Good thread, and not very long. It's all about resegregation, and the EEOC does NOT need to win anything to cow other institutions into compliance with their agenda.

My head is still spinning. From the ACLS newsletter this afternoon: "the largest mass termination of previously awarded grants in the history of the NEH, [was] 'in violation of the First Amendment, in violation of the equal protection component of the Fifth Amendment, and w/o statutory authority'.”

this photo is going to be in a history book someday and I suspect only one of them knows it

Representing the current state of our country in one photo:

this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more.

Wow. So voters approve redistricting in Virginia which would help Democrats and court strikes it down. But legislators in multiple states erase Black voting districts across the country and that’s okay with courts? Is this really Democracy? https://loom.ly/qZwDzyQ

He means white people.

"Trump surprised Gulf allies by announcing “Project Freedom” on social media Sunday afternoon… In response, [Saudi Arabia] informed the U.S. it would not allow the U.S. military to fly aircraft from Prince Sultan Airbase SE of Riyadh or fly through Saudi airspace to support the effort"

Derek Peterson sets the record straight. Time for UM to apologize for slandering him. facultysenate.umich.edu/statement-fr...

I've been told to log out and not log back in until instructed.

Jorts don’t step on my sandwich. Jorts stop walking on my neck. Jorts don’t pee in the sink. What happened to freedom

Last July, the pope called his bank in South Chicago. He wanted to update the phone number on his account. The teller told him that any changes had to be made in person with an ID. Knowing that was impossible, he asked: “Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?” She hung up on him.

Good thread:

"It would take nearly 600 years to finish playing this MIT student's iteration of the classic video game." Iam Malcolm, Jurassic Park: "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should" www.popsci.com/science/doom...

I have said this before and I will say it again, but it is my firm belief that given the blatant and naked corruption exhibited by some members of the Roberts Court, decisions of the Roberts Court should not be treated as precedentially binding on later courts.

If you doubt that white supremacy has become mainstream, get a load of this. Taking it down isn't enough after it has already hurt people—and encouraged more people to be racist. How many people had to approve this before the image went live? How many people thought this image was good??

I have discovered that some undergraduate journals call themselves "peer-reviewed," I guess because they have the student authors' peers review the articles? This is NOT what I mean when I say peer-reviewed, and now I feel like I'm going to have to explain to every future class what I mean.

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Bodley's Librarian Richard Ovenden wrote the book (literally) on the destruction of knowledge and what’s at risk if we don’t protect it. Hear him speak at the Friends of the Bodleian Annual Lecture. 🗓️ 14 May, 5.30-7.30pm Book now: https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/fob-annual-lecture

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes, thoughtes, ideas? Trye a tarot deck ynstead. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes, not evil.

For most American households, an extra $246,900/year as a bonus would solve so many problems. 🙋🏾‍♀️😭 Of course, the broligarchs would just raise prices on everything, just like they did in 2021-2022. An apple would suddenly cost $1000 because "the Treasury printed money." Capitalism is unsustainable.

I DO want to know what Alexandra Petri is up to. Don't you?

Disgusting

::slaps the roof::

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I get a lot of AI slop book marketing emails, but this is the first time I have ever been . . . mistaken for Jane Austen.

If you're an alum of the University of Michigan and are unhappy with the condemnations of graduation remarks by Derek Peterson (Professor of History and outgoing chair of the Senate Committee on University Affairs), sign here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

More than 40 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office, possibly more than 50 now. How will we even know?

"I understand people want to do STEM. But if you don't know where you've come from, that's history,... and you can't communicate, you're really not going to be a very good engineer or scientist" bit.ly/4w6hONa

Agreeing with this point! I remember arguing with my older brother about automation at auto plants in Michigan when I was a teen—when most auto workers could own a home, pay for their kids' college, and hope that their *kids* and *grandkids* would get a better job. Kids often did. Grandkids?

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme

The injured MAY have been using a turkey decoy. One of them was an off-duty law enforcement officer. I'm going to assume that WASN'T the seven-year-old. So a 7-yr-old shot and a 3-yr-old shooter, because adults have NO SENSE and it's so important for kids to go hunting.

"the 34-year-old mentor in this case did not hold hunter education certification and was exempt through military training"

"a 34-year-old male mentor said he saw what appeared to be a turkey fan and movement.… The mentor then knelt and helped the 3-year-old stand in front of him, aim, and pull the trigger.… the 12-gauge semi-automatic shotgun blast struck a 40-year-old male turkey hunter ^ the hunter’s 7-year-old child"

Slightly diminish a book: Moby Duck

1. When was the last time you had to show your ID to walk into a restaurant? 2. If he means to purchase liquor, unlike the SAVE act, I don’t have to prove citizenship with a birth certificate or passport to do that. 3. Going to a restaurant isn’t a right.

And the Supreme Court thinks that this is fine, but having a district where Black people are likely to elect someone of their choice is racist.

And it works!

"a world where, in addition to my job job, I have the work of making the emotion robot think that I’m sufficiently cheerful" I spent the first 20+ years of my life hearing that I should smile more. I smile more than I used to. I didn't mean to change, but I know that I did.

53% accomplished as of today. www.project2025.observer/en

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There are three videos. What Kotlikoff describes does not appear in any of them. We CAN see him backing his car into one student, who was standing behind him. He apparently ran over the foot of another.

Any version of "MAHA" that excludes children eating well and not being exposed to unreasonable environmental pollution is bullshit.

"If we needed to consolidate the offices so bad, why wasn't this bill brought last year?" "Well, I don't know. I didn't think about bringing it last year." Because it was THIS YEAR that a Black man was about to take office after being elected. Your hood is showing! www.npr.org/2026/05/02/n...

if you learn the shape of this black deposit of soil (it cuts through Mississippi & Georgia too) you will begin to see it on literally any map that tracks disparate outcomes.

The utter incoherence of Callais is captured in this paragraph (pg. 36). Under Callais, plaintiffs have to show you could draw a Black-majority district that would elect Julia Letlow, a white Republican. That defeats the purpose of the claim, which is to end vote dilution.