An unreal dad joke in the title of the 2016 paper. Awesome! The replication games: what are they, and how they may help solve a crisis : Planet Money www.npr.org/2026/02/27/n...

We were literally watching our community provide a ceremony at the Whipple building. Hennepin County Sheriff’s then began to escalate tensions. This was disrespectful to our community, our culture, and our ancestors. This created fear and was an attack on our right to peacefully assemble.

Inspiring story of perseverance. And you just know that the next Quentin Tarantino movie is going to include Lillard, Dano, and Wilson. It now has to www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/m...

Like clockwork, world events hit during an exam period. Again. Give us a break, 2020s.

“Trump is not to be defended, but he's never completely wrong.” Or almost never. There’s often a shadow of reason, except when there’s not www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

There is a deliberate project to make people only remember mitigation measures from 2020. What actually happened is totally unmentionable. It never gets discussed.

2/2 And, just for the record, eat very little meat these days. But the "let them eat cake [liver]" aspect of this, from someone born rich and forgiven so much because of his name, drives me nuts.

Given the structure of the FOMC and the countermeasures in December about reappointments, it’s easy to become complacent. Thank goodness retiring Senator Tillis is demonstrating courage and wisdom www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

“In the Nation’s Disservice” to paraphrase Princeton

“The menagerie at the Department of Health and Human Services keeps getting stranger,” writes the WSJ Edit Page, in this scathing column about the crank who could become our next surgeon general. www.wsj.com/opinion/case...

“The Math Behind Trump’s Eye-Catching Economic Ideas” Why publish an article that quietly reveals how it’s all smoke mirrors, even as it’s not actually saying that it’s all smoke and mirrors? Welcome to the WSJ, 2026 edition www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

She really understands elder millennial dudes.

The WSJ editorial board beats the drum on FDA some more Orphan drugs are tough. It’s not obvious what FDA’s testing principles are with them now www.wsj.com/opinion/vina...

It would be super if somebody with standing could sue and the courts could rule quickly on this instead of taking another 10 months www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...

Deep breath. I'm honored and excited to join the faculty of America's oldest research university, Johns Hopkins. I'll start this summer as a full professor, one of the founding faculty at the brand-new School of Government and Policy. We're building something unique & important, even historic.

A crystal-clear explanation for why our scientific knowledge in exercise research is limited due to omitted variable bias and selection. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

A primer about ALS www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

@mcconnell.bsky.social we signed Jane and Calliope up for their LARP camp June 8-12 Thanks for the tip! Life saver!

I’m just so saddened by Kavanaugh’s lurch toward the absurd Admittedly we’re putting up with this from Alito and Thomas now, and we could have been with other justices if the composition of the court were different But how goofy is it to wring hands about unwinding the unconstitutional

RIP Eric Dane, McSteamy on ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ Dies at 53 ALS is an awful disease www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/a...

‘A Victory for the Rule of Law’: 3 Experts Assess How Much the Court Reined In Trump Honestly, it sure took SCOTUS long enough. What’s to stop the current or next administration from just imposing unconstitutional policy that it knows can last for 10 months? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/o...

“It's about how we make decisions as a country about the imposition of taxes,” he said. "What makes our country investible is respect for the rule of law.” www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

#BREAKING #SCOTUS blocks President Trump's tariffs.

Congress has the power to tax and levy tariffs. Period. Thank you , SCOTUS 6-3

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

Oakland proud. Congratulations to Alysa Liu on bringing home the gold!

Alysa Liu enters Thursday with Team USA's best chance at a gold medal in the women’s free skate. Here’s what she said after her skate today ⤵️

Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous performance from Alysa Liu. #MilanoCortina2026 ⛸️

I forgot who said this, but Alysa Liu is a figure skater with snowboarder energy. We need more figure skaters with snowboarder energy

This is Angel Island Immigration Station, but in fluent English. History rhymes and we all should weep to hear it rhyme this way

From early December 2025, graphics on science funding www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A ton here, but I think the summary is: "[HHS operates with] a mix of cruelty and incompetence giving rise to erratic and unreliable decisions that often reflect access and partisan alliances rather than any good-faith tabulation of national costs and benefits." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

More to chew on with FDA, here a shoutout to Pierre Fabre, victims of another FDA about-face, this one in January regarding a single-arm study for a rare disease. And then Prasad attends a conference and says single-arm studies are great, even though Pierra Fabre did it? www.wsj.com/podcasts/the...

Testing whether the arrival of mass media triggers a decline in fertility, a central prediction of modernization theory, from Rachel Glennerster, Joanna Murray, and @victorpouliquen.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34829

(1) It’s mystifying why KH could claim these NYFRB folks are missing quantity changes when they report them in Fig 2 (2) Kevin Hassett doesn’t have any guardrails on his opinions anymore. He’s gone all in

Happy Kevin wants economists to be disciplined by their bosses for contradicting the regime's understanding of The Truth.

FDA blinked www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Big thunder clap in the east bay just now

Celebration of life for Betty Reid Soskin set for March 1 www.berkeleyside.org/2026/02/13/b...

Better late reporting on this than never. Justice Alito, please read these reports that completely upend the original DHS narratives. Please stop citing debunked DHS narratives in SCOTUS rulings

Brooks and Capehart absolutely shellac the administration and DHS, and they give credit where credit is due: to the great people of Minnesota. They know what is right and what is wrong, and they acted accordingly, and they forced DHS to change course www.pbs.org/video/brooks...

Superb graphics in this www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Nancy Mace interviewed on NPR sounding like a well informed and wise person about the Epstein files

Aw man, what a total bummer. You were the best, Dawson!! I want yore life

It’s hard to tell, and that’s the point. It sounds like ICE is in public areas of medical centers, or with hospitalized detainees, which are lawful acts. But terrorizing the health workforce by asking immigration status is unnecessary. It’s like checking teachers www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

“Republicans who want every illegal worker deported cite the rule of law, but they also decline to allow legal pathways to work in the U.S. There are human and economic costs to all this” www.wsj.com/opinion/flor...

I really miss Brooks and Capehart. Also Shields and Brooks. And Shields and Gigot. And Gergen and Shields