“I was knowingly sending a student into harm’s way and enabling the predator” is a helluva defense.

holy f there is so much that is unbelievably gross about all of this I feel like I need to rinse my eyes with bleach after reading it. If someone asks for "aesthetic detail" (🤢) on a student, you slam the phone down and get in touch with the student to tell them to never in a million years go there

We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.

Time person of the year cover for 2025

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times

Tool
NIN
Metallicr
Drive-by Truckers
Nick Cave & the bad seeds

This kicks ass

I really like Prof Zimmerman’s response here, and it’s much better said than the profanity-laden rant my friends and spouse were subjected to when I saw jameson’s email.

Penn strikes agreement with Trump administration over trans athletes Penn will send letters of apology to female athletes who swam with Lia Thomas and restore their Penn records and honors, according to a deal reached with the Trump administration.

The Lisa Murkowski of universities www.inquirer.com/education/pe...

A mad king’s pointless war is where Donald Trump was always heading There is no legal or moral justification for Donald Trump's bomb strike on Iran, just the ego of an increasingly delusional president.

Ignore any sober geopolitical analysis of "why Trump went to war." The truth? A buck-naked mad king impulsively and unilaterally dropped bombs 6.500 miles away because that's what fascist dictators always do in the end

This is Donald Trump's war, not ours. My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dona...

NIH scientists publish “Bethesda Declaration” rebuking Trump admin The letter is modeled after the NIH director’s controversial “Great Barrington Declaration.”…

ArsTechica story about #BethesdaDeclaration up now

arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Your guide to Cryptogate, Trump’s $4 billion corruption scandal that’s 10 times bigger than Watergate | Will Bunch Here's an in-depth guide to the key players, companies, and deals behind Donald Trump's scheme to cash in on his presidency.

The biggest scandal in U.S. history is hiding in plain sight. The president and his family are boosting their wealth by $1 billion every month, selling the power and prestige of the White House.

Giving this a name - Cryptogate - and a concise guide. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Between coverage that meets the moment and access to @willbunch.bsky.social and @notesfromhel.bsky.social columns, happy to support the @inquirer.com

University websites updated to reflect commitments to diversity, non-discrimination Many University websites, including those affiliated with admissions, academic departments, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, have been updated to reflect Princeton’s ongoing com...

At Princeton University we are being clear about our continued commitment to diversity and nondiscrimination, in full compliance with law (as opposed to executive order) and consistent with our ethical responsibilities as educators for the entire nation. www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

When this is over, U.S. rights abusers must be tried for crimes against humanity Escalating reports of human rights crimes from Kristi Noem's propaganda to ICE cruelty must be wiped clean with justice.

I want them all unmasked. I want Noem, Homan, and Miller to someday be tried for their crimes against humanity. Ditto for the ICE agents and other officers who abuse innocent tourists, college students, and refugees

When all this is over, I want justice. My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

The University President Willing to Fight Trump Christopher L. Eisgruber of Princeton University talks about the administration’s move to freeze billions of dollars in funding to higher education institutions.

Several thoughts about this very helpful interview on NYT w Chris Eisgruber, president of Princeton, about existential attacks on higher ed, how and what solidarity among American universities looks like. And why it's worth the listen. (Also a dopey headline.) 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...

benion Grieving a wasted life At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to re-elected in contrast to standing up for the reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades greater good? were devoted to protecting America. Sacri A compromised Supreme Court recently fices were made both by myself and my fam- trotted out a shallow token standards of Ily in military service. The tip of the spear: conduct for themselves. Apparently it's Countless weeks over the years were spent not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people? living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since. way?" The purpose: if required, be airborne Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un- in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly: of interest abound. The rule of law is situ- ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet- ational if adhered to at all. America can no nam provided a brief interlude, but overall, longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of this long line of silent sentinels stood firm power and wealth driven by unquenchable to protect America by deterring external greed has left service above self and Con- threats to our freedoms and way of life stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued Recently the VA said exposure to Agent with a sense of service. Orange is the probable cause of the can- I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than military pilots to have significantly higher founded on mere beli…

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

A screenshot of a social media post from Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) dated March 4, 2025, at 4:30 AM. The post states: “All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

When Donald Trump threatens student protests, consider why: throughout modern history, student movements have repeatedly been the catalyst that toppled dictatorships. Authoritarian leaders fear campus activism precisely because it works. Below is a list of 36 student-led pro-democracy movements.🧵

Not surprised but really hate to see this. I am 100% a product of the NSF REU program, I even still use methods closely related to what I learned during that first summer of research experience. Another awful choice to add to the long list of reasons why we'll lose a generation of scientists.

Don't trust consumer-facing "AI" for anything

Tariq is claiming he’s opening for Kendrick

this is where the rubber meets the road. NIH doesn't just fund research univs and hospitals in blue states. if anything they're most important to regional economies in the reddest states and districts.

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Living Colour - Cult Of Personality

“I sell the things you need to be
I'm the smiling face
I exploit you, still you love me
I tell you one and one makes three”

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Parasite catalyst confirmed?

Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness – The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces

FFFFFFFFFFFF this. Not surprising in the least but still unbelievably shitty.

I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

Go birds!!

Someone pointed this out to me on the other site and it's too good not to share:

The Eagles had seven rushing touchdowns today.

The Cowboys had six this season.

I say “fuck off” out loud to intrusive AI features at least 20 times a day.