The second in the series of articles I've been working on with @thecentersquare dives into UPenn about how increased research dollars drive up operating expenses. Recent awards include:

• $1.7 million for evaluating the influence of a beverage tax on health outcomes;

• $446,460 for developing scalable online professional development for expanding computer science teacher expertise in equity and pedagogy with e-textiles;

• $446,545 for studying how genetic ancestry testing affects perceptions of race.

The increased dollars and diversity of research awards mean added infrastructure, added technicians, added equipment, added bureaucracy.

So while universities never had so many federal dollars, they never had so many expenses, either. And they are passing those costs onto students.

T̵o̵d̵a̵y̵'̵s̵ EDIT: The previously scheduled (now delayed) National March on Washington is financed by ANSWER Coalition, which is Neville Singham's financing front. As a reminder, Singham lives in Shanghai and is under investigation for FARA violations in acting as a state agent of China.

The flyer lists the usual groups affiliated with the ANSWER Coalition: Palestine Youth Movement, The People's Forum, CODEPINK, and others.

Interestingly, the Democratic Socialists of America are listed with these groups. That is Mamdani's affiliation.

If Singham is also associated with DSA financially, that will become interesting.

What this means is that the parliamentarian was never an obstacle to passing the Big Beautiful Bill. Just two months ago, Thune overrode that same parliamentarian on a different bill.

The parliamentarian is a mere scapegoat.

Thune and the Senate Republicans voted to override the parliamentarian on May 21, 2025 to repeal California's EV mandate.

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I never imagined I'd have the chance to interact directly with the author all these years later.

I'm truly sorry you're going through this pain, and I'm glad to hear you’ve found some relief. Please know that every day you are here, continues to be a gift to those of us who were shaped by your work. I'm keeping you in my prayers every day.

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Utah's Refugee Services Office services about 12,000 refugees. However, this is just "official refugees" as far as I can tell - this number doesn't include services for illegal immigration.

Sorry for the long and rambling thread - the gist of it is that Utah gets a lot of assistance from the federal government to provide housing and benefits for refugees. Salt Lake City issues loans for developers, and special housing is set aside for refugees and other low-income families. Immigration status is not considered in housing, which means that even if illegal immigrants do not get direct refugee support, they can get benefits through other means like federally financed NGOs and county-level subsidies. Hope you enjoyed this thread!

Utah also rejected e-Verify for small businesses.

Random thoughts for tonight on Deaf culture. And why there is a "Deaf culture" in the first place.

If you have a bum foot - it's a bum foot.

If you have bum vision - it's bum vision.

But language is EVERYTHING to human interaction, logic, exchange. Language is what separates us from animals.

Because Deafness directly affects language - Deafness separates by humanity in a way that no other disability physically can separate.

Imagine if your stomach hurts every time you ate, despite your physical hunger. That's what it's like to be deaf. You have a need for social interaction, but every single instance brings with it burden, work, pain.

With each other, Deaf people fill this gap with their hands - sign language. The need for language touches a deeply primitve need for who we are as humans, beyond who we are as animals.

Yes, we can wear hearing aids or cochlear implants. But Deaf people absolutely, unequivocally strain to meet someone on the same terms socially at their own language.

The best analogy I can come up with is: you are a person who's had to use crutches to walk. And everyone around you expects you to ignore the inconvenience of crutches in order to meet them halfway. You say, "I'm tired of always being on the race track" and the response always is: "you are being selfish. just by doing this one thing, you're meeting so many people's requirements. Why don't you do this?"

The fact is, hearing aids and by extension cochlear implants are a deeply unpleasant and artificial experience. I don't wish to discourage people who genuinely want to help there. But at the same time, when I tell Elon Musk, I don't care about losing my hearing in the pursuit of experiments... I don't care.

@deaflibertarian is right. Deaf people need sign language.