit1 day ago

Russia's huge losses in Ukraine

Yahoo News: He said that every day the Russian troops receive an order to advance further, but they do not always fulfil it, as their losses in personnel are very significant. Both captured Russian service members and those in contact with the locals acknowledge this, Hayday said. "Both prisoners and those who communicate with the population in Lysychansk and Severodonetsk admit this,” Hayday wrote. “During the storming of Lysychansk alone, the enemy lost thousands in dead and wounded. Yes, they have orders of magnitude more forces and means, but the Ukrainian army is better pre... read more

PrairiePundit1 day ago

Sen. Tuberville nails Biden administration for blame oil companies for gas prices

Breitbart: Wednesday on Fox Radio’s “The Brian Kilmeade Show,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) ripped President Joe Biden and his administration for blaming oil companies for the high gas prices. Tuberville, in reaction to Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg saying oil companies were “responsible” for the high prices, said there was “zero plan” from the White House in its push to transition to green energy. He said Buttigieg was “way out of his league.” “This guy’s way out of his league, Brian,” Tuberville asserted. “I’ve sat through the last year of nominations o... read more

PrairiePundit1 day ago

Hispanic conservative nail NY Times for mischaracterization of Mayra Flores

Daily Caller: Hispanic conservatives hit back at The New York Times on Wednesday over an article referring to newly elected Republican Texas Rep. Mayra Flores as a “far-right Latina.” The piece, “The Rise of the Far-Right Latina,” describes the Trump era bringing a new age of “far-right” Hispanic and Latina women into Congress. The piece then shifted to Flores’ campaign slogan—”God, family, country”—claiming it appealed to a population of voters who prioritize “traditional values.” The piece said she supported impeaching President Joe Biden, perpetuated QAnon theories and calle... read more

PrairiePundit1 day ago

Trump proven right on German reliance on Russian gas

Daily Caller: Former President Donald Trump warned Germany in 2018 about relying on Russian oil and was laughed at by the German delegation. Four years later, Trump was proven right as Germany fears a massive gas shortage. Speaking at the 73rd U.N. General Assembly, Trump criticized Germany for relying on Russian oil exports. “Reliance on a single foreign supplier can leave a nation vulnerable to extortion and intimidation. That is why we congratulate European states, such as Poland, for leading the construction of a Baltic pipeline so that nations are not dependent on Russia to... read more

PrairiePundit1 day ago

County officials want Gov. Abbott to declare invasion

John Daniel Davidson: A handful of Texas counties on Tuesday declared the ongoing border crisis an “invasion” and called on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to do the same, citing constitutional authority for states to act in self-defense in the face of federal inaction. Speaking in rural Kinney County, which includes a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border, officials from Kinney, Uvalde, and Goliad counties said the Biden administration has refused to secure the border and enforce the law, and that although Abbott has done much to support local communities in south Texas most affected by the... read more

Real Climate Science1 day ago

Satire Or Globalist Policy?

This 2008 satire from the United Nations seems to be a pretty accurate description of how governments operate. “For those of us at the high end of the social ladder, ending hunger globally would be a disaster. If there were … Continue reading → read more

PrairiePundit1 day ago

Twitter 'retweets' on Berenson

Fox News: Twitter has reinstated the account of Substack writer Alex Berenson after the tech giant "permanently" suspended him over allegedly violating its COVID "misinformation" policy. Berenson, who had filed a lawsuit against Twitter in April, returned to platform on Wednesday, telling his followers, "Shady's back. Tell a friend." In a piece published on his "Unreported Truths" Substack, Berenson began by writing the "official statement," which reads, "The parties have come to a mutually acceptable resolution. I have been reinstated. Twitter has acknowledged that my tweets s... read more

PrairiePundit1 day ago

Tough gun restrictions failed in Illinois

*NY Times:* Highland Park Shooting Reveals Limits of Illinois’s Gun Restrictions Many are asking how the 21-year-old suspect was able to buy several weapons despite alarming police encounters and relatively strict state laws. It was not enough to stop a determined killer. read more

Climbing in enormous playground structures to retrieve kids – musingsofanoldfart1 day ago

Former Trump Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney notes importance of hearings

In an op-ed which appeared in The Charlotte Observer yesterday called “Former Trump chief of staff: Republicans should pay attention to Jan. 6 hearings” written by Mick Mulvaney, former Chief of Staff to Donald Trump and head of the Consumer … Continue reading → read more

Gregory Mannarino, "A Global Economic Depression - You Are In One"

Gregory Mannarino, AM 7/7/22: *"A Global Economic Depression - You Are In One"* - https://traderschoice.net/ *Comments here:* - https://www.youtube.com/ ○ *Related:* "David Stockman on Why the Great Reckoning Has Begun" read more

"The Future – Post 2032 – A New Beginning?"

*"The Future – Post 2032 – A New Beginning?"* by Martin Armstrong *"QUESTION:* "Will you explain what Socrates foresees for after 2032 at this year’s WEC in November? I’m more concerned about my grandkids. A lot of people seem to be plagiarizing you these days. But all they have to offer is an opinion and we all have opinions. Socrates has been the only thing that has ever been consistently correct." - TH *ANSWER:* I have warned that the Economic Confidence Model and how markets even trade themselves is always fractal. We are completing the end of the BIG ONE. I think a lot of peopl... read more

Organizing Notes1 day ago

Women in Ukraine organizing to stop conscription

Women organizing in Ukraine to challenge the forced conscription by Kiev - they need more 'meat' (as many Ukrainian troops call themselves) to keep the US-UK-NATO war mongers satisfied. Zalensky wants his cannon fodder to appease his western bankster backers. Welcome to NATO.... read more

Halifax Examiner1 day ago

Vision, lobbying, and high-profile stunts: lessons on how to become a cycling city

News 1. Protecting yourself and others from COVID-19 With the end of COVID-19 restrictions in Nova Scotia, Yvette d’Entremont talks to Dr. Scott Halperin, director of the Canadian Center for Vaccinology and a professor of pediatrics and microbiology and immunology at Dalhousie University and infectious disease at the IWK Health Centre. In other words, someone […] read more

Vox - All1 day ago

Boris Johnson was a winner, until he wasn’t

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces his resignation outside 10 Downing Street on July 7. | Carl Court/Getty Images Scandals finally forced the Conservatives to abandon their leader, as Johnson announces he will resign as UK prime minister. Boris Johnson always seemed to defy political odds. He went the typical path of the political class — Eton- and Oxford-educated — but sold himself as an outsider and populist man-of-the-people, messy hair and all. He was fired from journalism for fabrication, and his reporting and political careers were marred with scandal after scandal, ... read more

Balkinization1 day ago

Liberalism, Republicanism, and Common Good Constitutionalism

For the Balkinization symposium on Adrian Vermeule, Common Good Constitutionalism (Polity Press 2022). Despite its title, Adrian Vermeuele's *Common Good Constitutionalism* is more about general legal theory than it is about constitutional theory. Vermeule has surprisingly little to say about constitutional structure or about the various clauses of the U.S. Constitution. His discussion of federalism, for example, is primarily about subsidiarity, but as Vermeule himself points out, the two are not the same thing. Delegating decisions to California or Texas is not the same thing as ... read more

Science Matters1 day ago

Arctic Warming Alarm from New Mexico Models

Breaking News from Los Alamos National Laboratory at Science Daily Arctic temperatures are increasing four times faster than global warming. As you can see, the alarm is not based on field observations in the Arctic Circle, but comes from computers in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Excerpts in italics with my bolds. Summary: A new analysis […] read more

No More Mister Nice Blog1 day ago

MAYBE RON DeSANTIS WILL STEAL HIS OWN REELECTION

Ron DeSantis, who's running for a second term as governor of Florida even though he's hoping to be elected president two years later, has a new secretary of state, Cord Byrd. *The Washington Post*'s Lizette Alvarez tells us a few things about him: ... he is as hard-right as his governor. Byrd’s website is called Florida Gun Lawyer. And as state House member, he helped turned many of DeSantis’s most radical ideas into high-profile culture-war bills involving race, education and gay rights. As a lawmaker, Byrd also supported changes in voting laws, making it harder to use ballot dro... read more

Vox - All1 day ago

What the Supreme Court’s EPA ruling means for air pollution — and your health

Los Angeles, seen through layers of fog and haze. | Getty Images/iStockphoto Most Americans breathe unhealthy air, and weakening the EPA won’t help. When the Supreme Court decided *West Virginia v. EPA* last week, most of the response was focused on the ruling’s impact on the government’s regulatory power over carbon emissions. The decision limited the EPA from making certain broad regulatory decisions — such as implementing a cap-and-trade program — to control greenhouse emissions from power plants under the authority of the Clean Air Act. While the ruling didn’t get rid of the ... read more

Vox - All1 day ago

Senate Democrats slowly consider their options after Roe

Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Patty Murray hold a press conference about abortion rights outside the Capitol on June 15. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images Inside the debates dividing the lawmakers, now on recess. When the draft Supreme Court opinion on *Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health *leaked in early May, Democratic lawmakers in the Senate scrambled to figure out a response. They settled on a vote on a bill that had already failed to pass in February, the Women’s Health Protection Act — a bill that would both codify access to abortion and invalidate existing state restrictions on the proc... read more

Vox - All1 day ago

Even bosses are joining the Great Resignation

Christina Animashaun/Vox New data shows a growing number of managers are quitting. The so-called Great Resignation is going strong, and it’s not just for working stiffs anymore. Increasingly, managers are also leaving their jobs for greener pastures. Data shows that managers are leaving their jobs at elevated levels, and that even though resignation rates for workers overall have declined from their peak, lots of people are still quitting their jobs. The breadth of quits could exacerbate an already tight labor market as quits in one area precipitate quits in another, and this cy... read more

bilaterals.org1 day ago

USTR announces new declaration on good regulatory practices

07-Jul-2022 Many trade agreements in the Hemisphere, such as the USMCA, MERCOSUR, the Pacific Alliance, as well as other bilateral arrangements, contain provisions on good regulatory practices. read more

Bacon's Rebellion1 day ago

No Patient Should Ever Be Left Alone

by Kerry Dougherty Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this week signed the Sunshine State’s “No Patient Left Alone Act,” guaranteeing that Floridians can have their loved ones with them when they are hospitalized, ill or in long-term care. What’s truly unbelievable … Continue reading → read more

The New Dark Age1 day ago

UK To Swap Out Top Sociopath For A Different Sociopath: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Boris Johnson resigning would only be interesting in an alternate universe where there was some remote chance that he won't be replaced by another depraved sociopath. read more

The New Dark Age1 day ago

Japan’s Kishida steps on Russian oil slick

The simmering tensions between Moscow and Japan during the past 4-month period of the war in Ukraine surged when the Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolay Patrushev sounded the warning at a meeting on national security in Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East on Tuesday that Japan is ramping up its revanchist plans for the Kuril Islands. read more

Turcopolier1 day ago

Starlink Launch

https://spacelaunchnow.me/launch/falcon-9-block-5-starlink-group-4-21 read more

Caitlin Johnstone1 day ago

UK To Swap Out Top Sociopath For A Different Sociopath: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Boris Johnson resigning would only be interesting in an alternate universe where there was some remote chance that he won’t be replaced by another depraved sociopath. ❖ Remember when rich people were so worried about Jeremy Corbyn […] read more

PrairiePundit1 day ago

Russians pause Ukraine offensive

ISW: There were no claimed or assessed Russian territorial gains in Ukraine on July 6 for the first time in 133 days of war, supporting ISW’s assessment that Russian forces have largely initiated an operational pause.[1] The Russian Defense Ministry claimed territorial gains every day from the start of the war but has not claimed any new territory or ground force movements since completing the encirclement of Lysychansk on July 3.[2] However, Russian forces still conducted limited and unsuccessful ground assaults across all axes on July 6.[3] Such attempts are consistent with a R... read more

PrairiePundit1 day ago

This is a by-product of Biden open orders policy

*Washington Examiner:* *Rising fentanyl seizures signal overdose crisis worsening* The Chicoms and the Mexican drug cartels are taking full advantage of Biden's open borders policies to murder young Americans with fentanyl. read more

CFACT1 day ago

Man-made disaster for Europe?

If there is complete collapse and no one uses energy, the energy situation becomes moot. The post Man-made disaster for Europe? appeared first on CFACT. read more

bilaterals.org1 day ago

Croatia loses international arbitration against Hungary's MOL over gas business

07-Jul-2022 Croatia has lost an international arbitration case launched by Hungarian oil and gas group MOL over Zagreb's failure to fulfil obligations under an agreement about the gas business of the jointly owned Croatian oil company INA. read more

Organizing Notes1 day ago

Sitrep Britain: The Titanic Hits the Iceberg

By Batiushka for The Saker Blog *Power is like cancer – it eats you slowly without you realizing it.St Nectarius of Egina (+ 1920)* Possibly the greatest clown UK politics has ever seen is on his way out of the door. Ministers and aides, forty-one within twenty-four hours, have left his sinking ship. As for Johnson himself, he is spending his last days or hours rearranging the deckchairs with only the last yes-men by his side. The unsinkable Titanic is starting to go down. Let the band play. The Titanic is sinking. If you are a rat, get off now. Already, before Johns... read more

Snopes.com1 day ago

Contact Restored with NASA Spacecraft Headed to Lunar Orbit

NASA said that contact has been restored with its $32.7 million spacecraft headed to the moon to test out a lopsided lunar orbit. read more

War News Updates1 day ago

Boris Johnson Resigns As Prime Minister (Live Coverage)

Right whale, shark, vaquita activists to fishing industry: 'We are not enemies, we are friends'

All in the name of science: experts dissect great white shark that washed up on Cape Cod

Get paid for catching snakeheads: Maryland tagging program pays up to $200 per fish

Indonesia: Fish-farming practices come under scrutiny amid surge in aquaculture

217-pound turtle dragged 2 fishing rods, 10 hooks, part of tire, Florida rescuers say

Meet Methuselah, Australiaâ€™s oldest freshwater fish, which can breathe air like a land dweller

Utah's not-so-Great Salt Lake hits historic low, with water level dipping to 4,190ft, for a second time in less than a year

Texas angler becomes first female high school fishing national champion

Northern Reflections1 day ago

The Bill Has Come Due

Boris Johnson has resigned. Jonathan Freedland writes that there is a symmetry to his rise and fall: Lies and a brazen contempt for the rules powered his rise; lies and a brazen contempt for the rules brought his fall. Which means the political odyssey of Boris Johnson has a curious symmetry. Except that what began as defects in the personality of one man ended as defects in his party and his government, inflicting great damage on the entire country. The lies that proved his undoing are now all too familiar. The last, fatal lie was his claim that he had not been told directly o... read more

War News Updates1 day ago

Boris Johnson's Resignation Speech As UK Prime Minister In Full

War News Updates1 day ago

Picture Of The Day

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers his resignation speech on Thursday outside No. 10 Downing Street *WNU Editor:* And so it goes. The fight on who will succeed now begins. read more