I started wondering about the other Halal certifying companies screwed over in the bribery scandal. From a Maryland family co. that had been serving Egypt ~decade, in a 2022 article:

>“They didn’t give us any reason,” Ghanim said Thursday in a telephone interview. “They didn’t tell us anything. They just decided with one stroke of the pen, ‘We’re going to give all the business to this one company.’”

https://halalfocus.net/usa-menendez-inquiry-said-to-involve-company-that-certifies-halal-meat/

#Menendez

These two are just begging to be satirized via animated cartoon. I mean look at them! Please, someone do it!

(I may be technically registered D bc of least-bad choices, but I also don't play "team" sports, and I believe these two deserve mocking.)

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/senator-menendezs-wife-three-years-center-bribery-allegations-2023-09-22/

#Menendez #Animation #CartoonCrooks #Remockable

Editing to add hero shot from linked article.

This sucks. I'll write to my congresspeople, but damn, this is a terrible time to ruin important antarctic work.
#Antarctica #Research # NSF #Climate

U.S. cancels or curtails half of its Antarctic research projects | Science | AAAS

https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-cancels-or-curtails-half-its-antarctic-research-projects

> Pandemic, renovation project, and rising costs create logistics nightmare for NSF-funded scientists

Are you effing kidding me? Any trustee who would ask this should be replaced. As a working class National Merit Scholar, I'm insulted by this assumption, prbly widely held by arsehole alum of fancy colleges. I ended up at my state's land grant U. So I'm still a loser in their eyes.

"...they heard a concern from the board of trustees: Would Washington University need to lower its academic standards to enroll more middle-class and poor students?"

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/briefing/college-access-low-income.html?unlocked_article_code=05Y4URXF017RiyLETKi8i3vf2QzlCZ7RdBuoS9EmBQTyQzfp6SHj8DBC1yFvlb0PtnCsDNAQ1nY5s4B6jll49UPJafJmwoCL6eTunIdh0WahB53kZv6YbrAVwS7cZmdVCTHRUJsSMpzvDCeavyFq4foUCokwIMFVSs_9ltTFarUS-YCU-XCKm_MZx2YttWUhh5fH_6vkwvJWggoowG2GwEO5E56KTnCf_1YXMZY8DWeAxEZ7YlHYhvd1o1ds2JbfcyZ7FFEXUvdKzJDiRqBnhoXN8tAEOnZblvwkva6If7bqkgQzwjNothjw3MJC3Uc7b8j7Q1rg47F3mcS79QZqrMUlP5o&smid=url-share