I need you all to remember ICE is still destroying families and assaulting people daily.
Don't forget to keep protesting.

Condescension towards willfully ignorant hypocrites who insist that they’re not the ones causing the problem?

I do have a problem. I have to change my undergrad syllabus because I use the word equity to talk about approaches to urban planning. We can’t offer students the classes they need to graduate because of budget cuts that don’t seem to have any basis in actual state fiscal problems.

Goalie - Armored Knights YouTube video by jeremy waltman

Watching a colleague's movie so I can talk to him about it at next week's reception for IUP scholarly achievement: youtu.be/lVdtwHDbJ7g?...

Spite-centered completionism doesn't get enough attention from game critics.

Well, looks like Kangding Ray's score for Sirāt is going to be my go-to work music for the next thousand years . . .

The DOJ is now 122 days overdue to release the Epstein files.

Normally not a shill for streaming companies, but Hulu is currently streaming Sirāt, Decision to Leave, Sentimental Value, The Testament of Ann lee, Predator Badlands, La Chimera, It Was Just an Accident, Hustlers, Summer of Soul, The Last Showgirl, and Are You There God? It's Me Margaret? Yeesh!

Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!

Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

Precious (2018 Remaster) YouTube video by The Pretenders - Topic

Chrissie Hynde is so good on this. youtu.be/OAn65_5x1kw?...

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

My son was crowned at last night’s Nerd Prom. #pride

That Palantir manifesto was essentially, "Boromir should have been given the ring and allowed to use the n-word."

My son was crowned at last night’s Nerd Prom. #pride

Palantir is a quasi-fundamentalist subversive right-wing movement with a stock symbol

Nguyen Conditions

@senfoonglim.bsky.social and I interviewed @knitnack.bsky.social today for RPG Roots. We talked about the Vietnamese diaspora, RPGs as legacy and memory, and respecting our games and our stories.

It was a fantastic chat, and I want to highlight Kevin's work.

Here's the main Itch page:

I have this theory — a little crazy, I know — that students would like college and university wayyy more if it was free

Universal-International press materials for Jack Arnold’s 1954 horror show, Creature from the Black Lagoon, done up as the front page of a newspaper. A headline screams, “THE CREATURE STRIKES AGAIN!” over a photograph of the Gill-Man breaking through the page. Other headlines read, “Weekend crowds storm Chicago’s UA Theatre,” “New York Alerted,” “More Cities Fall to ‘Creature,’” and “Pola-Lite Prints Used on Creature Engagement.”

🍿 Ann Arbor and Michiganders! 🍿

It’s a good day for a monster matinee! Join me today at the Michigan Theater at 1:30, where I’ll introduce Creature from the Black Lagoon in 35mm and anaglyphic 3-D. It’ll be fun in every dimension!

Tickets here 🎟️ marquee-arts.org/event-page/?...

I raise you pink!

Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."

OOP

New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Goodness gracious!

book cover, it reads: Eleonora Paklons, Kristof Smeyers, Kurt Vanhoutte, Hannah Welslau (eds) PERFORMING MAGNETISM The theatrics of persuasion in the long nineteenth century the cover shows a man in a tuxedo staring straight at you, his skin is green and his eyes are yellow

Good morning all! For those who can't wait any longer: our book PERFORMING MAGNETISM is already available in open access, with huge thanks to @leuvenup.bsky.social

Read it here:
openresearchlibrary.org/content/d7d0...

Or here: www.jstor.org/content/oa_b...

Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...

At Pentagon worship service today, Pete Hegseth again read a violent prayer to bless the Iran war. But this time his prayer was apparently borrowed from 'Pulp Fiction.' I promise I'm not writing for @theonion.com now:
publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

You mean: "Donald Trump's Justice Department accused the Biden administration of unfairly prosecuting anti-abortion activists on Tuesday in a report that lacked evidence and that DOJ veterans said exemplified political weaponization rather than exposing it."
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

Lilac lilacs when white lilacs bloom among them.

#MJMlilacReport

Some of your best work.

brave man standing up meme

Both "I" and "we" are fine to use in a scholarly paper and can actually add a lot if used correctly.

This is the way