Nothing in this report indicates that this Yale committee is even aware of the existence of public 4-year colleges. When laying out the higher ed landscape they only mention "large public land-grant institutions" and "community colleges", leaving out the institutions that serve 70% of US undergrads.

How could The Onion ever parody this?

It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.

Today, Pamela Jo Bondi, our most recent head of the Department of Justice, is blithely ignoring a valid, legal subpoena requiring her to testify before Congress. We are not a nation of laws. We are a nation of some people can get away with anything.

'The post-92 universities, the former polytechnics, the institutions that serve the majority of UK students, are experiencing something qualitatively different from what Oxford and Cambridge are experiencing.' 1/3

This is hell.

Tonight, President Trump posted a long statement describing the Pope as "weak," "terrible" and "hurting the Catholic Church." He followed it less than an hour later by posting an image of himself as Jesus Christ.

Send JD Vance on the campaign trail

Educators and researchers are urging a pivot away from computers and tablets while industry and misguided school leaders push more AI use. Something is going to have to give.

This is not a "you gotta hand it to Alex Jones" comment (bc you do not) but rather an observation that part of how Trump won in 2024 was having the crack far right come on board for him & its indicative of how much he has driven them away again that he's now getting this sort of commentary from them

Leo XIV is the first Pope to be eligible to run for US President.

“In Germany, the AfD distances himself from the Trump administration”

We’re living under a racist fascist kleptocracy and @nytimes.com is asking the hard hitting journalistic questions.

UPDATE: Letters from Leo can now independently confirm that the meeting took place — and that the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Leo shelved plans to visit America. Some officials saw their reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.

A single line in this piece just made my day: “The electricity system operator is understood to be preparing to run the grid without any gas for short periods as soon as this summer, in a first for the UK energy system.” Renewables *work*. And progress matters🎉 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

When the only clinic that offered abortions in Michigan's rural Upper Peninsula closed, an urgent care decided to step in to fill the gap. Now, others are considering similar moves as brick-and-mortar clinics close in blue states. n.pr/4chq6J5

This is completely backwards, of course, and a reminder that Trump has turned our Department of Justice into his own personal law firm with a specialization in revenge. A statement like this should prompt calls for his resignation.

Come on then, and remove him.

If you’re watching us from outside the United States, it’s pretty much as bad as it looks.

Update: I got through and his staff told me they “couldn’t say” whether he supports the use of nuclear weapons in Iran.

I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...

I just feel that I wasted all that classroom time teaching Federalist 51 like it mattered. “This is like the owner’s manual of the Constitution,” I said. That’s my bad, students. Turns out that’s on me.

The CNN and NY Times headlines covering this genocidal madness both say Trump "issues grave threat." Congress is obviously the most culpable for propping up this evil and increasingly unhinged man, but the press is running a close second with their (mostly) gutless coverage.

I'm assuming the reporters who are debasing themselves at the White House Correspondents Dinner are going so the guest of honor at their fancy dinner celebrating the freedom of the press doesn't publicly demand they be fired.

202/ It has been one month since missiles struck Shajareh Tayyebeh school, killing at least 171 people, most of them children. @stephglinski.bsky.social and Mohammad Mohsenifar report on a grieving city. foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/03/m...

1. I know the idea of "norms" went out with Cheers and technically there's no law about presidential medical disclosures, but the White House and its doctors covering up the president's true medical condition ought to be a Watergate-level scandal

FACT CHECK: The same regime is in charge, and the individuals in positions of power are more hardline than those who held those roles before. Trump called them “crazy bastards” just yesterday.

This man is still serving in Congress with the support of Mike Johnson.

Q: How is it taking care of the Iranian people if you're bombing-- TRUMP: Who are you with? Q: PBS TRUMP: That's a radical left group of lunatics

You don't get allied trust after years of public humiliation and implied abandonment. You get exactly what we're seeing. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Good 🧵 here. Also worth making explicit: Iran had telegraphed responses when attacked since Trump assassinated Soleimani, but has twice been attacked during negotiations. Trump admits to arming protesters, then killing Ali Khamenei (+ schoolgirls in Minab) on day one of this war.

Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally” Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”

The founders believed that if a madman became president, members of Congress would serve the country’s interest and remove him from office. That seemed a reliable system to safeguard the republic. Boy, did they screw up.

All of which could be more efficiently done without humans. l

Bread, circuses, and astronauts: corporatized media whitewashing the ongoing catastrophes of the war on science in public health, climate understanding, and the environment

But whaddabout when Obama wore a tan suit at a press conference?

While I'm ranting: it also pisses me off that news stories on the rescue of the F15 crew mention that lives were lost while emphasizing that they weren't American lives, as if people without US passports don't have hopes & dreams, and are loved by parents, siblings and children. God, I'm sick of it.

Oh, but when someone says something similar in Arabic, it's somehow bad.

Just an unnecessary reminder that deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure is officially a war crime under US and international law.

Update from NYTimes PR:

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

I wrote last winter about the return of the r-word. I'm so mad. www.startribune.com/r-word-slur-...

These aircrafts are built solely for providing close air support to ground troops

"I have been happier since I made this change than I ever have in my life, and I will continue this way as long as I live." Today's #histSTM, #histmed & #TransDayOfVisibility lunch read: @kcur.org tells the story of Alan Hart, who popularized the use of chest X-rays to screen for tuberculosis 🗃️📜🏳️‍⚧️

Great to see that my NMU colleague Sarah M is co-editing this important collection!

Ashland, Wisconsin — 108 years ago today A masked mob abducts German-American professor E.A. Schimler. They rob him, strip him naked & cover him liberally in hot tar & feathers. Anti-German hatred during WWI was so intense that not even US citizens like Schimler were spared.

In today's episode of F Everyone That Didn't Vote For The Smart Black Lady (and before her The Smart W Lady): States that are looking to erase Marriage Equality 🏳️‍🌈

Americans: We just want health care Republicans: How about another Middle East war?

"Revisionist history" isn't a bad thing. In fact, any worthwhile work of history improves, refines and, yes, revises our understanding of the past in some way.