I can 100% be on board with this.

We need a Carrie Nation for white collar corruption.

I think he’s some ways better, some ways worse. I think in this VERY moment, someone not deeply demented is better for the immediate future. And as others have said, I don’t think he has the cult loyalty of Trump.

If your kid is already involved in some extracurriculars and a decent test taker and essay writer, maybe you do nothing there. But if it seems like any of those things are weak enough that it might be a weak link in her application, then some more targeted intervention is appropriate.

To a certain extent, it depends on your kid. One thing I would definitely do is to start visiting campuses early just to get a sense with no immediate pressure about what is out there. A lot of schools have visit days specifically for sophomores.

Yeah, Sam sounds like a real one.

Reposting this 🧵 because it’s clear that if one sale is canceled or denied, ICE will pivot and search for an alternative.

Keep vigilant.

The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand. CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.

A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette. CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.

Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters. CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.

Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits. RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.

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Sounds about right. I work on a contract for a component of NIH and NIH is hemorrhaging scientific staff.

PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

Well, probably varies on your consumption but over the last 15 years, we’ve paid between $120-170/month for oil and then our electric and gas averages another $130/month. So overall, probably still more expensive but no big spikes like a lot of folks have gotten this winter.

Truly. It has made me glad I have oil heat this winter and--that's not great.

I am from a rural, conservative part of the world and--I had NEVER heard anyone express actual anti-military sentiment until I was an adult in college after I moved away.

The only reason my family doesn't have a history of service? I come from folks who have LONG standing issues with authority. 😂

Many things are true at once:
Refusing an illegal order can be the moral thing.
A lot of folks enlist out of idealism or dire need; A LOT of people never really encounter anything but pro-military propaganda.
Folks who will never face a moral decision of great consequence probably shouldn't judge.

And, you know, if you work for a known evil company or have ever used the excuse "no ethical consumption under capitalism" to make a wasteful purchase or to not spend a little more money to buy locally, maybe you should not be weighing in on what the average army grunt should be doing.

The graphic is a flyer for World IA Day Philadelphia. It says Meet our speakers. Mary Carroll-Mason, Sr. Content Strategist, Publicis Sapient. The talk title is Action Expresses Priorities: Information Architecture as an expression of organizational priorities. The event will be on March 7th, 2026 at Think Company, 1315 Walnut St. 2nd Floor. Tickets available on Eventbrite. There is a small professional headshot of Mary, she has red glasses and it smiling widely at the camera.

For WIAD Philadelphia, @mecm.bsky.social will illustrate how an IA project can help deeply siloed organizations clarify and align priorities. She'll take us through a case study with the National Cancer Institute’s Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis. www.eventbrite.com/e/world-ia-d...

CHRIST this was a bitch to alt text (my phone camera is allergic to this font) but it was worth it so we could enjoy this scorching hot Catholic tea together

they just flat out said the SCOTUS Catholics are going to hell. which we knew, but maybe they’ll hear it from the bishops!

...and then, What Happened When That Agency Got DOGEd.
Based on (as you might guess) Real Life Recent Events.

oh, hey, everyone, I'm gonna be speaking at World IA Day in Philadelphia in a few weeks and registration is open now!

If you want a preview of my talk, the BlueSky Plain Language version is: How IA Decisions Helped a Super Siloed Division of a Federal Research Agency Figure Out Who They Are...

The corrupt high priest. It is all very biblical, is it not?

starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import

you can help stock some Minneapolis street medics treating folks injured at protests

Fun fact: The divorce scene in the Kid Rock show was an actual divorce showing a wife leaving her conservative husband.

while I think this is 50-50 possible to be just a bad faith way to try to counter the reporting, I absolutely encounter this IRL--folks who refuse to believe a verifiable fact because it is counter to whatever their AI says, and treating the AI like it is a source itself.

and, while I will make a couple dinners over the weekend that hopefully give me some leftovers during the week (which are mostly my WFH lunches), I don't want to spend a good chunk of weekend meal or ingredient prepping and I don't want to eat sad prepped meals that are 4 days old.

I do use one of those services to cover most of my weekday dinners because meal planning for 5 or 6 dinners a week was kind of killing me and because those meals are ALWAYS faster than ordering from an app and prevent spontaneous takeout. But, I CAN cook (and do most weekends).

Many people's critical thinking skills and intellectual development never go past mere contrarianism.

CIA Fact Book was one of the first things you could get on the public internet! In the days before we had web browsers. You had to Gopher in.

there were, I'm sure, more than 5 people involved writing and editing this and this was the version that got the ok from Bezos.