🎙️ Just published a new episode of Live from Watt Hall with Milan & Mike: The NY Times Versus Higher Ed. Have a listen:

For our 10th episode, @mbkplus.bsky.social and I take on @bsky.app's favorite newspaper and its shoddy higher education coverage. We use pieces by David Brooks and Jeremy Peters to demonstrate the paper's elitist, yet anti-intellectual, slant. We also somehow touch on Cornell, Marxism, and Mamdani.

NBER grants to fund research into economic measurement - I find this agenda very compelling and important #linkoftheday www.nber.org/news/nber-la...

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the U.S. government’s mandatory detention of Diana Patricia Santillana Galeano, the day care teacher arrested at a Chicago preschool, is illegal and she must be given a bond hearing.

thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this: u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.

This is far worse than anyone expected. Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps. All as mass internment camps are being built.

New York Times social media guidelines prohibit expression suggesting partiality on things like ICE, execution of foreigners in fishing boats, or whether law is a thing. However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.

The nicest thing I can say about Larry Summer is that he trained some terrific economists The ones I have worked with have a moral spine, no thanks to him

turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

You don’t need to parrot the lie of an “apparent end” to Trump and Epstein’s friendship anymore, and definitely not in a lede.

Catholic bishops nationwide recently announced “You Are Not Alone,” a program that lays out ways for Catholics across the country to provide direct aid and solidarity to immigrants in the U.S.

I just think she should have offered more specifics

Did Underage Girls Ruin Politics? Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

Hell of a party they’ve got going there

lots of note in this thread

Fresh from their six-week paid vacation, Speaker Johnson finally swore in Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva. A majority of the House has signed the discharge petition for full release of the Epstein File. Let’s vote.

I'm a pretty cynical person, and (thought I was) far from innocent about how badly powerful people can act. But each new Epstein email convinces me things are so much worse than I ever thought. Disgusting.

Has ANY elected official refreshed their call on Donald Trump to RESIGN immediately?

Insights from Larry Summers "I observed that half the IQ In world was possessed by women without mentioning they are more than 51 percent of population..."

Other folks have said it, but let me just note that: (1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year (2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/

Which is odd, because it's not Leavitt doesn't lie constantly

It’s funny that Harvard has been a consistent target for reactionary campaigns, and not one has been dedicated to ousting Larry Summers, an openly political figure who was friends with Jeffrey Epstein; meanwhile, it’s a fine-toothed comb for *checks notes* Black women.

Leavitt lies like some people eat candy on Halloween

“My role has always been to push the envelope and to see where the ADA could be used in ways that weren’t obvious or explicit.” - Arlene Mayerson ’77 www.law.berkeley.edu/article/arle... #BerkeleyLaw #DisabilityRights

People have no idea how quickly the shutdown will be forgotten

I’m gifting this article so you can read it without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Should win Nobel www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z_L...

It's driving me batty that nobody except Heather Cox Richardson, the Washington Monthly, and myself is covering Trump's race to sell off (for likely demolition) "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal," w/ murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, etc. I've furnish links below to help reporters get started.

It’s bullying toddlers all the way down. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-bullyi...

Once again, if you wrote a story in which the jetsetting corrupt FBI chief took a government plane to the "Boondoggle Ranch" an editor would tell you to get a different job, because you're not cut out for writing believable stories.

Me, every time I read some story with a conveniently anonymous source claiming “no, seriously, Schumer didn’t want to cave on the shutdown, he wanted to fight for real you guys.”

Explains why he refused to call them out on January 6

Only (certain) judges (and much of the media) are unreasonable enough to presume regularity

ICE/BP’s next targets are reportedly Charlotte and New Orleans. Two things: 1) If they had the capacity to hit many cities at once, rather than pick on one or two at a time, they would. 2) Moving south seems to confirm speculation that they’re leaving Chicago because it got cold.

Wow

Wow

I’m guessing he listens to it nightly

The days of thanking veterans today and forgetting them tomorrow has to come to an end.

“ why you struggle to pay the bills and afford healthcare, Trump and his corrupt cronies are using your tax dollars to jet around the country on government planes”

Among those fired or forced out, the WSJ has reported: Fannie Mae’s chief ethics officer and general counsel, about a dozen members of its ethics and internal investigations unit, and the acting inspector general at the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie Mae.

NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state. José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time: “I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"

*lowering myself into a tomb* Me: Imagine if Biden etc etc

Completely inspired youtu.be/OlM5b39QU_s?...

According to the article, the incident and features actually occurred off of campus property and lead to arrest by city police. It’s disappointing, if not surprising, to see the New York Times promote its own article in a way that is misleading by omission.