People love to talk about how progressive and politically correct they are in Minnesota.
But the minute you challenge what people do rather than just say about what they believe, many become very defensive.
On no issue is this more obvious than race.
A University Honors Program with less than 1% black enrollment (and its own segregated student housing) defended by "progressive"administrators and a website that shills about diversity.
Give me a break.
A police force that is 9% African American for a city that is 18% African American.
Many police officers live out in Trump country and drive in to work.
A police union boss who sells "Cops for Trump" T-shirts in one of the most liberal cities in the U.S.
Give me another break.
Median income of black families in Minneapolis less than half that of whites.
Shameful.
Nothing reeks of Minnesota hypocrisy more than Falcon Heights 2016.
City Council members admit on the record to knowing about police racial profiling but not saying anything before Philando Castile was murdered, then lecture on their own "white privilege." falconheights.org/home/showdocum…
George Floyd's murder could have been prevented.
In Minneapolis in 2020, as in Falcon Heights in 2016, the politicians knew about racial profiling by police. They talked about reform, but in the end nobody wanted to speak out or mess with the powerful police union.
Shameful.
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I strongly disagree with this.
The Constitution is clear: Congress has the power to declare war. The President does not.
The fact that other presidents got away with unauthorized acts of war does not make it legal. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…
As discussed in my forthcoming book with E. Thomas Sullivan, many presidents have gotten away with acts of war without Congressional authorization, including Clinton bombing Serbia, but that does not make it lawful. Congress must consent. cambridge.org/core/books/us-…
This is the "everybody does it" theory of presidential power. Under this theory a president could start bombing China or Russia tomorrow, without consent of Congress. I understand some people hate Iran (I'm no fan) but this is a very dangerous precedent. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…
Research misconduct is common among the faculty in elite universities. I've pointed out some of it here. When are we going to hear what happens to the others?
Or was Claudine Gay singled out because of her (admittedly bad) testimony before Congress? thecrimson.com/article/2024/1…
Read here about how another Harvard president sent a team of economics professors over to Russia, only for them to trade stocks for their personal benefit while doing nothing to help Russia.
Corruption eventually brought about the rise of Putin. institutionalinvestor.com/article/2btfpi…
If Claudine Gay, instead of plagiarizing, had brought a known pedophile onto campus, so long as he was a rich pedophile, she'd get to stay on as President of Harvard. thenation.com/article/societ…
This $2 billion payout for Jared Kushner sure looks like a kickback for the $110 billion arms deal Kushner orchestrated from the White House.
@TheJusticeDept needs to investigate NOW. nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/…
Duncan MacIntosh at a conference funded in part by Lockheed-Martin says selling arms to wealthy nations advances moral progress because being wealthy “tends to go hand in hand with being a morally better culture and one that ought therefore to prevail.”
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Such is the "effective altruism" of the defense industry: The more money we make selling weapons to the Saudis the more we advance moral progress because Saudi wealth goes hand in hand with being morally better than the people they are bombing.
And Jared got his cut too!
I have communications from a retired Harvard professor talking about his lobbying the admissions director to get his grandson in (successfully). What did the Supreme Court do about that kind of affirmative action?
Harvard admissions has been a cesspool of favoritism for over a century. But affirmative action for discriminated against minorities is now illegal. Whatever ….
Justice Alito was right in oral arguments to challenge Harvard’s demonstrably racist “character” assessments of Asian applicants, but the majority is WRONG to use that as an excuse to gut affirmative action for other discriminated against minorities.
According to the complaint @UVA's Title IX office found that a professor used his J Term course The Holocaust and the Law to sexually assault and harass a student repeatedly, including in a Vienna hotel room. @UVA covered it up and let him quietly retire. wdbj7.com/2023/05/30/alu…
Here's the complaint. I have no first hand knowledge of the facts, but if the @UVA administrators let this professor retire and covered it up after @UVA Title IX investigation findings of repeated sexual assault and harassment, they should all be fired. drive.google.com/file/d/1YToC44…
Putting aside the Title IX violations found by @UVA's own investigation (according to the complaint) it's particularly repugnant if a man were to use a course on the murder of six million people to sexually assault and harass a student. @UVA must stop the cover up.