US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”

Regardless, the only path forward remains 1) get trifecta, 2) nuke filibuster, 3) unpack court, 4) expand House, 5) ban gerrymandering*, 6) full lustration, etc.

Jerry's girlfriend wants to go see big character posters for every date. George has to write a report on using Mao Zedong Thought to hit home runs. Elaine thinks her boyfriend is too old to be a Red Guard. Kramer tries to convince Premier Chou En-Lai that stoplights should turn red for go.

Average daily shipping volumes through the Strait of Hormuz have declined nearly 94% since the start of the war in Iran, Bank of America notes:

I will always remember Ted Turner for his cameo in GETTYSBURG (1993) as Waller T. Patton, aka “Guy Who Dies 30 Seconds Into Pickett’s Charge”

I want to try the corruption whiskey

Terrified Adolis García Wondering If Anyone Else Can See Phillie Phanatic https://theonion.com/terrified-adolis-garcia-wondering-if-anyone-else-can-see-phillie-phanatic/

Since 2010, 15 largest US cities all added population, but changes differ by race/ethnicity. —NYC, LA, Chicago, Philly lost a large number of Black residents. Chicago lost 19% of its Black residents! —All cities gained Asian residents, & those with 2+ races. —Most cities gained Hispanic residents.

Eliminating the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Boston Celtics in the same week... Philadelphia Forever

the u.s. is shooting itself in the foot with a tactical nuke american universities are *so* good and it's a virtuous cycle: smart and ambitious people attend, elevating the whole enterprise. if we alienate the world, it becomes a vicious cycle headed in the opposite direction

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

It's impossible for me to even tell what point she was trying to make here. It's like a hospital posting "It's National Asthma Awareness Month!" and posting a picture of Dennis Hopper from Blue Velvet

Guess the mentalist is canceled

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. https://scim.ag/4cxQWhl

Pope Leo encourages everyone to enjoy Béla Tarr's seven hour classic, SÁTÁNTANGÓ (1994)

A funny thing is I looked at their finances in 2018 and the idea the dinner raises money for student scholarships wasn't totally true: www.cjr.org/politics/whi...

NEW: NSF has been funding research at a fraction of its historic rate. Last week, the agency finally began distributing money to its directorates and is now likely to pick up the grantmaking pace. But these allocations also amount to substantial cuts across the sciences. My reporting:

NEW: On top of all the cuts to legal entries, Trump (i.e. @uscisgov.bsky.social) slashed green card approvals by ~half in an effort to boost ICE arrests of legal immigrants. USCIS has *ended* humanitarian green cards, working with ICE to arrest pending applicants. www.cato.org/blog/uscis-c...

Peter Magyar, Israel Katz, Charles de Gaulle…the lesson is clear: America Ferrara/Daddy Yankee 2028

When NYC rezoned Brooklyn's Gowanus neighborhood to allow high-density residential uses along a cleaned-out canal, it hoped to attract thousands of new housing units. That's exactly what it got, new research comparing upzoned areas to similar, non-upzoned areas shows: www.urban.org/research/pub...

This is the first website built entirely on the purity of the user's soul. I'm having no trouble accessing it. If you are then you must look within

How do upzonings impact housing supply? In brand-new research published today @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, we show that big upzonings in New York City & Philadelphia had large, statistically significant effects on supply & permitting with several years of reforms. www.urban.org/research/pub...

DETECTIVE HOLE sounds like a trap Moriarty set for Sherlock Holmes

If the British gain control of Fort Mifflin it will be impossible to hold Philadelphia and Congress must flee westward!

(as a donkey walks by) ah the noble donkey! (donkey moves out of earshot) foolish beast

When you add it all up, the collapse in immigration looks like this: a decline of roughly 50K for illegal (even including the people arrested and not released) and a decline of about 132K for legal. Over 70% of the cut in immigration has come from LEGAL immigration.

You can watch the six-part BBC miniseries of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 1979, starring Alec Guinness, for free? www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Marathon's the one place you should have an advantage over Iran!

A lot has been said about Trump's executive order on "restoring truth and sanity to American history" that called for a review on displays at national parks that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.” But what is Trump's admin vision for history? We got the answer in Philadelphia. 🧵

Actually most fictional scenarios are made up!

This is X Cathedra

There is no McTry.

You know what doesn't get its support unceremoniously pulled by a tech company? Fuckin' books, brother

Also the origin of the death penalty for Basques there: www.theguardian.com/world/2015/a...

This can’t be true. I’ve been told that supply doesn’t work. Developers and landlords in San Diego must be less greedy than in other places, like Los Angeles

Happy "cars create distance" day to all who celebrate April 7, 1977, Philadelphia Inquirer @thewaroncars.bsky.social libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item...

When the Lord destroyed the Tower of Babel (i.e., ancient social media), the peoples of the world scattered into smaller clusters, unable to comprehend each other (i.e., go viral). Thus began eons of discord (i.e., Discord).

if you’re having Pesach questions I feel bad for you son

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

That said, there will still be leadership purges

I wrote about this effort last fall. Barnard cooperated with a similar demand from the Trump admin to release a list of Jews on campus. Penn did not. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-chil...

Good god. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

The current 6-day Jeopardy champion works at a housing tax credit agency in New Jersey and for his banter with Ken he just looked directly at the camera and said "New York, California, shame on you, build more housing" and folks when I say heroes walk among us

Ryan Gosling learns to collaborate with a mysterious, cold, and alien intelligence, played by Sandra Hüller