Notices by Diligence Jones (deliachristina@sfba.social)

FYI, Columbia University has a LITERAL $14.8 billion endowment.

WTF needs $400M in fed funding??

Not them!

And yet they're going to concede.

What are the mayo people of the earth DOING.

[Wrath of Khan yell]

[Also, do not Reply Guy to me about the purpose of an endowment. I used to be in philanthropy. I know how it works. And this is EXACTLY when you want to use your big ass obscene endowment.]

@kims

Omg this part:

"Stephens: I’d say the lowest-quality institutions created since the 1990s have names like Columbia and Berkeley — these are essentially factories of Maoist cadres taught by professors whose political views ranged almost exclusively from the left to the far left."

Factories of Maoist cadres?!?!

Her response:

"Cottom: I would counter, Bret, that the lowest-quality institutions are the for-profit colleges created as paradigmatic economic theories of exchange value that churned out millions of students in “career ready” fields who found it hard to get a job worth the debt — colleges not unlike the one that our current dear leader once ran as a purely economic enterprise."

I think we can anticipate what's going to happen here.

Suddenly there will be 'holes' in this collection as it's looted by Trump allies and friends, holdings that tell a different story of American history/culture will be damaged destroyed or 'lost,' and some will find their way on the black market.

This criminal enterprise we call a presidency needs to be destroyed.

But oh well. Can't look to the #Dems for that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2025/03/11/gsa-fine-arts-layoffs-trump/

Why is everything in the legal field like dealing with fucking Charles dickens?!?

Fuck.

Literally paying bar fees with paper.
WTF.

In the past week, thanks to my diligent use of snacks and naps, I have corrected Benson's gaunt diet aesthetic while I was on bereavement leave.

He is now looking like the thicc meatball boi he is!!

I snuggled with him this morning and just patted his pooch. It was so comforting. He just looked at me and then went back to sleep.

#BensonUpdate

Whenever #GavinNewsom does something out of pocket, I feel the need to post this pic, reminding everyone of his fundamental grossitude.

I gotta hand it to JD Vance - he really knows how to be a number 2. He backed Trump all the way and amplified it.

There are two kinds of number 2's.

One mitigates and balances out their number 1 when it's time to pull them back from a ledge - backing the play but diplomatically and quietly. Redirecting where needed. *In the background.*

The other backs the play and amplifies the worst excesses of the number 1 - he is an extension of the number 1.

I'm the first kind.

Vance is the second. Yikes.

Omg all that video of that Oval Office mtg.

What the frak.
A country as powerful as ours led by an entire team of goons and racist gangsters.

Fuvk.

(Keeping that typo.)

People managers:

Folks on your teams are freaked out. As we all are. And if you lead a team that's doing some kind of social justice work they are going to ask uncomfortable questions about what you're doing to fight.

For the love of Martin and Malcolm, do NOT tone police their fear, anger, and upset.

Yeah, their tone upset you? Well, they're trans and live in a Red state, Susan. They are justifiably upset and terrified.
They're gay-married, George. The entire legal fabric of their family is about to get ripped apart.
Her dad is undocumented, Sally. And she hasn't heard from him in a week.

Jesus christ, people! WTF.
Dig deep for your goddamn humanity.

FUCK.

Golf clap to whoever risked their career using this song at the Governor's Ball.

Last night, a lovely dinner with a Bestie, my sister and her BFF-Steve, ended with her going to the ER with her daughter (who was having a clot scare) and me having another conversation with a Nice White Person wherein they struggle to understand how people who previously didn't want to plunder America are now OK with plundering America.

1/

Some TERFs targeted my org and called us ....[checking my notes]...a 'trans cult.'

Happy to be a trans cult, you fucking weirdos. We have trans staff, clients, friends, and family. We will fight for their right to exist every damn day.

Solidarity and hugs to a kickass @EqualRightsAdvocates.

As the national park system lies exposed and vulnerable to exploitation, watch how quickly militia-affiliated ranchers and others with large ag concerns squat and claim federal land for their own use.

Y'all in the PNW know what I'm talking about.

quick #italian lesson. (i'm learning how to talk about travel.)

the Italian word for german is *tedesco.*

that's weird to me.
where the heck is that from?

my unit on using plurals was good but sort of maddening.

my sister, an AP Spanish teacher, rolls her eyes when i told her i was learning Italian on duolingo. yeah, i know it's not the perfect pedagogical tool. but it's working....ish.

[no one talk to me in Italian yet. I'll panic and run screaming.]

#DuoLingo

'War happens in policy-making.'

What happens to quality of life when a fascist takes power.

Me: I'm effing frustrated that folks aren't immediately glomming onto the fact that re-segregation* is what we're fighting against.

Bestie: Huh. I never thought of that before.

Me: Seriously?? That's where my brain immediately went with all the EOs.

Bestie: [sigh] Yes, you probably have knowledge other people don't have.

Me: This is what I'm talking about. Who lives in America and doesn't realize we're speedrunning backward to the resegregation of the public sphere? Where were disabled folks back then? In institutions. Gay people? In the closet. Black folks? Domestic servants. Mexicans? In the fields. White women? At home.

[silence]

Me: Just to be clear, when I say who, I mean white folks.

Bestie: I really don't want to hear this right now.

Y'all, interracial friendships during these Interesting Times are going to undergo some *stress.*

--
*Yes, I know it's ONE of the things we're fighting against.

I'm here all week, people.

Brimming with ideas.

#IWishTheDemsHadIdeas

With that settlement from that case against the Proud Bois, that Black church should hire a trademark lawyer on retainer to send desist letters to every PB chapter in the country and force them to pay for use of a trademark that no longer belongs to them, or face legal action.

Fucking bury them in obscure paper.

More FAFO ideas:
All the experts being let go from the govt -- disease, environment, lawyers, analysts, infused-- guess it's time to go private and get top dollar for your consultancy.

Oh, small red anti vaxx town that has a ginormous measles/bird flu/raw milk/polio outbreak, here's some ex CDC epidemiologists & scientists offering to solve your problem --- for a price. No? Ok. We'll just use your town as a lab/case study afterwards, then.

McKinsey the fuck out these assholes.

You have crops, products that were part of a regular contract with the feds and that contract is now on the blocks and you're stuck with a crop/products surplus that you can't offload?

Dump 'em at your local Tesla dealership since Musk likes being an efficiency and govt procurement master. Let his team figure it out.

It's also fantastic visuals for media and a good opportunity to tell a story about how what happens at the fed level touches a local community.

1. Organize (secretly shhhhhh) with others. Make plans to also find a community use for some of that surplus.

2. Drop a press release.

3. Do it Live on TikTok or Insta (or YT). Or not.

4. Give an interview or two. Or not.

5. Drop a press release about that surplus product being shared with a mutual aid autonomous group/purpose.

6. Give an interview. Or not.

Keep doing it.