In my line of work, people on the spectrum are in my classes and faculty meetings. I'll take quirky over sociopath every day of the week.

PEOPLE ARE SAYING IT'S ONE OF THE BIGGEST BANNERS EVER IN BRITAIN. BIGGER THAN BRUCE BANNER, THE HULK. MAYBE I'M A SUPERHERO, I DON'T KNOW. COULD BE. DON'T I LOOK GREAT IN THAT PICTURE?

Looks like someone in charge of labor statistics is going to lose their job.

Not so different from a smash and grab jewelry store heist. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

Is this what "winning" looks like? And would Republicans be howling if jobs data were revised down this much under a Democratic president?

As Republicans pass a bill full of extremely unpopular provisions aimed at further enriching the obscenely wealthy, remember that over half of their campaign funds in 2024 came from just 100 mega-donors who absolutely love this bill. That's not a coincidence.

In the Old Testament, this is what the cruelest pharaohs would do. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

A New Declaration of Independence from Tyranny open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

This story will be repeated multiple times around the country. www.newsweek.com/nebraska-hos...

Democrats, Independents, and non-MAGA Republicans all agree that the GOP budget isn't beautiful at all.

The Coming Health Care Apocalypse open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

As far as I can tell, generative AI is like an experimental drug whose effects on the mind are unknown and potentially harmful. I can't in good conscience encourage my students to use it.

Food banks and food pantries do great work, but they cannot replace SNAP and other food assistance programs; they don't have nearly enough resources. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/n...

And we should keep giving the rich big tax cuts because ...?

Pitched mostly to folks in Virginia, but the basic story is the same in every state. www.pilotonline.com/2025/06/19/c...

Reverse Robin Hood: this is how the Republican budget will make people with lower incomes worse off and the rich better off over the next decade (the diamond symbol shows the net effect of tax cuts and spending cuts). The bill is big, yes; beautiful, no way.

Bad numbers for Trump, Musk, the GOP budget, and more. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

Guess what happens when you put two vindictive, thin-skinned scorpions in a bottle? abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

Their numbers aren't in the right ballpark or even the correct time zone. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/u...

Here's why Republicans can't possibly pay for Medicaid cuts by rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse. The only way to make the numbers work is to hurt millions of vulnerable Americans. richmond.com/opinion/colu...

The budget story hasn't improved a bit since March. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

May the fourth be with you. ih1.redbubble.net/image.112977...

Maybe we're seeing a re-make of "Die Hard": what looks like a political statement by a vicious group of rebels is really just a massive heist. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/t...

This promise disappeared in the Gulf of Cheaper Eggs. apnews.com/article/trum...

A Democratic President doing this would be accused of treason. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...

Over time, big law firms often change their names. For the firms that have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars in legal services to causes favored by the Trump administration, I can imagine: Skadden Vichy Arps Kirkland, Ellis, Neville & Chamberlain

Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou’s transformative best-selling 1970 memoir chronicling her struggles with racism and trauma. Two copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

Once again, there is no bottom. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

The Trump White House is still very sensitive about pronouns. But with all of Trump’s conflicting statements and actions on tariffs, isn’t it legit to ask the President, “What were they thinking?”

President Trump is using the Abrego Garcia case to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop him from imprisoning anyone he wants anywhere else in the world never to be seen or heard from again. His dream is to preside over a police state. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

The moment when Dr. Frankenstein suspects his creature really might be a monster. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Not sure whether to file this under "tariffs," "measles," "Social Security," "national security group chats," "tax cuts for the rich," "ignoring the courts," ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: "What you are speaks so loudly, I can't hear what you are saying."

This shouldn’t be a huge surprise, but spending on food assistance isn’t just morally right; it’s also a good investment. www.cbpp.org/blog/snap-fo...

Trump’s going to party like it’s “1984”. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/t...

The left-wing radicals in Williamsburg, VA look just like regular Americans. How sneaky.

Williamsburg, Virginia has a history of resisting tyranny.

If Trump truly cared about manufacturing jobs in this country, he wouldn't do this: www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...

“Analysts and market historians struggled to point to another time a president had directly inflicted so much damage on the financial markets.” Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/b...

The “triple threat” of legislation, executive actions, and tariffs from the Trump administration and congressional Republicans could raise the cost of essentials like health care and food for families with low and moderate incomes. www.cbpp.org/research/fed...

The spirit of Lord Farquaad is alive and well in the White House. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwOX...

Got buried by the tariff catastrophe, but this week the GOP also officially eliminated the laws of arithmetic. In the Senate, the party has waged an Orwellian war on math— deciding that 2+2=5 if they say so. wapo.st/4jjf4ox