FACT OF THE DAY. 26 March 1953. In a huge medical breakthrough, US medical researcher Dr Jonas Salk announced that he had created the first polio vaccine. Polio cases fell from 58,000 per year in 1952 to 6,000 by 1958. Salk’s vaccine was replaced by a new one developed by Albert Sabin in 1962.

In three months, Zohran Mamdani has: -Delivered millions in restitution for workers cheated by fast food and delivery companies -Cracked down on bad landlords -Launched the first stage of a universal childcare program -Fixed thousands of potholes in NYC streets This is what leadership looks like.

The bursary application deadline for this is 7 April 👇 #MedievalSky palaeography.uk/study/short-...

I do not see why English departments and writing programs in New York, Massachusetts, California should grant college credit for studying an AP canon set by anonymous actors governing a Texan school district.

A painting by Caravaggio — The Taking of Christ (also known as The Kiss of Judas). Stolen from a museum in Odesa in 2008. Found years later, seriously damaged. Restored piece by piece by Ukrainian restorers. I saw it today at the Metropolitan House on the grounds of Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv.

Jewish life in America, 2026.

Killing people. Not just Renee Good & Alex Pretti.

🥁🎉BOOK LAUNCH AT KALAMAZOO🎉🥁

you can easily condemn Israel and its commission of war crimes and ethnic cleansing & genocide without endorsing baseless conspiracy theories that antisemitic violence targeting Jewish synagogues/ambulances/schools in Canada/the US/the UK are false flags staged by Jews to gain public sympathy!

I also don't think this place gets enough respect, but Cozy Soup & Burger near NYU

If you’re traveling, follow these digital security practices to keep federal authorities from getting into your phone.

Unsurprisingly ++Sarah looks a little overwhelmed. It's a huge and difficult job.

Dispatches from American airports I've received today (3/25/26) ⬇️

"My daughter has inflammation in her heart, something called 'acute pericarditis'…I told them about this condition when we first got here. But the medical staff did nothing. When I take her to the medical area because she is in pain, they do not attend to her." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Progress-that-doesn’t-look-like-progress report: Deleted 2.5 pages of book. #perplexed

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Been thinking a lot lately about something my 11th grade US history teacher said about the Vietnam War: “Tie goes to the home team.”

Bari stormed the scene claiming to have grand insights into the modern virality of social media, but it turns out she's just shitty at everything, including agitprop

People Die While Companies Profit from Concentration Camps

Important reminder that sometimes this regime just Says Shit, with no actual intention to do what they've claimed. It's part of what makes them so dangerous: Sometimes they really do intend to do shitty things, & others they're lying or bullshitting to vice signal to their base & intimidate enemies

We need to remember the Triangle Fire not only because it was a tragedy but because it made people realize they can mobilize together and bring change. The fire made people understand why we need unions and then propelled them to do something about it. 🗃️

Did you know you could pre-order a copy of The Public Scholar from @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social? Help a local bookstore. Help a local author. And if you want it signed, I'll drive over. We're about a month out. :) moonpalacebooks.com/item/I12x_a-...

In Portuguese a manatee is called peixe-boi (or “bull fish”) and in Dutch zeekoe (or “sea cow”). In English a group of manatees is called an aggregate of manatees, though I think a better term would be either a “manateam” or “manytees” (in the same way a group of dugongs should be called a “dugang”)

Fantastic to see this experimental archaeological research being funded. I have no doubt it will add to the growing body of evidence, already presented by Victoria Whitworth and Thomas Keyes, that the Book of Kells was made at Portmahomack in Easter Ross. #MedievalSky

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instead, it's because we have a horrible, unqualified, cruel president who doesn't care about law or governing and has hired craven fools to run his agencies based on loyalty, not knowledge or even basic skills.

Colleagues, I'm trying to make some recommendations to students for how to study for an upcoming essay exam that will ask them to make an argument about a set of 2-4 texts that they have read for class and that they will have in front of them. What would you add?

OMG these photos of ICE agents standing around uselessly nearby the long security lines, these are brutal

Cheap AI slop is the aesthetic register of fascism, as Walter Benjamin would have predicted.

Next time some AI executive says he will control all knowledge and sell it back to people you tap the sign Wollstonecraft wrote: WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE THERE CAN BE NO MORALITY! -vindication of the rights of woman (1792)

NEW: Former Trump official Steve Bannon suggested the president deployed ICE officers to major U.S. airports as a “test run” for using them in upcoming elections. According to the administration, they will not assist TSA with passenger screenings but instead guard exit lanes or check IDs.

In case you missed it, I wrote about Elizabeth Cady Stanton for The New Yorker.

As Iran recently found out, your external enemies absolutely will try to hack all of your surveillance systems intended to control your internal enemies - and often, they’ll succeed.

Main goal of war is now solving specific problem war created?

So, who else thinks the world cup in the United States will be a bust, as well as the 250 anniversary of the nation? Discuss.

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How long until this reduces the prep time we're allotted for each class? How long until it's used as a reason to increase class sizes because we are no longer grading? I worry that admin will use this to overload faculty with classes whether we use it or not.

“It’s okay, these things happen,” is the appropriate response to a subway delay due to a signal malfunction at Columbus Circle, not to an airplane hitting a fire truck leading to multiple fatalities.

Sheep have horns like that, right? Makes ‘em easier to count.

If you spot ICE agents at an airport in the coming days, I want to hear from you. Reach me via Signal at marisakabas.04

“One rationale for this war has remained clear and consistent: the administration’s delight in displays of violence and domination.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/o...

Doctors across the nation are alarmed that skepticism fueled by rising anti-science sentiment and medical mistrust is increasingly reaching beyond vaccines to other safe and routine care for babies.

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

How can this go on for another 3 years?

It's been offline for a couple of months due to hosting issues, but the Video Game Soda Machine Project archive is back online again. If you've ever wanted to browse through more than 3,000 screenshots of soda machines from video games dating back as far as 1983, this is the site for you.

As someone whose great grandmother was sent to a concentration camp by a Nazi at a border crossing…..to me y’all sound like “at least the Gestapo won’t be dragging people out of their homes, they’re just hanging around train stations, I’ll take it.”

Yeah, why would anyone need to know about the Middle East, Latin America, or Russia right now?

“Sunsetting”, “reimagining”… Don’t let hand-wavy bullshit language distract you. This is the elimination of fields of academic study because the admins are afraid of the weakest and most disorganized president in modern history. Do not forget who the cowards were. dailyorange.com/2026/03/suns...

It’s so disgraceful. Slashing cancer and Alzheimer’s research serves no one. It’s just cruelty as policy and incompetence in leadership. This is the revolution conspiracy theorist Robert Kennedy Jr. promised. The utter destruction of American public health, research dominance, and modern science.