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@blueboar04 @ScottAdamsSays Change your search engine to one that doesn't censor hits. Try Duck Duck Go.. Change your browser to Brave so your research is not tracked by the mighty G. I've you step out of the bubble, you will be amazed to find the narrowness of the legacy media and the manipulation at work.

Portland State University announced Thursday morning that it plans to lay off 52 faculty and staff members and eliminate two academic departments as part of a broader financial survival plan. The cuts, outlined in PSU President Ann Cudd’s provisional restructuring proposal, affect nine departments—far fewer than the 19 departments Cudd warned could face reductions or closure in March. PSU says it must slash $35 million in spending over the next two fiscal years to close a budget deficit by 2028. Eliminating the 52 positions would save an estimated $16 million. Under the proposal, University Studies and Conflict Resolution would be eliminated entirely. PSU’s real problem is straightforward: it offers a declining product in a deteriorating urban environment, and enrollment reflects it. Student enrollment has fallen roughly 30% over the past decade. The university’s apparent solution? Raise tuition again. Cudd’s repeated reliance on words like “optimism” and “pandemic recovery” signals an administration still unwilling to confront the scale of the problem. The current cuts are unlikely to stabilize PSU’s finances because the underlying trends are still moving in the wrong direction. Enrollment continues to fall, PSU remains resistant to expanding online course offerings, and higher tuition will only make the school less competitive. There are obvious cost-saving measures PSU still appears reluctant to pursue, including consolidating departments into fewer buildings to reduce utility, maintenance, and operational expenses. And then there’s tenure. Whatever justification tenure may once have had, it’s increasingly difficult to defend in 2026 while universities face shrinking enrollment, rising costs, and growing demands for accountability and flexibility. Sadly PSU has devolved into a communist indoctrination community college and not a world class institution of higher education providing newly minted college grads into Portland based businesses. wweek.com/news/schools/2…

BREAKING: Today, Douglas County, OR County Clerk Dan Loomis forcibly removed election integrity expert and Douglas County Commissioner Candidate, Samantha Frost, as an election observer. Preventing a candidate from observing the election process is an illegal act. Dan Loomis is already facing trial for election tampering in the UPTD Vaughn v Loomis case. I don't know what will come of this. Probably nothing. Is the Douglas County DA, who signed the public endorsement to recall the Roseburg Six, going to look into this? Is the Douglas County Sheriff, who signed the public endorsement to recall the Roseburg Six, going to look into this? Is the Senator David Brock Smith, who signed the public endorsement to recall the Roseburg Six, going to look into this? Is the State Rep Virgil Osborne, who signed the public endorsement to recall the Roseburg Six, going to look into this? Is the Attorney General of Oregon, Dan Rayfield, who got me deplatformed on IG in 2023 for breaking the news that we had more registered voters in every Oregon county than we do people eligible to vote, going to look into this? I think not.

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian. If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

@HeidiLombardi6 @TGLetter Imagine where we'd be now if.... Frightening.

@TGLetter Amazing. Imagine Kamala - I can’t stop laughing to finish this sentence 😂

🚨 HERE'S HOW THE LAST 72 HOURS ACTUALLY UNFOLDED — AND WHY IT MATTERS: → May 11-12: White House quietly curates a list of the top 30 business leaders on Earth — personally selected by Trump → Jensen Huang added last-minute after Nvidia export approvals cleared → Every single one of the 30 said YES — not one declined → May 13: Trump lands in Beijing for his first presidential visit to China in nearly a decade → May 14: The delegation walks into the Great Hall of the People And THEN Trump tells Xi directly, on camera: "We ask the top 30 in the world, EVERY single one of them say yes. And I didn't want the second but the third of the company!" "I wanted only the top. And they're here today to pay respects to you, to China." Let that sequence sink in. → Elon Musk — the man China competes with in EVs → Jensen Huang — the man who controls the chips China needs most → Tim Cook — the man whose entire supply chain runs through China → 30 executives. Combined net worth of the top 5 alone: $870,000,000,000 This wasn't assembled overnight. It was engineered — deliberately, at the highest level — to send ONE message before a single word of trade negotiation began: The people who actually move money, factories, and technology are ALL in this room. Together. Right now. That's not diplomacy. That's leverage with a handshake. I'll share more details shortly so turn on notifications, this is VERY important.

A peer-reviewed paper published last year in the journal Bioethics by two professors at Western Michigan University School of Medicine argues that it is "morally obligatory" to genetically engineer ticks to spread alpha-gal syndrome, a permanent condition that makes you violently allergic to red meat. The paper is called "Beneficial Bloodsucking." Their argument: if eating meat is morally wrong, then preventing the spread of a disease that forces people to stop eating meat is also morally wrong. Scientists should gene-edit lone star ticks to enhance their ability to carry alpha-gal syndrome and expand their range into urban environments to infect more people. They call this a "moral bioenhancer." They frame releasing genetically modified disease-carrying ticks as a "vaccination" that only "infringes" on your bodily autonomy rather than "violating" it. The distinction, apparently, is that a tick bit you instead of a government official holding you down. Alpha-gal syndrome is not mild. The CDC estimates up to 450,000 Americans are already affected. Cases have surged 100-fold in the last decade. Symptoms include anaphylaxis. There is no cure. Alpha-gal cases are exploding across the United States. The lone star tick's range is expanding far beyond its historical territory. And two academics at a medical school published a paper arguing this is a good thing that should be accelerated. At what point do we stop treating papers like this as fringe academic exercises and start asking whether anyone is already acting on them?

Don’t EVER forget that FEMA kicked ENTIRE FAMILIES out of their hotels and into the ice and snow in Western North Carolina… …while giving $59,000,000 to let illegal immigrants live in luxury hotels in New York City AND THEN THEY LIED TO US ABOUT IT FOR MONTHS!!!!!

🚨 THE NEXT 72 HOURS. DAY BY DAY. BOOKMARK THIS. 📅 TODAY — May 13 → Air Force One lands in Beijing with 12+ named CEOs aboard — Tesla, Nvidia, Apple, BlackRock, Boeing, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, GE, Qualcomm, Micron, Blackstone, Cargill → Jensen Huang boarded during the Alaska refueling stop — last-minute addition → Trump confirms "many other" undisclosed CEOs also on the plane → The largest corporate delegation ever to accompany a sitting U.S. president touches down in China 📅 MAY 14 — Day 1 of Summit → Trump and Xi sit down for formal talks → The ask: Xi opens China's market to U.S. business — directly, officially, on camera → 12+ of the most powerful CEOs in the world are in the room or the building → Combined market cap of companies represented: over $10,000,000,000,000 📅 MAY 15 — Day 2 / Outcomes → Deal announcements expected — or silence that speaks louder → Every CEO on that plane needs something specific from Beijing: chip licenses, manufacturing access, supply chain agreements, financial market entry → If Xi says yes to even half of it, the trade war framework changes overnight → If Xi says no, 12 CEOs flew to China for nothing — and markets will price that immediately 72 hours. Every step has precedent. Every prediction has math. Nothing like this has ever happened in the history of U.S.-China relations. The outcome of this trip will move markets more than any Fed meeting this year. Bookmark this. Come back May 15. if you're not following me you're finding out about this 48 hours late from someone who read my post..

@adams138531 @miaElizai @CrucialN @btdofficial_ I think maybe Cass @adams138531 you might be remembering that you cannot take the square root of a negative number like √(-16). True. However, Algebra 2 points out that if you rewrite √-16 as √(-1)(16) and enter the world of the Complex Number System you can get 4i and -4i.

@miaElizai @CrucialN @btdofficial_ A square root can never be negative!

Only 1% can solve this without a calculator! Can you find the value of x?

@Mandy_Heart3159 @oregonducksmama Some say the holes demonstrate that the envelope has been opened and the ballots removed to be counted.

@dsmaldp @oregonducksmama Whats the need for the holes?

Oregon- Notice anything about these ballot envelopes? When the ballots are folded and put into the mailing envelope they show which party you are registered for through the hole on the outside that anyone can see. That seems questionable… 🤨

@_Aria_2210 3. Yes. But also -3. (-3)(-3)=9 225/25=9

Only 1 in 10 solve this correctly on the first try. What's your answer?

@Simi_2210_ No. Easy. Divide by 2 to get x^2=25. Then what times itself gives 25? 5 Then 5 times a number (y) gives 100. How many nickles in a dollar? 20 20 times 20 is 400 400

Only people who actually remember algebra get this right. What’s the answer??

@Nate_E_Nate @oregonducksmama Some say to demonstrate the envelope has been opened and the ballot removed for counting.

@oregonducksmama Why is there a hole in the first place?

@MadAndy44 @oregonducksmama But, why? Computers can't tally mixed ballots? I do this type of sorting on Excel.

@oregonducksmama The voters' registration information does not show up on any ballot. However, if you are voting in a PARTISAN PRIMARY, Dem vs Dem, Rep vs Rep, then showing which kind of BALLOT it is saves time in handling and sorting.

@Ratio_Disputati @oregonducksmama @TacomaSteveG But, why? Computers can't tally mixed ballots? I do this type of sorting on Excel.

@oregonducksmama @TacomaSteveG Depends. Is it a primary ballot? If it’s a primary ballot it needs to be sorted by party before being opened.

@FireFinder44 @oregonducksmama Multnomah and Washington counties were mentioned in the comments. Jackson and Curry counties don't seem to share this artifact. But names of candidates are partially disclosed. The candidates in the governor's race can be discerned in the holes and are party affiliated.

@oregonducksmama My wife and I both checked our ballots last night, and this does not happen no matter which way we fold them. What county were these ballots mailed in?

@breedenlaw @oregonducksmama Or send the ballots out prefolded with printing hidden. Most people will return ballots folded as they received them.

@oregonducksmama Every time with these cheaters. The most basic thing you would check when designing the envelopes.

@Murray393S @oregonducksmama I think you may be right. Curry County here. No info visible.

@oregonducksmama I just checked mine and it doesn't show party affiliation. I'm in Southern Oregon, Jackson county. Very strange--maybe it is being done in only certain areas.

@Mandy_Heart3159 @oregonducksmama They could mail them prefolded to hide info from the holes. Most people won't refold. Then the party would be hidden.

@oregonducksmama Im definitely not gonna jump to a voter-fraud conclusion, but at least for the voters confort these should be redesigned

@0001Levi @oregonducksmama Some voters declare a party for the primary, to advance their favored candidate, then change to Independent for the General Election.

@oregonducksmama Luckily mine says IND, which they take as DEM. It NEVER means that, for me. Never again, and I am not telling them anything about how I might vote. Case in point.

@WarriorsArmor10 @oregonducksmama The primary ballot allows a party to select their candidate to run in the General Election in November. Since you have registered as non-affiliated (no party), you do not get to select "your party candidate". You will get to choose from the winners of the primaries.

@oregonducksmama My concern ? Why do the ballots have our political party at the bottom? NON S Independent ballots don’t have the Governor’s list ?