The Pretenders might be one of the most underrated bands ever.

I couldn't help but remember Lanzmann in Shoah interviewing families who took Jewish homes after WWII....

It's been a minute since I posted about the new ACTS survey. Some more details have emerged that reinforce my suspicion that this data will be of limited value. 🧵

Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.

Big relief not to get the Fallon treatment on this. Suck it, Newton.

The punchline here is about snow days, but this is just yet another manifestation of a consistent finding: virtual learning is typically inferior to in-person learning--whether the reason for switching to virtual is snow, the pandemic, or terrorizing law enforcement

Today's @nytimes.com dialogue with Ross Douthat & Jay Bhattacharya is tough sledding. I wrote a book on how silent transmission made COVID harder to stop and drove misleading narratives. The interview continues to mislead as a means to seize more power. a 🧵 www.amazon.com/Asymptomatic...

It wasn’t enough for Stephen Miller that these American citizens were murdered by ICE and CBP, he had to slander them with lies after their deaths. Miller is a deranged, bloodthirsty bigot, and his policies put lives at risk every day he remains in power. Fire Stephen Miller.

NEW: The DOJ is seeking to join a lawsuit against UCLA’s medical school, alleging its admissions process is anti-white and anti-Asian American. The court filing is the latest push against UCLA, which the Trump admin. previously unsuccessfully fined $1.2 billion: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Sent an email to a "yahoo.com" and a "hotmail.com" account today. Just need an "aol.com" and I'll be set for the day.

Sometimes I think the NYT is trying to alienate most Americans.

I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one. It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.

Let the fraud and abuse begin!

Jaysus.

We don't just have missing data. We've got the BEST missing data! It's the filet mignon of missing data.

JD Vance Places Candle Outside Hooters Where ICE Agents Were Heckled

"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Bari Weiss's Free Press with an unsigned editorial today www.thefp.com/p/kristi-noe...

"Again and again, I heard people say they were not protesters but protectors—of their communities, of their values, of the Constitution."

New research by @imbernomics.bsky.social and colleagues using Texas data dives into different economic returns to college majors by race and gender. There are differences in the share of students going into high-paying fields, as well as earnings within those fields.

How the U.S. government found itself at war with the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, and American citizens. Sic semper tyrannis.

This year for the billionaire astroturf “School Choice Week” I wanted to do something different. Join me with Holding it Together author @jessicacalarco.com 1/27 10am ET We’ll be chatting about what Milton Friedman’s you’re-on-your-own economy *really* means for kids and families.

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

The director of the Minneapolis Emergency Management Department.

Minnesota is the best of us.

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

Here is the newly-unsealed State Department memo confirming -- finally -- that the detention of Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk was based on an op-ed. No antisemitic activity. No support of terrorism. An op-ed in a student newspaper. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I’m in awe of what schools are doing daily to hold kids & families up when other institutions won’t. A lesson for ed research so committed to “schools as oppression machines” that it can’t see them as sites of care, protection, and dignity.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Not sure this is the year/administration to change anything up with NAEP. People are already going to feel suspicious about outcomes no matter what happens. ies.ed.gov/learn/blog/w...

The director of the FBI: "I don't read." His staff (paraphrased): "he doesn’t like meetings in office settings. What he wants is social events." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

New: Rahm Emanuel has stepped into a void in the Democratic party on education — but some of his key claims are questionable. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/01/22/r...

Curious about what people said in response to the RFI about "re-imagining" the Institute of Education Sciences (IES)? I put the public comments in one file (763 pages) and used AI to analyze the themes and areas of agreement and disagreement (5 pages) by audience ⬇️: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

An exhibit in why pre-compliance is a terrible idea.

Has anyone tried this out yet? Because I really hope it works but feel a little nervous about trying it. cybernews.com/security/dev...

Kind of a huge deal; weird that I am not getting push alerts like I did when a small handful of schools reinstated standardized tests for admissions

I'm grateful to @aft.org for filing the lawsuit that has now successfully killed the Trump memo that said "race could not be considered in decisions involving college admissions, hiring, scholarships and 'all other aspects of student, academic, and campus life.'” apnews.com/article/dei-...

Re the February Dear Colleagues letter that threatened funding for schools & universities over DEI-related efforts: ‘[Ed Dept]…moved to dismiss its appeal. It leaves in place a federal judge’s August decision finding that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment & federal procedural rules.’

The Trump administration is demanding colleges hand over their admissions data to enforce the ban on affirmative action. Due date: March 18. Just a few problems that colleges are dealing with as they dig through the numbers and try to comply. (1/10) 🧵

Snow peeps.

Game recognize game

it's more or less impossible to find issues that poll this badly and he's decided to make it a major, public priority www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-tru...

Happy #Caturday. Is it safe to come out yet?

This paper shows similar effects for TO that @chrisbennettedu.bsky.social did.

The 3 factors referred to here are legacies, athletes, and students from expensive private high schools.

A good paper to read in the context of the furor over the UCSD math report.

BREAKING: This dog is named Susan From Accounting

It's wild how much of contemporary American history can be summed up as "A few billionaires funded a bunch of weirdos obsessed with Leo Strauss so they could do to America what they did to the internet."

Was talking with a friend a while back who was an editor at a big magazine. I said something like, "I guess getting out now makes sense, since magazines are in such bad shape." He replied, "Magazines? I'm worried about websites existing in a few years!"