Friday Politics Roundup | Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster; attacks on higher ed; Lieberman dead; NBC News ooopsie; Bucks County Sues Big Oil; PA Primary; and, more

A container ship hits the Fracis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore causes the bridge to collapse and six workers to lose their lives. 

After John Fetterman stakes out hawkish support for Israel and distances himself from progressives, his staff is leaving him in droves. 

Former Senator and Vice Presidential candidate, Joe Lieberman died this week. Let that signal the passing of one of the more destructive factions and ideologies in the Democratic Party. 

NBC hires then fires Ronna McDaniel the election-denying, former head of the GOP, 

School absences have exploded and continue in the post-COVID world. 

University of Florida is going after faculty members that they thing “interferred” with the university’s new Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education - the newly establish beachhead for so-called “classical education” and the “Western canon” - one of the buzzwords used by Christian nationalist and far-right activists seeking to whitewash American education and bolster a white, Christian, and celebratory narrative. 

Boston University’s administration had some suggestions for faculty members during the current strike by graduate students: Have AI do the work instead.  

A new Indiana law will require professors to promote “Intellectual diversity” - of face disciplinary actions. What does that mean? It means entertaining even fascist ideas as just another set of ideas. Was Hitler wrong? Well, let’s look at argument for and against Nazism, shall we? 

The University of Kentucky’s presidents seeks to disband their Faculty Senate and turn decision-making over to the university’s Board of Trustees. 

Bucks County sues Big Oil for lying about the climate crisis. 

PA’s Primary is right around the corner. We’ll give you the dates and deadlines you need to know.