The US isn’t as as bad as Hungary of course but it’s very very obvious that the media environment shapes how people think about political issues! It would be weird to deny it in Hungary and it’s weird when people do it here about trans rights or vaccine hesitancy or anything else.

A lot of Orbán's American fans are saying that this election proved he was never an authoritarian in the first place. This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism. Here's why.

In case anyone wants to watch me present the Student Annual Report to the Board of Regents, here's the link (on at around 9:25am central) www.youtube.com/live/BBFG-qn...

Incandescently livid about this. If you do pollination/honey bee research you know how utterly essential the Beltsville ARC is for protecting American agriculture. This is suicide. nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...

Trump is threatening to eliminate the people of Iran overnight. Years of normalizing genocidal rhetoric and mass violence has brought us to this cataclysmic moment.

Rosa María Carranza has worked and paid taxes for more than two decades, but a provision in the GOP's One Big Beautiful Bill Act will make her and an estimated 100,000 other lawfully present immigrant seniors ineligible for Medicare. Now Carranza's once secure retirement is in question. n.pr/3QmhQjr

Not the main point here, but I do not ever recall a federal agency making significant programmatic and personnel changes as a result of the PRESIDENT'S BUDGET PROPOSAL, which does not change any law or funding allocations. Congress hasn't acted yet. What are we doing here?

After taking time to connect with the Pretti family and with their consent, we are honored to share that we have created the Alex Pretti Nursing Scholarship. For those interested, you can learn more and make a gift here: crowdfund.umn.edu/campaigns/Al...

When you have senior white male military officers willing to end their career by raising concerns about the blocking of Black and female officers, it feels safe to say this isn't about ending DEI: the better historical parallel is Wilson's resegregation of the bureaucracy bsky.app/profile/nbcn...

yep, this is a case of hegseth wanting a whites-only military bsky.app/profile/nanc...

"This is shameful. But, sadly, it is not surprising." www.bangordailynews.com/2026/04/02/o...

The one case in which I would be fine with bringing Gorsuch to UMN is if it’s to ritualistically humiliate Ilan Wurman

Gary was incredible. Always go to the show.

Does anyone have recommendations for an R package that produces IV MTE plots similar to @eckhoffandresen.bsky.social's mtefe STATA package? (ivmte seems to not have quite what I want, but I also might not be using it right 😅)

Blasting Octo Octa in solidarity ✊🏳️‍⚧️

If you really respect the troops, don’t harass their family members.

Poll: should I skip out on a tax info session tomorrow night to see Gary Numan?

If Murakami is going to hit home runs like this, it’s time for White Sox fans to learn Tokyo Ondo youtu.be/rkrCLATzapM?...

Hopefully this can be a model for greater collaboration between labor unions and labor economists moving forward

After running 17 miles this morning and spending 4 hours marching/protesting, my body feels like it’s been hit by a truck. Must be getting old - no other explanation.

I have two siblings who were in the military and my dad’s a veteran and one think I keep thinking about re: this Trump can’t stand next to a Black woman shit is how to anyone who’s not a raging racist it’s them saying achievement and loyalty to country don’t matter

The details here are pretty bad. Hegesth personally intervened after the military officers in charge refused to block the promotion. The officer was told "President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events" by Hegseth's Chief of Staff.

Student visas for Africa’s best and brightest were canceled by the Trump administration, leaving empty seats and broken dreams. “A punch to the heart,” said one woman who lost her scholarship.

CHASE MEIDTROTH!!!

Between Aaron Judge wearing the golden sombrero yesterday and Paul Skenes getting tagged by the Mets today, it would be very funny if all of the outspokenly jingoistic members of Team USA were cursed

Happy Opening Day, nerds (it's me, I'm the nerd)

Excited to *officially* announce I will be an Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow at the Robina Institute next year where I will be working on criminal sentencing and reentry topics. Thank you to @chrisuggen.bsky.social and @aaronsojourner.org for their mentorship! tinyurl.com/26tecw6v

Yeeeeesh

thinking about the hero of this game for Team Venezuela, Eugenio Suárez, and his comments about ICE’s effect on Latino baseball players just last week

So happy for Venezuela 💛💙❤️

GENO!!!

Guinness, vegan corned beef, cabbage and potatoes, and rooting against colonists. Happy St. Patrick’s Day 🍀

“Every single day when I’m out in public, I have to decide,” Nikson Matthews, a transgender man, told lawmakers before the bill passed. “Do I feel like going to jail today, or do I feel like being attacked?” www.advocate.com/politics/sta...

Really great writing from @davyandrewsdavy.bsky.social. I continue to be infuriated by those who want to "keep politics out of sports" when those politics are progressive, but will happily use the platform of sports to whitewash the history of racist policing.

And uhhhhhh that’s why we’re about to have ABS

DR seems like they’re pressing

John Smoltz, shut up

I don’t know what the solution is but I do know that not enough of us are are saying something when the right bashes Zohran specifically for being Muslim when his values are as progressive as they get. The right’s entire critique is that Muslims are too far to the right of them

Biggest takeaway from tonight is DR seems poised to kick the US’ butt on Sunday

I have queued up The Tragically Hip, Wolf Parade, Broken Social Scene, and Feist on TouchTunes in this bar in an attempt to bring good vibes to Team Canada

Team USA vibes continue to be terrible

Well hey, Harper is slower than Witt, so 1000 IQ play by Canada there

tired: harassing athletes for not covering the spread wired: harassing journalists for not making things up

MLB really leaning in to making the vibes surrounding Team USA as noxious as possible

Noooooo, Italy, you're ruining the probability of the funniest possible outcome

Happy for the biggest Team Canada Baseball fan I know @eh-lorenz.bsky.social 🇨🇦

I think there is something to explore that many nations at the WBC have come showing what they love about their country (dancing, celebration, tradition) to represent the people while the American team has shown up representing and only celebrating the military

Infuriating how poor communications from UMN has been on this. There was no prior input from stakeholders. All patients received was a 2-sentence email and a link to a one-pager that left basic questions unanswered including what happens to existing appointments and what services will change.

Great work Italy

White Sox 3 USA 0