ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her G.I. Sweetheart

"Mr. Ross’s sons, who are in their 50s." Yeah, no surprise when the guys who get ICE to throw an 85yo into a detention camp are peak Gen X.

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Pulpit Fiction

Hegseth quotes a fictional hitman as if it's the Bible

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity Demands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of truth.

calls for “viewpoint diversity” are little more than demands for a quota system for political conservatives who otherwise could not hack it www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

Trump is clearly an unstable warmonger at odds with the will of the people. YouTube video by Senator Markey

A war powers resolution will not be enough. Yes. We need to assert congressional authority and stop this illegal war in Iran. But, Trump is clearly an unstable warmonger at odds with the will of the people. Removal is the top priority. No more war criminal in the White House.

which alessi do you use? i'm ready to junk the n-ieme bialetti! (my teakettle is alessi! what beautiful design!)

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion.

If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over.

And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk

The onslaught continues. Of course, we are well past the point of irreparable damage to science, nature, people's lives, ethics, and anything else that made the US great. But it still feels like another shot to the stomach. Keep fighting back in whatever way you can.
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I try to avoid taking the bait and amplifying a message that is posted with an obvious desire to divide and conquer, but every voter needs to see this one. This man is unfit for office.

Mark Jacob on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story "The president of the United States is clearly mentally unfit for office."

Mark Jacob on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story: “The president of the United States is clearly mentally unfit for office."

Support @theguardian.com who is not afraid and has been doing incredible investigative journalism.

This is so lovely. Thank you for these musical variations on the Praise of Bees. May author Nathan Chase's memory be a blessing.

#01208837520 in National Trust for Historic Preservation v. NPS (D.C. Cir., 26-5101) – CourtListener.com EMERGENCY MOTION [2167119] to stay underlying order pending appeal filed by Jessica Bowron, Douglas Burgum, DOI, Robert Downing, Executive Office of the President, GSA, NPS, Office of the Executive Re...

/2 The motion reads as if it were drafted by a generative AI fed on Trump Truth Social posts and the NY Post. I genuinely lack the power of expression to say how bad it is. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Who’s got a book coming out this year? Reply with a link, a photo of you with a galley, your Publisher’s Weekly screen shot, whatever. I genuinely miss being a bookseller and seeing people get excited about their new books gives me joy. It’s rough out there. Let’s see your 📚!

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Errors present in 45% of AI generated reports of news stories 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

BREAKING: U.S. job growth for February revised sharply lower — from -92,000 to -133,000 jobs, marking the largest monthly job loss since December 2020.

Well now, would you look at that?

A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of SEVERE disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

White House again proposes steep NASA budget cuts For the second consecutive year, the White House is proposing a major budget cut for NASA that would significantly impact science and the ISS.

Trump admin proposed a 23% cut in NASA's budget, right as its new Moon mission kicks off.

Science programs would be hit especially hard -- almost cut in half.

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HEADLINE OF THE DAY:

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#BuhBYE

Pam bondi ignoring Epstein survivors

may this define her for the rest of her life.

she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired.

girl, bye.

Rachel Fuchs, Poor & Pregnant; Dominique Godineau, Femme Tricotteuses (trans. as The Revolutionary Women of Paris); Judith Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight; Joan Scott, Gender & the Politics of History; and for smart readability, Asti Hustvedt, Medical Muses (agree w Bonnie Smith recs too!)

This is ghoulish behavior on the part of the Fed govt.

Well that pretty much sums it up.

Neale Lecture 2026: Professor Peter Mandler This year's UCL History Neale Lecture will feature Professor Peter Mandler (University of Cambridge) on ‘Eight Reasons to Study History: The Rise (and Fall?) of History as an Undergraduate Degree’.

We don't need no education. We need the obverse of no education. Find out more on 30 April at 18:00 at UCL's 2026 Neale Lecture by @petermandler.bsky.social on 'The Rise (and Fall?) of History as an Undergraduate Degree'. #Skystorians

How universities have been reorganised into incompetence The people who administer the work of universities are known as professional services staff, or PS for short. As if their work was some sort of additional postscript to what universities do.

Thanks for this powerful piece. Worth adding that the consultancies' cut-and-paste prescriptions always fall hardest on professional serviced colleagues:
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pernicious influence is an understatement. these consultancies are a nightmare.

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 ...

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

The cover of JD Vance's forthcoming book Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith. The photo used for the dust jacket depicts a very pretty church in an Appalachian setting, with woods in the background and what looks like the beginnings of a sunrise over distant hills. One look at it and you'd probably think, "That is definitely a Protestant church," and you'd be right

Great item today from @cheetah.bsky.social on JD Vance's forthcoming conversion memoir. TL;DR: Although Vance is Catholic, the cover photo for his book depicts a (very photogenic) Methodist church. www.thebulwark.com/i/192730409/...

Kentucky Senate passes bill making it easier to cut faculty Faculty groups have slammed the measure, which would allow boards to terminate instructors who teach programs with low enrollment or revenue.

Kentucky Senate passes bill making it easier to cut faculty

Faculty groups have slammed the measure, which would allow boards to terminate instructors who teach programs with low enrollment or revenue. www.highereddive.com/news/kentuck... #Academicsky 🧪

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