This went out to Notre Dame students: "You're paying $90k a year to be here. The goal is the degree, the network, and actually enjoying college -- not memorizing orgo at 3am..."
www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2026...
Lovely footage of the first bear born in Aragon in more than 50 years, shortly after emerging from hibernation. Part of the slow recovery of brown bears in the Pyrenees. Via Aragón TV.
🚨 I have an article out at APR titled “Educational Polarization in American Politics: More than Just a Diploma Divide” in which i look at how educational attainment shapes public opinion and political behavior across the entire education spectrum, not just the across the degree/no degree binary 1/x
When the expanded CTC expired in 2022, each $1,000 in lost benefits reduced consumer sentiment by 1.7 points—with effects lasting nearly two years—long after the checks stopped, from @jacobbastian.bsky.social and Melody Harvey www.nber.org/papers/w35059
@realfollowers.bsky.social Information please.
Solved this problem by having no more space to add plants. Not sure I'd recommend, though.
Accept no substitutes!
How exactly is Iran collecting tolls from the Strait of Hormuz, given its exclusion from the dollar clearing system? How are their oil exports to China and goods imports from China settled? Questions we're all* wondering!
This Atlantic Council explainer is great:
New — I wrote about the terror and loss of the last few days, mostly so we don’t forget.
www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-iran...
We're all running on fumes. As someone who cannot manage a soft-boiled egg even when I try, hat's off! 😉
who has a book coming out that people can preorder so they have something to look forward to and then be pleasantly surprised when the book just shows up on their doorstep
Miro!!!
Shameful, short-sighted, and profoundly un-American.
When you just don't know - or just don't care - what makes America great.
They’d rather the country be poorer and whiter than rich and diverse. Of course when the pie shrinks, the rich will demand the same amount and will tell you the crumbs you’re left with are because of immigrants or trans people or DEI. bsky.app/profile/apne...
Pileated woodpecker visited our feeder for the first time. Highlight of 2026.
Way to go UConn!
A+ alt text, too!
Ours started yesterday. We needed it two weeks ago.
Worst-case scenarios are usually least-likely scenarios so the more likely version is that you just get hemmed in, a lot, in ways you eventually normalize--and then you will one day remember what, say, 2013 was like, and be amazed at how much worse off you are.
Always.
It would've been reckless and inexcusable to cause generational damage by illegally defunding USAID, NIH, HHS, Dept of Edu, and so on just to reduce the deficit...
... but spending and the deficit are both higher than '22, '23, '24. It was all just harm for harm's sake. The cruelty was the point.
Not generally a Dylan fan, but this seems fitting today.
youtu.be/5y2FuDY6Q4M?...
Well, that sucked.
Credit to VCU.
Sigh
The two most recent for both. Haven't ventured further back yet.
I feel that.
We've gotten into Nation of Language and MJ Lenderman, but those are total 1980s throwbacks 😆
Sad to see the Ides of March becoming commercialised like this. I really feel like we're losing track of the true spirit of the holiday. It's not about how many knives you can stick in a tyrant all at once, it's about the whole community coming together to stab the tyrant as many times as possible.
Evergreen.
youtu.be/fGv2VqE3xbY?...
Consistency!
