Today, all good people celebrate the April 9, 1865 surrender of the traitor Lee and his slavery-supporting army at Appomattox to the U.S Army led by General Grant.

NEW: A federal judge has ordered the DOJ to hand over all it's evidence in the murder of Renee Nicole Good in the next 3 weeks. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

As some asshole with a blog has been known to write, "Nothing in movement conservatism makes sense except in the light of creationism" (with apologies to Dobzhansky).

"Humanity had hoped that as a species we had maybe learned why it is not cool for great powers to threaten to obliterate entire civilizations. That way lies not just madness, but reciprocal cataclysm." On the pod @rosabrooks.bsky.social is so good on Leavitt/Hegseth: newrepublic.com/article/2088...

Happy 161st Confederate Surrender Day to you and yours

Lovely comic collaboration between Terry Tao @teorth.bsky.social and Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social, on what mathematicians are actually like. Less weird than you might think! Apparently they really care about oranges. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sphere...

I don’t mean to be a spoiler of good times but you should not party with the president if he fairly regularly threatens to jail or potentially bankrupt you if you don’t write the news how he thinks you should Like, skip the dinner and just go to the after parties if u really wanna party

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

THIS SUMS IT UP AS WELL AS ANYONE CAN:

Traitor Trump must be removed from power immediately. It doesn’t matter if he tacos back and forth about wiping out entire civilizations or not. This shit has to end. Caitlin is spot on with this. Today’s children are going to suffer when their lives are on the line later in these bullshit wars.

The Generals are gone. The AG is gone. We started a war. Gas is up. Healthcare is up. Prescriptions are up. The rich are richer. The poor are poorer. Protesters have been killed. Service members have been killed. The law is a suggestion. The constitution is a memory. We. Are. Not. Okay.

At the very least, every outfit that called for Biden to step down because he was too old should be writing headlines now about how Trump is unfit for office (or anything)

Yes, they are. And it’s demonstrably worse since 2023-it’s genuinely alarming. Think about how big tech has control over how and what this generation thinks, and how they make decisions. And it’s why I think AI free classrooms are necessary and anyone who wants to tell me otherwise can kick rocks

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

If I had to describe AI in just one word, that word would be “boring.” Thinking, reading, making mistakes and learning from them is exciting. Brainstorming with colleagues is fun. Helping students find their way through tricky questions is rewarding. Everyone reciting canned slop is hellishly dull.

I'm here because my Jewish grandparents escaped the Holocaust. Many of our family were not so fortunate. NEVER AGAIN is supposed to include Iranians. And Palestinians. And Ukrainians. And on and on. There are no exceptions based on religion or country of origin.

An important thing to remember about the Iran War, at the strategic level, is that there was never any reason for it to start, there's no reason for it continue, and the people involved are too stupid to allow it to end

Because what‘s happening isn’t really that NASA is in trouble. What‘s happening is NASA is being transformed. What’s happening is that climate science and astrophysics are in trouble. The nature of the transformation is important. And again, most people don’t read past the headline/post.

Every day he remains the president the more the USA becomes Russian. I wish the people of the US would take a look at what daily life is like in Russia and imagine how they would deal with life if it were them. Maybe then they would rise up.

There are so many entries on the list of "headlines I'd never thought I'd see", but this one will be near the top. Top FEMA Official Doubles Down on Claim He Teleported to Waffle House newrepublic.com/post/208460/... via @newrepublic.com

Given the wide range of student pranks at NRAO over the years, that's quite an accomplishment. 😂

The fact that Trump supports Victor Orban and Vladimir Putin tells you everything about his hatred of democracy and love of authoritarianism. “Only I can…” means his ego is corrupt. NOTE: Republicans are also uninterested in the democratic rule of law. Any attempt to say otherwise is performative.

What a fucking dipshit. Shows that he automatically associates pedophilia with his president. And now he'll be a felon like him, too. 🖕😅🖕

Heather Cox Richardson has a larger audience than almost any dudefluencer. More informed. Better values & policy preferences. And yet there are no profiles, no elevation or lionization, because there's *nothing* US media is less interested in than middle-aged lib women. No diner interviews for them.

Her grin knowing how this arrest looks (Published in The Atlantic today)

protesting in this outfit is a real “heads I win, tails you lose” moment when it comes to the optics

"If China finally eclipses the United States as the world’s preeminent scientific superpower, there won’t be an official announcement". I'm sorry, but that "announcement" was already made. It was January 20, 2025. www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

like, look, i'm not ever going to see eye to eye on some issues with the guy who thinks we should abolish the concepts of "money" and "religion". but i don't doubt that, when It Happens, he's going to be cheering as loud as I will. and that counts for a lot.

Walz: We will never leave the side of our Somali Minnesotans. Here's our pledge to you, our Somali Minnesotans, your great grandchildren will still be here when that orange clown is in the dustbin of history.

❌️👑 #NoKings

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The fact Trump can offhandedly say "oh yeah, we're gonna invade Cuba next after this illegal war" is evidence enough that the US isn't a democracy rn He has usurped the powers of the purse and of war, and is imprisoning people with impunity. There are very few other classical indicators of tyranny.

Another Canadian, for the win!🔥🇨🇦

Trans people getting punished for using a public restroom with steeper penalties than repeat drunk drivers makes it abundantly clear this isn't about public safety, it's about killing trans people. Trans rights and prison abolition are needed. No compromise.

Just finished talking to students about why the humanities are even more important in this age of AI. Efficiency isn't always the most important goal. Reading carefully and knowing how to think critically is valuable on its own--even if that takes longer.

apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers

Hey, y'all! This is my photo, so let me provide context to this awesome piece: it's a reprinting of the Oberlin letter in a mag called The Luddite Dispatch, a publication of The Luddite Club in Brooklyn. www.theludditeclub.org

It’s Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Day. The fact that everyone knows about the Titanic and no one knows about the largest industrial disaster of the era says a lot about our priorities and how we view class and labor

"A new study out of Cornell Universit found workers most excited and impressed by corporate speak may be the least equipped to make effective, practical business decisions, and it can leave companies with dysfunctional leaders."

"Bunch of guys obsessed with Ancient Sparta can't beat the Persians at sea" was probably one of the known-knowns, come to think of it.

When this happens & @cnn.com and the @nytimes.com aren't putting "The Government Is Raping Your Children" in its headlines, you have to question every story they've ever written. What purpose does it serve to silence the stories of rape? How does withholding that info help public understanding?

We're calling it "Far Nuclear."

Announcing the Zero Token architecture. Instead of burning AI tokens, you learn to think for yourself, and complete tasks using your brain.

Every reporter wants to be Woodward and Bernstein, but fearlessly and doggedly uncovering the malfeasance of the powerful is difficult and dangerous, so instead they just write as if they have fearlessly and doggedly uncovered the malfeasance of the powerless.

Nothing says "freedom" like making women register pregnancies with the state.

If AI can replace your grad students and do your research for you, why would your university pay you to be an academic in the first place.