This is the paragraph I re-read a few times.

I'm stunned that it took us this long to get to pay-to-play AI Jesus.

Iran War Live Updates: U.S. And Iran Fail to Agree on Peace Deal After 21 Hours of Talks, Vance Says

Barack Obama sent seasoned diplomats and nuclear scientists to negotiate the Iran Deal. Donald Trump sent a few real estate bros and JD Vance. Failure was a foregone conclusion.

These two things just happened almost simultaneously.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio at UFC in Miami tonight as diplomatic negotiations with Iran fail

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Ali Gholhaki, a conservative analyst close to the Iranian government, said on social media that talks fell apart because the United States demanded zero enrichment, removal of nearly 900 pounds of stockpile uranium from the country and a new demand of U.S. "management of the security of the Strait of Hormuz on their own terms." Mr. Gholhaki said the United States also provided no commitment to end Israel's bombing of Lebanon.

Is Trump proposing that the US operates the Strait of Hormuz?

It’s brutal in academia right now. A lot is out of our control, but it doesn’t cost anything to remember that there are humans behind papers and grants…reviewers, program officials and funders can be more empathetic in the face of unprecedented chaos in the US scientific enterprise.

Higher Education Was Built For Moments Like This Co-authors posit that when state legislatures target higher education, the instinct is to hunker down and stay quiet. But the most effective response may be the opposite, demonstrating the value colle...

📚️ In this @theeduledger.bsky.social op-ed, @kcolempls.bsky.social (Metro State University) & @robglover.bsky.social (@umaine.bsky.social) argue that higher ed's best defense against political attacks is leaning into democratic engagement.

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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

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Tweet on X by Amir Kiyae reads: Strikes on Iran appear to have hit the home where opposition leaders Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard have been held under house arrest - both are reported safe, but their residence was damaged. Former President Ahmadineiad's home was also targeted. Israel has stated it is targeting Iranian leaders "past, present, and future." This follows previous Israeli strikes on Evin Prison. Draw your own conclusions,

Home of reformist opposition leaders from 2009 Green Movement, Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard was also hit by Israeli/US strikes. They have been under house arrest by the regime for over a decade.

The only reason we are alive to debate this is because Stanislav Petrov decided not to trust a computer.

unironically, I think the thing that would most mystify the founders is how Congress has so thoroughly ceded its status as a coequal branch such that checks and balances are only either dead or weaponized.

excited to hear tech companies will now be allowed to build their own power plants for their data centers. i am sure the makers of "the app that tells kids to kill themselves" will responsibly operate coal plants

He's saying a Trump account for a newborn with $1,000 in it could turn into $100,000 by the time that kid is 18? What are they investing in? Cocaine?

That's like a....30% annual return? I would like to invest in the Trump baby cocaine, pleez.

This is, very literally, bread and circuses, except we’re not really getting either

RESULT: Democrats defend a pivotal House seat in Maine today in a special election. Scott Harriman will join the legislature.

Had the GOP flipped the seat, they’d have been very likely to entirely erase Democrats’ narrow majority later this year when another vacancy is filled.

What the media gets wrong about crime Crime analyst Jeff Asher explains the historic decline in murders, why Americans distrust crime statistics, and what the data actually show about public safety.

A reminder that Donald Trump had very little—if nothing—to do with lowering the national crime rate. It started plunging in mid-2023. No one knows why. Finding the actual answer should be important to everyone. reason.com/podcast/2026...

President Trump just said, “We lifted 2.4 million Americans off of food stamps.”

A reminder of what happened to those 2.4 million Americans:

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

This is the GM firing an assistant coach and hoping that will be the end of the questions, except with fascism.

Like is it good the trenchcoat nazi is gone? Yes. But let’s remember he was always a ridiculous member of the supporting cast.

Politicians gotta start calling for Miller to go. Right now.

The Problem Isn’t Apathy. It’s about Teaching Students Where Power Lives. American politics has become so nationalized that many people—especially students—no longer know where their participation ought to be focused. Every issue feels federal, every fight existential, and ...

In this @thefulcrum-us.bsky.social op-ed, @robglover.bsky.social (UMaine) and @kcolempls.bsky.social (Metro State University) explain why teaching students to engage with state-level policymaking builds practical civic skills and deeper public policy engagement.

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Why a Maine Democrat says Trump officials are putting extremist imagery on ‘public display’ The Trump administration's social media posts and messages in recent months have raised eyebrows.

A short interview with Karyn Sporer shared in an article by the @pressherald.com.

bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; lawyer says agents used him as ‘bait’ The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials and a lawyer for the family say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramo as “bai...

The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.

They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.

The book (and the article) draw on nearly a decade of work within the ENACT network, a consortium of faculty empowering students to drive real civic and policy change in their communities and across nearly all 50 states.