Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

We've always had "kids these days" who just check boxes and do the bare minimum to get the credentials. But, my belief is that the K-12 system has worked towards a set of goals that are irreconcilable with goals like "human flourishing." Intrinsic motivation to learn is very much ignored.

In my hyper conservative churches growing up, I was always warned about liberalism but never far right authoritarianism. I was always warned about socialism but never predatory capitalism. I was always warned about feminism but never misogyny. I was always warned about homosexuality but never about abuse in the church. I was always warned about Islamic extremists, but never Christian nationalism. Imagine what American Christianity would look like today if it had focused on its own sins.

It's basically unheard-of for a university to employ the actual academic expertise of its own faculty in producing knowledge about its own functioning instead of consultant-style blather serving a predetermined agenda

Pretty frustrating that the New York Times is crediting AP with uncovering the existence of Aadam’s archive when I reported on it 15 months prior. chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...

I've lived in Northern Ireland all my life and I have heard stupid shit you wouldn't believe about religion. The dumbest stuff from people who think dinosaurs lived 6,000 years ago.

Never heard anyone say 'the Pope doesn't represent the Catholic Church'

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 24–813 CHEVRON USA INCORPORATED, ET AL., PETITIONERS v. PLAQUEMINES PARISH, LOUISIANA, ET AL. ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT [April 17, 2026] JUSTICE THOMAS delivered the opinion of the Court. Congress has long authorized federal officers and their agents to remove suits brought against them in state court to federal court. The federal officer removal statute authorizes an officer or “person acting under that officer” to remove state suits “for or relating to any act under color of such office.” 28 U. S. C. §1442(a)(1). In this case, Chevron USA Inc. invoked the statute to remove to federal court an environmental suit brought against it in Louisiana state court. Chevron argued that the suit was removable because it implicates Chevron’s crude-oil production during the Second World War, when Chevron also refined crude oil into aviation gasoline for the U. S. military. No party disputes that Chevron “act[ed] under” federal officers when it performed its refining duties. We thus decide only whether this suit, which implicates Chevron’s wartime production of crude oil, “relat[es] to” Chevron’s wartime aviation-gasoline refining for the military. We hold that it does.

Only one SCOTUS opinion this morning: Chevron USA v. Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.

Thomas has the opinion for the court, reversing the Fifth Circuit and siding with Chevron in a "federal officer removal" case.

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

One major problem with granting the bad, false premise that every single major reason for "declining trust" in universities is internal to universities is that this totally ignores the common decline of trust in <all societal institutions> in over the last several decades:
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Tennessee Senate Passes Amended Trans Healthcare Tracking Bill As Tennessee State Senators came to the floor on Monday afternoon, about two dozen activists formed a wall in the hallway, singing to the lawmakers.

The Tennessee legislature has now passed the trans registry bill requiring all medical information about trans people, including therapy notes, diagnoses, and prescriptions be reported to the state so it can be published to the public.

apnews.com/article/tenn...

It was a long time ago. In a galaxy far far away.

What The Pitt Gets Right about Health Policy Foreshadowing the deadly consequences of Trump's Medicaid policies

New with @pamherd.bsky.social: While never mentioning Trump or political parties, the show’s second season offers an almost-real time commentary on how policy changes are affecting health.
Lets take one particular example of Medicaid coverage loss. 🧵
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Crying into your steering wheel is the sign of a healthy society, actually.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

I am begging, BEGGING Republican elected leaders to read ONE history book

Guess which party held power in both chambers of Congress when FDR and Truman prosecuted WWII? You'll never guess!

Trump used the Presidential Records Act to defend himself against charges alleging that he stole classified documents.

Now his Justice Department—which is currently being run by his former criminal defense lawyer—says the PRA is unconstitutional.

We now know how many people work at NCES: 13 (12 full-time).

That's down from about 100 FTEs pre-DOGE.

This info comes from ED's response to the ACTS lawsuit, because you can't spell transparency without lawsuit (or something like that).

I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.

Folks, we could be on the verge of something truly beautiful happening

Trump's own lawyer confirms: the only goal of the Trump administration is evading accountability.

They're not doing any of this for you. It's only to protect themslves.

Apparently this is mostly a repost account these days. But why try to say things and get credit for it when others are saying it so well already?

Documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY exposing how ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts.

Documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY exposing how ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts.

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

This is not the liberal or conservative case. It is the one and only <pro-democracy> case for voter ID. Every other one is an intentional barrier to suffrage.

another interesting (but older) datum on the "male loneliness crisis" is that if you look at historic data, women have historically reported more social isolation and the "crisis" became a thing when men started to approach parity.

Update: Today, the Georgia Supreme Court issued an order directing counsel for the state to file a sworn affidavit providing a “complete explanation” for the filings that included non-existent cases and other errors.

The Ratchet In 2015, state legislatures across the United States considered 75 anti-LGBTQ bills, of which 27 targeted gender identity.1 In 2025, that total reached 1,059—with 851 of the current-session bills targ...

I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe.

www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

In retrospect trying to close the US Institute of Peace and renaming DoD the Department of War were pretty unsubtle attempts at foreshadowing

She Was in Labor at a Florida Hospital. Then She Was in Zoom Court for Refusing a C-Section. A virtual court hearing from a pregnant mother’s hospital bed shows what forced medical treatment can look like.

NEW: Cherise Doyley never expected to see a judge while in labor.

Yet she found herself fighting a court for the right to make medical decisions about her own body — from her hospital bed.

Here’s how her case unfolded.

Official Ireland is embarrassed by St Patrick’s day Some readers may remember a particularly infamous episode of The Simpsons which saw the town of Springfield descend into anarchy during their annual St Patrick’s Day parade. As the crowds thronged Mai...

There's a few terrible ways to earn a living in the work, but surely none worse than being the kind of shoneen prick who gets paid to abase himself and his compatriots for the libidinal pleasure of an English fascist magazine.
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An effort to remedy harm from a race-based kidney test helps Black patients seeking transplants A racially biased medical test for years kept Black people from getting kidney transplants. A new study shows a national plan to remedy the harm is working.

Black kidney patients were delayed or blocked from transplants by a race-based medical formula that made their kidneys appear healthier. Now, thousands are regaining lost wait-list time through restorative justice efforts. We must keep speaking truth to power until health care equity is real.

Reminder: You can watch the DOGE bro depos on YouTube!

(I’ve seen a lot of clips compiled by news orgs, but some of them don’t link to the full videos.)