I fell ill in 2020 and never recovered. The Trump research took about two years, and I think some of our work contributed to exposes. I think the most underappreciated area of his "business history" remains the money laundering, but there are structural obstacles. m.youtube.com/watch?v=d9ca...

While Everyone Talks About Platner, The Epstein Story Gets Buried youtu.be/njiDi0Tw9D0 @repstansbury.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov @jayapal.house.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @digby56.bsky.social @robertgarcia.house.gov @olbermann.bsky.social

High-profile child deaths spark push for welfare agency transparency idahocapitalsun.com/2026/06/05/r...

I wish I'd thought to buy a great big bunch of packs of gum that one day in 8th grade. "Did you bring enough for the whole class, Mr. Coffman?" Sho' nuff did, smartass!

A new mural in Newtown, Sydney, Australia, by street artist Scott Marsh. Island Boys.

I think we’re at the stage where civilised governments should permit dignified assisted suicide for anyone mentally capable of making the decision, regardless of state of health. Unpopular opinion, I know, but why force people to go on when the will to do so is long gone?

“Toxic” brand certainly sounds right. I am very relieved that it’s not going to happen. A Trump tower on the Gold Coast (Surfers Paradise), or anywhere in Australia, would be galling. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I'm not sure what to make of "we" in this context. I know when I was trying to alert journalists to his past criminal behaviors in 2017, I was treated like a madman. Around 2018, popular sentiment jumped quickly from "he couldn't have" to "everyone already knows that."

On the original D-Day, Hegseth would have stood on the French beaches commanding the Allies to go home while warning the Nazis.

Trump speaks to the Wisconsin farmers: “Elon is 80% brilliant, his 20% has it’s moments. Elon had a bad moment, but now he’s a friend of mine again.” We remember that 20% well. When Elon admitted to rigging the election for you and that you were a prominent player in the Epstein files.

Trump has just destroyed the US beef industry. No country in their right mind is going to import US beef. After Trump cut funding for Screwworm monitoring programs, the dangerous flesh-eating parasite has been found in US cattle for the first time since 1966.

The first person being targeted over the Epstein files isn’t accused of abusing children. Carlos Calzadilla Palacio is accused of making sure people don’t forget. His crime? An Epstein Files Easter egg hunt. Keep talking about the Epstein files‼️ #SheShed

Yes. My anger channeled into this. It's beyond disgrace for me what he said. bsky.app/profile/kath...

Politics is all about priorities - and the Trump regime's priorities do not reflect our values as a country. #ResistTrump

Mace is delusional and completely unhinged. If South Carolinians actually elect her for governor, they will get exactly what they deserve.

THE ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION BELONGS IN PRISON

It's funny how the pitch for SpaceX is domination of the global AI business but the company's primary business (~60% of revenue going forward) is leasing its GPUs to Anthropic and Google at a discount because nobody wants to use Musk's MechaHitler AI.

#DonaldTrump #Republicans #Racism #HateSpeech #FarRight

It works for him!

In his first term, I did an actual investigation that included research into that. We did locate women who had filed allegations in court against him then withdrawn following a settlement. In each case, they had signed NDAs and didn't want to invite trouble back into their lives.

My nonprofit was also involved in the early stages of some episodes with legislative staffers. During the "corroborating accounts" phase, word spreads among those who coordinated the original coverup. Many politicians also have friendly journalists who want to interview victims very antagonistically

Under the new rules about player compensation and the connected race to build ever more elaborate athletics facilities even successful programs are going to have a hard time keeping state funds in tuition money out.

Keep in mind that a Democrat sponsored this piece of legislation in Louisiana that exempts college athletics from public records laws. Just about everywhere outside of the northeast. College football is a political third rail.

Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

I shared some thoughts about the Texas governor's letter reminding the state's public colleges and universities to freeze tuition for the fourth straight year.

Well, we just figured out why college is so expensive.

CBS is airing the finals of the 1776 Presidential Award competition for high school students next month, per this Department of Education press release.

It's interesting to see the federal government abandoning (at least for now) its efforts to cap indirect cost rates on grants. But this will probably come back again in the future.

Hampshire College's president sent a letter to students on Saturday saying that the college does not currently have the money to offer classes in the fall before closing. Going public with challenges is a plea for funding, but also will accelerate students transferring out.

"Michael Strain, the director of economic-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, recently wrote...that 'if you care about giving businesses and policymakers the information they need to understand the world,' you should care about the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences division"

I have never been retroactively madder about a federal government shutdown than when I realized today that the 2025 October supplement to the CPS was never administered, eliminating a key source of data about college enrollment patterns last fall. 😡

I'm glad to hear that the Community College Research Center has finally had some funding for research projects returned by the federal government. They do high-quality, important work, and the funds should have never been taken away in the first place.

more winning!

I don’t think this will become law but it’s worth keeping close tabs on it. When @robertkelchen.com said a few years ago he thought a Republican congress might consider getting rid of student loans altogether I thought it was nuts. Well it may be nuts but it’s a live possibility.

This is a really cool piece on how Alan Alda has funded an initiative to help researchers better communicate their findings to the public through learning improv skills.

This is a great example of the land grant mission of higher education. And it's also why I get really nervous when warm weather comes too early.

The now-closed Anna Maria College told its employees on Wednesday that employment would end yesterday and e-mail access would be discontinued today, earlier than initially promised.

I love land grant schools

Here are the final results from this year’s competition!

America tried staying on daylight "saving" time year-round in the 1970s, and it was an absolute disaster. Our politicians are old enough to remember that. 8:30 AM sunrises in the middle of winter for large parts of the country aren't going to fly.

Just gonna observe that the single best predictor of where people are gonna fall on the Platner news today is probably where they ultimately landed on "Al Franken should have resigned."

A Colorado court reversed homicide convictions against two paramedics on Thursday in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a Black man who was pinned down by police and injected with a fatal dose of ketamine. https://to.pbs.org/3Q0GlDe

After consulting with my attorney I’ve been advised that what I actually want to say about this would be ill-advised so I’ll just say that he couldn’t possibly be clearer about which side of D-Day he’s identifying with

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