I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago
www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...
Couldn't agree more.
"Have I Got News For You" is one of the only things keeping us sane 🙏
"SHIT"
"FUCK"
"NO"
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"SHIT"
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Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.
Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302
The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.
What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.
Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.
MASSIE: “Iran is not Venezuela. The Ayatollah was not a president. He was a religious leader… 🇺🇸 & 🇮🇱 turned him into a martyr, expended billions, 6 🇺🇸 families must now lay to rest their sons & daughters. And for what? This administration can't even give us a straight answer.”
It’s tiring that we are increasingly stuck organizing our intellectual lives around arguing for the value of having an intellectual life
Him and Steve Miller Band's Steve Miller and Steve's dad, Steve Miller.
Ah, that's gonna make Steve real sad 😔
Samsies for Stephen Millers. The good Steve(n) Millers use a v.
If someone continually says demonstrably racist stuff or engages in obvious antisemitism, the fact that their private lives contradict their public statements is not, in fact, a point in their favor.
The woke liberal cucks at Anthropic cut us off from using Claude right before we were going to ask it to generate a reason why we're invading Iran.
by Pete Hegseth
It's time to fire Doc. Yesterday they lost by 23 to a now 1-9 in the last 10 Bulls who are actively trying to tank their season.
Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen, sitting alone on the surface of Mars.
It is 1991. I am 15 years old. The US has gone to war in the Middle East.
It is 2003. I am 27 years old. The US has gone to war in the Middle East.
It is 2026. I'm too old for this shit. The US has gone to war in the Middle East.
Just remember, the bedbugs are Bret Stephens
Today should be your 38th birthday.. When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..
Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.
Last week in class we talked about the possibility of an imminent war w/Iran. Most of my undergrads barely had it on their radar. I talked abt the GWOT wars & the lessons (not) learned. By the end of the class they were also pretty dismayed and many were filled w/ dread.
Oh, I see a lot of Zach Braff.
A shallow bowl of onion and cheese enchiladas in a red chili sauce with sprouts, sour creme, and homemade spanish rice. The bowl is on a gray metal coffee table near a colorful coaster and an open poetry anthology.
Sometimes my sweetie makes me enchiladas, and that's when I love him the most
Seems weird for February in Chicago, but I love a bonfire.
Like Audre Lorde said in a commencement address, “Every day of our lives is practice in becoming the person you want to be.”
Just reupping this image from my newsletter last week, that I hope people will feel free to save and liberally spred around the interwebs. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Once again, there's a growing supply of excellent journalists who need a new home and a growing demand for a news outlet that won't bend the knee to authoritarians and billionaires, seems like there's a slight opportunity here
Well, you know those aren't mutually exclusive, right?
But not compelling. Why can't we get a Dem with an once of charisma?
tapping the sign
Trump again claimed he brought in $18T in foreign investment in the US. No idea where that number comes from -- BEA hasn't released FDI data for 2025 yet -- but it seems pretty implausible. For context that more than half the size of the ENTIRE US economy (~$31T)
What are the chances that Trump falls asleep during his own State of the Union? 50/50?
