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McKenzie Scott, Melinda French Gates, and Laurene Powell Jobs are all far better humans than their one-time husbands were. All putting their money to work in constructive ways that their husbands never did.

One Week Without Smartphones on a College Campus

A fun article about my alma mater, @stjohnsgreatbooks.bsky.social in today's @nytimes.com. Yes, we are that nerdy. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/s...

Donald J. Trump, Interior Desecrator

Drive Capital's second act –  how the Columbus venture firm found success after a split | TechCrunch The venture capital world has always had a hot-and-cold relationship with the Midwest. Investors rush in during boom times, then retreat to the coasts when markets turn sour. For Columbus, Ohio-based Drive Capital, this cycle of attention and disinterest played out against the backdrop of its own internal upheaval several years ago -- a co-founder split that could have ended the firm but may have ultimately strengthened it.

Drive Capital’s second act –  how the Columbus venture firm found success after a split

“The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.”

— The Merry Wives of Windsor (Act 3, Scene 5)

Tillis: What do I tell 663,000 people in two years, three years, when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of medicaid because the funding's not there anymore, guys?

Not good.

This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, *massive.*

Seniors in Salt Lake City heading out for a #nokingsprotest in front of their assisted living facility.

Fortunate Son. OMG

Moran's post is problematic because it's way too wordy and it shows he not only thinks X is a useful social platform but one worth paying for to be able to post at such length.

Amazing!

Unconscionable.

Game changer.

DOGE Loses Battle to Take Over USIP—and Its $500 Million Headquarters A federal judge called DOGE’s actions at the United States Institute of Peace ‘unlawful.’

NEWS: The courts have decided against DOGE and the US government in their legal battle to take full control of the United States Institute of Peace, including a headquarters building with an estimated value of $500 million. www.wired.com/story/usip-d...

Ayup.

Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.

Oy!

"he can't be bought."

[Qatar has entered the chat.]

[Elon Musk has entered the chat.]

[Jeff Bezos has entered the chat.]

[Saudi Arabia has entered the chat.]

[Donators to Trump's "inauguration fund" have entered the chat.]

[Purchasers of Donald's cryptocurrency have entered the chat.] . . .

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

BREAKING: Judge Jefferson Griffin, the Republican candidate for the N.C. Supreme Court, has conceded to Democrat Allison Riggs.

Riggs won by 734 votes, as confirmed by multiple recounts, but Griffin repeatedly challenged registrations of tens of thousands of voters.

Story to follow

The axolotl, represented here by the Mexican axolotl Ambystoma mexicanum, has the ability to regenerate its brain. In this 2022 issue, a group of four papers profiles amphibian and reptile brain neurons with single-cell transcriptomics. Analyses lend insight into why the axolotl brain retains regenerative capability that the mammalian brain has lost as well as how structural brain innovations arose during evolution.

The axolotl has the ability to regenerate its brain.

Using single-cell transcriptomics, four Science studies in 2022 revealed evolutionary innovations in reptile and amphibian brains.

Learn more during #AmphibianWeek: scim.ag/3EEKMxZ

A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U A Call for Constructive Engagement

Your regular update:

Less that two weeks after its debut, w around 180 college/univ prez who stood up as initial signers, now **607** institutions on this academic declaration-of-indep statement.

Back story here: fallows.substack.com/p/from-acade...

Current list here: www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

Donny 2 Dolls

His Sopranos character name

TFG. Georgetown Prep has a lot to answer for …

Best swag from the RSA Cyber security conference!

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Another great #DeepTech company from the #Triangle (@ncstate.bsky.social). #AgTech

What Harvard Didn't Say Last week, Harvard challenged the Trump administration’s threat to deny billions in federal funds unless the university bent to a list of far-reaching demands. Harvard’s legal counsel struck a measure...

The "New" program at @stjohnsgreatbooks.bsky.social began in 1937, in part as a response to growing fascism. Powerful piece by a SJC alum on the need to protect liberal education now for the sake of free thought and democratic ideals.
libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

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