Efficiency ftw Spend more do less

I have taught or been a student at Harvard for 18 years I have never seen this rule enforced “The two students are accused of attending Mr. Summers’s class … even though they were not enrolled in it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

Happy Holidays www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (November)

Cool how we are smuggling domestic news in over the border from canada and people having to share it on bulletproof hosting providers to stop the government and media owners taking it down

TIL from this book reading/concert is that two of Patti’s hits (Dancing Barefoot and Because the Night) were lyrical love letters to Fred Sonic of the MC5. What a power couple!

Making this tonight, with my black garbanzos from @ranchogordo.bsky.social and baharat from Sofra ottolenghi.co.uk/pages/recipe...

I’m old enough to remember when CBS News would never have surrendered to a demagogic president or any other politician. Remember Edward R. Murrow?

If refusing to comment is enough to kill a story, then the government now has veto power over journalism. That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Everyone sat around talking about how these people were incredibly stupid and then they managed to successfully implement large swathes of the plan that they all told us they were going to execute and you really have to wonder who is the stupid in this equation

every time I read a book by Ian McEwan I picture Ian McKellen writing it www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796211...

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

told my landlord he no longer has to apologize for being white and he lowered my rent by 25%. told the grocer it's now the trump kennedy center and he sold me potatoes for $1. told PG&E it's a christian nation now and electricity is free. try it sometime

I appreciate folks following the breadcrumb trail and not trying to jump to conclusions, but I’m not bound by those rules and I think “a media toady nuking a story about American concentration camps” is pretty self-explanatory

The Trump supporter who runs CBS news just killed a story about Trump’s favorite torture prison. Here’s why America has a liberal media bias problem.

Had my first experience with a student bringing a meeting bot to zoom office hours Nope

Former NSA employee (16 years) with a pro tip for you. Released controlled document on the left, Epstein on the right. See the difference? In real redactions, some words, headers, and bits will almost always still be visible, but especially classification headers. These documents are UNCLASSIFIED

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Across the country, women are dying of sepsis, losing organs, being arrested for miscarriages, and used as brain-dead incubators. Corpses have more rights than women living under abortion bans. What better moment to run a full court cultural press about how freedom isn’t that great anyway?

If we treated him like a normal president he’d be in prison right now

Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974

A former Brown doctoral student in physics has been identified as the MIT/Brown shooter. Some reports that he went to school in Lisbon with the MIT victim Brown victims were in an Econ class that was meeting in a Physics/engineering building

Oh shit www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

By 2011 Epstein had already: -registered as a sex offender -plead guilty to solicitation of prostitution with a minor under the age of 18 -settled multiple civil lawsuits brought against him by victims www.npr.org/2025/07/25/n...

absolutely wild move by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov to allow comments on the dropbox folder with the epstein photos

I don’t know how it works at the New York Times, but my editors at The Guardian would never let me publish this if they knew that I was one of the elites who spent time with Epstein. And if I published it without telling them, I would be out of a job.

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NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

Someone see if the Hunger Games was on cable in DC last night

The public: "We are desperate for help with the cost of living. Please do something." Trump administration: "Penis."

You’ve lost the plot as a presidential administration when Dr. Oz is on stage handwringing about the cost of balls

He never disclosed that he’d visited Epstein in that column and did a lot of hand waving to insist that he and his fellow elites had nothing, nothing at all to do with him.

Science you can use www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Role model, from leather boots to gray hair

I am this close to Patti Smith I am over the moon

Today is jury duty at Cambridge District Court (which is inexplicably in Medford) I hear the accents of my childhood all around me Sadly I now speak in the boring Midwest newscaster “non-accent” College classmates made nonstop fun of my Somerville accent & it went into hiding

reward for getting grades in is a call to jury duty at 8:30 AM tomorrow

College costs are soaring! www.brookings.edu/articles/wha...

Brown and now an MIT professor Not getting paranoid at all nope

Susie Wiles is a canny political operator who knows exactly what she’s doing and bears a ton of responsibility for the way Trump has been normalized by the press that she sees the writing on the wall is maybe the clearest sign of where this ends and the coming knife fight to inherit MAGA

This weekend has been a year long 😥

O, horrible, O, horrible, most horrible!

CALL FOR SESSIONS WORLD ECONOMIC HISTORY CONGRESS 2028 MONTEVIDEO, 24-28 JULY The International Economic History Association has opened the first Call for Sessions for its 2028 World Congress. The submission deadline is September 14, 2026. The selected sessions will be announced on December 18, 2026

the good that you do persists in this world

Rob always turned the knob to 11 💔

Baking therapy dose today is four loaves of sourdough and five balls of pizza dough

To me this is Australia Tattooed surfer comforts wounded Muslim shopkeeper who single-handedly tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi shooters www.middleeasteye.net/news/praise-...

The kind .. you find … in a second hand store

Ahmed al Ahmed, a Lebanese Muslim who owns a Sydney fruit shop, risked his life to disarm one of the Bondi Beach shooters. His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound. A true hero.