What a headline! Maggots in the soft serve?

Via myself and @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social: In a new brief, Catholic bishops call Trump's assault on birthright citizenship an affront to Catholic teaching —> religionnews.com/2026/02/27/u...

“Rather than weakening Maliki, [Trump’s] intervention has galvanized Shiite political actors under the banner of national sovereignty — including those who do not typically support him.” Yasir Kuoti and @smako.bsky.social warontherocks.com/2026/02/why-...

don't forget to vote in the primary when y'all's primary is varies, but for my Texas folks you can vote early or you can vote on Tuesday

Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

GOP in 2028: “We’re eating the dogs, we’re eating the cats!”

The Republican midterms platform: "here's what you can eat now that you can't afford hamburger"

« The historians’ brief — authored by Professor Martha S. Jones and Professor Kate Masur — centers on the pre–Civil War advocacy of free Black Americans for a broad and inclusive principle of birthright citizenship. » www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Edith Sampson, American lawyer, jurist. The first African-American woman elected to Illinois bench as judge of the Cook County Circuit Court (1962). The first African-American U.S. delegate appointed to the United Nations #womenshistory #BlackHistoryMonth #LawSky #law #UnitedNatons #gov #BHM #woc

"The new American dream, for some of its citizens, is to no longer live there."

27 Feb 1942 // Destroyer HMS Jupiter struck a mine after straying into a Dutch minefield off Toeban (now Tuban) on the north coast of Java, and sank with the loss of 99 crew. (Imperial War Museum image: A 691) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

‘All traditional parties were beaten by two insurgents taking 70 per cent of the vote. A wide field of plausible competitors under first past the post will make the next general election difficult to predict. ’ @piercepenniless.bsky.social on the Greens’ victory. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

Saudi Aramco bringing shale gas revolution to Arabian Desert reut.rs/4cBNN0D

"While increasing nutrient supply improves the killing of bacteria, excess nutrients can unexpectedly promote regrowth of resistant subpopulations."

Buried prone in 1550 by Catholic Church to erase memory, the #Aztec #SunStone survived 200 years underground & later, bullet strikes from USA soldiers using it as target practice. This 1886 #Photography shows it on the Cathedral wall before its final home. #Resilience that refused to be forgotten.

really good piece and I want to highlight this theme here, something I’ve become obsessed with: LLMs simply cannot evaluate the objective truth of any claim or the relative value of any information

Carel Fabritius, born on this day in 1622, studied w/ Rembrandt in the 1640s & picked up a lot of ideas. His Raising of Lazarus, 1643, is full of them!

“So, can we expect another death? Yes, I think we’re getting there where we can expect another death,” www.cnn.com/2026/02/27/h...

Astronomers have produced the largest and most detailed map ever made of the vast web of cold cosmic gas stretching across the heart of our galaxy, showing thread-like filaments resembling rivers of material flowing through space reut.rs/40D8RME

BARTIROMO: Patriotism is spreading. You announced your Pledge America Campaign, encouraging broadcasters to air more pro-America content, such as starting each day with the Pledge of Allegiance CARR: We're in the midst of a great revival. President Trump is truly the political colossus of our time

i hope you find something in life you're as excited about as Trump is about his freakin' ballroom

one under-discussed crisis in Silicon Valley is that startups are having to dig ever deeper into the lore of Tolkien to find their names

Irish cream goldens have tails the size of 34 corgis

That doggo tail tho

Sore losers? 😓 @katharinalawall.bsky.social, @katerinamichalaki.bsky.social & @mtsakiris.bsky.social use survey experiments after major U.S. elections to test whether reminding people of a party's loss, and their reactions to it 🤬, makes them more or less supportable 📣

UK Greens have been running ON values, hammering argument "if you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money," & calling out scapegoating. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/w...

Appreciate this helpful and detailed review by @devinfitz.bsky.social

Even if you really believe that the only valuable things to major in, from a vocational perspective, are STEM subjects & business/economics (you don't, but fine, we'll pretend you do for the moment), those things are of extremely limited use in a vacuum, without broader education/skills.

👇🎯 All related to the abject poverty of the category error analogy that universities are businesses & students are customers. If we're going there (which we shouldn't) then the <students> are the <product> & society/the polity is the <customer> & we are producing well-educated human beings.

New in Early Medieval Europe: what role did animals play in early medieval medicinal and well-being practices? A study by Holly Miller and Christina Lee (£) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

At one point, to the frustration of Tehran’s team, Witkoff had to break off his talks with Araghchi, to drive across the Swiss city to meet Ukrainian negotiators.’ Wotta way to run diplomacy. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Jason is gone presenting, what does that mean for…. During the week a dog named Bunsen texts his family. Those texts are saved. Today they are shared. This is Texts From Bunsen!

Israel's Supreme Court has temporarily blocked the government from shuttering the Gaza operations of dozens of aid organisations which petitioned the court in a dispute over new Israeli rules requiring them to name Palestinian staff.

We might go to war with Iran tomorrow, so what’s the SECDEF up to? The SECDEF:

The find promises new insights into one of the most famous ideological transitions in the history of science: the moment when Earth was thrust from the center of our universe. Cool story by @joshuasokol.bsky.social for @science.org

NEW: My office just blocked Trump's demands for personal data of SNAP recipients and applicants. Trump's repeated attempts at punishing states that won't comply with his immigration agenda aren't just unlawful- they're cruel. I grew up on SNAP. I'll never stop fighting to keep food on the table.

Trump’s immigration agenda sows fear among Central Florida tourism workers

this is a great brief and it appropriately ends with a killshot: the simple observation that if trump's meaning held, the birthright clause would not have overturned dred scott, the one thing it was absolutely meant to do.

Will be live on YT in 30 minutes to talk about how not 3 months ago Larry Ellison was talking about the White House about pulling *specific CNN anchors off the air.* From @hugolowell.bsky.social:

Good job, New York Times. Directly calling Trump's case for war with Iran based on "false" claims that "do not hold up." In the headline, top of the homepage. And no hedging with "critics say." I don't think they ever did that in the lead up to Iraq, and rarely do anything like it for Trump's lies.