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Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.

Get me off this timeline!

Same. I’ve been trying to figure out if the best timing is in the morning before going to the office or after work to reinvigorate myself.

My retirement savings strategy of "save nothing and wait for world-historical disaster that sorta levels the whole playing field" doesn't look so dumb now, does it

@podsaveamerica.crooked.com, @jonlovett.bsky.social, I do not disagree with your criticism of higher education institutions like Colombia but—as someone who works in higher education advancement—I have to say that you’re misrepresenting how endowments function and think it is dangerous to do so.

Disney ain’t all bad.

“The American people are with us,” is a rich statement from someone who is providing a milquetoast defense of said people. Get off your asses and do something meaningful instead of this “waiting for the right pitch” bullshit.

One of my all time favorites

The "is this a butterfly?" meme repurposed to show U.S. Citizens looking at the White House tweeting "long live the king" and questioning if we are in a constitutional crisis.

Our inability to collectively empathize is evident by the fact that we do not have the ability to look at recent events from an outside perspective. Perhaps we wouldn't be so blinded by denial, waxing poetic about if we are in a crisis yet, if we could.

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

When my #horoscope for 2025 indicated I would travel less this year and more locally, “planes falling out of the sky on near daily basis” is not the reason I anticipated.

One thing that I'm increasingly coming to believe is that stories are going to be central to what comes next. Stories of the harm done. Stories of the great things achieved by government in the past. Stories of valor kindness and quotidian simple resistance.

As the internet gets shittier it’s gotten easier to be off it and read more books lately

Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out.

Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation.

Say equity, which a just society should pursue.

Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.

A Brief History of Origins In Sunday School, I was on a competitive Bible trivia team called Junior Bible Quiz.

I’ve started a new writing project. Read one of the first posts:

I used to be quite ignorant as a young adult. But do you know what changed my mind each time? Art.

Art is the best thing to get into the hearts of others and help them see something new. Just make something completely sincerely. Everything else falls into place. There is a reason for what we do.

Preamble I will begin by unequivocally stating that I do not know what I am doing.

I have started something new: