Yale Alums: This is a link to Pres. McInnis's request for community feedback on the Trump DOE's Compact 2.0. Please make your voices heard! I'll thread a screenshot to my own response below.
Department of Education letter for all university presidents and governing boards
president.yale.edu
@winnersusedrugs.bsky.social How are classes going? Is it a lot of hours per week?
Why is being uncommonly good at something positive but being rarely good at something the opposite?
I'm just one chapter into my first Joyce Carol Oates book and I'm already wondering how someone is so good at writing.
Why isn't there a Castlevania story driven rpg? The TV shows show how much story there is abailable.
I think I'm a messy enough eater to know that my dog is a big fan of Stilton
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 8mo agoMAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org
Fuck Ice. Protest, donate, write your congress person, check in on your neighbors. This monster will fail if we don't fail one another.
To my great disappointment, making my own mushroom stock has made mushroom risotto that is 1000x better
Just a reminder that George Conway is not fundraising right now to run against a MAGA republican. He is fundraising to run against progressive Democrats.
Spent new years Eve in copenhagen. What a wild time. A two Michelin star tasting menu and unhinged danish fireworks
Spent new years Eve in copenhagen. What a wild time. A two Michelin star tasting menu and unhinged danish fireworks
I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 10mo ago!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity. Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social. blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not. | Blog of the APA
Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last decade—and it is no mystery why. Democracy is collapsing ar...
blog.apaonline.org
"The boy, who is Hispanic and African American, was held in a garage for five hours “without informing his family, stating any charges, or allowing him to call an attorney,” the statement said. He is a U.S. citizen, as is his entire immediate family, the release said."
Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd
The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Two men being pursued were arrested as were two bystanders. The crash drew dozens of neighbors who...
chicago.suntimes.com
That moment when your old boss wins a Nobel prize
Canceling Disney plus. Let me know how Aliens Earth ends :(
I keep asking people how they deal with the feeling of their brain crying everyday when they get home from work but they don't know what I'm talking about.
Sounds like ICE killed a guy and then held american citizens hostage at gunpoint until they agreed to destroy the evidence
United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · last yr.Our staff is on the ground supporting families. Many workers-including US citizens, were held by federal authorities at the farm for 8 hours or more. US citizen workers report only being released after they were forced to delete photos and videos of the raid from their phones. 4/
Ok. I don’t know how many alarms this is. It’s all of them.
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · last yr.Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city." Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
I'm too invested in these eagles. Gizmo, you need to do more practice flapping!
"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas. 'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”
Gaza’s youngest influencer aged 11 among children killed by Israeli strikes
Yaqeen Hammad offered tips for surviving life under bombardment and is just one of dozens of minors who have died
theguardian.com
Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵
Kai Kupferschmidt@kakape.bsky.social · last yr.“Her departure, which she announced this morning in an essay in Time, is believed to be the first time in the agency’s 75-year history that a member of the 24-person board resigned over a policy disagreement with an administration” @policyhound.bsky.social on Alondra Nelson’s bombshell resignation 🧪
🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar. Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
