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I don't think next week will turn out as the DUmmies think it will

The NY Slimes and Washington Compost are furiously masturbating with predictions of how big a blue wave this is going to be. Their e-mails arrive by the dozen everyday with "exciting new analysis" and wishcasting of Democrat pickups in really strange states. I'm using that as my daily hilarity rather than the DUmp monkeys this year.

I have my own thoughts and predictions, and might share them next Monday or Tuesday. But I agree, CC27, this isn't going to turn out how the Democrat party and media (but I repeat myself) believe it is.

University of Chicago student files ethics complaint against Sen. Slotkin

https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-of-chicago-student-files-ethics-complaint-against-sen-slotkin/

A University of Chicago student has filed an ethics complaint against Sen. Elissa Slotkin for her recent suggestion that college graduates who work for the Trump administration might be prosecuted.

“Senator Slotkin, if you thought this was over, you’re wrong,” said student Michael Bicksel in a video he posted on X on Oct. 22 as he held up a copy of an ethics complaint he filed with the U.S. Senate.

“The complaint was submitted to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics and argues that Slotkin proposed using congressional investigations and potential prosecutions to frighten young people away from serving in a Republican administration,” Fox News reported.

“The complaint asks the committee to determine whether Slotkin’s comments amounted to ‘improper conduct which may reflect upon the Senate,’ a standard described in the Senate Ethics Manual as applying to conduct that may be unethical even if it does not violate a specific law or Senate rule,” the outlet reported.

Speaking Oct. 13 at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, the Michigan Democrat said potential legal problems should be a deterrent against working for Trump.

“I wanna look at these signature cases, and not just focus on the president, but on the people who enabled him,” Slotkin said. “I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration? Like, that sounds like fun. I might get an opportunity.’”

“I want them to be like, ‘Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that,” she said. “I want that deterrent message.”

The chances of Slotkin getting a wrist-slap are between low and zero.

Their Town Has No High School, but Vermont Won’t Fund Their Catholic Choice

https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/10/28/their-town-has-no-high-school-vermont-wont-fund-their-catholic-choice-n4958798

The Bishop family lives in a Vermont school district without a high school. Their daughter still needs an education, so they chose Mount St. Joseph Academy, a Catholic high school. Now they’re challenging the government’s refusal to help pay her tuition through a program designed for families whose districts lack a school.

The family filed a federal lawsuit on October 27 challenging its exclusion from Vermont’s Town Tuition and Dual Enrollment programs. Their attorneys also contend that their daughter qualified for a grandfather provision, but the district refused to honor it. Those allegations put a practical question before the court: What educational help can a family actually use?

From Alliance Defending Freedom:

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The Bishop family, represented by ADF attorneys, lives in the Barstow Unified Union School District, which doesn’t have a high school, so they chose to send their daughter to a Catholic school, Mount St. Joseph Academy. Government officials, however, denied the family’s request for Town Tuition funding because Act 73 eliminates all religious schools from the Town Tuition Program. Plus, the Barstow Unified School District refused to grandfather the Bishops’ daughter into the tuition program even though she met the requirements of the law.

Additionally, Vermont’s Dual Enrollment Program allows high school students to take college courses at no cost to them, which the Bishops’ daughter wanted to participate in. Eligibility for the program, however, is contingent on Town Tuition—a student must either be enrolled in a public school or receive Town Tuition funding at a private school to be eligible. Since the government denied giving their daughter Town Tuition funding because she attends an ineligible school, she is also excluded from participating in the Dual Enrollment Program.

If this program provides funds to non-religious private schools, discriminating against religious private schools violates Equal Protection. ADF will probably be providing reams of precidential cases going back several decades ... because anti-religious bureaucrats and educrats keep pulling @#$% like this.

As for the ADF, here's yet another reason for DU-grade Progs to HATE them. They keep representing and winning cases for clients who do not "deserve" legal representation.

The co-worker fears something will happen...

Question: Who's been feeding that fear?

1. So, nothing actually, you know, HAPPENED to this Chinese lady, just fear that Coventina probably engendered and fed. ASSuming, of course that Coventina actually works and that this coworker exists.

2. True time ... in the building in which I work, the three most common first languages, in probable order of % are Mandarin, Vietnamese, and English. The Mandarin speakers are mostly from Taiwan, with a few from China. The age range of the Vietnamese speakers is broad enough that some came to the US as immigrants at a young age, while others are probably the children of immigrants who were born here (it is not uncommon for the children of immigrants to grow up speaking their parents' native language, e.g. German in my father's parents' home, while learning and speaking English at school and places outside of their home).

With apologies for the long intro, the coworkers I've spoken to, mostly from Taiwan (though one is from Indonesia), travel freely, around the US and to their home countries. One (who told me) traveled to Taiwan to vote in their Presidential election. Zero. Fear. Before or after.

There is zero IRL "Trump cruelty" in this . But there almost certainly is Coventina cruelty in the form of her stoking groundless fear in a coworker less familiar with how this country works.