There is also a gulf between a legit civics class where you learn about the constitution, how government works, etc., than a right wing propaganda class.
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civics is just left wing propaganda that has been accepted / red
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Why do we want to teach about Japanese Cars? We should have a class in Fords or GMs.
With education becoming polarized, reaching an accord is going to take an odyssey of trial and error, starting with a pilot program to find a good fit
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Could have started with prologue in there somewhere.
“Straws are banned, and if those farmers don’t like it, they can leave,” the AI likeness of Balint says while standing in front of the Vermont Statehouse. “Vermont is my state. I decide what’s going to happen. Your tax money is spent and there is nothing anyone can do to stop me.”
A likeness of Coester, a logger from Westminster, then says he will stop Balint because “Vermont is for Americans” not “radical communists.” The video shows Coester telling Balint to “Go Back to New Jersey” and wagging a finger at her on the Statehouse steps as he describes how he’s going cut taxes to lower the cost of living[…]
Coester said he didn’t make the video but shared it on social media as soon as he saw it. “I think he did a great job. Hilarious!” Coester told Seven Days on Tuesday.
Coester said he knew who “Planet Hank” was but declined to share any information about him. Pressed on this point, Coester referred to a Seven Days reporter as a “libtard fuck.”
Deep dive on the DC fascists.
No, not the ones in Government. Those “patriots.”
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/11/nx-s1-5888571/patriot-front-washington-dc
Many Western countries now view China more favourably than the US.
"People surveyed in 36 countries now see China more positively than the U.S., with more overall having higher confidence in Chinese President Xi Jinping than in Trump.
In the U.K., 41 per cent of respondents said they have a positive opinion of the U.S. in 2026, falling from 59 per cent in 2023. Meanwhile, the reverse was true on China, with a 46 per cent favourability rating, up from 27 per cent three years ago.
In Spain, 30 per cent of respondents this year had a positive view of the U.S., down from 55 per cent in 2023. Positive public opinion of China, however, rose to 54 per cent, compared to 28 per cent three years ago.
In France, 27 per cent had a positive public opinion of the U.S. in 2026, sliding from 52 per cent who did so in 2023. This year, 36 per cent surveyed in the country said they had a positive view of China, up from 22 per cent three years ago.
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It’s obviously going to be a biased outcome if they insist on judging the US based on what they do and how they are.
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Yes. It should be based on professed values rather than actions!
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No more foreign Ph.D. students in the US. Fortunately it’s not like the US economy over the last several decades was fueled at all by the US having the best higher education system in the world.
The level of pettiness is impressive.
So if you want to change majors (which is not uncommon) you would need the direct permission from the US Govt (which could then block you based on whatever reason they want to come up with).
Yet another reason to avoid the US as an International Student.