With a generous $85.2M gift from John and Tashia Morgridge, the 137-year-old Science Hall will soon undergo a renovation that will transform the iconic red-brick building into a state-of-the-art hub for geography, environmental studies and geospatial science while honoring its historic character.

Democrats should promise that, if elected, they'll tax these payouts at like 400%

Plumbers HATE this one weird trick

Taking a few minutes out of my morning to read this article and, boy, this hit home. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

In claiming to address a crisis moment for universities, the Yale Report never mentions historic levels of government censorship in higher ed and political restrictions on academic freedom. That New McCarthyism simply isn't part of the reality that it describes. 2/5

you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

"My name is Barney, and I'm an alcoholic." "Mr. Gumble, this is a Girl Scout meeting." "Is it, or is it that you girls can't admit you have a problem?"

“No listen it’s ok. You won’t have a job, but also we’re going to use vast amounts of water and power, so you also won’t have a planet and then you won’t need a job. You’re welcome. Follow up: why are you all picking up rocks?”

the best part of booing AI evangelists is that no one ever tells them they’re wrong to their face and they lose their shit

i’ve been thinking of what could even be said about such a tragedy. someone said it best that trans people are “born so late and die so young”. we uproot our lives and transition and live more life than anyone else ever does and society punishes us for it. we deserve better

Sell 5 of them and provide free child care

Run the Jewels (2026)

Among other things an academic freedom issue; instructor knows best how to set parameters and course goals, admins shouldn’t be able to supersede that autonomy

Backrooms (2026)

We start losing daylight in 40 days.

When pundits, party leaders and others start telling us we need to move on and come together as a nation, this is what they'll be asking us to move on from.

There is no reason to unilaterally disarm at this moment, this is naive at best.

The friendly nudges will continue until you respond to my f**king email

a critical difference between woke 1 and woke 2 is the understanding that woo is something to be fought tooth and nail

I do not understand Democratic leaders' obsession with saving the Republican Party.

I've been saying we need a progressive DOGE that actually focuses on making government work well rather than undermining it. But we need a better name. So how about DOPE: the Department of Public Excellence.

Over the weekend the university president published a statement apologizing for the faculty commencement speaker's remarks. Every line of Derek Peterson's reply is worth a read:

Not sure what universities are supposed to do to win the respect of the right when we’re 3 years into the SCOTUS ban on affirmative action in college admissions and there are still all these viral stories of “this kid with a 1560 SAT score was forced to go to Duke instead of Harvard because of woke”

We have friends everywhere.

Kids should be learning that AI output isn’t trustworthy, where it really comes from, and how it’s disrupting our ability to tell what’s real. They shouldn’t be learning that AI will make them more efficient or do their work for them because it can’t. That would be propaganda, not education

Assume AI training for K-12 is a good idea. Schiff's bill, the LIFT AI Act, is a grant program for the National Science Foundation. The NSF has no director. The nominee is a Thiel acolyte with no science degrees. Trump just fired the entire Board that oversees NSF. No. Absolutely not.

As the 1860s Republicans understood, the Constitution explicitly empowers Congress to regulate the court. By contrast, it says nothing about the court’s claimed authority to regulate Congress. The court’s defiance of federal law is sustained only by our tolerance of it—a choice we can unmake.

I have decorated the lair of the badger that only emerges from her dark void for cheese

This is a correct take. Also, pitchers should once again be required to throw during an intentional walk.

Toad opened the front door. He looked out into the night.

Computer, cast me as every character killed in El Topo

And to be clear, in case it’s not, democracy cannot and will not exist without these protections. We already see a South so heavily gerrymandered that numerical majorities cannot win elections and where a minority holds supermajorities in state legislatures.

I hope the next president makes a big show of melting all this shit down, selling the recovered gold, then donating the proceeds to a local charity.

[Stares at my neighbors with 42in, zero-turn mowers on a 5k sqft lot]

On its best day, the WHCA is an elite event for people who have duties to the public that should put them in opposition to one another to kick back, relax, and remind themselves that they all believe being part of the elite is more important than fulfilling any of those duties.

Wisconsin Data Center Tax Break Will Cost Taxpayers More Than $2 Billion

Anyone who says some form of "we need to move on" once the Dems are back in power should be viewed as a collaborator with the regime and immediately be asked how they benefitted from the lawlessness of the Trump administration

And a swing revival for some reason. Looking at you, Squirrel Nut Zippers.

My approach to writing has always been: 1. Get something on paper as quickly as possible. 2. Read it. Regret all of your life choices. Stew in self-hatred for a bit. Then walk away. 3. Return with the editing mindset of a Civil War-era field doctor prepared to amputate with a hacksaw.

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic! Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

Like... I'm sorry, but to win future elections, you need a good chunk of the people who sat out in 2016 or 2024 to vote for you, and I just don't think that sneering at them and saying it's their fault that things are the way they are right now is going to win them over, even if you truly believe it

To the melody of Flowers on the Wall 🎶 Eating butter off the floor There's just nothing to live for 🎶

We are family I got all my sisters with me We are family Get up, everybody, and sing

For the cost of one Harvard Professor of the Constitution Only Applies to White People, you could endow 10 professorships of any less commonly taught language at any university in the USA

The medics running towards the robot with the stretcher is what makes this art

“Communism for business majors” would enroll really well