The NY Post on airport wait times didn't take a side on who is to blame. Just blamed politicians and Washington in general. That can't be a great sign for the GOP.

one maddening thing about all of this is the conservative idea that "election day" has always meant a single day until recently, which is nonsense. 19th century elections often took place over the course of an entire month, with results trickling out over time.

“The Republican effort to undermine the 2026 midterm elections is neither theoretical nor exaggerated,” writes Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader.

Big 10 wins yesterday pushed UM back to the top of KenPom.

INCOMING

Iowa!! A sixth Big Ten team in the Sweet 16 and a guaranteed BTT in the Elite Eight now.

Iowa is letting this slip away.

Since 1994, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they receive in benefits every year. Do not believe the lies you hear about immigrants. They are good for society and the economy.

Jerry Hanlon has died. If there is an afterlife, I assume he and Madden are discussing blocking: www.freep.com/story/sports...

Iowa-Florida is heated!!

We all know what Elite Eight matchup the ghost of Johnny Orr wants in the Midwest.

ISU looking good but the injuries are piling up.

Should I have a rooting preference in the other games in the Midwest bracket? I generally prefer ISU over Kentucky for non-strategic reasons, but in this game and the other two, are there results that are better for Michigan?

As the son of a 10-yr NFL defensive tackle/end who earned four Super Bowl rings and was both an NFL and a D1 defensive line coach for 12 years before he died at 49 (my age now), I can most assuredly, indubitably tell you that CTE is very real.

Five Big 10 teams in the Sweet 16 with two teams left to play. (Though I’d be surprised if Iowa or UCLA win today but you never know).

Anyone have advice on reactivating one’s research agenda after being dept. chair? My research hasn’t died entirely during my six years as chair, but it’s slowed & I feel out of research shape. I know what to do but haven’t done it regularly in a while. Is time and fewer worries enough?

I would also add that it would be helpful to criticize political scientists fairly: eg, don’t criticize them for teleology when they disavow it, don’t go after them for using unfamiliar quantitative methods, etc. If they get the debates wrong or ignore important findings, that’s a different issue.

The Air War College asked Kori Schake not to give a scheduled lecture on civil-military relations—a subject that she writes is “extremely relevant” in the current political climate. Here’s what she would have said:

Road and Houses, South Truro - 1930 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104367

One hundred women and girls have qualified for the Queens' Online Chess Festival Semi-Final! Watch all the games in our broadcast, starting at 13:00 UTC: lichess.org/broadcast/qu... The top eight players will advance to the final on 29 March.

How … Much … Time?

That’s a lively board goal by Michigan that Red Wings past would appreciate.

From stressful to a rout.

What a drive to the net! Here we go!!

I want to see an NYTimes Sports Connections category with “sieve, funnel, vacuum, black hole”.

1 2 3 4 WE WANT MOOOOOOOOOORE

Hughes!!

Allowing contact to the head has been a focus this season

Way too much time and space for OSU forwards on that shift.

Tie game again. Wild one.

Nuts. Poisonous nuts. Cmon Michigan.

Huge save!

Wow, Gonzaga lost to 11 seed Texas.

Rats.

Sports and books on bygone eras: the opiates of very, very frustrated international relations professor.

Bad bad bad on more levels that we can count. We are going to take down two power grids (see Cuba), cause two major humanitarian disasters, for no national security reason (not that that excuses it), at risk of significant further escalation? This is How Not To Do War 101.

We want mooore goals!

Goal!

Looking much better since giving up the first goal. Let’s get the equalizer.

Sluggish start and a bad penalty. Time to wake up.

Ok, hockey‘s turn.

How many teams is the Big 10 going to get into the Sweet 16?

A Mr Pibb commercial on national tv? Talk about March Madness.

Professors & university staff were targeted & fired for less than this just a few months ago.

Beginning to tire of leaving Dunlap open.

Pan Slavism and socialist revolution have always looked less imperial and more benign from Moscow‘s point of view than from Prague or Warsaw. It would be nice if folks on the far left here remembered that and took the experiences of occupied peoples seriously.

The new largest data center in Illinois has been approved by the Joliet City Council. It will be the size of Central Park. And use more than half as much electricity as the entire city of Chicago.

TFW when you search for Detroit in Bluesky for sports and local news accounts to follow and instead you get a post in French about the Detroit de Hormuz. Nain Rouge must be pleased.

Max Clark's reaction to the first triple-digit fastball he saw from Pirates prospect Seth Hernandez 😯

Remember the Democrats’ position on funding TSA: Yes. No conditions. Just yes. Hard for a minority party to offer more. Republicans won’t take yes for an answer because they want the hostage.