They were saying exactly the same thing in the 1950s, and demanding profs sign loyalty oaths. As a college teacher, I think it's sweet that some folks think we can indoctrinate students when we can't even get them to make their subjects agree with their verbs.

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"Ukrainians who have offered democracies a beacon of light in a world where the forces of authoritarian evil dim our hopes for a better future. The Ukrainians have given us more than we could ever repay." On Trump's "Ukraine has given us nothing" statement. mickryan.substack.com/p/what-has-u...

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Could spellcheck stop autocorrecting Ossoff to Ossify before he becomes president, thank you very much? When it comes to what names voice recognition, auto-correct, etc. recognize, there's always a white/Anglo-Saxon bias. Extra little hurdle for less familiar names to appear, and appear correctly.

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The Australian's article seems to have been improved by updates, it started out overemphasising his former straightforwardly enviro/left views but is now correctly noting that his posts shift, become less frequent and start picking up on far-right conspiracy theories too.

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The good news is that this just doesn't really work like it used to and increasingly it is not possible to gatekeep against Muslims or Arabs who don't swear fealty to Israel's Jewish character or to permanent US primacy in MENA.

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