Pretty much sums things up, if you ask me.

The President calls every black person he doesn’t like “low IQ” and the media believes it absolutely critical we draw no conclusions from that

It's unfortunate, but how else are we supposed to rank them on the mandatory curve?

It's unfortunate, but how else are we supposed to rank them on the mandatory curve?

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“C.J. Roberts has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Willie Sutton had a theory that explains this.

Opinion: So You Want to Drive in Pittsburgh? Here’s What You Need to Know. https://www.newsbeep.com/us-pa/167646/ PHOTOS BY DAVE DICELLO So, you want to drive in Pittsburgh?  Buckle up! Literally and figuratively.  When I…

I’m genuinely surprised this little joke found an audience.

What is wrong with us?

Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!

Obviously morally reprehensible. And others can articulate better than I why it’s foolish and dangerous. So, I’ll just point out the fifth-grade-book-report level of understanding demonstrated by the phrase “in the long and complex history of the World.”

YAY Pittsburgh!

"It's a distraction." "It's 4D chess." "It's racism." "It's for oil." "It's to game the markets." "It's bluster." "It's dementia." You know what? I don't really care why he's doing it. He's doing it, it's reprehensible, and it's impeachable.

Obviously morally reprehensible. And others can articulate better than I why it’s foolish and dangerous. So, I’ll just point out the fifth-grade-book-report level of understanding demonstrated by the phrase “in the long and complex history of the World.”

National Poetry Month post by the great Layli Long Soldier from her book, Whereas. Honestly, I heard her read this one in particular and it was so powerful. If I concentrate, I can hear her in my head. One of her "Whereas" statements.

Jealous.

I admire the sentiment. But maybe the problem is _which_ American citizens are already doing what they wish more German citizens had done in 1933.

Lots of great answers here. It’s notable how many (including me) list a work of fiction without specifying what it taught them. The worthwhile lessons from fiction usually can’t be distilled into a clear statement.

There are rumors that Trump is at Walter Reed Hospital. That’s not true. He’s at Trump Walter Reed Hospital.

I follow this Raptor Cambot, and it regularly posts cool little clips like this. But every time, I'm a little disappointed when I realize I've yet again misread it as "Raptor Combat."

"The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency." bit.ly/41M4pvK

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Shawshank Redemption is the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups of candies. Both are fine but overrated.

hmm

the “combing through and finding weird little details that interest me” part of research is so crucial

Doesn’t even need to survive judicial review. Just needs to last long enough to make full use of the shredders.

The "undocumented immigrants didn't exist then" argument seems so specious to me. You can't create a new legal subcategory and then just say the constitutional protections for the larger category don't apply to it. (Or, if you can, I'd like to have a word about the subcategory of "assault weapons.")

Does anyone think Trump attending the SCOTUS arguments will actually influence the justices?

Rain chances will be sticking around this week throughout the Pittsburgh area.

The Supreme Court's "conversion therapy" decision today is indefensible on its own terms. A ton of medical regulations restrict speech on the basis of "viewpoint." Nobody thinks they're unconstitutional. This court just subjects pro-LGBTQ protections to special hostility. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Oof. How low can you go?

DARTH HAS RETURNED FROM HIBERNATION THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Oof. How low can you go?

OK, I call it, I have received the single most unhinged ad on LinkedIn. For one thing, it's Adjunct Professors of Law who need the abs, not Adjunct Professor of Law's.

This is art

Yes, the "mailbox rule" is one of the first things 1L law students learn. It's a prime example of "yes, the law is full of technicalities, but it's supposed to be practical, not stupid."

What’s the longest car ride that you’ve been a part of? From Utah to Massachusetts. We (two of us) stopped to camp nightly and/or traded off sleeping in the back while the other drove. I shudder to think how little time it took.

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Lawyers, apparently Google has a /x -style search function called AROUND that limits results based on the proximity of the words to each other! (plus other handy Googling hacks)

Holy shit truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

This open letter describes what’s at stake when cramming AI into education: humanity and the very human ability to think critically and morally.

Emily Tucker is the executive director of the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law. And she is magnificent medium.com/center-on-pr... Remember: “there is something that learning is for, that thinking is for, that work is for, and that you are for, the discovery of which belongs to you.”

And this, law students, is why the *process* of outlining is important. It's not having an outline that matters. It's making it.

People trying to tell me that Cesar Chavez now has a "complicated legacy" as if it didn't turn out that women like Dolores Huerta weren't the ones doing all the important work in the first place. JFC.

The process of organization is one of the strongest metamemory strategies. Cut that out, and you've cut out learning. As a teacher and cognitive psychologist I find this all so sad and frustrating and kind of incomprehensible.

What does this mean? Like, literally, what does this tagline mean?

Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives? A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit. Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit? A: No, we didn’t.