I'm surprised Big Turbulence couldn't find a way to bribe Trump to quash this.

National Weather Service@nws.noaa.gov · 2d ago

✈️ National Weather Service’s Aviation Weather Center debuted a new turbulence tool to help make flights smoother. The Graphical Turbulence Guidance Nowcast gives pilots more frequent, higher-resolution turbulence information to support safer, more informed decisions. weather.gov/news/260803-gtgn

An economist explains how to do good history

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d ago

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

Still at it, NPR. "Some say?" Your job is to report what the evidence shows to be true, to the best of your knowledge. Yeah, people who don't like your findings will yell at you. You can handle it. They cut your funding. That hurt. But doesn't it also free you to just say what the evidence shows?

NPR@npr.org · 3d ago

The Justice Department is using federal conspiracy charges to sweep up ICE protesters. Some legal experts worry the agency is casting too wide a net to prosecute political activists who oppose the Trump administration's deportation agenda. n.pr/3TyDYsK

without downloading new pics what is it like dating you (not sure if I can still play as I luckily like don’t have to worry about dating, but I guess @dreadships.bsky.social can confirm that this is what being married to me is like)

Cara 🪓🐉@geekpie.bsky.social · 4d ago

without downloading new pics what is it like dating you

Countless schools pre-capitulated

James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · 4d ago

The schools that stood up to Trump thug demands—first Wesleyan and Princeton, then Harvard, then many others who were emboldened—have won in court and earned honor in history and support from alums. Columbia showed that appeasement always loses. It's never enough. Don't do it, Yale.

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

Sometimes I just sit around stewing about how ride or die so many Minnesotans have been, how they showed up through sacrifice big and small. They made the bad guys push through them at every step. Gave up nothing for free. And the best governor we’re being offered is Klob. It’s embarrassing.

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Minnesota, other states, will push for ICE protections

Lawmakers from Minnesota and other states met in Chicago Wednesday to discuss plans to introduce laws designed to hold ICE officers accountable for violating people’s rights.

mprnews.org

#AHAPerspectives summer columnist Justine Truc is a French citizen attending a PhD program in South Carolina. And she has learned a LOT by teaching US history to American students. Read more in her first piece: 🗃️

Inherited Narratives and Historical Silences – AHA

A French graduate student shares how teaching American history in the United States challenged her views of students, the classroom, and her own culture.

historians.org

@bretdevereaux.bsky.social

Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions

Waow

"Turning thousands of Brunch Ladies in Edina and Kenwood into revolutionaries raging for public show trials at Hennepin and Lake by occupying the city with murderous goon paramilitaries could spell trouble for the GOP candidate slate."

MPR News@mprnews.org · 2w ago

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell landed President Donald Trump's endorsement last week. And Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth continues her campaign for governor despite losing the GOP nomination to former healthcare executive Kendall Qualls.

Two things: 1) this article is a standout success in explaining what tenure is 2) I've had great respect for UT, but at the moment it can't be regarded as a real university www.statesman.com/news/educati...

UT border surveillance scholar was a shoo-in for tenure. UT denied him.

American Studies scholar Iván Chaar López fears UT’s unexplained tenure denial violated his academic freedom amid scrutiny of controversial fields.

statesman.com

“The left is going to lose these elections for us,” say the people who lost 2000, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2024 — often because they were fixated on the “winning” strategy of punching left and wooing center right voters

"Before you were a fascist; you were a bully and an asshole."

Duckworth on Hegseth announcing testosterone screenings for troops: "It sounds like gender affirming care to me, so I'm glad he's come around ... this is just more performative bullshit from the least qualified secretary of defense in our nation's history."

Finally it's my moment to shine

Harry Kane scored 6 goals for England in the World Cup. After he admitted he went golfing with Donald Trump he did not score again the rest of the tournament, and England are out. The Trump sports curse remains undefeated.

I looked it up. And, yes, this is how it works. The UK now has 48 hours to get those 150-sheep-per-person off of there. Those are the rules.

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 3w ago

omg Argentina brought out a "THE FALKLANDS ARE ARGENTINE" banner after the win

Somebody needs his insecurity levels tested. Jeyzus.

Truthout@truthout.org · 3w ago

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced a new policy to provide mandatory testosterone level testing for servicemembers over the age of 30, aimed at increasing testosterone levels — a move that has been discouraged by health experts.

Writing headlines is hard. You have to compress an article into a phrase or two. And you have to fit an exact and usually inconvenient line space. Two images below: What the NYT is running on line. (h/t @jaywillis.net for calling this one out.) And what would fit exactly the same space, by me.

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

'Kensington Gore' (1921) by Arthur Temple Felix Clay (Kensington Central Library)

MAINE marches against ICE…

What kind of a society do we live in where the grading policies of Duke, Harvard, and Yale are the focus of the *New York Times* but the crumbling buildings of CUNY - literally the public university of the city of the paper - merits barely any attention from the NYT? ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

From mold to malfunctions, CUNY conditions come under scrutiny

Several dozen staff members rallied outside Brooklyn Borough Hall on Wednesday.

ny1.com

"Robert Mueller just died. Good, I'm glad he's dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!"

Lindsey Graham, 2020, asked about systemic racism and the George Floyd protests in S Carolina: "If you're a young African American or an immigrant, you can go anywhere in this state, you just need to be conservative, not liberal." Ethnocracy: Nonwhites are here on sufferance. Just watch your mouth.

Cartoonists Are The Only Real Journalists Left In The USA.