Yeah, can’t imagine why people prefer this over a political class that says they can’t do anything while insider trading and dining on the boots of their favorite billionaire benefactors. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/n...

Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Is Approved by New York City Board

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not too worried about this given how most of their plans have turned out this century

Axios@axios.com · last mo.

"There's going to be a war": Centrist House Democrats plot Mamdani Caucus counterattack

At a time when it's hard to convince people about the value of reading, it's disappointing to see my alma mater (and current employer) sending this out to alums.

I know we’ve all read 100 articles like this, but I do recommend this one, especially for the series of questions at the end about how universities (not individual instructors) could change our practice. I’d love to discuss those

Opinion | My Students Can’t Read

The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.

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I always say this when we have an admin tell us about the need for viewpoint diversity and understanding other perspectives, and the hemming and hawing that follows is fun to observe. I also like to ask them whether we can automate Dean-level jobs with AI and get a similar response.

Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This piece amplifies the politicized language of the critics of “cancel culture.” What kinds of courses should focus on cultivating “perspectives different from their own”? Engineering? Math? Biology? Should students in business, the country’s most popular major, be exposed to Marxist perspectives?

This is my top #8 WNBA playoff prediction ranking: 1. Aces 2. Atlanta 3. Fever 4. Liberty 5. Wings 6. Sparks 7. Valks 8. Minny I also think it's going to be insanely close. Every team except Seattle got better. My Libs are lower because I think we are going to have injury/health issues all season.

Major counts one of the most foolish ways to measure needs. A lot of students can still take courses from profs in a dept/major/program without majoring. And they say nothing about the necessity of the actual expertise. Physics and classics are low majors here -- doesn't mean not hugely important!

Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Syracuse is named after a classical Greek city known for its practical and artistic ceramics, a city which is now in Italy. When we kill the humanities we kill self-knowledge. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/n...

My colleagues David Rosner and Jerry Markowitz found documents leading to Lancet retracting a 1977 editorial downplaying dangers of asbestos in talcum powder. It was ghost-written by a paid scientist for J&J. Links below contains everything, including docs at www.toxicdocs.org, our database.

Historians Unearth a Conflict of Interest, Prompting a Retraction by The Lancet Journal

The journal retracted an unsigned 1977 commentary claiming that talcum powder poses no serious health risks, despite robust contemporaneous scientific evidence to the contrary.

publichealth.columbia.edu

Not so marvelous news. ~95,000 scientists have left the federal government since the Trump regime took over.

Prominent Climate Scientist Resigns From NASA, Citing Trump’s Attack on Science

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Do people think LSU can upset UCLA? #ncaaw

FUDD

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

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83 = 8 x 3 = 24 💜 💛

Watching clips of the Miami game. What a disgrace!

My new article in @jhppl.bsky.social situates the current attacks on public health in a historical perspective. What I found surprised me. We've seen this before, and it's not as unprecedented as it feels. Thanks to @sarahgollust.bsky.social @oberlanderunc.bsky.social for editing! Read free below.

Suing works and more institutions should have tried it. (This suit was filed, I believe, by faculty associations and unions.)

Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement

The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...

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So much of the rot in this country stems from our failure to fund public goods and regulate private wealth. In that context, people who need your money won't care how terrible you are. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/n...

Consultants Offered Epstein Access to Top N.Y. Democrats if He Donated

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My #NCAAW basketball final four prediction: LSU, UConn, UCLA, Michigan! LSU and UConn in the final game.

My take on the backlash to DEI/health equity in the health sciences in @nejm.org roundtable: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Pursuing Health Equity in the United States | NEJM

This video roundtable explores the distinction and relationship between diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and the pursuit of health equity, and the hurdles for improving health equity in...

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there is a world in which it would make sense for Dems to cave and help reopen the government, for example, if we just got crushed in VA/NJ and voters were blaming us for the shutdown we are not in that world. we are in the opposite world. trump is taking all the blame and flailing. jesus christ

Ezra Klein's NYT column leans on the trope of Manchin being better than a GOP senator in WV. He doesn't mention Manchin blocking the Build Back Better Act or For the People Act in 2021. Here I mention three Senate races where voters might have turned out for universal programs that Manchin killed:

Billionaire-Backed Democrats Killed the Build Back Better Act ⑉ Brick House

The dark money group No Labels is reportedly loading up on billionaire donors to support conservative Democrats in elections ahead.

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I propose that we all agree to apologize to her if she does, in fact, cure all diseases by the end of the century. And in the interim, we should mock this for the absurdly self-aggrandizing, utterly un-self-aware bullshit it is.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 10mo ago

Priscilla Chan reveals the piece of health advice she ignores.⁠ ⁠ In the full interview, Chan discusses how she plans to cure all diseases by the end of the century, how she’s always been a nerd and why she almost transferred out of Harvard.⁠ 🎥 on.wsj.com/43o4O8S

Kudos to Sally Kornbluth/MIT for rejecting the government’s attempt at corrupting higher ed. Others should quickly follow suit. Even the folks at Cato agree—this isn’t a tough call!

US public health is in crisis. In this special JHPPL issue edited by @oberlanderunc.bsky.social & @sarahgollust.bsky.social, you’ll find articles that help contextualize the erosion of public health infrastructure & adoption of policies harmful to public health. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/advanc...

@merlinc2.bsky.social offers historical context for current public health backlash. Drawing on vax campaigns, air pollution control & occupational safety, public health traditions have been hard to eliminate once entrenched though 2nd Trump Admin may be different read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

Chris Mannix arguments about the WNBA and revenue. He’s so ignorant.

"[D]espair is the wrong choice. Much of Trump’s power is illusory. It depends on the rest of civil society obeying in advance and preemptively kowtowing to his threats." @davidoatkins.bsky.social share why "there are good reasons to be hopeful."

Quit Being All Gloom and Doom. MAGA Has Not Won

MAGA has not won. Trump’s power is weaker than it looks, and American democracy is more resilient than the doomers believe.

washingtonmonthly.com

Five— five!!— grafs until the NYT suggests to readers it might not be lawful. Complete and total abidication of their responsibility to readers to inform and not parrot propaganda.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 11mo ago

President Trump will sign an executive order on Friday renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War, the name the agency held until shortly after World War II, the White House said.

To sum up the judge's ruling: - The Trump administration's freezing of Harvard funds on or after 4/14 is arbitrary and capricious, and is set aside. It also violated the First Amendment. - The administration is also forbidden from implementing any freeze or termination of Harvard federal funding

Scott Delaney@scott-delaney.bsky.social · 11mo ago

FINALLY: Harvard [mostly] wins. We'll see what happens next. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69921...

I’m in this documentary on the history of smog, airing tonight on PBS: American Experience at 9 pm. And streaming here www.pbs.org/wgbh/america... check it out!

Trailer | CLEARING THE AIR: THE WAR ON SMOG | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS

YouTube video by American Experience | PBS

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