Monday, April 13, 2026

Variations on a theme of Dr. Jesus

 


Related post:
Dear Donald, Time for a Ten Commandments lesson. Exodus 20:3. You shall have no others gods before me. Best, God.  (4/13/2026)

GET ME REWRITE: Texas A&M Board of Regents votes to keep it in the family

 
Headline:  The Texas Tribune, 4/13/2026

Jessica Priest reports:
The decision follows months of upheaval at the flagship campus after Welsh resigned amid political backlash over a secretly recorded classroom discussion of gender identity that was posted online. 
The search unfolded as regents took a more assertive role in responding to controversy and shaping what can be taught, part of a broader political remaking of Texas higher education under new state laws. 
Ballabina is set to lead the state’s largest public university, which enrolled 72,289 students in fall 2025, and enforce new system rules that restrict how race, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity can be discussed in class.\ 
The board voted 8-0 to approve Ballabina as sole finalist after spending about 30 minutes in closed session. Regent David C. Baggett was absent. [emphasis added]

Apparently, even the New York Times has now had enough of Trump's unhinged behavior


Headline screengrab of article posted on 
Monday, April 13, 2026, at 3:21p.m. EDT

 Or not. 

The orange line on the Times website screengrab indicates what first showed up on the screen of my laptop. (The ad took up 2/3s of the screen) You need to scroll down a bit to find Peter Baker's article. (red box). It will be interesting to learn where (and when) it's placed in the print edition. (Sometimes it takes a few days for articles to find their way from webpage to printed page.)

Considerably scaled down screengrab of 
New York Times homepage 
on Monday, April 13, 2026, at 4:02 p.m.