Surely making these degrees more expensive to obtain will solve the labor shortage for SPED certified teachers and SLPs.

If a university did this the Trump admin would use it as a justification to withhold Federal funding.

If only the Verge had an editor who didn't want to print lies in the newspaper.

squirrel: *points gun* me: what do you want me to do? squirrel: *gestures at sign* me: alright, i get it *opens book drop* squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion* me: NOT A SQUIRREL! squirrel: *disappears into book drop* me: *whispers* forgive me, keith

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management. remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

If you're the parent of a disabled kid, I just want to tell you I know it's hard and I know you feel like you're failing constantly, but you're doing it and you're doing the best you can and your kid absolutely loves you for it.

NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation. The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate. The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia. Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer. A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro www.propublica.org/article/andr...

“there is a point on the graph where things get Worse, and there you will find Ronald Reagan” stays undefeated

The disclosure is on the Steam page: “AI GENERATED CONTENT DISCLOSURE The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this: Our team uses generative AI tools to help develop some in game assets.”

"Shunned" is the extremely lenient position. They wrote memos justifying war crimes. They belong in the Hague.

these are the same people that want to repeatedly inspect your childs genitals btw

It is possible for everybody to be in the wrong. A bsky ban isn’t an infringement on “free speech” and a ban for referencing a Johnny Cash lyric in response to a link about Johnny Cash is dumb. Everybody is wrong.

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

The Times proving @mtsw.bsky.social’s refrain correct over and over and over and over. They like Trump and want him to rule us like a king.

Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it. He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted. Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.

This headline is journalistic malpractice. This isn't Epstein "alleging" that Trump knew. This is Epstein and Maxwell discussing - in 2011, long before Trump had political salience - how the FACT that Trump knew might play out Both of them took as a given that this was a fact in a private email

The thing is that if you get your data from DoorDash, it might be more convenient but the costs add up in the long run, because it’s really better and cheaper to just go directly to the data place and pick it up yourself.

“Them” in this case is taxpayers, not the actual perpetrators of the violations.

Genuinely, how is this less ineffective than EHR? I WANT to have a reason to vote for White for Congress. He’s out here proving there isn’t one.

Thanks to @lindstorian.bsky.social for reminding me of this perfect gif.

Today is a great day to abolish the Senate.

Democrats can smell hope from their constituency like a shark sensing blood in the water, and follow a deep evolutionary instinct to destroy and devour it.

So, in addition to the bullshit promise, the Trump administration won't be able to do things they legally could not do anyway? Good work!

This undoes RIFs underway but not the prior illegal RIFs and does nothing to fix the illegal impoundment resulting from the first wave of illegal firings. Complete chickenshit.

It’s unconscionable that congress and the President do nothing and continue to be paid, while the government workers who keep us safe and people who need food assistance are literally cut off completely.

Finally Roberts is an astute enough politician to know if he votes against Trump here, many commentators will trumpet Roberts’ evenhandedness. He sometimes rules against Trump! But it’s just another form of Calvinball, one where Roberts’ party, not necessarily its current president, always wins.

Even fed employees who have not been laid off yet are putting off big purchases (such as buying a house or car or even weddings) bc theyre worried they might lose their job. Collectively, the reduction in spending will be huge

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

oops here is the gift link

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

If you’re still in line, STAY IN LINE

Zac Oyama, Comedy Prophet. "I did it, I threw the sandwich"

Trump is killing education for kids with disabilities. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

When did they call him up from the minors?

This @davidjroth.bsky.social thing is as thoughtful and funny as you'd expect, but it's also great meta-commentary on the weird position of being someone who's "taken an interest" in a campaign that, really and truly, is other people's business. defector.com/what-job-is-...

Probably a good day to reup this, from September. archive.is/QadNL

The people who didn't vote for @kamalaharris.com because they felt that not enough of their student loans were forgiven helped produce this. Predictably. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

BREAKING NEWS: Congressional candidate smart, doesn’t discuss indictment.

A NYTimes columnist cannot say whether "the government kidnaps man, deports him, no process involved" was illegal.

Ideally a White House press secretary would know how an Isaac Chotiner interview typically goes.

This goes for SCOTUS Justices too, FWIW. Emergency docket applications land on their desk. They don't have to refer it to the Court. KBJ killed ED the moment she referred the application to the full Court. She could still be penning a lengthy denial, w/ the First Circuit injunction in place.

There weren’t many areas where Biden could act unilaterally without judicial interference. But student debt was definitely one of them. But rather than act swiftly and universally, Biden created a means-tested plan, which gave the right time to block the plan in court

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything. It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in. Long thread.