This is awful.

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We're looking for a visiting professor to teaching media, representation, and society as well as a handful of other things in our Media & Communication major.

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Does a 200-Year-Old Osage Orange Tree Have the Right to Exist? The proposed Cook Field arena project will radically alter the landscape of campus -- and could threaten a centuries-old Osage orange tree in the process. Guest columnist and former EPA attorney James...

We're getting a new basketball arena at Miami University and have been debating - as a community - the pros and cons for about a year now.

This column by Jim Vinch is a lovely meditation on how such developments impact the natural environment and the history it captures.

My lily of the valley bloomed while we were away. I’ll take the unexpected small joys.

My kid was Bass 1 and it was wild to finally see it all in action.

Been at the #WGI championship to see my kid in MCM. But, damn, Rhythm X blew the roof off of UD Arena.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com

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

Matt Crain in my department might work for this.

Could we stop contextalizing a murder suicide with the phrase “messy divorce”?

Women who leave their husbands are at risk or being murdered by said husband. Could we talk about that?

This man traumatized his children & it’s being reduced to “messy divorce.”

Do better.

Harvard Asks Donors to Endow $10 Million Professorships for ‘Viewpoint Diversity’ Initiative | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish new endowed professorships in a sweeping bid to reshape its faculty under the banner of “viewpoint diversity,” according to two…

SCOOP: Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish endowed professorships in a bid to reshape faculty under the banner of “viewpoint diversity,” according to two people familiar.

Hugo C. Chiasson and Elise A. Spenner report.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

NASA’s Artemis II moon rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-B Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara)

this is just nice, on how this
photo was made: apnews.com/article/arte...

Governments have been learning and adapting since the first Gulf War on how to "manage" the media in modern conflicts. "How governments have tried to hide information about the Iran war online." www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...

Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou...

Don’t mind me, just crying about the moon & space

I don’t even know what to say anymore. She’s unqualified for the job & is destroying an important American journalism institution.

CBS News lays off 6% of staff and shutters radio division, kickstarting a Bari Weiss-led overhaul | CNN Business CBS News is shutting down CBS News Radio and laying off about 6% of its entire workforce, with executives explaining the cuts as a difficult but necessary reallocation of newsroom resources.

Lasted 99 years. Killed by Bari Weiss in less than 1.

www.cnn.com/2026/03/20/m...

March 20th is Fred Rogers' birthday. Be a beautiful neighbor, or maybe even just spend some time figuring out how and planning to be the best neighbor you can.

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Rise up, #Redhawks

Miami #Redhawks go 31-0. Unbelievable.

I was worried I wouldn’t be able to wear my OU gear around town after this game.

Genuinely incredible that the U.S. will celebrate the 250th without an Archivist of the United States.

I’m so sorry. You are loved.

Why We Need Empathy to Tackle Poverty By Keetie Roelen“You need a new vacuum cleaner? Can you prove that your current one is really broken?” This was the response Hanny received from the welfare office in the Dutch city of Tilburg when…

"Across the world, many welfare and anti-poverty policies are premised on distrust and suspicion. Instead of offering supportive and compassionate pathways towards improved lives and livelihoods, they have become a means for policing and punishing the poor."
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2492

I don't think the "Einstein" or other AI replacing the important steps of learning, esp in higher ed, would be posing quite the challenge it is right now if students hadn't been sent the message their entire lives that the point of college is to get good grades and a high paying job, not to learn.

Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propagan...

Exclusive: The US State Department is developing an online portal to enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, sources told Reuters reut.rs/4cySsA6

In my multimedia journalism class I have students create fugly infographics in class just to get the bad out of their system.

The bunch turned in this semester are truly delightful in their ghastliness.

Jesse Jackson appeared on Sesame Street in 1973.

During his appearance, he led a group of children in reciting his well-known poem “I Am Somebody,” a message focused on self-worth and empowerment

The segment became one of the most memorable celebrity appearances from the early seasons of the show.

I did, however, want to hear Jesse Jackson speak. He is the only living American politician with a mastery of classical rhetoric. Assonance, alliteration, litotes, pleonasm, parallelism, exclamation, climax and epigram—to listen to Jesse Jackson is to hear everything mankind has learned about public speaking since Demosthenes. Thus Jackson, the advocate for people who believe themselves to be excluded from Western culture, was the only 1988 presidential candidate to exhibit any of it.

P.J. O’Rourke on Jesse Jackson at the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, from Parliament of Whores…

Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader and Chicago icon, dead at 84 Jackson was a Chicago institution who left footprints on the world stage, an ardent advocate for civil rights whose attempts to wield political power himself were thwarted, and channeled into the powe...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, a Chicago institution who left footprints globally in his ardent advocacy for civil rights, has died. He was 84. chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2...

Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs

This is simply terrifying. I remember when I read a long piece about how the Covid vaccine was invented and I cried (I do not cry easily) because I worked in NYC and so many people had died and it was all so visceral at the time. God we are fucking fools. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...