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.

the intense Buffy nostalgia is not really nostalgia, I think, just longing for the best show to ever explain that you have to keep on fighting the Big Bads even when you don’t want to do it anymore

My very normie top four Buffy episodes were “Hush,” “The Body,” “Becoming Part 2” and “Once More, With Feeling” but I was always ready to argue for “The Zeppo” at #5. R.I.P. Xander/ Nicholas Brendon. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/n...

Notably, this op-ed from DFER contains not one single idea for improving education -- just warmed-over centrist scolding of Democrats for not supporting the Republican school privatization agenda plus stale COVID grief. wapo.st/4t0yh3h

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

As someone who was into environmentalism in the 70s, 80s, I remember the panic about overpopulation. Its true sources were not obvious to naive me, and as it subsided, I didn't make this connection either

9/ Ehrlich knew this was a problem. Paul & Anne conceded in 1970 that the genocide charge against population control was not "entirely unjustified." But you can't centre "too many people" as your diagnosis and then be surprised when racists take up your argument!

7/ The Population Bomb called for research into "mass sterilizing agents." Ehrlich in 1969: "not all compulsory methods are necessarily horrifying." When India sterilised 8 million men and China imposed the one-child policy, Western environmentalism had provided the intellectual cover

1/ Paul Ehrlich died this week at 93. The takes split into hagiography and dismissal. But the interesting question isn't whether he got it right, he didn't, it's why he got it wrong, and who was asking the right questions instead 🧵

Absurd, obviously false authoritarian propaganda.

1/ This obituary of Paul Ehrlich says nothing about the direct connection between his apocalyptic (and wildly incorrect) predictions of mass starvation and the anti-immigration movement currently ruling American government. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/b...

1/ This obituary of Paul Ehrlich says nothing about the direct connection between his apocalyptic (and wildly incorrect) predictions of mass starvation and the anti-immigration movement currently ruling American government. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/b...

Congratulations to Ryan Coogler on beginning his decades-long long journey toward making several more indisputable Best Pictures before being rewarded a make-up Oscar for his fifth or sixth best movie.

Arizona taxpayers footed the bill for Ticketmaster tix and Broadway to the tune of 350K. All of these purchases were allowable under current ESA rules.

"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning" got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing

🧵 Arizona Ed said it analyzed a random sample of 3K ESA transactions & concluded 1.9% of ESA $ unallowable. TLDR: 🫠They did not draw a random sample 🫠Either ADE lied or made a very basic error 🫠Focusing on unallowed misses big picture; too many low-ROI for human capital items are allowed 1/10

⚠️ The escalation of the Vietnam War to direct US ground combat involvement began on March 8, 1965, with the landing of 3,500 US Marines from the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade.

this means it is not open for transit

I want my synagogue to be able to welcome newcomers and to let our kids walk freely through the halls. I want to spend our budget on programs, not paid-duty police. I don't want having a preschool in a synagogue to feel like a terrible risk. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

The kicker here is 🤌. When pressed as to why he, a 20-something with no experience in scholarly peer review or grant making, is qualified to summarily cancel fed gov't "DEI" contracts, he says a person who reads books & has life experience knows enough. Oh really, which books? "There were no books."

It was 80 degrees with air conditioners running last night

Long sought by both the right and left, Trump-era changes to higher ed could actually protect consumers and lower costs, @jonmarcusboston.bsky.social writes.

my “I have no reports of mines in the Strait of Hormuz but Iran must remove them immediately” tshirt has people asking a lot of questions answered by the tshirt

Way way up on the list of phrases that absolutely should not follow “Like I said” people.com/trump-says-i...

Noem's departure brings the "number of cabinet secretaries known to be openly cheating on their spouses" count down to the mid-single digits

Haha

She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point

I just found a 2024 charge for $1,348.03 to French Laundry - the 3 Michelin star restaurant in California - in Arizona ESA reimbursements.

Call me old-fashioned but I don’t think the snow symbol and “79 degrees” should appear in the same six-day weather forecast

Got a cab near the Department of Education. Hadn’t seen the Charlie Kirk banner before.

Happy Birthday, Dean Smith

Hyperion is a true all-timer, RIP Dan Simmons.

This is such a frustrating thing to see when there are so few outlets for book reviews left. Just a waste of precious space and resources. open.substack.com/pub/markoppe...