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UC San Francisco faculty member threatens life of mom asking questions
Posted by MardiGrasMike on 3/2/26 at 4:49 pm
"I'm going to hunt you down and f*cking k/ll you"
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The America First Trump Doctrine
Posted by MardiGrasMike on 3/2/26 at 2:47 pm
Long read but worth it...
"I’m asking you to hold the line. Not because the President is infallible... he’s not, nobody is... but because the logic is sound. You cannot build a fortress of peace on a foundation of unresolved threats. You have to clear the ground first. That’s what’s happening."
The question you have to ask... the honest question, not the Tucker question, not the Marjorie question, the real question... is this... Could Donald Trump have achieved a permanent, lasting America First posture... the real doctrine, the thing we all voted for... without first clearing the board of the existential threats that previous administrations allowed to metastasize for decades?
The answer is no. And everybody who is being honest with themselves knows it’s no
Let me take you through it, because the details matter. They always matter with this President. He doesn’t do anything by accident. People think he’s impulsive... the media loves that narrative, “Trump is impulsive, Trump is chaotic”... but look at the timeline. Look at how this actually played out.
"I’m asking you to hold the line. Not because the President is infallible... he’s not, nobody is... but because the logic is sound. You cannot build a fortress of peace on a foundation of unresolved threats. You have to clear the ground first. That’s what’s happening."
The question you have to ask... the honest question, not the Tucker question, not the Marjorie question, the real question... is this... Could Donald Trump have achieved a permanent, lasting America First posture... the real doctrine, the thing we all voted for... without first clearing the board of the existential threats that previous administrations allowed to metastasize for decades?
The answer is no. And everybody who is being honest with themselves knows it’s no
Let me take you through it, because the details matter. They always matter with this President. He doesn’t do anything by accident. People think he’s impulsive... the media loves that narrative, “Trump is impulsive, Trump is chaotic”... but look at the timeline. Look at how this actually played out.
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If tweet fails to load, click here.re: La Higher Ed investigated by Feds for racial discrimination
Posted by MardiGrasMike on 2/14/26 at 11:42 am to MardiGrasMike
Looks like this is the discriminatory objective in question, put in place soon after KHR became Commissioner of Higher Ed.
Koenig Hayride Article
Koenig Hayride Article
re: La Higher Ed investigated by Feds for racial discrimination
Posted by MardiGrasMike on 2/14/26 at 11:19 am to MardiGrasMike
"The commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion should not be limited to hiring practices for athletic directors and head coaches but should apply to aspects of hiring processes across higher education institutions."
"Internships and statewide incentives should be considered to diversify the talent pool and encourage adherence to the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Pledge and related recommendations."
- Kim Hunter Reed
Commissioner of Higher Education
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"Internships and statewide incentives should be considered to diversify the talent pool and encourage adherence to the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Pledge and related recommendations."
- Kim Hunter Reed
Commissioner of Higher Education
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La Higher Ed investigated by Feds for racial discrimination
Posted by MardiGrasMike on 2/14/26 at 11:00 am
"Today, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) initiated a directed investigation into the Louisiana Board of Regents (the Board) to determine whether its Master Plan for Higher Education violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI) by authorizing racially-exclusionary practices and initiatives.
According to public records, since Fiscal Year (FY) 2021–2022 and again in FY 2025–2026, the Board’s executive budgets have included performance objectives requiring schools to prioritize students of “all races other than white [and] Asian.” Specifically, the Board’s stated goal is to “increase the unduplicated number of underrepresented minorities (all races other than white, Asian)” earning a degree or credential “in a given academic year.” The current objective sets a target to raise matriculation and graduation of “all races other than white, Asian” from a baseline of 14,579 in 2020–21 to 16,000 in Academic Year 2025–26.
“The Louisiana Board of Regents’ objective to prioritize recruitment and graduation efforts for ‘all races other than white [and] Asian’ appears to blatantly violate not only America’s antidiscrimination laws, but our nation’s core principles. Title VI guarantees all students equal access to educational programs and opportunities regardless of race and OCR is committed to preserving these rights."
U.S. Department of Education Probes Louisiana Board of Regents Over Alleged Race-Based Priority in Executive Budget
According to public records, since Fiscal Year (FY) 2021–2022 and again in FY 2025–2026, the Board’s executive budgets have included performance objectives requiring schools to prioritize students of “all races other than white [and] Asian.” Specifically, the Board’s stated goal is to “increase the unduplicated number of underrepresented minorities (all races other than white, Asian)” earning a degree or credential “in a given academic year.” The current objective sets a target to raise matriculation and graduation of “all races other than white, Asian” from a baseline of 14,579 in 2020–21 to 16,000 in Academic Year 2025–26.
“The Louisiana Board of Regents’ objective to prioritize recruitment and graduation efforts for ‘all races other than white [and] Asian’ appears to blatantly violate not only America’s antidiscrimination laws, but our nation’s core principles. Title VI guarantees all students equal access to educational programs and opportunities regardless of race and OCR is committed to preserving these rights."
U.S. Department of Education Probes Louisiana Board of Regents Over Alleged Race-Based Priority in Executive Budget
re: Gavin Newsom is Officially Crapping in his pants
Posted by MardiGrasMike on 2/5/26 at 12:33 pm to FLTech
On a relevant note...
2028 presidential election party favorite to win
Vance Newsom head to head
These two predictit markets are in conflict.
2028 presidential election party favorite to win
Vance Newsom head to head
These two predictit markets are in conflict.
re: Kiffin to push for Tiger Stadium upgrades?
Posted by MardiGrasMike on 2/4/26 at 11:54 pm to MasterAbe1
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I can tell you that the DJ experience as a whole in TS will be much, much better next year.
Only way it’s better is if there’s NO DJ experience!
Anti-White and Anti-Asian Funding in Louisiana Higher Ed.
Posted by MardiGrasMike on 1/23/26 at 10:19 am
"In fact, at the top of the Louisiana higher education chain of command is a registered Democrat who worked in the Obama administration “leading post-secondary diversity and inclusion work”–Kim Hunter Reed.
Soon after Reed’s appointment as Commissioner of Louisiana Higher Education in 2018, the Board of Regents and nearly all state universities adopted a policy objective in the Higher Education Executive Budget that openly prioritizes non-White and non-Asian students. This discriminatory objective first appeared in the FY21-22 budget (pg. 16) and has been listed every year since, including the FY25-26 budget (pg. 12)."
"Louisiana families want their children to thrive in higher education. They deserve a higher education system that focuses on academic excellence and merit over opaque DEI policy goals that quietly reappear in each year’s executive budget without proper scrutiny.
What’s more, Louisiana higher education could be at risk of losing key federal funding if the Board of Regents is found to have violated Title VI through the discriminatory Objective 6711-09."
Louisiana Deserves a Full Audit of Anti-White and Anti-Asian Funding at the Board of Regentsentsntsntsntsts]ts
Soon after Reed’s appointment as Commissioner of Louisiana Higher Education in 2018, the Board of Regents and nearly all state universities adopted a policy objective in the Higher Education Executive Budget that openly prioritizes non-White and non-Asian students. This discriminatory objective first appeared in the FY21-22 budget (pg. 16) and has been listed every year since, including the FY25-26 budget (pg. 12)."
"Louisiana families want their children to thrive in higher education. They deserve a higher education system that focuses on academic excellence and merit over opaque DEI policy goals that quietly reappear in each year’s executive budget without proper scrutiny.
What’s more, Louisiana higher education could be at risk of losing key federal funding if the Board of Regents is found to have violated Title VI through the discriminatory Objective 6711-09."
Louisiana Deserves a Full Audit of Anti-White and Anti-Asian Funding at the Board of Regentsentsntsntsntsts]ts
re: Odell Beckham Jr. talks about the struggle of living on a 5-year $100 million contract
Posted by MardiGrasMike on 12/2/25 at 3:11 pm to RLDSC FAN
"A fool and his money are soon parted"
re: Burger King's attorney MUST OF gotten with him to say "no sensible buy out"
Posted by MardiGrasMike on 11/10/25 at 4:20 pm to sharkfhin
"must have" or "must've", not "must of".
re: So, is Rousell a political DEI LSU President, or is he an agent to change the insanity....
Posted by MardiGrasMike on 11/4/25 at 5:26 pm to Tigahs24Seven
While Tate did much harm to LSU, the bigger problem with higher education in Louisiana is the current Commissioner of Higher Education, Kim Hunter Reed, a registered Democrat and former Obama admin. Under her tenure, the Board of Regents and almost every college and university in Louisiana adopted an objective that discriminated against White and Asian students. This objective has been in the Executive Budget for the past five years and is still in it today.
Here's an article that goes more in depth:
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Here's an article that goes more in depth:
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Kelly, Woodward and Rousse
Posted by MardiGrasMike on 10/27/25 at 5:32 pm
Lengthy, but detailed article on The Hayride today. Here's some highlights...
KELLY:
The stuff I’ve heard about Brian Kelly over the last few weeks has been really amazing. Assumedly if I’ve heard it, the members of the LSU Board of Supervisors would also have heard it, which is why things moved as quickly as they did on Sunday.
I heard that Kelly’s attendance at LSU’s practices had become not altogether regular – as in, he’d be there and then he’d skip out for a while, and then he’d come back. I’d heard Kelly always had a glass of wine on hand when he was in his office.
I’d heard he was a very frequent patron at a few of Baton Rouge’s best restaurants, which isn’t a particularly bad thing except that he’d be there early and stay late during the season.
The picture these reports painted was of a coach who was very much mailing it in at LSU.
Woodward:
How it happened seems to be an item of some contention. The official story has it that Athletic Director Scott Woodward called Kelly in and demanded that he fire offensive coordinator Joe Sloan, who has been so bad this year one has almost been tempted to feel sorry for him, and Kelly refused – and that’s what brought on Kelly’s firing.
I can’t tell you definitively that isn’t true. What I can say is it’s definitely not what I heard. The way I heard it was that Kelly offered up Sloan’s head, and that not necessarily Woodward but several members of the LSU Board of Supervisors who had congregated to discuss the future of the football program were grossly unsatisfied with Sloan being made the scapegoat for this season’s awful performance. There is another story which has it that Kelly also offered up offensive line coach Brad Davis, whose unit has been inexplicably awful this year given how many highly-recruited athletes it contains, and Woodward objected.
I don’t know if I believe the last version. But what I can say is that I’d heard for quite some time that Davis, the holdover from Ed Orgeron’s staff and a Baton Rouge native, was Scott Woodward’s man on that coaching staff and that Woodward protected him when Kelly wanted to make a change after last year.
Woodward put out a statement, in any event, claiming that he’d let Kelly go and that he would find LSU another coach, and the media reports about Kelly’s firing all carry the tint of Scott Woodward in charge of the process.
And that, I’m pretty sure, is a crock.
Rousse:
On Wednesday, the LSU presidential search committee will release its final list of candidates for the job. If I’ve heard this correctly, that list will include current interim president Matt Lee, Robert Robbins who is the former president of the University of Arizona, and McNeese State University president Wade Rousse.
Rousse is the guy they’re going to hire. He reportedly has the votes from 10 of the 16 members of the LSU Board of Supervisors and he’s Gov. Jeff Landry’s candidate. On Nov. 4, the LSU Board of Supervisors meets to pick one of the three finalists and they’re going to go with Landry’s man barring something very unforeseen.
The guess here is that Rousse will get his vote from the LSU Board of Supervisors on Nov. 4, and while he won’t officially be LSU’s president until Jan. 1, he’ll unofficially take over that job immediately after being named. And Rousse will either sack Woodward on the spot, or he’ll be a lame-duck AD until he’s replaced over the summer.
And Rousse is going to hire the next football coach at LSU.
LINK
KELLY:
The stuff I’ve heard about Brian Kelly over the last few weeks has been really amazing. Assumedly if I’ve heard it, the members of the LSU Board of Supervisors would also have heard it, which is why things moved as quickly as they did on Sunday.
I heard that Kelly’s attendance at LSU’s practices had become not altogether regular – as in, he’d be there and then he’d skip out for a while, and then he’d come back. I’d heard Kelly always had a glass of wine on hand when he was in his office.
I’d heard he was a very frequent patron at a few of Baton Rouge’s best restaurants, which isn’t a particularly bad thing except that he’d be there early and stay late during the season.
The picture these reports painted was of a coach who was very much mailing it in at LSU.
Woodward:
How it happened seems to be an item of some contention. The official story has it that Athletic Director Scott Woodward called Kelly in and demanded that he fire offensive coordinator Joe Sloan, who has been so bad this year one has almost been tempted to feel sorry for him, and Kelly refused – and that’s what brought on Kelly’s firing.
I can’t tell you definitively that isn’t true. What I can say is it’s definitely not what I heard. The way I heard it was that Kelly offered up Sloan’s head, and that not necessarily Woodward but several members of the LSU Board of Supervisors who had congregated to discuss the future of the football program were grossly unsatisfied with Sloan being made the scapegoat for this season’s awful performance. There is another story which has it that Kelly also offered up offensive line coach Brad Davis, whose unit has been inexplicably awful this year given how many highly-recruited athletes it contains, and Woodward objected.
I don’t know if I believe the last version. But what I can say is that I’d heard for quite some time that Davis, the holdover from Ed Orgeron’s staff and a Baton Rouge native, was Scott Woodward’s man on that coaching staff and that Woodward protected him when Kelly wanted to make a change after last year.
Woodward put out a statement, in any event, claiming that he’d let Kelly go and that he would find LSU another coach, and the media reports about Kelly’s firing all carry the tint of Scott Woodward in charge of the process.
And that, I’m pretty sure, is a crock.
Rousse:
On Wednesday, the LSU presidential search committee will release its final list of candidates for the job. If I’ve heard this correctly, that list will include current interim president Matt Lee, Robert Robbins who is the former president of the University of Arizona, and McNeese State University president Wade Rousse.
Rousse is the guy they’re going to hire. He reportedly has the votes from 10 of the 16 members of the LSU Board of Supervisors and he’s Gov. Jeff Landry’s candidate. On Nov. 4, the LSU Board of Supervisors meets to pick one of the three finalists and they’re going to go with Landry’s man barring something very unforeseen.
The guess here is that Rousse will get his vote from the LSU Board of Supervisors on Nov. 4, and while he won’t officially be LSU’s president until Jan. 1, he’ll unofficially take over that job immediately after being named. And Rousse will either sack Woodward on the spot, or he’ll be a lame-duck AD until he’s replaced over the summer.
And Rousse is going to hire the next football coach at LSU.
LINK
re: How did LSU get in the state it’s in currently?
Posted by MardiGrasMike on 10/26/25 at 11:53 pm to loogaroo
This strategic plan objective is the epitome of why LSU is in the state it’s in. And, it was submitted by Matt Lee, interim president.
LSU strategic plan
LSU strategic plan
re: Most of the LSU student protesters arrested won’t face discipline. One has a hearing
Posted by MardiGrasMike on 10/21/25 at 3:31 pm to LSUTANGERINE
To be expected with Matt (DEI) Lee at the helm.
Matt "DEI" Lee has No Business Becoming LSU's Next President
Matt "DEI" Lee has No Business Becoming LSU's Next President
re: So how would you fix LSU?
Posted by MardiGrasMike on 10/12/25 at 7:40 pm to Allthatfades
Maybe Commissioner Reed and the Board of Regents end policies that discriminate against White and Asian students in favor of “underrepresented minorities”?
re: 2 injured, 2 detained after shooting inside LSU campus
Posted by MardiGrasMike on 10/12/25 at 8:50 am to Tall Tiger
“In Louisiana, most higher education administrators, board members, and professors are registered Democrats or donors to left-leaning political campaigns. In fact, at the top of the Louisiana higher education chain of command is a registered Democrat who worked in the Obama administration “leading post-secondary diversity and inclusion work”–Kim Hunter Reed.
Soon after Reed’s appointment as Commissioner of Louisiana Higher Education in 2018, the Board of Regents and nearly all state universities adopted a policy objective in the Higher Education Executive Budget that openly prioritizes non-White and non-Asian students. This discriminatory objective first appeared in the FY21-22 budget (pg. 16) and has been listed every year since, including the FY25-26 budget (pg. 12).”
LINK
Soon after Reed’s appointment as Commissioner of Louisiana Higher Education in 2018, the Board of Regents and nearly all state universities adopted a policy objective in the Higher Education Executive Budget that openly prioritizes non-White and non-Asian students. This discriminatory objective first appeared in the FY21-22 budget (pg. 16) and has been listed every year since, including the FY25-26 budget (pg. 12).”
LINK
re: Lsu campus is Ghetto
Posted by MardiGrasMike on 10/11/25 at 11:46 pm to lsutigers23
Commissioner of Higher Education, Kim Hunter Reed (former Obama admin) has specifically targeted increasing “underrepresented minorities” on La campuses over the past five years.
LINK
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re: Louisiana tuition savings program shuts down unexpectedly
Posted by MardiGrasMike on 10/7/25 at 8:39 pm to KamaCausey_LSU
quote:
There is a week old money board thread on it.
Nope. Same agency (Board of Regents), different issue.
Louisiana tuition savings program shuts down unexpectedly
Posted by MardiGrasMike on 10/7/25 at 8:00 pm
“There were some disruptions and irregularities with the website, and all of a sudden it shut down completely,” said Commissioner of Higher Education Kim Hunter Reed.
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