Assistant Professor & Chair/Director for the Conflict Resolution Program @KState 💜 PhD = University of Manitoba in Peace & Conflict Studies 🇨🇦 🕊
Manhattan, KS
Joined April 2010
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“But it’s in the margins that you find out the real importance and significance of ideas, integrity, and leadership. Leadership not based on a messianic vision of who you are, but leadership in the sense to facilitate processes that allow people to become their own leaders.” – at Manhattan, KS
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For the first time since 2010... Republicans will not hold a veto-proof supermajority in the state of Kansas. #ksleg
🚨PROJECTION🚨
Democrats have broken the Republican supermajority in the Kansas House.
projects.statenavigate.com/2…
Brett Mallon retweeted
Tonight, the American people sent a clear message — they want a politics that brings people together rather than divides them, and leaders who offer concrete solutions to the challenges they face.
These results were only possible because outstanding candidates stepped forward in every region of the country — including in areas once considered long shots. They came from different backgrounds and represented a range of political perspectives, but were united by shared values, a belief in public service, and a commitment to putting the people of their districts and states first.
We also owe a debt of gratitude to the thousands of election officials and volunteers from both parties who helped ensure a smooth election and carried out one of the most essential functions of our democracy.
While this administration has another two years in office, our job now is to roll up our sleeves, make changes wherever we have the power to do so, prevent further damage, and lay the groundwork for the future.
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Christy Moore on Garvaghy Road last night #Drumcree
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BREAKING: The Trump administration is erasing protections for LGBTQ+ kids and survivors of sexual assault in school settings without an opportunity for public comment.
Trump’s Department of Education has abandoned its duty to protect students from sex discrimination and sexual violence in schools.
This administration is hell-bent on eroding every possible semblance of a decent and caring society. Vote every single time like your life depends on it. Because for FAR too many in our country, their lives literally do depend on it.
Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
thehill.com/homenews/educati…
Absolute bullshit. This administration continues to wage a war on higher academics and moves like this would cripple incredibly key (and already vulnerable) professions. This cannot move forward. #HigherEducation #AcademicChatter
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/NmmAzhf
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People keep saying Trump term II is the most corrupt administration ever, so I built a model to find out if it was true.
I took the UN's definition of corruption, turned it into eight criteria and 100 points, and scored the leaders history remembers for looting their countries: Marcos, Suharto, Mobutu, Abacha, Obiang, Putin.
Then I put every president since Eisenhower on the same scale, both parties, with every exoneration counted right alongside the convictions.
Nixon scored 41 and no other American President scored over a 25.
Trump's second term scored a 91, which ties him with Suharto and Mobutu and puts him above Marcos and Abacha.
So he is not only the most corrupt president in American history. At this pace he finishes his term level with the most corrupt rulers of the last hundred years.
PSA: don't come in my comments arguing about the results if you haven't read the full article, because ignorance is a choice.
Full article is up now on my Substack (link in bio) and it's free.
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since becoming president again, Trump has promised:
-$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend"
-$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend"
-$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies
-$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms
no checks have been issued
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WHOLESOME: Former #Packers All-Pro Jordy Nelson earned nearly $60 MILLION during his NFL career but still works on the Kansas farm where he grew up.
Nelson spends up to 12 hours a day cutting wheat, managing crops, and herding cattle.
He even worked on the farm during NFL offseasons and once said he “probably identifies more as a farmer than a football player.”
A LEGEND ON THE FIELD. A FARMER AT HEART.
❤️
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It transpires that Isobella Perrie Sullivan, the Irish Republican dissident charged with possession of explosives, spent two years in Saoradh, the political wing of the New IRA. Not Syria, as was falsely reported due to the word being misheard.
That’s a rather serious mistake for a journalist to make. It’s already been widely reported on internationally that she spent time in Syria, which is entirely untrue.
Even after hundreds of years of Parliament and England always looking at at Northern Ireland as and after thought at best, the DUP and Unionists just refuse to accept that. It’s baffling. #NorthernIreland
New Prime Minister Andy Burnham excludes Northern Ireland from all three of his new flagship cost of living measures irishnews.com/news/northern-…
Over the last 250 years, this country has had some seriously bad moments, but it’s also had some of most brilliant moments in human history. My hope for the next 250 years is we learn how to decrease the former and increase the latter. We can do that. And so we must. #America250