congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

This capitulation will only embolden Trump to target other universities and institutions. This helps no one and only feeds the beast. We must continue to stand with those who resist Trump’s lawlessness and call out those who don’t. Shame on Cornell.

How is it that no one in Cornell’s administration has seen _The Godfather Part II_, in which Vito demonstrates both craft and might when Don Fanucci wants to wet his beak? They’re entrusted with inculcating the values of Western Civilization in our youth, yet ignore the classics SMH

To understand what was at stake here: in VA, the AG gets to appoint university counsel. From Jim Ryan’s forced resignation to the (mercifully) reject “Compact” to the odious and bizarre “settlement,” UVA has been hamstrung by counsel chosen by the state’s GOP administration. That’s about to change.

Minnesota Senator @amyklobuchar on Trump’s failure to bring Congress to the table on the shutdown: “You wrote the art of the deal. Show us your stuff.”

Firmly believe one of the ways to improve trust in journalism among young people is to support them in learning to research, write, and report themselves. Even if they never pursue it as a job, it helps to understand the process, and encourages them to engage with their local journalism outlets.

What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

hot take is that a lot of Bill Ackman types really are just stupid and petty and it might be worth Zohran briefly meeting with a few of them, and essentially saying “I’m not gonna fucking guillotine you, relax” so that they stop being maximally alarmist to other business guys

I am no fan of Ackman, but this is how to respond to loss with some level of grace and we should let him rather than constantly dunk

I met someone today who told me she supported Trump last year because “Biden legalized all the drugs.” She meant legal weed in NYC. I explained that’s an NYS law and that it’s still illegal federally. She insisted that laws are signed by presidents. She teaches middle school history

Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy

Mamdani should recognize that his election shows that he is wrong on the issues and should abandon his policies and preferences for a bland Park Slope technocratic corporatism. @nytimes.com tomorrow

This article abuses the poll it is based on in several ways, most prominently by breathlessly extrapolating what people say in a brief moment about what they will do in the future. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

JB Pritzker: “President Trump and his bootlickers have torn down the US Department of Education from the inside. Books are being banned. History is being erased. I’m sorry to be vulgar, but Donald Trump and his cronies can fuck all the way off” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I find this distraction discourse unhelpful. Trump's video was appalling and significant and should be analyzed and denounced, and part of the work of politics is to turn it into a major controversy in its own right, as a symbol of Trump's autocratic disdain for the people.

if you think the problem is that the democratic party is too extreme rather than our current media environment privileges right wing bull shit then you have no real business discussing politics in public

@aoc at the rally for Mamdani Sunday in NYC. “This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow, Latinos seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together…” So good!! 🔥

LLMs “know” what words to put together to reply to a prompt the same way a thermos “knows” to keep hot drinks hot and cold drinks cold, or a coffee filter “knows” to let liquids pass through

Amazing that such a fortune could be built on the public, brazen theft of the “Transylvania Twist”

This effort to end birthright citizenship will eventually intersect with RFK Jr’s fixation with fertility — de-naturalization for anyone who was from his mother’s womb untimely ripped

The thing to understand about fascism is that most people you know will be bought off. Bought with promises of peace and stability, bought with business opportunities or paid with actual cash. Most people aren't going to resist. Get used to it and get used to operating in that environment.

Updating my LEGO White House

Trump’s AI meme is weak compared to the real exploits of Gabriel D’Annunzio, who once flew a biplane from Fiume to Rome and dropped a chamber pot full of carrots on the parliament

"Person impeached for insurrection sends billions to Argentina during US gov't shutdown" and "Felon convicted of fraud pardons felon convicted of fraud" and "Long-time Epstein associate posts video depicting himself as a king dumping diarrhea on Americans from a fighter jet" are factual statements

Got my sign ready for tomorrow! #NoKings

"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."

I only became aware of this meme this past weekend, because my kids were goofing around at the dinner table. If I’m not careful, the WSJ will be hipper than me before long

Made by @aaup-penn.bsky.social member!

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

This is a declaration they will use federal resources to deploy violence against judges, prosecutors, and attorneys general. There's no other coherent interpretation of the phrasing, including "only remedy," "legitimate state power," and connecting those people with "terror networks."

Mr Rowan is quite right that we could lose our global edge in higher education — by yielding to the eccentric and in this case authoritarian ideas of bullying, oligarchic alumni. His compact would put US universities on roughly the same footing as Russia’s. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

This article traces the law against living persons being depicted on U.S. currency to Spencer M Clark, but I always thought it had more to do with Salmon P Chase using his position as Treasury Secretary to pave the way for a presidential run? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...

Trump is guilty of murder, and the United States will be without honor until he is tried for it.

i feel like im going crazy bc housing prices are crushing me and every day i wake up and see the political convo being "is cantaloupe is woke?" "did TGIF change its logo?" "are we renaming new mexico to new america?"

If the President can raise his own revenues and direct his own spending without congressional approval we are squarely in the only situation the Constitution was actually drafted to avoid: English civil war territory

So, they’re gonna make Eric Adams ambassador to Turkey, right?

The main adversary facing America right now is very simple and it has a name: Donald Trump. He and his gang of toadies and cronies are the enemies of peace, law and justice in this country. They will happily destroy America to avoid accountability for their crimes and offenses.

Was there anyone other than Trump himself who even remembered his beef with Comey? I know tons of the QAnon base were really excited about the Epstein files, but does MAGA really care about “Russia, Russia, Russia?” Why can’t Trump just let this go? It’s an unforced error & may end his presidency

My guess is they’re meeting at Quantico because Hegseth wants to “build warrior spirit” by having them go through the obstacle course, culminating in a push-up contest

The open corruption of the Department of Justice into a tool of dishonest oppression against people who have crossed Trump isn't just on Trump or his minions. It's on every Republican in the Senate, in the House, and on the Supreme Court.

UCLA in the ranks of institutions that stand up—and prevail. And another [non-Scotus, of course] federal judge in the ranks of those who stand up for rule of law. Courage and principle are contagious. Stand up, and support others who do.

Where is it written in the Constitution that the president can murder people at will as long as he accuses them of drug running while offering zero evidence?

Of course what’s NOT safe to use while pregnant is any other OTC painkiller. It’s typical of this administration’s cruelty that they would create fear around using the one that is safe, asking women to either needlessly forbear pain and discomfort, or take on the anxiety of ignoring official advice

For now we see through a glass darkly, but then we shall see whatever

TikTok will be co-owned by China and Trump allies, Paramount was sold to a pro-Trump billionaire who's also set to buy Warner Bros, X is owned by an apartheid-bred fascist, WaPo and Meta are owned by Trump-cowering billionaires, and Murdoch owns the Fox empire. Here's why media has a liberal bias.

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research. And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?

While knocking doors in my neighborhood today, I visited a bldg that reverses the usual convention for numbering apartments. Six floors “numbered” A to F, 10 apartments per floor. Postal address: Apt. 3F On their interior door: F3 Button you press on the elevator to go there: 6

An absolute clown show. Avoiding chaos like this is one of the many reasons a for *not* having EOs be the normal method of legislating or regulating. You really want more careful review than “Steve Miller doodled it on a napkin and Trump signed it with a sharpie.” www.politico.com/news/2025/09...