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r/WayOfTheBern

I agree 100%. It can’t just be a messaging overhaul. For it to be effective and persuasive, it must be a wholesale change in the way they do politics. And I highly doubt their top-down, donor-focused, seniority-driven mindset can change as much as it will need to.
r/WayOfTheBern

True re: Stein’s positions, but we all know the shameful media exposure + cash advantage that the two main parties enjoy. Stein’s message and policy platform were not heard by the vast majority of Americans.
r/UTAustin

The encroachments on free speech are coming from the state, the Board of Regents, and elements of university leadership. I believe in freedom of speech, they clearly do not. They’re the ones banning entire topics and censoring real history from being taught. This eugenics-infused event is not happening in a vacuum; it’s happening as the state and its political partners restrict freedom of speech. They can have their fake science when we can have our real history.
r/UTAustin

Oh please. If you really cared about freedom of speech, you would be concerned about academic freedom being stripped away at UT Austin and other Texas universities. This event is not happening in a vacuum. This pseudoscience conference is happening as real actual history is being censored at Texas universities.
r/UTAustin

As a staff member at UT Austin, this glaring inconsistency is deeply troubling: While our university actively works to over-comply with censoring legislation like SB17, we’re hosting a conference featuring self-described eugenicists and promoters of long-debunked race science. Legitimate academic discourse on real actual history is being systematically erased while junk pseudoscience promoting racial hierarchies is given institutional space and legitimacy. The contrast is stark: While faculty colleagues report being pressured to alter course content to comply with SB17, our university appears to have no issue providing its venue for a conference featuring speakers who promote scientifically discredited theories of racial differences in intelligence and advocacy for eugenics. This raises serious questions that are impossible to reconcile: Why are we erasing discussions of race and equity from legitimate academic courses while hosting events that center on racial pseudoscience? How can we justify overcomplying with anti-DEI legislation while simultaneously providing a platform for a conference that explicitly promotes racial hierarchies? Will protestors who object to this event face the same brutal police response we saw during campus demonstrations last year? Academic freedom must mean protecting evidence-based inquiry from all political directionsnot censoring discussions of real actual history while giving institutional legitimacy to long-debunked “scientific racism.” Universities should be spaces for rigorous intellectual debate based on sound scholarship, not venues that legitimize harmful pseudoscience under the guise of “natalism” or “academic freedom.”
r/TexasPolitics

The DOGE mentality is in full effect in Texas. The Board of Regents’ announcement of the new interim president of UT Austin already referenced “operational and financial efficiencies” as a priority…
r/UTAustin

That’s assuming we’ll ever get any accurate info about the supposed crimes. Very little information about previous visa revocations has been released publicly.
r/BreakingPoints

hmm. maybe it’s an Overcast thing, then. Thanks!
r/BreakingPoints

Yep! I got the email with the show description (“4/4/25: China Calls Trump’s Bluff, Stocks Plummet, Lawyer Responds To JD Vance”), but it never shows up in my feed. Also, I use Overcast, and the Monday-Thursday episodes show up without issue.
r/Austin

This is all the more troubling when you consider that UT is currently restricting freedom of speech and protest for students, faculty, and staff. Im a believer in free speech, but that right has to be honored universally, not simply for speech you like. As I said elsewhere They can have their fake science when we can have our real history. https://medium.com/@millerlc3/when-academic-freedom-only-goes-one-way-ut-austins-troubling-double-standard-e8decb31c9fc