The kids are out here getting looks mogged when they could be getting books mogged, is what I’m saying

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

This was an incredible performance and a terrible loss.

Andrew Stout@thomasacstout.bsky.social · 7d ago

My favorite Glen Hansard performance was at Shane MacGowan's funeral. I hope Glen receives an equally fitting a tribute. RIP to a true artist youtu.be/ptayWtW1So8?...

This is a fantastic thread. We are held back as a society by a very superficial understanding of religion in general and the role of religion in history (plug for my field, natch). I’m not just talking the general public- pundits, politicians, journalists, scholars in other fields - do better.

David W. Congdon@dwcongdon.com · 3d ago

1. Scholar of religion and theology here. I teach a course on Christian nationalism and American politics every year at KU. While I appreciate this thread, I would argue that America *is* a Christian nation—but specifically for the reasons identified by Matthew Avery Sutton in his new book.

I have read some commentary that this public drama is bad for The Humanities writ large. I respectfully disagree. People LOVE drama and the more attention on this film and the classics in general the better!

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4d ago

Let me go find my emotional support twelve-new-daily-articles about the Odyssey war

"I saw Goody Proctor using AI!"

This has to be a bit

Screaming Pectoriloquy@caulimovirus.bsky.social · 5d ago

#caturday surveillance task force activated

Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?

Of *course* it was made with AI This is going straight into my “don’t trust AI, kids” examples slides for my colleagues and students

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d ago

The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

My kid just got a PA denial for a routine echocardiogram for his severe CHD because it hasn’t been long enough since his last one and he doesn’t have new problems. Uh…that is what preventative care is for?

Peggy Flanagan@peggyflanagan.bsky.social · last wk.

Your doctor should decide what care you need - not a dude behind a desk or worse, an AI robot. It's time to ban prior authorization.

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

Matthew L Reznicek@drreznicek.bsky.social · last wk.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

i don't want to live in a world defined by these men and their small stupid greeds

Dropped my bagel on my lap and it landed cream cheese side up. You can’t get me today, universe!! Hashtag BLESSED

As a teacher of 24 years, I feel qualified to ask: Are you fucking high?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Linda McMahon on good uses of AI in schools for students: "They spend the first couple of hours with AI and then the rest of the day they are implementing things they have learned. It's remarkable."

This article was a wild ride

Martha Hickson@sassylibrarian.bsky.social · 2w ago

“It would be laughable if the Smithsonian conspiracy theory and tales of Bible giants … were not a kind of Trojan horse to soften up the public to accept political propaganda in place of history and complete the assault on America’s museums that failed in the 1990s.”

Some of you weren’t raised by PBS, and it shows.

we went to the fucking moon, Milton

Cato Institute@cato.org · 3w ago

"The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus." — Milton Friedman. They were driven by individual liberty and free markets. And they always will be.

I cannot believe we are doing Bay of Pigs 2: airdrop edition

George Pearkes@peark.es · 3w ago

The Pentagon is evaluating combat dropping the 101st Airborne into Cuba.

Swap out the wine for everclear and you’d have yourself a rager.

Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · 3w ago

while pope leo is in an excommunicating kinda mood he *may* want to throw a little chin music at the edibles industry just to brush back... ah... whatever this is

Onthisday in 1789, the Bastille was stormed in Paris, a key turning point of the French Revolution. 3.5 years later Louis XVI was executed by guillotine. We look at the deluge of prints that emerged depicting his death publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/8221146...

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

Wrote about the Roberts Court’s highly selective aversion to identifying racism, echoing the logic of the infamous Korematsu decision, which the Roberts Court has both condemned and imitated. Call it Neo-Korematsu doctrine. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The grim reaper of American democracy.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

New in PN: Mitch McConnell's legacy of destruction "Almost everything about how the modern GOP operates — its aversion to solving problems, its destruction of norms that used to allow the institution to operate, its embrace of chaos and dysfunction — can be at least partly attributed to McConnell."

New in PN: Mitch McConnell's legacy of destruction "Almost everything about how the modern GOP operates — its aversion to solving problems, its destruction of norms that used to allow the institution to operate, its embrace of chaos and dysfunction — can be at least partly attributed to McConnell."

Mitch McConnell's legacy of destruction

He may have found Trump distasteful, but no one did more to protect him.

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Really important piece from @philiprocco.bsky.social today www.crisesnotes.com/r/beea98d7?m...

Russell Vought is Using the Plumbing of Fiscal Federalism to Create a New Patronage System

EDITORS NOTE: I (Nathan) have struggled whether to rush to comment on this proposed OMB rule. Being a recent Fiscal Year 2026 OMB memo, and knowing that the OMB will continue to create new forms of bu...

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