This is a really neat discovery: www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

It is John Waters’ 80th birthday today Be weird. Heck, be a pervert (compliment) if that is what you need. Liberate yourself

OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

What Steve Miller is actually trying to bring about.

Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion. I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.

'Zack Polanski is calling for the introduction of a 10:1 Pay Ratio as part of a package to tackle the "affordability crisis". ... a good idea?' via Politics UK Yes - it starts to tackle obscene wealth of the superrich who - not migrants - create poverty, wars & climate change

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

I'm quoted in this for signing & sharing a testimonial about an incident in which Vancouver Police edited their press release after I'd published an article about it to make it look like I had lied. Anyway, long live the Wayback Machine! www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/jour...

“Today’s students might think AI has made the liberal arts irrelevant. Yet this centuries-old educational tradition is precisely what they will need to thrive, personally and professionally, in the age of AI.“

#Oregon Amazon workers 'forced to work around dead colleague' and told 'don't look' #capitalism www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...

Err.....

CARDINAL CUPICH: “We’re dehumanizing victims of war by turning the suffering of people and the killing of children and our own soldiers into entertainment. It’s sickening.” No wonder Trump lashed out at the Pope today.

Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Marinos Sariyannis about the Supernatural in the Early and Middle Ottoman periods. convergingdialogues.substack.com/p/481-the-ot...

Finally got a copy. I hope you'll get one, as well.

Guess what Britain did? Recon flights, same as in Gaza.

Direct action.

Dodo bird alert -- there IS a job out there!

American tourist warns Grand Bazaar carpet-seller not to play him

“We should never forget that the current situation in the #MiddleEast began with Biden and his refusal to put pressure on #Israel to act differently in #Gaza.” Marc Lynch speaking at our 11th Annual Conference, Trump’s Second Term: Upending Democracy, Development, and Diplomacy.

SCOOP: The Pentagon failed to warn ships carrying supplies for the US military before starting the war in Iran. The ships got stuck in the Persian Gulf. They’re still stuck. And for a month, they were stuck w/ a group of college students — merchant marine cadets.

The DNC Resolutions Committee has passed my resolution to hold Trump Administration officials legally accountable for their crimes. Assuming the whole packet passes on Friday, it will become the official position of the national Democratic Party.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

Interviewed again about the future of public media by Columbia Journalism Review. They made my quote the title of the piece.

The Trump administration threatened to kill the pope to the Vatican's ambassador and install a antipope in the US.

Alumni of Sharif University have gone on to be faculty at MIT, CalTech, Stanford, U-Penn, University of Michigan, UCLA, UC Irvine, Concordia, McGill, Univ of Essex, Leiden Univ, etc.

Who are the three?!?

2026 OIPA State Color Guard Championships Photos - Brice Christian Academy Brice Christian Academy performing "Believe" during the 2026 OIPA State Color Guard Championships at Wapakoneta High School in Wapakoneta, Ohio. #MarchingArts #Indoor #ColorGuard #OIPA2026 #Photography

NEW: 'Our Compass is Broken'--Israel's Ongoing War in South Lebanon Susann Kassem chronicles the lives of ordinary Lebanese left defenseless against Israel's waves of war and invasion.

“Representations inside” is just some ghost flickers of data scraped from AmITheAsshole Reddit

For twenty years I've been asked about this. Here are my answers, for all to see. ggwash.org/view/102941/...

BREAKING Trump’s executive order directing federal agencies to stop funding NPR and PBS is “unlawful and unenforceable,” a federal judge ruled. Doc buff.ly/WcnQN4A

#VCU has a branch campus in Qatar, now under threat. Apparently, regional scholasticide has many faces: www.wric.com/news/u-s-wor...

An #MSF thread gets into the weeds describing certain aspects of the pharmaceutical industry's M.O. in terms of marketing.

Something seems sus about BlueSky. Account was suspended due to "suspicious activity," first time. Got it restored, only to find several posts removed, all conveniently related to Dem party politics in one form or another.

📣Out now on #firstview Michael Edwards @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social on 'Samuel Pepys, the African Companies, and the Archives of Slavery, 1660–1689' #Archives #Letters #Diary #History 17thc 🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I wonder if 21st century privatization, or "state enclosure", might be compared to 17th-18th century European "land enclosure" trends, which eventually fed urbanization, industrial revolution, and the rise of Capitalism. If the analogy works, where are we headed next?

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

Airline baggage fees were implemented to offset rising fuel costs in the early 2000s in case you were wondering if this would be temporary.

“Pope Leo made a plea on Wednesday for countries to offer their ​citizens universal healthcare, calling it a ‘moral imperative’ that ‌people have access to the health services they need.” www.reuters.com/business/hea...

"It’s one of several trials taking place this yr that experts have characterized as the social media industry’s 'Big Tobacco' moment, comparing it the 1990s, when tobacco companies were forced to pay billions of dollars for lying to the public about the safety and potential harms of their products"

Reposting for future research...