Graffito of the Week, No. 039: Five Little Emotions (the second one looks like Anger from Inside Out); Godoy Cruz, Argentina, 2026. #GotW

If students are simply uninterested in the core bargain of a class like this, it’s hard to know what to do. You teach the material because you think it’s important they know it; they don’t give a shit, but want the credential; and the university wants their money. Your main option is “pretend”.

every time a stutter step penalty is saved an angel gets its wings

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

This is my lane. I went through the 194 Trump v Barbara opinion from yesterday section by section, noting what they got right about US migration and citizenship history, and what the dissents get wrong. Please share if you think it is helpful to others.

What a day for World Cup trivia facts: Folarin Balogun is the first player with a goal and a red card in a knockout game since Zinedine Zidane in the 2006 final

(Looking over my shoulder at the coming horde) Time to install some air conditioning!

I do not understand why the default Democratic position on this issue isn’t simply to be opposed to mandatory genital exams for participants in girls sports. Because that intrusive practice is how GOP policy on transgender athletes will be enforced.

Debate about the future of New Orleans get starker, blunter every year. We know the water is coming. I think there's a real opportunity for other states and cities to step up, offer help to groups willing to move, and sustain historic communities in new places. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Oh, it's June 30, the end of the fundraising quarter. That's why I'm getting all these text from politicians I don't follow and whose district I don't live in.

Cooking & music: I have LPs from the 1960s, a waffle & pizzelle maker I got at a garage sale probably from the 1970s, an Art Deco flatware set from the 1930s I got for $35 at a different garage sale, and the cast-iron pans I got soon after finishing college. I use those pans every damn day.

Good morning!

I was in Steinway street in Queens for the Morocco victory www.instagram.com/zeets7?igsh=...

This is a blockbuster report, exposing the White House's attempt to build duplicate websites for official government functions that will allow it to track and compile data on millions of US citizens, likely in violation of federal law. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This article is quite good; it offers multiple causes for declining reading and comprehension skills among college students. www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...

Good Morning BlueSky, user #600,771 reporting for duty.

“If the application contains one of the 235 disfavoured terms, it is classified as ‘not clean’.”

Counterpoint (to the article, not the poaster): The issues the authors chose to focus on aren't as contentious as they think, and the books they're analyzing played important roles in (partly) resolving the contentions. It's also a very "debate me, bro" article, and that's not illuminating.

This is a good idea. More politicians should try to pass bills like this.

A predictable and more or less fair result. Rotate heavily for a meaningless rubber, and you get what you get. The US did well to keep it close for that long and give themselves a chance, but they were too weak at the back.

Here come the A team. Poch wants to smash and grab this one at the back end of the game.

So does the goalie have to leave the field for a minute?

This entire tournament feels like it has been dominated by offside calls. Again and again and again.

Türkiye deserved that goal, but both teams are sloppy.

Great news: more than $300 million in public funding for trail improvements in and around Philly. www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

Yes, I have a child who is captivated by contemporary fads and trends. Note the Minecraft placemat underneath the dumpling.

Gov Josh Shapiro says PA Chamber of Commerce canvassed businesses across the state to see who wanted to join Trump 250 gala. “None were interested,” he tells me, noting Trump has "politicized this to a degree that businesses don’t want to participate.” newrepublic.com/article/2123...

They Live. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/n...

British. Sure, Jan.

Published in full for the first time, the notes for a short toast John Maynard Keynes gave at a Malthusian League dinner in 1926. Here is the key bit. He thinks England's population will soon peak and decline, which was wrong by a century or so (barring more immigration), but the eugenics bit... /1

Ladies and gentlemen, America's elite political class. (Not commenting on the substance of the bill, just marveling at this magical statement.) www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

We've uncovered long-lost scenes from the great revolutionary film, The Battle of Algae (1966).

“Après le déluge, moi”

Graffito of the Week, No. 038: Picasso-esque; Philadelphia, 2016. #GotW

This is very good. Don't pay attention to the teaser; instead read the rest, which offers a sharp analysis of Starmer's few but meaningful successes and the many ways he should have been better.

This is absolutely fantastic.

(Sigh.) Today in cultural illiteracy: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Winger Jeremy Doku has been criticised for saying he wants to leave Belgium's World Cup camp to be with his wife when she gives birth to their first child." Happy Father's Day yall www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

LMAOooooooooo

Happy Juneteenth! Among other things, today is an excellent day for me to try to finish reading @unlawfulentries.bsky.social's Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship. I'm learning a lot from this book, and I really like the APD explanatory frame it uses.

Most creatively wrong outcome, if you know me.

Oh my god, what a stellar trio lineup: Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto. If I were in New York....

The DRC also brought it

A wonderful thread, well worth your time.

Fantastic (if depressing) thread on how students feel about AI in higher ed. The hopeful bit is how many students want an education focused on genuine engagement with ideas, etc.: they want to do the work, but the incentives are misaligned for them, and they feel abandoned by their institutions.

Brave of Mendy to come out early for those last two shots. A calculated risk, but it worked.

"Preinvestigation," Form 430, and the decades-long efforts by the US government to prevent Chinese Americans from enjoying their birthright citizenship. www.inquirer.com/politics/bir...

I went to the Susan B. Anthony house and museum about a month ago. It was deeply moving and made me reflect a great deal. I recommend it to everyone. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Wait. Somebody *wants* to reinvent collateralized debt obligations over this? Why?