I am shocked, SHOCKED to hear that Alan Dershowitz is a Republican.

Holy shit, Amir Makled! Paul Brown (incumbent) and Amir Makled secured nominations at the MI Democratic Convention for the UMich Regents race.

Regent Acker will end his term on the Board on Jan 1, 2027.

Oh maybe we can finally get HEB in Michigan! to join in our delicious, delicious, shawarma law.

The cis reaction Caitlyn Jenner stuff is like if every time a Kash Patel was in the news, the reaction online was mostly people calling him racial slurs and mocking his name for being Indian.

If you want to know if someone is transphobic, watch how they talk about trans people they don't like.

Book cover of “Assyria’s Plunder from ancient empire to modern loot by Jessie DeFrado. The covert art is a picture of Big Ben crashing into an Assyrian palace.

It’s out!

Cookies, deodorant, socks. Iran war puts military packages in limbo Thousands of boxes sent to service members in Middle East are stuck in limbo. The Postal Service has indefinitely suspended delivery amid Iran war.

Logistics are important.

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Screenshot of a NYT article headline. The headline reads: A Football School Striving to Be More Keeps Dropping the Ball Sub-headline reads: Ohio State isn't the only university in turmoil, but few others have faced so many issues lately. One lawmaker called the school "a national embarrassment.

I mean, I agree with a lot of the criticism of the OSU administration, but calling it "a football school striving to be more" is WILD.

Is the NYT secretly run by the world's most rabid UMich alumns?

And the company didn’t even it the Scootcase.

I am sure the astronauts are all VERY GOOD SPORTS and are more than happy to do whatever is asked of them for the sake of science but COME ON 😭

Full grown adult walked off the plane, sat on his carryon bag, and rode off into the sunset.

When did hard-case, wheeled suitcases that can double as an electric scooter become a thing? I almost fell over laughing it was so goofy.

Update: two people not watching it clearly just didn’t realize streaming was an option and shouted in excitement when they reconnected to the cell network and got push notifications.

Currently on a flight, and about 40% of the people whose screens I can see are watching Artemis II.

Ambitious crewed space missions inspire at a level that is almost unmatched.

(PS, watching a Moon mission splashdown streaming live from 35,000 feet is ridiculous. We live in the future)

That was awesome

Same. Research group members asked me to move group meeting online, because they did not feel safe on campus after arriving at the Diag and seeing the aftermath of the UMPD violence.

I told the Dean this was the first time my groups’ core activity had been disrupted. Got a similar response.

Huh, where I work students led a peaceful, interfaith encampment that was brutally attacked and dispersed in the middle of the night by the campus police hired to protect them; they even closed one of the libraries without notice so it could serve as a base of operations

I take it back! It isn’t the Gold Line anymore!

Obviously, not the most important wrong thing with this piece, but I am finding myself unreasonably annoyed at the claim that the State of Michigan is trying to overturn Obergefell. No it isn’t!

That resolution has ~2 sponsors and died in committee, even in the R controlled State House.

No, haven’t gotten to that part yet! Still on the flyaway, stuck in traffic on a stretch of the 110 that should have gotten a bus lane decades ago.

Oh, LA public transit… you haven’t changed at all

Whoever controls the boarding music on my flight from Detroit to LA is going HARD on solo piano covers of Lady Gaga

Looking through one of the four windows of the Orion spacecraft, a tiny crescent Earth is illuminated against the blackness of space and grows smaller as the crew journeys closer to the Moon. Part of the window edge is visible; the rest is darkness. [Alt-text slightly revised from ESA/NASA version]

We are so, so small. #Artemis

Whenever I hear “water ice on the Moon”, my brain just goes “yum, Rita’s!”.

New Jersey and Philly ruined me in the best ways

Have you gotten any yet from University Athletics for students who are not athletes but team employees? Seems to be getting more common

Listen, anyone who doubts a story about being transported to a Waffle House hasn’t spent enough time in Waffle Houses at 4 AM.

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained.

That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social

I, an astronomer, learned that my husband will be spending next week teaching his students how to do (ancient Assyrian) astrology.

That’d be pretty close to the worst case scenario. But Paxton trying to get Cornyn’s vote on the Judiciary Committee would be wild.

No doubt

Yes. The central thesis of Nelson’s reply is that Taylor getting transphobic replies to a Trans Day of Visibility Facebook post is evidence that his followers are Republicans, indicating that this is who his policies appeal to.

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