Boston 's Leslie Knope

dailypenn YEAR IN REVIEW Four Penn alumni in the national spotlight in 2025 dailypenn From the Oval Office to courtrooms, several Penn alumni made national headlines this year - repeatedly tying the University to high-profile controversies. Swipe for a look at four alumni who stepped into the national spotlight in 2025, and continue reading at the link in our bio.

I mean, the Penn student newspaper isn't wrong, but www.instagram.com/p/DSH1X4EDwP...

What an interesting question

Some personal favorites:

Women of the Klan
Motherhood in Black and White
Homeward Bound

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Oh. Oh my

For scholars interested in illustration and writing for children, we’re offering a research fellowship — $4,000 to support research, and a very easy application. Please apply! Please repost! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...

AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives

“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”

Frankly, I suspect some of them don't want to take the chance that hell is a real place.

'Like first aid for manuscripts': Recovery work begins at Gaza's war-damaged heritage sites Palestinians are clearing rubble from archaeological sites, but restoration is hampered by Israeli restrictions on building materials.

“In recent days, Ms Amsi's team was able to use heavy equipment to uncover more badly damaged manuscripts. She says it is now clear that the library's archive - seen as an invaluable record of Palestinian history, with many Ottoman records - was totally burned.”

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My grandpa was born in the US to German parents. He had younger cousins who were in Hitler youth in Germany. Decades later I talked with some of them about it (with the ruthless candor of youth). Why did you do that? What were you thinking? What they described was a lot like this.

My team and I put some elbow grease into this exhibit and I'm really happy with how it came out

Thank goodness Trump didn’t call half of Somalis something like “deplorable” else it would have been the biggest scandal ever

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

There has been no debate here among constitutional scholars, historians, political scientists, anyone with a pulse really.

Any telling you that this very straightforward point, one that has been universally accepted for a century and a half, is now an "abstruse" issue is just a liar and a hack.

BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.

It's over.

Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.

www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...

Elenco Alfabetico Fanzine Anni 80 Società per la Bonifica Multimediale delle Paludi Mentali

This digital map and archive of Italian punk zines from the 1980s has been blowing my mind all day. Some of it is weird to load but it's worth the effort. Tons of energy! Some interesting art zines too. paolopalmacci.it/capitmundi/b...

Exclusive: Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders “This is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that we represent.”

“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.”

The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.

It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.

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Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.

Disgusting, racist af.

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Can't believe our tax dollars are going to be spent settling the upcoming exorbitant defamation suit with Sabrina Carpenter, but maybe this is just how public arts funding is going to work now.

This was such a fun program and a great audience!

If the point was to create an image of pippi long stocking (which is that I think it was?), how about you give the kids some colored pencils, paper, and maybe a "How to Draw" book

Omg

Postcard held in front of shelves of books. Text reads "Mr. Bernard Shaw's readers and spectators at performances of his plays number many thousands. The little time remaining to him at his age is fully occupied with his literary work and and the business it involves; and war taxation has set narrow limits to his financial resources. He has therefore to print the following warnings. He cannot deal with individual grievances and requests for money, nor for autographs and photographs..."

Before we had out of office replies, we had these postcards from playwright and activist (George) Bernard Shaw. Shaw used these pre-printed postcards to deal with the egregious amount of mail he received and when we look at our inboxes, we feel inspired.

The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

NEW YORK TIMES headline How to Find a Date in a Country With Over 30 Million Extra Men

A reader comments "So the elimination of 30 million girls is now a sad story about how men are lonely?"

TIL Maine didn't let Native Americans vote until 1954. This Silver Star recipient was told he couldn't vote after he showed up in uniform.

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

It’s all transparently bullshit and immune to rationality, but if struggling to stabilize half a burning boat to avoid drowning is “getting back in the fight,” what they’re really saying is there’s nothing the survivors could have done to avoid being killed. And that definitely isn’t the law.

RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves “Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”

To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M