Fascinating case before the Indiana Supreme Court about the death of a man from bed sores. But does COVID-19 immunity apply? indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/09/25/c...

Impossible to even choose a pull quote in this oral history of DOGE!!! www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

Izquierda Derecha, by Juan Genovés, 1967, 📸 via @beysicc

Beautiful. Go Hoosiers #iufb

IL coach Bret Bielema was "at a loss for words" after the Illini's most-lopsided loss as a ranked team in the AP Poll era. "I've never been a part of anything like that," Bielema said. Well, yeah you have, Bret. 2010, remember? You were just on the other side of it. How does this side taste? #iufb

Photojournalism by the Tribune's @staceywescott.bsky.social

A Few Thoughts on KimmelGeddon talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few...

Readers frequently offer advice on my columns, with a common theme of helping me be more persuasive. I appreciate the comments, but I should make clear that these columns are not designed to be persuasive. Neither economics professors nor economic... indianacitizen.org/hicks-commen... #edchat

Right now there's a clear and obvious relationship between social media and anti-social behavior, and we cannot go on like this.

Extremists need each other to make the center untenable.

‘New York Times’ Announces New Columnist Will Contribute Nothing To Society 3 Times A Week

Once again thinking about Macaulay Culkin walking into the Parisian café where the wifi password was “Macaulay Culkin” and the owner saying “I knew you’d come here someday”

ATP Reveals They’re Not Sure Where Ball Boys Come From https://theonion.com/atp-reveals-theyre-not-sure-where-ball-boys-come-from/

IU Men's Soccer jumps from #4 to #1 in the Coaches Poll. #iums

Another good one from @digiantiquarian.bsky.social - this on the rise and fall of the Choose Your Own Adventure series. For me, like many others, "Cave of Time" was the gateway to "Zork." Never would have guessed that I have the woman behind "Sweet Valley High" to thank for it all.

"Like every other online reactionary movement, [MAHA/health misinformation is] half an engagement play ... and half a political wedge to open a path for more extremist content, in this case Evangelical trad lifestyle influencers who literally want to send us back to the Stone Age."

Thanks to @indianacitizen.org for posting the story on Indiana's 1995 redistricting fight that I did for @limestonepost.bsky.social. indianacitizen.org/limestone-po...

I am aware of all Internet traditions but, in this case, wish that I was not.

J.D. Vance is about to get very into technical Greek etymology.

Unbeaten and Unbothered: Indiana Men’s Soccer Is Off to Its Best Start in Nearly 30 Years #iums hoosierhuddle.com/2025/09/08/u...

Mayor Pete, urging citizens to engage state/local health officials: "The problem with RFK Jr. isn’t just that he’s a quack who makes a mockery of the idea of science and medicine in public policy. The problem is that he’s a quack with power over your health, and he’s using his power to hurt you."

Another great IU (#4) soccer performance last night. They played #16 St. Louis and picked up a 1-0 victory. Oduro had a crafty goal in traffic at the 7' mark, marking the first score against St. Louis all season. After that, IU held on (barely) against some pretty fierce St. Louis attacks. #iums

RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.

Always love these posters #iufb

“Quiet night, Jimmy?” “Yeah. You want that topped off?” “Not just yet, thanks.” “Mind if I put on the TV?” “Anything but the fucking news.”

IU Men's soccer (3-0-1) against #14 Oregon State last night. Went up 1-0 on a penalty kick in the 17th minute. One minute into the second half, it was a beautiful cross by Nesci to the back post where Ault buried it for the 2-0 final score. #iums Also, Hoosier the Bison with the Crabb Band.

I.U. Men's Soccer (2-0-1) came from behind for third match in a row. Last night, they beat Green Bay 2-1 on the strength of two goals within about 45 seconds in the second half. Green Bay had gone up 1-0 in the first 2 minutes after a really well played header from a cross into the box. #iums

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Fascinating write-up of some of the social media dynamics underpinning the most recent Cracker Barrell dust-up. (H/t @flotisserie.bsky.social for cluing me into @garbageday.email).

Watched IU Men's Soccer v. San Francisco last night. For the second match in a row, they went down 0-2 (this time, very quickly giving up two goals in the first 25 minutes). But, they rallied to win 3-2. Jacopo Fedrizzi scored two of IU's three. #iums

The law is a fiction of consensus. Words on paper don't transmute into "law" unless and until a sufficient number of people, more or less voluntarily,* agree to conform their actions to the words on that paper. (*Guys with guns can still force you to do stuff, however.)

Good recap. Clemson looked like the better team during most of the first half. I don't know if it was more their pressure or our ball handling, but IU had trouble retaining possession or spending much time on Clemson's side of the field. Coming back from 0-2 made the draw feel like a win. #iums

Seems like a cushy job. Summers off and seven opinions per year with the help of four Ivy League law clerks.

Fun fact: There is no such thing as “the biblical Antichrist.” Chapter and verse, buddy. It ain’t there. It’s folklore. Extrabiblical and antibiblical. The screenplay for The Omen is not canon.

Next week I'll begin my fifteenth year as a political communication professor. I wrote up some thoughts on what it's like trying to teach this subject while everything falls apart. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

The Midwest does not fair well on this list. Nine of the top twelve.

Indiana basketball played an exhibition game against "Mega Superbet," and I'm pretty sure I will never get to a place where I can take that seriously as a team name. #iubb

In this Indiana diner, everyone has three questions: How’s the breaded tenderloin? Is the quarry hiring? And why won't that guy in Martha's Vineyard sell pierogis to Alan Dershowitz?

Governing is boooooring.

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." ---Anatole France

Good reporting, depressing news.

Scientists and researchers created vaccines to small pox, to polio, to Covid. This just dropped on Friday. We are thiiiiiis close to an AIDS vaccine and these motherfuckers (excuse my language; I’m pissed) pull the plug. This is an amoral administration with no empathy or compassion.

"Especially when coupled with more recent events, the document makes clear that violent neo-Nazis and far-right militia groups continue to pose a serious and ongoing threat—and that state governments are failing in their duty to secure dangerous military hardware."

Good write-up of research on the "is college worth it" question. (Short version: "yes - with a couple of caveats.") My take is that a lot of the "college isn't worth the money" discourse is just dressed up culture war bullshit.

This is good. Vance is just clever enough to realize that his politics cannot survive a reading of the Gettysburg Address. But he’s nowhere near clever enough to convince anyone that a nation conceived in liberty is a bad idea.

Geology Murder xkcd.com/3112/

My first reaction was, What is going on in the House?! It turns out, though, that the Senate is the outlier here. By this point in the last session, it had spent 495 hours in session; I think the last time it had sat so long by this point in a session was 2007 (747 hrs).