This Eagles game is embarrassing; the offense has lost the plot.

Just Kids is a great book; looking forward to reading the new one too. www.inquirer.com/entertainmen...

Looking forward to the absolute best Thanksgiving food: leftover turkey sandwiches.

Note to all: The quote & article it's from focus on sticker prices, not the $$ students actually shell out. The underlying data tell a very different story, of declining college prices for families over the past decade. Reliance on sticker prices is an enormous PR failure by higher ed as a whole.

The problem is that this quote, and the NBC News piece, are misrepresenting the data, because they're talking about sticker price, not what students actually pay. According to the very same College Board report, the dollar amount students actually pay has, um, been going down.

How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.

🔥POWERFUL AD ABOUT ICE AGENTS: “What will you say when your kids ask you about your day? A mask can’t hide you from your neighbors, your family, God… you can walk away, but the shame will follow you home.”

This is lovely research, with real payoffs in terms of solving historical puzzles that we've been wondering about for ages. theconversation.com/drones-physi...

Now I've had time to read Jim Ryan's account of the palace coup and his forced resignation at UVA. What happened was wildly improper, and it seems the folks responsible tried to keep it quiet because they knew they would lose support if it became public. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

One pie to rule them all: Mincemeat! My un-humble and eternally correct contribution to the discourse.

An open question, looking for what you got: Who today is making topical, charged protest music about the current situation in the US? I found myself listening to a lot of Linton Kwesi Johnson over the last few days, and I'm wondering who might be our moment's functional equivalents?

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

In a now-viral 1848 manifesto, the underemployed German journalist and his class traitor friend and benefactor predicted the rise of socialism. Today they tell the Free Press how they knew. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Proletarians Have Nothing to Lose but Their Chains.

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

Deep capitalism: Asking you to burn your personal life, your social network, and your self-respect, all for a job that doesn't really pay. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Marc Rowan was not even on Penn's board when he ousted the president. He's a classic instance of the tail wagging the dog, and it is to the lasting discredit of Penn and of the US that he has gained such influence in higher ed. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...

Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K

Matt Freese has made 3 great, great saves tonight. This game is apparently not going the Union's way, but at least I can feel happy that the US has a good number 1.

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold, Charlie Brown

Does nobody want to win this game?

This is one of the central urban problems of our time: How to build more housing. I endorse a multi=pronged effort to reduce the barriers to constructing housing for reasonable costs. Different approaches will work in different areas, so let's try a lot. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

The indispensable Barney Ronay on the utterly corrupt spectacle of the World Cup bringing together Trump, Infantino, the Saudis, and the rehabilitation of Cristiano Ronaldo. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

This pedestrian bridge between a parking garage and a Home2 Suites by Hilton does *not* need to go this hard.

Because every time something is labeled “vibes”, I go look and it’s just Marxism.

okay so here’s the actual bad part of the article “oh it never affected my coverage” horse and also shit and what the fuck is Lizza doing sitting on this while RFK takes a buzz saw to American health so he can sell substack subscriptions ghouls, the lot of them

PA Superior Ct: "Is having a swastika and Nazi eagle tiles in the basement under the rug a 'material defect' which a homeseller must disclose?" Answer: no, only objective, structural defects matter. This, you could find and can fix. Subjective tests: too messy. 1/2 www.pacourts.us/assets/opini...

the self-inflicted demise of World Cafe Life has been so swift it's almost impressive

This story is moving quickly now, after having moved very slowly for a long time. The Guardian report/exposé from a day or two ago really broke it open. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Well well. It's a bit of an odd list, I must say. Anyway, here's to a restaurant city that's always been great and never needed Michelin as proof. www.inquirer.com/food/live/mi...

How delightful this is; Patti Smith is a gift to us all, to our world. But I was also pulled up by how much she schooled Ezra Klein on class issues in this discussion, and how he didn't even always realize it. He couldn't see it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...

A federal program that deported 400,000 immigrants from 2008-2014 increased new-construction home prices by 16%, or $50k. This is net of reduced demand effects. 2023 paper haas.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...

Jesus Christ.

Kit Includes! Parmesan snow, among other things.

Graffito of the Week, No. 031: Viva el Punk; Quito, 2010. #GotW

Hoo-whee. This UVA story is ugly, and seems to run afoul of all kinds of good organizational governance rules.

Deportations actually _increase_ housing prices because they shrink the construction industry. The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand

The news today from Texas A&M and Indiana U. was not good. They're taking an axe not just to academic freedom, but to public higher education overall, and ruining their own institutions in particular.

Some really dystopian controls being put in place here. The “approved” content is completely subjective and this will be weaponized to attack professors and instructors who teach about ideas that go against the prevailing statewide political winds. This is anathema to academic freedom & free inquiry

Conservatives claim that structural racism does not exist while simultaneously creating innovative new forms of structural racism like banning discussions of the concept.

Yes, clearly, it was the wanting of the braces that counted as the butterfly wings "setting off" this whole chaotic series of events. Matt Gaetz himself had no agency in the process. Not "ended up," and not "was left vulnerable." *Was exploited*, by older men who knew what they were doing.

I endorse this change. I think it's a much better arrangement. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Reminder to self: Never let Megyn Kelly near any children I know of any age.

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

Pennsylvania has a budget, more than 4 months late. It contains additional spending to support public education, but, sadly, no additional funds for mass transit. www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

Musk and others on the far right are obsessed with things like Lord of the Rings and Dungeons and Dragons because they see fantasy worlds as reinforcing their own beliefs about immutable hierarchies of race, gender, and by extension morality www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

An ugly and kinda depressing summary of what all that infrastructure spending is getting us: very little, especially very little change toward shifting transit modes.

Evolutionary psychology had no greater institutional champion

British politics currently giving off strong "Spain/Podemos in 2015" vibes. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

No score at halftime and I am here for it. My kind of content.