Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe.

Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities

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Map of unmatched facilities in FY25 A map of the United States and surrounding territories show several hundred color-coded circles denoting locations.

Mapping ICE's un/under-reported detention sites:

The official count of immigrants detained by ICE passed 73,000 in January. But in the rush to expand several thousand more are being held each night in sites not include on the agency's public reports.

An analysis based on FOIA-supplied data…

You should take note when analysts are sephiroth posting and the Pope is telling you to call your representatives.

what a damning indictment of this country that americans sent him twice to the white house & rather than act to remove him have instead looked on as he set fire to the constitution persecuted his enemies preyed on the weak menaced allies invaded sovereign countries committed atrocities & toyed w/ww3

Text from the original BBC article: Radin, also in his 20s and living in Tehran, said: "About then hitting energy infrastructure, using an atomic bomb, or levelling Iran. My honest reaction is that I'm OK with all of these."

Text from the updated BBC story: Radin, also in his 20s and living in Tehran, said: "If attacking targets in the country brings down the Islamic Republic, I'm fine with that. Because if the Islamic Republic survives this war, it will stay forever."

Wow this is insane. The BBC posted a story yesterday with a supposed quote from an Iranian citizen saying he is okay with the US dropping an atomic bomb on Iran. After pushback, without public acknowledgment, they just changed the quote in the story to something completely different.

The man who coined the term genocide, Raphael Lemkin, defined it as a greater atrocity than mass murder explicitly because it involves the intentional killing of a civilization.

💔 Heartbroken for what our colleague endured. Thinking of his family, friends, and colleagues today.

Attacks on Iranian universities continue with latest report of an Israeli-US attack on world-renowned Sharif University of Technology, often referred to as Iran's MIT.

People don’t seem to be nearly freaked out enough about US-Israeli bombing Bushehr nuclear reactor and what it could do to the entire Gulf region. This is worth freaking out about.

It is quite objectively a news story that the most prestigious media outlet in the world is deleting the president’s statements to conceal his insanity in a war crime threat, and other news outlets can report that story very easily in a way that could both inform their audience and peel off readers

We'll hear a lot about the bravery and heroism of the US military soldiers who rescued the F-15E pilot, and nothing about the Iranian people that pilot killed in his missions or the many Iranians who were killed to bring him out of Iran.

"Dial back the rhetoric"? Punk ass shit like this is worthless, Democrats. You should be calling for Trump's removal from office for being fucking insane and never let up saying that.

WHY ISN'T YOUR PARTY DOING THIS ON BLAST THOUGH?????? STOP BEING A FUCKING COMMENTATOR. YOU HAVE POWER. USE IT.

Iran says 30 universities hit in US-Israeli strikes <article data-history-node-id="437463" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-says-30-universities-hit-us-israeli-strikes" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-says-30-universities-hit-us-israeli-strikes" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Iran says 30 universities hit in US-Israeli strikes</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>At least 30 universities in Iran have been affected by US-Israeli attacks since the start of the war on 28 February, the country’s science minister Hossein Simaei Saraf said.</p> <p>Speaking at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, where a laser and plasma research centre was damaged in an airstrike, Saraf said academic institutions have been repeatedly targeted.</p> <p>“Attacking universities and research centres means returning to the Stone Age,” he said, referencing earlier threats to strike Iran’s infrastructure.</p> <p>Saraf added that Iranian scientists have long been targeted and said several professors from Shahid Beheshti University were killed during the conflict.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

Make that two helicopters.

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Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲

“One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.”

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All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans.

For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project.

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Veiled Power: How Rosenwald Teachers Quietly Shaped the Civil Rights Movement Omar Wasow∗ Jacob M. Grumbach∗ April 1, 2026 Abstract What precipitates the collapse of seemingly durable social orders like Jim Crow? During the 1920s, approximately 5,000 “Rosenwald Schools” were built across the rural South through a partnership between philanthropist Julius Rosenwald and Black communities who raised matching funds, donated land, and petitioned local governments. Local elites saw vocational training that would preserve the racial order. We argue Black educators used this accommodationist cover to build veiled capacity: organizational infrastructure for collective action behind a veil of compliance. Counties with more Rosenwald Schools show greater civil rights protest in the 1960s. Mediation analysis reveals that pre-existing social capital predicted protest through Rosenwald teacher placements, not enrollment. Instrumental variable models suggest the effect is not driven by community selection. Moving from no Rosenwald teachers to the 75th percentile predicts 45% more protest. The political effects of education may depend less on what elites intend than on what educators build where elites cannot see.

Excited to share new paper w/ @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social: "Veiled Power: How Rosenwald Teachers Quietly Shaped the Civil Rights Movement"

The puzzle: did ~5,000 segregated schools built in rural South emphasizing “manual labor” strengthen or weaken Jim Crow? 🧵 omarwasow.com/wasow_grumba...

The professor reportedly wrote in a March 18 newsletter, which he sent via the center’s listserv, that “Israeli actions tell us that they seek the destruction of the state, not just its ruling class.” The email, titled “More notes on the Iran war,” reportedly added that it “was always BS” that the Islamic Republic was pursuing nuclear weapons.

The U. of Washington stripped its Director of Middle East Studies of his position for writing an email that said “Israeli actions tell us that they seek the destruction of the state, not just its ruling class” and that Iran had not been pursuing nuclear weapons.

In other words, for stating facts.

Hegseth has intervened in military promotions for more than a dozen senior officers The defense secretary’s efforts to block or delay promotions to general or admiral for some officers has raised concerns that he may be targeting them because of race, gender or affiliation with the B...

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

Barbarians is the only word that comes to mind.
"In the 17th century, Isfahan was larger than London, more cosmopolitatan than Paris and richer than both. It is one of the most historic cities in the world and a rival to Venice or Istanbul in terms of layers of history."
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NPR reports that 2 US E-3 Sentry aircraft were damaged in Iran's attack on Saudi airbase, after initial reports that only one was hit. These are essential surveillance and communications airplane of which US has only 6 in the ME, each of which costing more than half a $billion.

Yet never has so much been seen, so precisely, by so many people who understand so little of what they are seeing. A system can tell you where a man is. It cannot tell you what his death will mean for a nation. Such systems are trained on behavior, not on meaning — they can track what an adversary does but not what he fears, honors, remembers or would die for.

I genuinely think the president and many of his advisers, scammers, hustlers, and keyboard gangsters, don’t understand this concept at all and you can see it in the pattern of their mistakes from Minneapolis to Tehran www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

Cousin in Tehran is able to send me messages on WhatsApp, though there’s a significant delay/lag. It’s almost 4:00 AM and he says he was woken up by the sound of a very large explosion. Please continue to pray for him and his family.

As western society proceeds in their propaganda of making a Israel out to be the good actor and victim of aggression, images like these tell a drastically different story. May these children live long lives and heal from these torturous years.

Public deserves to see for itself how police do their job.

Big TV outlets didn't get this on camera. They used 3rd party video. While this clip may be from activist, I was nearby and can confirm indy/freelance cameras FAR outnumbered MSM.

Democracy depends on a free press - which LAPD chased away.

The interview is framed as if Beshear wants Democrats to stop talking like poll-obsessed robots but all of his answers are carefully worded, focus-grouped platitudes.
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