your honor, every single crunchwrap is more supreme than this court

Every new report on the consequences of Trump’s dismantling of USAID is more horrifying than the last. One model estimates it's caused 600K deaths — two-thirds of them children. We can’t give Trump a blank check to keep destroying life-saving programs.

Pretty, pretty good

Why yes, today I taught my class in Dublin with this shirt on and definitely spoke with a bit more pep.

Bluesky rn

being read—closely—is one of the most humbling joys, honors, in the world. thanks to Carol Rumens for this:

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

In my lifetime insurance has gone from covering 100% of my costs to basically being a very expensive membership service that gives me discounts on my providers and medications. WTF happened?!

I loved Frankenstein. If you know me, this tracks.

Had a wonderful day at the Abbey theatre yesterday watching Marina Carr's Oedipus trilogy. Exciting and unexpected writing throughout, terrific design and directing, and the cast was truly fantastic. Love to be in awe of theatre.

Are you even in theatre if you don't spend your mornings hot gluing demon horns back on a costume piece?

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯 Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚 And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋 youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared

Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

I am putting together a climate change themed haunt next week with undergrads in Dublin. It's all a bit of a mad experiment but shouldn't live performance be that way. One room is a ghost themed room with drawings of extinct life I have quickly drawn on paper that was going to be recycled.

To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

My controversial opinion is that expecting horror to scare you does a disservice to the huge swath of things under the umbrella of horror that are dark in tone, macabre, or otherwise Gothic. In this essay, I wil-

Annual gratitude post to the students who nod their heads in enthusiasm/agreement when I'm teaching. Because sometimes I feel incoherent, lost, and adrift talking up there, but the "yes" in the crowd of faces is a lighthouse telling me I'm not far off.

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

79. American citizen.

Morning walk

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.

My sister and I enjoying Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in the preview for "Waiting for Godot" on Saturday. Very compelling production and performances, great design, well paced. Brandon Dirden was a fantastic Pozzo.

The world is so very hard these days. But then art and theatre remind me we are such creative, beautiful people that are trying to face its ugliness and reimagine it. "Holdings" with Dublin Fringe Festival is a fantastically thoughtful and unique work. Congrats to all involved.

Nothing says, "Hey international companies, bring your manufacturing to the US" like arresting 475 workers at a Hyundai (70% of whom are South Korean).

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

Saving the world’s fattest parrot: can we vaccinate our rarest species before bird flu gets to them?

New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.

A former CDC staffer adds: “This is the work of a death cult.”

Words cannot adequately describe what a colossal disappointment our mainstream media has been during our slow descent into authoritarianism.

“The study authors asked GPT 4o-mini to evaluate the quality of 217 papers. The tool didn’t mention in any of the reports that the papers being analyzed had been retracted or had validity issues. In 190 cases, GPT described the papers as world leading, internationally excellent, or close to that”

i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good

“They did not die from COVID , they had preexisting conditions.” “They did not die from starvation, they had other health problems.” This is what eugenics sounds like.

www.cbc.ca/player/play/... Barry decided to do some sightseeing in Canada earlier this month. @thelifeofsharks.com

so many ppl don't seem to know what air circulation is

Very obvious now that SARS-CoV-2 infection can be characterised as: AAA A: Acceleration (e.g. dementia, vascular) A: reActivation (e.g. EBV, LTBI) A: Aging (inflammation, telomere shortening) Longevity and / or healthspan cannot be fully addressed without understanding this.

Roughly 650,000 people in North Carolina have signed up for Medicaid since the legislature expanded it 18 months ago. But now they are in danger of losing it under provisions in President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.

Such a difference between "higher" ed and "lower" ed. Higher ed's response ranges from "We can do nothing about ICE" to "How can we help you, ICE?" while K-12 defends their kids and families. Via LA Times www.latimes.com/california/s...

I hope your community is never occupied like LA or DC. But if it is, you’ll quickly find that people don’t take kindly to having their city under federal control. And folks are just getting started. 📌 Protesters gathered near a checkpoint in the U Street corridor in Northwest Washington.

Grossly irresponsible of the Times to have this ludicrous credulous spin as the top story the morning after a president who rules by fiat proclaims a totally specious emergency to militarize the capital - an editorial insult to our intelligence and our democracy.

It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.

She summarized this succinctly and powerfully.

If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me. #pediatriccancer #cancermom

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined. The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

Republican Mike Flood’s comments being drowned out by chants of “tax the rich” at his town hall