That's a good point. It's very hard (and expensive) to do the multi-year, large-scale research work needed to draw valuable, lasting conclusions. RCTs are much harder than, say, testing a new pill in medicine.
Which should mean we are humble in the face of the unknown
An NYT headline reading: Homeland Security Expands Deportation Fleet With High-End Jets
My headline from April 15 reading: Water is wet, and DHS's 'deportation fleet' boondoggle expands under Markwayne
The hed and dek of my story from February reading: ICE FLIGHTS Noem's luxury 'deportation' jet is the tip of the ICE-berg Kristi Noem's DHS has acquired at least nine new aircraft in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets. Gillian Brockell 26 Feb 2026 - 9 min read
Hey @nytimes.com, I already reported this earlier this week.
And the G650s you mention? I reported on those in FEBRUARY.
You credit NBC News and WSJ for first reporting parts of your story. Please credit me, too.
Did your account get hacked?
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A federal judge in Illinois today ruled that the Trump administration improperly coerced Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking apps in violation of the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
That is, while there certainly is rigorous quantitative research being done, education academia does have a fundamental problem with incorporating sloppy science and treating research as though it's a binary -- "the science shows X" instead of recognizing that research quality is a thing.
Peer-reviewed papers in education often make sweeping statements like "Tracking has been proven ineffective (citation, citation)" that take small-scale, un-replicated research, avoid contrary evidence, and jump to the authors' preexisting conclusions.
I do think, though, that there is a systemic problem with how unevenly Ed academia has reckoned with the replication crisis. I got a master's at Harvard in 2022, and only once did a prof mention the crisis, and some fellow students had never heard of it.
Wow, Suns-Blazers... Impressive from both teams. Looks like only 4x ever did a player have a playoff game with 41 points, 7 rebounds, 12 assists, and 2 blocks (I'm counting performances before blocks were counted, so grain of salt):
Oscar in 1963, West in 1969, LeBron in 2017, and Deni tonight
“Two can play at that game” is literally the Drebin quote here when he takes an innocent woman hostage to cluelessly fight the enemy
Not dunking on Zack or this post, I’m just always struck by how easily American journalists will admit that the media shapes public polling and political outcomes when they’re not talking about America.
@mhlevy.bsky.social Can I prevail on you with the Independent to use the more common all-caps style for organizations like FAIR and ICE, rather than the "it's just another proper noun" approach that Cambridge Day sometimes uses, to monumental confusion? I noticed it in this piece on the NYT... <3
The thing about there needing to be a path of redemption for people who have been “canceled” is: there already is a path to redemption and it’s called “redeeming yourself.” The path is open! No one is blocking that! You just have to do it!
Just about every time I've struck up a conversation with a Chasidic Jew in NYC, they have been very nice and eager to chat. Sometimes I've been pleasantly surprised by what they say. We've usually disagreed about a lot of things, but I encourage you to engage!
rimonoroni Follow christians: what could possibly be in that evil book.... what horrible spells does it hold within its pages... what black magic does it propagate.... the talmud: so if you send your kid off to Torah school but he has a really hard time with it, send him back home and go to school yourself instead so that once you've learned Torah you can go and teach your entire family. in fact, once some rabbi went out to go to Torah school and do just this, and on his way he came through this town and he asked if he could stay in the synagogue for the night. and of course the rabbi said yes but weird enough no one was in the streets and something was kind of off about the whole place. so our hero went into the synagogue only to find a seven headed demon just hanging out in the library!! our hero is terrified and prays super hard and because of this the demon is vanquished. he goes back to the rabbi and is like "dude wtf" and the rabbi was like "listen i know this is unorthodox but you're well known for how good at praying you are and this demon has been terrorizing us for well over a month and we were desperate. we knew you wouldn't die" and the guy was like "i didn't know that!" who do you think is in the right? hm. tough question. anyway. what were we talking about again? oh right. what if you make your sukkah doorway 1/7 of a cubit too short. would that be fucked up or what rimonoroni Follow #what? look up Bavli Kiddushin 29b <3
I love the Talmud
NYTImes calls NATO the “North American treaty organization”
It’s a real problem that our elite institutions are just much stupider now than they used to be
We are going to need a muscular, borderline-imperial Congress full of people who want to actually do their jobs, and we're going to need them to seize every single ounce of power they've ceded over the last 50 or so years back with very visible, very vigorous means
I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.
This is really what gets me, he became super duper famous from the apprentice, a show where even with the benefits of heavy editing he comes across as very obviously a fucking moron. It makes you feel like an alien to see millions of people being like "wow this guy is a genius!"
On this day of His resurrection, I am reminded that Christ is an immigrant pastor. Christ is a delivery driver. Christ is a janitor. Christ works construction. Christ walks among us and our government is kidnapping His children without consequence.
I am thinking, again, about Pastor Yeison Cortes Vasquez, from just up the road from me. I am thinking about how he spent Easter in a cage instead of with his congregation.
ME: wait I didn't even show you the best Lana song. listen to Cola (with headphones on!) THE BOYFRIEND: Ok one sec THE BOYFRIEND, SECONDS LATER: OH MY GOD
I'm a menace
ICE agents came to a military base and grabbed the newlywed wife of a soldier who's about to deploy.
The wife came to the U.S. as a toddler.
She has no criminal record.
None of this is how it used to work.
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100+ year old Pasteur Institute in Tehran was a premier infectious disease research institute and vaccine manufacturer
It is a reason Iranian kids like me born in 60s had access to measles vaccines soon after they were developed in the west
Guy got confirmed as Defense Secretary doing stuff at professional meetings I wouldn't have done visiting Vegas as a 25-year-old www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
I'm still shocked that only once in the course of my Harvard Graduate School of Education master's degree coursework did a classmate or professor mention the replication crisis in academia. One classmate had never even heard of it.
Happy Nowruz, New York City.
As Persian and other communities welcome the new year, I joined our team to learn about the Haft-seen table — a tradition rooted in renewal, reflection, and hope.
Wishing you all a new year filled with peace, light, and understanding.
Thanks for this essay, you took things I only shakily felt and made them coherent. It hit me like a ton of bricks to see the Mark Ruffalo character's story -- that he alone could corrupt Bella's sexuality -- thrown in his face.
It is the year of our lord 2026 and I'm STILL having to give my computer therapeutic reboots because it gets unusably sluggish
That sounds straight from Orwell.
"No stupid rules of engagement" means no Geneva Conventions or other international humanitarian laws, which the U.S. signed and supported for more than a century.
Hegseth and Trump are pro-war crimes.
