Paul Smith

God i love this city
#inbound2025

Figure 2 from https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMsb2506929

FDA is authorizing anybody with a risk factor from this list to receive the vaccines, as well as anybody 65+.

🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time.

When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”

Haha you guys. Silly.

It’s just a dumb skeet, fam. The delay was for weather. You’re good!

So happy I got to witness their first ever championship show at DCI West. A well-deserved victory for an incredibly fun performance. Congrats Crusaders!!

Thank you @unitedairline.bsky.social for the upgrade to first class on the connection you know I’m going to miss bc the first flight is delayed 😭

Me looking for car in any parking garage

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

My secret super power is knowing what socket to get in one try

"...been tryin to meet you. MmmmMmm..."

The clerks where I get my lunch said a man came in last week and asked them where the public entrance to 26 Federal Plaza was. He locked his bike outside, and it’s been there since.

Programs that make it easier for working class kids to attend college are also illegally woke because *it is well recognized that race and ethnicity are inseparable from socioeconomic status* Starting to get a real vibe about this whole *merit* thing... www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

It’s not that the pay is low for teaching bc it’s mostly women. It’s that the pay is low so women are funneled into the job.

If we want men to be less lonely, we should start by socializing them in boyhood to be part of a shared project of care. Give them dolls, toy kitchens, and tea sets. Ask them to help care for younger children. Expect them to clean up after themselves. Let them feel the work and value of care. 1/

For all my fellow traumatized Gen X peeps out there

School in 2025: "SCREENS ARE FRYING KIDS' BRAINS!"

Also School in 2025: "Log on to Schoology to complete the Do Now in Class Dojo, then do your mandatory 15 minutes of IXL, after that we'll do our SAT prep on Khanmigo + wrap up with a little historical simulation on Magic School AI."

ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing. A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a ...

Monstrous:

"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."

Now it’s learn AI stuff like “prompt engineering” and “go into the trades.” Kids are so much better served if they don’t view college as job training and instead treat it as an opportunity to feed their curiosity.

Judge Lays Bare Unconstitutional Voucher Program Voucher decision reveals a generation of lies about vouchers, who they benefit and what their real purpose is

Shout it from the rooftops! Vouchers are a scam and “school choice” is bullshit.

...and a 22 year-old landscaper / grocery clerk is leading the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships—a division of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that oversees terrorism prevention

Everybody wanted a pic of my sign. Hat tip to my Gen Z kids for the inspo

I don’t allow myself to feel much hope anymore but today’s rally in downtown Sac was incredible. And then I get home and see the full scope of #NoKings online and dammit…

This is why I keep a camera on my flag and a reserve of extra flags ready to go the second one comes down. (It hasn't happened yet, but I'm ready!)

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month.

Worked on novel antivirals.

Really starting to believe that a Liberal Arts degree and then bootstrapping with microcredentials/certification/etc is the way to go

At this point, chasing the next hot job feels like a trap. The only durable advantage is adaptability: curiosity, critical thinking, and the ability to self-train fast as the pace of change accelerates

(this new push to the trades is hilarious btw given how we gutted vocational ed after NCLB and went crazy with state testing)