on my hands and knees pleading with journalists to remember that $1.776 billion rounds to $1.8 billion and not $1.7 billion

Enjoyed talking to @kang.bsky.social for his @newyorker.com piece about the higher education enrollment cliff: www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

well, lucky for us fox news hosts arent in charge of the military lol can you even imagine what a disaster that would be

M: I made bilions selling software that lets people go on the internet. E: Great. Thanks. Good on you. M: Now I have some ideas to share about the future of civilization. E: Huh. Cool, I guess. Have you run them by anybody? M: You're not listening! I sold software so people can go on the internet!

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

Win the election Kill the filibuster Pack the Court If that’s not your plan then you don’t have one

Not the Turing test exactly but feels like progress

The problem w/ how Dems communicate isn't big words. It's that they often create complex two-beat logics to get to what they think voters care about: eg, "For the cost of the Iran War, we could fund health care for 30 million people"--not wrong, but two points, tenuously related. Just say one thing!

Florida parents have an exciting new opportunity to make sure their kids will be denounced as racist idiots when they get to college.

Yesterday's 56th anniversary of the Kent State Massacre didn't get much attention, but it should have. The shots fired then were only the beginning of a right-wing crusade to silence college campuses. In a crisis of democracy, 1970's bullets still echo My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

The insurrectionists eventually got what they wanted

"Art and culture stay with us. It’s the wars we’re ashamed of." observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

Hey #edusky / #datasky: I'm hiring! If you're a data person who cares about education equity, social equality, and working toward a less divided America, check it out! newamerica.applytojob.com/apply/LVDvuZ... #datajobs #edjobs #edpolicy

84% of Iowa students taking public funding to attend private school have never been in public school

Official data is in today, and US solar power generation continues to grow rapidly, up 25% compared to this time last year!

Nothing like a good book manuscript copyeditor to hammer home the point that I, allegedly professional writer, do not know the difference between "like" and "such as"

I'm old enough to remember when scandal-plagued senior government officials were usually on the other side of these transactions www.thedailybeast.com/top-donald-t...

It’s funny that Texas decided to do mid-decade gerrymander shenanigans and as a result I can now walk through four different Congressional districts on my way to get beer at the 7-11

This message lost by 24 points

As a dog owner I agree with a lot of this but not "no public dog parks." Nobody says there shouldn't be public tennis courts because tennis balls aren't people.

surely no army in military history has ever been laid low by disease, a famously uncommon problem among people living in enforced close quarters

Today! There's a streaming option if you aren't in DC.

pope tweets good

The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar. Apparently like every day.

Granted the online Pitt discourse is 90% deranged but I have to admit it's kind of nice to have everyone talking about the TV show I watched at 9PM sharp last night. As soon as they said "pre-eclampsia" I flashed back to everyone I knew looking haunted the morning after "Love's Labor Lost."

Today, #HigherEd is facing an authoritarian challenge—and the old playbook for defending it isn’t enough. Next week, the @alliancehighered.bsky.social will join our director @kevincarey1.bsky.social to “radically re-imagine” the role of American universities. 💡 www.newamerica.org/events/the-f...

Quite excited for this event. Will really have to hold myself back from asking about Lee's thoughts on original rhony. There's a livestream in case you can't attend in person but want to watch!

Join us and @newamerica.org on 4/21 for a conversation about the role of higher ed as the fifth pillar of democracy and how building a durable defense for the sector requires embedding that principle in law, institutional culture, and the public imagination. Learn more and register: bit.ly/4tawBV9

Russ Vought specifically calls out USAID as something he's proud of (illegally) dismantling. The cut foreign aid has likely already killed hundreds of thousands of people and will eventually kill millions.

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

With 23 years of continuous work as a letterer, and over 30 years of print/production experience, I’m now unable to find any new lettering work in comics. Please keep me in mind when staffing your creator-owned projects and please consider requesting me on your WFH projects 🙏

While our school shut down these depts/programs and majors, the state leg launched a new barrage of bills vs the university, targeting teaching content, president hiring rules, residency quotas/visa limits, and trying to mandate “civics” courses for all students—but only taught within this center.

right winner, wrong score just centimeters below a completely fake headline that invalidates the incorrect score

“I believe we are in crisis. The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil.”

This is the answer to Jeff Bezos’s question: what do we need all those editors for?

The @washingtonpost.com can’t even write accurate headlines over the wire service stories in its fake Sports section. Sad.

The great thing about shooting The Pitt on a Los Angeles soundstage is that every old patient is played by a veteran character actor you can't name but have seen in a million things.

ABC reports that Mike Flynn’s reward for committing crimes for Trump will be $1.2M. abcnews.com/US/doj-pay-t...

Because of a line on a map, students living just a few miles apart can end up living completely different realities at school. ↘️ This week, our Education Funding Equity initiative released new insights into how redistricting could reduce segregation and unlock more equitable school funding.

"the good news is that we have found a relatively cheap and easy way to prevent the cast from going through puberty. the bad news is that not everybody in this room is going to like it".

1/ #NACIQI day two starts off with strong words from ED officials David Barker and Jeffrey Andrade, arguing that forcing an ED appointee off the committee is part of preserving 'viewpoint diversity' - to be clear this person was appointed by the current ED Secretary

Dad is right and he was right to say it, he was right then and he’s right now (it’s me, I’m Dad)

This is the one. theonion.com/after-obama-...

Eat shit, lol, and long live The Onion.

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

Chris Murphy: "It's just disgusting, it's so heartbreaking that we have a president who is cheerleading the death of American citizens. Mueller is amongst many who have been trying to hold this president to account. He's the most corrupt president in the history of the country."

Alan Moore and David Lloyd, 1982

I feel very lucky to have known the great Tad Tomkins, who died today, and I so admired the way he kept on writing right into his hundredth year. What a life. What a loss. Here's to Tad. www.newyorker.com/culture/post...

Professors & university staff were targeted & fired for less than this just a few months ago.