SCOTUS, Now with KBJ

[Kepler]

Bob Reich on fixing the Court.

[Slap Shot]

This is what he apparently said:

Anybody who’s watched the movie ‘Django,’ just watch Stephen and you see Clarence Thomas," Ellison said. "Clarence Thomas has decided that his best personal interest is siding with the powerful and the special interests regardless as to who they’re going to hurt. He's like, I'm looking out for me, and I don't care nothing about you, but I'm on the Supreme Court so it's my job to look out for you.’ So he's abdicating his responsibility. He has abdicated it a long time ago. When he got in office, he was this way. He's this way now, maybe he's worse now."

"So, Clarence Thomas needs to be impeached," he continued. "Clarence Thomas is illegitimate and has no basis in the job that he's in. And it's a lesson to us as African Americans. What is the lesson? We all thought, well, he's a Black man raised he's in the Deep South. He knows what racism and segregation is, he knows what affirmative action is. He's going to come around one day."

"Understand that it's not a matter of pigment. It's not what's on your skin, it’s what's in your mind," he added.

[unofan]

The Minnesota AG apparently compared Clarence Thomas to the house slave in Django Unchained.

I have not seen the movie, but I am guessing that's not a compliment.

Yeah, Samuel L Jackson's character is not likeable in that movie.

[Jimjamesak]

House (n-word) is definitely an insult.

[dxmnkd316]

The Minnesota AG apparently compared Clarence Thomas to the house slave in Django Unchained.

I have not seen the movie, but I am guessing that's not a compliment.

Lmao. Omg.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

The Minnesota AG apparently compared Clarence Thomas to the house slave in Django Unchained.

I have not seen the movie, but I am guessing that's not a compliment.

Well, I haven’t seen movie or the quote but I don’t think Keith freaking Ellison is a fan of Clarence so that tracks

[Kepler]

The Minnesota AG apparently compared Clarence Thomas to the house slave in Django Unchained.

I have not seen the movie, but I am guessing that's not a compliment.

[ScoobyDoo]

Not a good look.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ipI7sJedrZPmfw

Working as intended.

[MissThundercat]

What do you mean? He’s been curating it for years now.

Okay then, when it comes to ethical malfeasance, Clarence Thomas is All Elite.

[St. Clown]

Not a good look.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ipI7sJedrZPmfw

What do you mean? He’s been curating it for years now.

[MissThundercat]

Not a good look.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ipI7sJedrZPmfw

[Drew S.]

There are some real f’ing idiots in this country https://www.boston.com/community/rea...1=hp_secondary

[walrus]

The sound you hear is the 10,000 families who run America having a seizure*.

* Not really. Between tutors, prep schools, and just outright grade inflation, every one of these failsons will still get into HYP on "merit."

You mean not really as they own the Supreme Court?

[LynahFan]

Interesting. The list I'm thinking of had John's Hopkins and Michigan as 1/2

Probably overall research spending. Total NSF 2022 outlays to thousands of universities was $6.8B. DoD issued $5B just in grants, plus they have contracts with universities as well, some of which are major (e.g. the Navy's contract with JHU for APL runs around $2B per year).

Cornell's policy is that the entire concept of "classified research" is incompatible with the mission of an academic institution to generate and disseminate knowledge. Cornell Faculty Handbook: "Given the open nature of Cornell University, research projects which do not permit the free and open publication, presentation, or discussion of results are not acceptable. Nor will the university enter into any agreements unless the principal and co‐principal investigators have the final authority on what is to be published or presented. In particular, research which is confidential to the sponsor or which is classified for security purposes is not permitted at Cornell University."

Without that funding source, Cornell professors have little choice but to go vacuum up all the NSF funding they can get their hands on. :-)

(Edit to add my usual snipe that it's ridiculous to include APL's Navy funding in the JHU total for research. The vast majority of what they do is either product development, or working with OEMs to evaluate *their* products for certification or safety assessments, etc. The USAF does all those same functions in house - the fact that the Navy "outsources" those functions to APL is just a choice that the Navy has made over the last 80+ years. And I say this as someone whose uncle (my namesake and childhood idol) worked his entire career at APL. No doubt that APL does great work - but so do Lockheed and Raytheon, and they don't try to pretend that it's academic research.)

[dxmnkd316]

Ah. Here it is.

https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/s...source&ds=herd

total spend.