He did not “accuse” them of it. He’s a judge. He “found” that they had, in fact, done so. JFC NPR, do better.

This is something that someone who doesn’t want to pay his fair share in taxes would say. Tax the rich.

I use the no AI tag for Google searches in my browser and those searches have been getting weird for a long time. But last night I just wanted to check who one of the senators from Colorado was and looking up "Colorado senators" did not give me info on either in the top results.

My kingdom for a tech ecosystem that will stop smothering me with apps and devices that constantly try to engage me in conversation against my will

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

This is dystopian.

This really struck me because what is obvious to instructors (that the process matters for so many reasons) is going to be less and less obvious to our students who are already growing up with the constant message that AI will reduce the friction in their lives. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

It's a mystery to me why college graduates on their big day thinking about a dismal job market and an uncertain future would boo the "job killing machine."

Last stages of graduation prep are underway in anticipation of our department's ceremony and celebration on Sunday. I apologize in advance to everyone for my inevitable evolution into Chris Fleming's Gayle Waters-Waters over the next two days... www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBwE...

I saw an online creator call a course syllabus the “pdf of prophecy” and I fear I will be adopting this phrase immediately.

John Lewis said it best: In a democracy, the right to vote is the most powerful, nonviolent tool we have. People marched, protested & bled for that right. But today it's under attack. We must defend the right to vote & we can start by passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.

Mifepristone is safe. Mifepristone is safe. Mifepristone is safe. Moreover, the risk of dying during and after a pregnancy is 44 to 70 times the risk of dying from an abortion. — JAMA Network Open, 1/26

BREAKING: A conservative court packed with Trump-appointed judges just ruled to ROLL BACK access to the abortion pill. This is a page straight out of extremist Republicans’ anti-abortion playbook. Let me be clear: the abortion pill is safe and effective. We must fight back.

But therein lies the problem. GenAI, at best, substitutes convenience for truth. Maybe the answer is correct, maybe not. Even when it offers "citations," if you follow them back, they're often wrong or misleading. But who would do that? It's not convenient while standing in a busy garden center

love this so much

As the Artemis II crew was rounding the Moon—the first crewed lunar mission in 54 years—the White House was proposing to cut NASA's budget and terminate FIFTY science missions. Here's a timely rundown of just *some* of what we'd lose if those cuts came to pass. www.planetary.org/articles/mee...

Labor is the Hidden Curriculum danny.hellmo.space/posts/labor-... This is the first writing I've done on this project. I'm planning to write something more formal for educators, but this is me trying on the ideas. #iteachphysics #iteachastro #physicssky #academia

What kills me is all those grown ass adults complaining about having to go through an active shooter situation last night & yet none of them give a 2nd thought to teachers & students going through that same exact scenario once or twice a mnth in the form of drills, some of them go through it for…

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. https://scim.ag/4cxQWhl

15. …Are driving a widespread shift in higher education away from a mission-driven institution dedicated to a well-educated, civic-minded, and upwardly mobile public. By treating colleges and universities as businesses, the emphasis shifts to the student experience and “workforce development.”

Meanwhile, in higher ed: 12. Public colleges and universities have seen state funding slashed to a fraction of what they were prior to the 1980’s. 13. State governments are stacking boards with conservatives who select presidents, and hire 14. Consulting firms like Huron (the Enron guys) who…

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

The world is on fire. Oligarchs are breaking everything, and people are justifiably scared, and being happy about a genre award nomination may feel frivolous or not allowed. But we NEED frivolity to survive all the bad things. Be joyous. You EARNED this.

I firmly believe presidents & people with control over medical agencies should understand percentages! If *you* don’t, no judgment; I will explain in the next couple posts how they work. The short version is that Senator Warren is correct in the clip, and there’s NO interpretation in which RFKJr is

Hegseth's repeal of universal flu vaccines is nonsense on so many levels, but his claim vaccine mandates were an "era of betrayal" irked me as a historian. Here's my response, in @thebulwark.com this morning; www.thebulwark.com/p/george-was...

One of my favorite tasks each year is picking out books to gift graduating seniors who have earned honors. I usually aim for STEM-based non-fiction and try to tailor the books to students' interests and am always on the hunt for new options. Please send me recommendations!

Corbin graciously assisted with a remote tutoring session for a nibling on FBDs this evening by demonstrating the effect of balanced forces while at rest in real time.

Pretending to be a physician is, in fact, also not okay.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

I think people are underestimating how angry people are at the corruption.

my best guess is that a Trumpian Pentagon official, high on his own supply as they all are, thought "get your boss to play ball or we will do an Avignon on him" would genuinely intimidate AN 80-YEAR-OLD CARDINAL FROM FRANCE, which is perhaps the funniest thing anyone has ever done at the Pentagon

The City of Pittsburgh just passed legislation banning cooperation with ICE. The vote was unanimous. 🎉🎉🎉

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...

Personally I think when a world leader announces “Tune in tonight at 8pm Eastern to watch the world end” like it’s the fucking season premiere of Roseanne we should have a different leader the next day.

Kim: Three weeks of the war in Iran could have funded vision, hearing, and dental coverage for every senior in America on Medicare. I mean, it just gives you a sense of the trade-off.

FYI if you’re talking about the #Artemis II mission and you want to get the spaceflight terminology right, the mission is “crewed,” not “manned.” (NASA made the terminology change official decades ago, so this isn’t new, but a lot of folks just aren’t aware.)

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

Four Italian wedding soups and a funeral

I tell my students that writing is an exercise in figuring out what you think; it's not a place to deposit what you've already worked out. If you step on a frictionless surface, momentum takes over and you just slide; there's nothing to interact with, which means there's nowhere to stand.

This weekend and always, NO LILIES FOR KITTIES. www.fda.gov/animal-veter...

Just a few days ago, America saw the biggest public political demonstration in the nation's history. 8 million people across the country. Virtually no violence, no incidents of any kind. An absolutely remarkable phenomenon. I'm reminding you because the media's forgotten already.

This is exactly why we need every major outlet to hire dedicated repro reporters - and why I publish Abortion, Every Day. We are *fucked* if our gov't can label IUDs and the pill "abortion" and the nation's biggest papers don't think that's worth writing about

The great Roz Chast

The issue here is just the same as leaving students to use AI as they choose in their learning. They can quite reasonably convince themselves that it is allowing them to learn effectively and efficiently, while actually learning almost nothing. 6/6

My kingdom for a Lyme vaccine 🧪 www.cidrap.umn.edu/lyme-disease...

This is an outstanding thread 🧵 to understand what's happening with DHS funding. It's party faction politics all the way up and all the way down, with a side dish of dysfunctional bicameralism. 👇

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

Who has 2 thumbs and just graduated from physiotherapy?

The Jetsons lied to us

If you can’t attend a No Kings rally in person on Saturday, you can still be there. Here is the link. #NoKings #NoKings3 #VirtualRally