1. I call BS 2. Other countries have done this countless times without charging absurd transit prices 3. FIFA sucks and if cities arent getting enough of a revenue cut to cover costs, then stop bidding on the games.

oh, yes, i feel the exact same way. always waiting for the next meteor to hit at this point.

I’d love to know how you justify roughly 1150% increase. No one would bat an eye if NJ Transit said they were charging $25 a person to cover increased security costs during the World Cup. $150 is insane

To @faineg.bsky.social’s point in the original post. I graduated college into shitty Great Recession hiring. Finally started to feeling financially safe, then COVID hit. I have a great job and I’m well paid, i am also nearly 40, and feel like I have very little safety net, as the world crumbles.

The background level of stress and feeling precarious is enormous at the moment.

When it’s a Friday or a Monday, absolutely, rest of the time, not usually.

Also, if the problem is that trust has "eroded" in the last decade & 📈 costs are the problem, then 1) we should talk about the central cause of 📈 costs at public universities, which is declining state $$; & 2) we should talk about how inflation-adjusted costs have actually <declined> since 2013.

This is a work of journalistic art

Vought says that it's a very Christian budget, reflecting the values of helping people. This was his response to being attacked for eliminating the fruit and vegetable benefit for poor infants.

Vought says that 100% of the people kicked off their health insurance from the "Big Beautiful Bill" are either here illegally (CBO says zero of them are) or are defrauding the system or shouldn't have been on in the first place. A profoundly extreme position.

Vought and Arrington lean into the OBBBA safety net cuts, calling them historic. It is true that they were historic. They were the largest cuts to Medicaid in history, three times bigger than Reagan's cuts, which shouldn't be possible. Kicks 10 million people off their insurance.

God bless you @colsonwhitehead.com "Do you realize how much water and power it’d take to replicate the average writer’s narcissism, self-loathing and despair? It’d drain the Indian Ocean. You could light up Times Square for a year. We can’t afford it."

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One of the top lines of this poll is: "specifically favouring candidates who champion tax cuts that provide an extra $250 a month in take home pay" You know how you achieve that for a ton of Americans, and with some extra? Bring back the expanded child tax credit.

Very pleased and sort of stunned to be part of the new class of Guggenheim fellows.

A lot of American evangelicals are going to discover that Jesus is considered an important prophet in Islam

You might also think--if those budding scholars had so much to contribute, they'd find a way despite the abuse. But the reality is--abusers label their victims "crazy" or "unreliable," making it harder for victims to find allies and other mentors for support, and making them doubt themselves, too.

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

You might also think--if those budding scholars had so much to contribute, they'd find a way despite the abuse. But the reality is--abusers label their victims "crazy" or "unreliable," making it harder for victims to find allies and other mentors for support, and making them doubt themselves, too.

If I had been on a traditional academic career path, I’d probably have left and never come come back after my experiences at the Hope Center. It would have been devastating. I’m not a genius, but I’ve been able to do some good, and I’m very lucky I was experienced enough to continue my career.

This is an existential crisis for American higher education, & it remains maddening, if not sadly predictable that there continues to be <exactly> no loud, collective public action by university chancellors & presidents to speak out against & try to reverse these policies (Olson 1965, Akerlof 1970).

Economic policy is very straight forward, if you just remove all that irrational peopling

When a political movement is so committed to white supremacy that it is willing to kill the country to uphold it.

On top of the generalized stress and anxiety of being on a scholar visa in the US these past two years as they kept fiddling with all the policies, this was something that consistently floored me: enthusiastically abandoning a massive source of brain drain and global hegemony.

American higher Ed is a golden goose that’s delivered medical, tech, and science innovations, bolstered soft power internationally, and is one of the largest employers in every state. This admin is doing everything it can to kill it.

The "keeping up with the Nigerian Princes'' effect

I didn’t go to school for a million years for nothing

Nice NPR piece featuring @jscottclayton.bsky.social explaining the ins and outs of college prices. Really hitting every note my financial aid admin turned higher Ed policy nerd heart could desire. www.npr.org/2026/04/12/n...

We have the best ships, no one else has ships like us, our ships are so great they can fight on land just as well as on sea. Coming to truth social any moment now

I thought that was just The Telegraph

Somewhere an exec is being pitched a new fight night called: “Pope v. President, who will tap out first?”

The administration, fearing it wasn’t getting proper credit for the building energy crisis, really wants to make clear who is responsible

Far from a done deal. Really not good, but Congress usually ignores the president’s budget.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

This seems like a good approach to bookmark.

Amtrak setting record ridership levels

It’s always nice to see that conservatives will never be cool

I should only have to ask my doctor for the best treatment plan! Having them be a financial advisor as well is nonsense. Stop accepting this kind of framing!

In keeping with Don’s Clicktatorship frame, a whole administration with the attention span of an Instagram reel.

I definitely don’t want to live in a neighborhood with that guy. You just know that he thinks black pepper is spicy.

You could not make Adams up if you tried.

A milestone in March: for the first time ever, renewables provided more power on the US grid than natural gas.

But if they acknowledge Papal infallibility, how on earth would they use the Bible to justify whatever BS they want!?

Spectacular

Jesus specifically preached that the church should stay out of political matters, and yet we have so-called pastors saying “Jesus is the Lord of the State”

The president thinks this will be a good thing for Americans, doesn’t he?

“War, what is it good for?” Inflation apparently

It’s all gender, all the way down. Maybe with a little race mixed in for flavour, but mostly gender.

Reading Lower Ed played a big role in my deciding to move from direct student service, to research and federal education policy work. It took a lot of hard graft, but here I am. I’m eternally grateful to Dr. Cottom for being one of the sparks that carried me from financial aid to federal policy

Excellent thread. The TL:DR from a large randomized control trial, is that AI use makes you dumb and lazy, and does so very quickly