Just a reminder to all grad students that we definitely DO NOT keep a "Grad Student Power Ranking" in the faculty lounge where we update your ranking weekly based on performance (along with little arrows indicating your movement relative to last week). Just something faculty, again, do not do
The real question is did the minions serve Cromwell
Every pro-SCOTUS argument directly ignores the public actions and words of the conservative wing as they gleefully set fire to the 20th century
CBS News has invited Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller to join them at that execrable dinner, and now, via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social, we learn that CBS’s parent, Paramount, has invited Brendan Carr.
Yes, that Brendan Carr.
www.status.news/p/brendan-ca...
“Inside one of the mummies, the team discovered a rare papyrus containing a passage from Book II of the Iliad by Homer. The text includes part of the “Catalogue of Ships,” which lists Greek forces involved in the campaign against Troy.”
greekreporter.com/2026/04/19/h...
Normally I’d say the president has very little control over the national economy, and that’s true, but it is actually Trump’s fault if we go into a recession six years after coming out of one
“Look, we picked the best man for the job given the current American government.”
Several executive orders this evening invoking the Defense Production Act so Trump can directly financially support US oil/gas/petroleum/coal production, which is a great signal about how poorly this war is going economically and how little they planned for this
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
There is still one of these at LAS where you can play slots while you smoke
Pulido, a fifty-two-year-old Latin Grammy winner who’s appeared intermittently on Billboard charts since the mid-nineties, is running for Congress against the incumbent Republican Monica De La Cruz, who, in 2022, flipped Texas’s Fifteenth Congressional District, which had been held by Democrats for more than a century. After Pulido secured the Democratic nomination, in early March, De La Cruz posted a video saying that the election “isn’t about who you want performing at your niece’s quinceañera. It’s about who you trust with your family’s future.” Abel Prado, Pulido’s campaign manager, remembers thinking, Did she really say that? Which gringo consultant wrote that? Within days, Pulido announced online that he would stop by quinceañeras in his district and perform for his potential constituents; as of early April, the campaign had received more than three thousand invitations.
this rules
With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.
We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.
Please stand by for more.
Seventeenth Century England, man. Wow. What a time.
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“Riese & Müller…will cease its business activities in the United States as of July 31, 2026…Key factors include the persistently challenging and increasingly volatile market conditions in the United States.” 😞
www.r-m.de/en-us/press/...
New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...
Looking right at you: a goat (possibly demonic). With a kid (non-demonic). By today's artist, Jacob Cuyp of Dordrecht. Portrait specialist & father of Aelbert Cuyp.
“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”
incredible exchange here, this website has the juice
I thought this was a joke. It is not
cruisefever.net/after-being-...
>unarmed pleasure vessel inexplicably capable of running a blockade
What did he know?
how is this literally happening in real life
i dont understand, 2 days ago i was told there was a deal, i was told it was over and we got everything we wanted, i was told the strait would never be closed again, i was told all this just as markets were hitting their stride on friday afternoon
I have seriously lost track of how many times we've completely obliterated Iran's military and how many times Trump has reopened the Strait of Hormuz.
They run back the same playbook with the same players every Sunday.
FWIW, the answer to this question is “no”
Thom Tillis’s colleagues don’t see him backing down on his Fed blockade and aren’t trying to stop him
“If you’re asking me if I think that Tillis is bluffing, the short answer is no. Long answer is hell no,” said Sen. John Kennedy (R., La.)
one thing i'm pretty certain of is that no one currently working in elected politics is prepared for the ways that our politics are going to change when hundreds of thousands of upper middle class, educated tech workers are getting laid off and rehired as contractors for ~60% of the pay
Doesn't this violate the ceasefire?
Trump continues to crater. New NBC poll has his approval down to 37-63, which is 26 points underwater.
Crucially, 50% disapprove *strongly.* Has any other president had half the country strongly disapproving?
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
It took George W. Bush almost 8 years to reach 50% of the public "strongly" disapproving of him. Trump did it in like 14 months
www.pewresearch.org/politics/200...