John Oliver on the Supreme Court: "It was a 6-3 decision in the case of White People vs. Everybody — and you’ll never guess who they ruled in favor of”

73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: -Paid family leave -Equal pay -Universal childcare -Universal healthcare (But get your mom flowers, too)

Happy Mother's Day Mom, wherever you are (RIP 1997)

1 second of income by a billionaire but why would they ever help a little girl who isnt white?

There is no such thing as a frictionless existence, just an existence where friction is offloaded to others - and it's only right to debate the amount and the kind that we offload, and the proper restitution to whom we do

Should I mention this to our provost during my very last faculty senate meeting?

So yesterday, the president's allies unveiled a 22-foot-tall golden statue of him that they prayed around, and then the president confused Iran and Iraq, seemed clueless about his FDA commissioner getting fired, and called a reporter a bitch? Cool. Cool cool cool.

If you are yelling, "Pluto is a cartoon character!" you are right!

Trump admin hoping that pointing and saying "squirrel" will work to distract from Epstein, Iran disaster war, inflation, and dropping polls.

Remember when all course materials and tests on college were on paper? Weird they never got hacked.

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

EXCLUSIVE: My latest story for @theatlantic.com : www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Title of one of my student's op-ed final assignment: "It's Like Having a Predator... in Your Home”: Regulating AI Use Among K-12 Students

You can be incredibly intelligent, have well-researched and complicated ideas, AND communicate those ideas in plain language that everyone can understand. Not sure why people are arguing that we shouldn't communicate ideas that meets people where they are.

For all the ppl arguing against Obama for saying dems should speak plainly. Mamdani speaks plainly--one reason he is effetcive. A number of democrats would put out a press release that says:

@conorpwilliams.bsky.social Just read a student's op-ed assignment and they cited you! Congrats on being famous to my students

Preliminary numbers we are hearing has ~5 of the new Tennessee seats down near single digits in terms of Republican partisanship numbers. Meaning a huge blue wave could flip a number of seats. 👀 If you’re thinking of getting involved, now’s the time.

Did it ever occur to them that maybe banning abortion makes women less likely to want to live there?

This reminds me of when Philadelphia SD (the most kids without internet at home in PA) asked Comcast to provide free internet during the pandemic. Comcast told them to fuck off. Glad to see NYC has a leader who actually cares about people.

If you voted for this hot mess administration, I better not catch you sipping margaritas and having enchiladas at a Mexican restaurant on Tuesday. You can have meatloaf and Coors Light at home.

Relocating 360K people!!! This is happening in Alaska as well. The coastal indigenous towns are built on perm-frost and the perm-frost is melting. None of those towns will be there in 20-30 years.

A Pulitzer for Julie K. Brown. Richly deserved, and overdue!

Coming to a screen near you this Monday... #NBA

Current status of the US

One of my masters students interning as a principal just said that one of the asst principals quit to go teach in a PRISON because it would be less stressful. No wonder around 15-20% of school administrators quit every year.

Looks like GOP mid-term strategy is to raise gas prices as high as possible.

Filled up with gas this morning at $4.65. I guess we are looking at > $5 by end of the week. Love all this wining and affordability.

Just watched a video of a WNBA player saying she signed a contract for $999,999 instead of $1 million because she saved $13,000 in taxes. People really don’t know how taxes work in America.

How about a TV that automatically cuts the volume by half during the commercials and back to full when the show comes back. Now THAT would be a SmartTV. 🧠 📺

Provosts across the country: ChatGPT is AMAZING and will REVOLUTIONIZE higher education.

If you have never seen this movie, you absolutely should. Well worth your time to watch it. Probably more than once.

thinking we maybe should have been a little meaner to the confederacy after the war

Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.

We went from "armed gunman mere seconds away from shooting the president is killed by Secret Service" to "guy with a shotgun falls down on a different floor well outside the entrance of the ballroom and we can't find the bullets because that just happens sometimes" awfully fast.

“In Finland, the # of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” But the current right-wing govt backtracked.

Just a note--if you had watching the Spurs football team (I assume), try watching they San Antonio #Spurs basketball team. They are much. MUCH better and exciting to watch.

Anne Hathaway, you will ALWAYS be that girl. 💙💛

A friend asks: “Has it occurred to anyone that the MAGAs think you have to show IDs at restaurants because they’ve been eating all their meals at strip clubs? This isn’t even an unreasonable theory”

3 yrs ago I could no longer have caffeine & had to reduce salt/sugar. Started eating mostly vegetarian (beans, some eggs, some salmon, a little chicken breast. No red meat. I lost 30 lbs & feel 100x better. I sleep MUCH better. And can be done cheaply if you want. Highly recommend.

He looks physically ill. seriously.

Holy shit--Im finally a trendsetter. Been doing this for a few years now. Perfected my veggie chilli. You can get ALL the protein you need from beans + rice or corn or tortillas

A Florida Republican Sheriff, Grady Judd, announced the arrest of 266 defendants in a sex trafficking scheme & minced no words. He identified influencer Craig Long, who he said moved in high circles including with the president, holding up a picture of Long with Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=x03q...

The edits CBS made here are severe, and depict a man who is much more petulant and incoherent than the broadcast would suggest. trib.al/xaPuJZc

Trump Admin. Doesn't Deem Education Degrees 'Professional' in Student Loan Rule: The regulation confirms new limits on graduate student borrowing under Trump's major policy bill.

went to a medical specialist. we talked for . . . 90 minutes. I sent him a research study beforehand and we talked about it and other research studies and how his field could improve on the studies and what we know/dont know based on research #BestDrVisitEver #EduSky #AcademicSKy

Ginormous sub-tweet of Trump by Pope Leo

has the new york times ever thought about doing a focus group with someone who has read a book

17 tornadoes in a relatively small area. 4 lined up in a row in the middle of TN. I hope everyone is safe.

Dont forget the Epstein files