Quotation inside a border: "'How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more beautiful than the dreams of those who sleep upon the earth?' KAHLIL GIBRAN, Poet and visual artist." The border contains text that says "Arab American Heritage Month" and "ACLU".

Portrait inside a border of Kahlil Gibran, who is writing and looking into the distance. The border contains text that says "Arab American Heritage Month" and "ACLU".

Kahlil Gibran is one of the best-selling poets of all time.

Inspired by his experience as a Lebanese American immigrant, Kahlil’s work earned him a reputation as a key voice of Arabic literary modernism and the Arab diaspora.

His writings continue to resonate with people around the world.

The public has been screaming for authenticity for years…only a few beyond Trump have capitalized.

And there is no Director in place. No one else at NSF is a political appointee. What are they doing?

Not the main point here, but I do not ever recall a federal agency making significant programmatic and personnel changes as a result of the PRESIDENT'S BUDGET PROPOSAL, which does not change any law or funding allocations. Congress hasn't acted yet.

What are we doing here?

I know...preaching to the choir

We are also running out of outlets that will employ journalists with courage and moral clarity.

I am happy to share the first of multiple research articles examining the social equity dimensions of priority-based budgeting. Thanks to @journalpa.bsky.social for publishing this work and to my wonderful co-authors, Kaelan Boyd and Meagan Jordan!

Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza.

This is textbook censorship of the highest degree

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget. Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year.

(Published July 2024)

“For years, universities and colleges have been trying to keep the number of men and women on campuses evened out at a time when a growing number of men have been choosing not to go to college.”

Poll: In a dramatic shift, Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

When Arab officials privately - and increasingly publicly - state that Israel and not Iran is the source of instability in the region, this is why:
During a year-long "truce" between Israel and Lebanon, Israel violated it 10,000 times!

RAYGUN strikes again!

State DOGE audit finds UCF most-efficient university, New College the least The audit, which Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered in February, looked into spending at Florida’s 12 public universities, concluding that the Orlando university got the “most results” fro…

State DOGE audit finds UCF most-efficient university, New College the least trib.al/yhfZxkw

My old neighborhood!

Zohran Mamdani Refuses To Share Plan For Making Rich Richer NEW YORK—Casting doubt on the mayoral candidate’s ability to effectively carry out the duties of the office, critics assailed New York State Rep. Zohran Mamdani Friday for refusing to share his plan t...

Zohran Mamdani Refuses To Share Plan For Making Rich Richer

Solidarity!! Last week, Indiana University fired the director of student media & halted print on the Indiana Daily Student newspaper. Yesterday, Purdue’s student paper printed the banned edition & drove two hours to deliver it. Incredible www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...

(around an image of the No Kings logo) IT’S OFFICIAL Nearly 7 million people have attended today's peaceful protests, which makes No Kings Day the biggest single-day protest against tyranny in American history! With more than 2,700 lawful and peaceful protests across all 50 states, No Kings Day was 14 times larger than both of Trump's presidential inaugurations (combined).

After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today

issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

Stop Lowering the Flag The symbol of public mourning loses its meaning when it’s used too much.

Lowering the flag was once a relatively rare symbol of public mourning and respect. It has now “become a largely empty gesture, illegible to the broader public and ultimately ignored,” Justin Murphy argues:

Definitely a rural Kansas thing from my childhood, as well.

Can College Students Stand to Ditch Their Phones for an Hour or So?

UCF students leading the path to phone-free "reconnection"

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w...

I hate to say I told you so but…

www.ynetnews.com/article/sjje...

🚨 New Publication Alert 🚨

I'm excited to share fresh research on the impact of enhanced public engagement on the success of priority-based budgeting efforts! Some in @GFOA's Rethinking Budget initiative have seen this research, but I am happy to broaden the audience.

UCF School of Public Administration Welcomes New Director Bradley Heim joins the College of Community Innovation and Education from Indiana University’s O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

Welcome to Dr. Heim!

ccie.ucf.edu/2025/08/08/u...

A bar chart showing the combined revisions to job growth for months of May and June, by sector

last friday, job gains from May+June were revised down by a total of ~258,000. the downward revisions hit virtually every sector, but jobs in state+local government were revised down the most

story by @bencasselman.bsky.social about why revisions happen, 📊📈 by Keith Collins+me

🎁 nyti.ms/4fpAbEI

It is remarkable how much appetite there is for “explainer” videos online and how little Democrats have tried to leverage it to turn their “good policy is good politics” theory into action

American is a service-based economy: Let's take a look at job growth in private sector goods and services over the past 75 years. Spoiler: it's almost all in services. We are not going to even make a dent in this trend. In fact, we may push it further.

But he did not "select 'Black/African American'." He selected "Black *or* African American" AND "Asian" AND wrote in "Ugandan." He literally told them all he could about his true "ethnicity/race," which is literally what they asked for on the form.