Among the many lost opportunities I observed — repeatedly — across decades in the academy: how infrequently universities recognize or tap into resident experts and local knowledge. Faculty expertise is valued mostly as a funding magnet or PR opportunity; it's rarely seen as locally applicable.

They paved paradise and put up a hookah shop 🎶

If anyone likes crepés, my 12 year old’s recipe is surprisingly good. You need a reliable sachula to make them but once that’s set up you’re golden

Or on the NYC subway. It’s beautiful like that.

Some liberals are OBSESSED with "private" prisons as though the problem is not simply PRISONS. Folks, the vast majority of prisons in the U.S. are PUBLIC NOT PRIVATE. And they are HELL HOLES. OK? I need folks to stop and actually focus on the PROBLEM which is PRISONS AND JAILS.

People are so weird about religious food prohibitions. One, don’t be a jerk about other people’s faith traditions. Two, when you are a jerk in this way, it shows that you are more interested in faith as an instrument of oppression & control than a means of self-discipline, transcendence, & decency

Repost with your first crush

bopping through the stateliest neighborhood in Montgomery like a Second Line at The Villages

leave The Village People alone!

“If we are going to do a third Reconstruction we need politicians who conceive of themselves as working on behalf of a constituency, rather than would-be-saviors…And, like the people of Minnesota, we need to do the work to be that constituency…” www.liberalcurrents.com/aoc-for-pres...

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Temu George Wallace over here

My column from Monday. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall spent a decade trying to turn himself into the perfect politician for right-wing media, using his office to attack vulnerable communities and chase conservative fads. What did that get him? 3rd place in a primary and an empty legacy.

Dogs are pretty great

Hear me out: Life is better at the beach

pictured: woody learning that buzz lightyear and jessie were at january 6

Fine. I will sing Particle Man with my son’s name swapped in for man ONE MORE TIME but I won’t like it

This is unconscionable. I already voted in the primary for this election and now I guess I have to vote again bc as of 30 minutes ago I’m in a different district

WHAT.THE.FUCK.

Watching Pirates of the Caribbean 2 at the beach w the kids & thinking of the time I knocked on an elderly ex-Klansman’s door in Sylacauga, Ala. and he came out and basically looked like Davey Jones’s crew. Anyway Victorian ideas about physiognomy and so forth etc

the world u want to live in is not the world u do live in

Word on the reef is, shrimp are SO in this season. A crab told me. And bonus? These shirts fund our fall Philly Bug mural series. 3 Murals, 3 Artists, 3 Neighborhoods, All bugs baby. Don't get caught without a crustacean. Tell your friends. Get a shrimp shirt. At SquidFacts.net (pls RT)

Roll Tide moment at Tacky Jacks on the Flori-Bama coast (Not mine, I do not fish?)

So yeah, it sucks. We absolutely need to put our backs into fighting right now. AND...the only thing stopping us from quickly getting to a big, vibrant, free, safe, beautiful future is us. And lol, believe me when I say, no one is going to stand in the way of me giving my son a better world.

And we are live! Massive thanks to everyone who contributed to this. Reading your posts made me so much madder than I ever knew was possible

I worked at a small nonprofit with 4 employees and Amy from BLS called once a month for like a year to ask how many employees there were. Bless their persistent, annoying little hearts.

"This week, Pope Leo XIV presented his first papal encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, which addresses the tremendous moral, spiritual, and political challenges facing the world in the age of AI. It is perhaps the single most profound document ever released by a White Sox fan." incredible opening

Saying certain numbers aren’t accurate because of [reasons] is not a more persuasive argument than presenting charts and numbers without context. Do the numbers you object to have the wrong denominator? Do they exclude certain categories of people whose inclusion would change them? Say that!

This is not only true, it only permits only one conclusion: the surviving member of Milli Vanilli must be made president of Columbia University

a VRA map that recognizes discrete and compact communities and creates districts accordingly? illegal race discrimination. packing every black person they can find i to a single district crossing the whole state? colorblindness and equal protection thank you sam alito

Louisiana House Republicans have passed a new 5-1 congressional gerrymander targeting 1 of 2 Black Dems. It packs Black voters from New Orleans to Baton Rouge in a snake-like 2nd District to make the other 5 heavily white/GOP. GOP senators already passed a similar map www.nola.com/news/politic...

I thought I'd get maybe 25 replies to this request and use two or three of them. We're now at 1400. The column, which is 4600 words long (blame yourselves), is finished, but this thread should be studied by future historians. No era has ever been as utterly annoyed, as molecularly fed up, as we are

wrapping up my rumination on the right wing conspiracy theory that the unite the right rally was a hoax, i have some actual receipts that help answer the question of what a nazi rally costs and who pays. spoiler alert: it’s not the southern poverty law center.

The reason my writing is so good is because I did it. I'm cool and it's good because I, a cool person, did it. The reason your writing is bad because you aren't even cool enough to write it. You used some sort of machine.

a time-honored tradition for key affiliates of disintegrating Nazi regimes

Of all of the musical acts to promise will perform at your event in 2026 without doing any of the leg-work to confirm said performance, Milli Vanilli is one of the funniest.

Idk seems like it might rain what do you guys think

As somebody who has spent a lot of my life teaching seduction novels, strong second.

The US Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a Black death-row inmate in Mississippi who alleged racial bias in the makeup of the jury that convicted him. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the opinion, joined by Justices John Roberts, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

AI does exactly what you want, or if it doesn’t, tirelessly does and redoes and never gets mad. That … is the opposite of seductive?

Also: Anyone who thinks AI is "seductive as hell" has never actually been seduced. Sorry to this man.

Why didn't her mom check her location data. Why didn't she call. Why didn't they get an Uber. Etc etc etc. The story hangs on the world it lives in, and you cannot just take the same story and put it in a different world without having to change the story.

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

Thank God, season 22 of Grey’s Anatomy is starting next month

When I read Texas GOP Senate nominee Ken Paxton declaring “God is not non-binary”, he is attacking my religion. My faith tradition, rabbinic Judaism, literally believes that one aspect of G-d is the Shekhina — the female nurturing spirit that is celebrated every Friday night as the “Sabbath Bride”

On vacation. Forcing the children to watch The Simpsons. Starting with Who Shot Mr Burns. Next, monorail. Then what? See My Vest?

Football is barbaric and dull. Pimiento cheese is yucky.