Matthew S. Urdan, MBA

My pleasure!

Loved Connor and Aiden’s story. Looking forward to reading g more of your work. The relationship really seemed authentic and far more natural than anything by Harwood and Taylor, and I thought they were the best authors in the genre until now. 😃

I’m a High Schooler. AI Is Demolishing My Education. The end of critical thinking in the classroom

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Glad you’re home Josh! Feel better and take it easy.

She should be disbarred

Read the Full Transcript of Trump’s ‘100 Days’ Interview President Trump discussed his trade war and the economy, immigration, presidential power, and more

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Collision warning sounds in cockpit of Delta plane due to close call with Air Force jet near Reagan National Airport | CNN A close call between a Delta Air Lines Airbus A319 taking off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and a US Air Force T-38 jet, often used by the military for training, sounded alarms in the...

this keeps happening and it’s terrifying …

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How Greenland’s Sled Dogs Entered a Diplomatic Row The island’s traditional dog-sledding championship is taking on added cultural and political importance in the era of Donald Trump.

The island’s traditional dog-sledding championship is taking on added cultural and political importance in the era of Donald Trump.

A new study led by @salganik.bsky.social in The Cryosphere shows how the density evolution of #Arctic sea ice may make its melt nearly invisible from space. Read more: doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-1259-2025

Two panels show the temporal evolution of snow (top) and sea ice (bottom) thickness from various ice mass balance buoys listed in the legend (right).

If you are into Arctic sea ice thermodynamics, here is our new dataset of 82 CRREL ice mass balance buoys deployed in 1997–2024 with estimates of snow and ice thickness and their interface evolution: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15096485

Three U.S. professors leave Yale for University of Toronto amid Trump education crackdown The professors – all of them vocal critics of the U.S. President – express fears about authoritarianism rising south of the border

Three U.S. professors leave Yale for University of Toronto amid Trump education crackdown.

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How an app unfamiliar to Trump rocked his week | CNN Politics As President Donald Trump’s advisers this week took on the unenviable task of informing him a journalist he loathes was inadvertently added to a group chat discussing secret attack plans, one key deta...

With Trump only a recent convert to texting, a person familiar said he needed an aide to explain what, exactly, his team had been utilizing to convey sensitive details about the timing and targets of the planned attack on Houthi rebels: cnn.it/4iJBrDB

Denmark hits back at ‘tone’ of US vice-president’s criticism over Greenland ‘This is not how you talk to your close allies,’ says Danish foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen Denmark has hit back against JD Vance’s comments that Copenhagen has not done enough for Greenland. The US vice-president made his remark on Friday during a trip to the Pituffik space base in north-western Greenland, viewed by both Copenhagen and Nuuk as a provocation. Continue reading...

Denmark hits back at ‘tone’ of US vice-president’s criticism over Greenland

The top FDA vaccine official is forced out, cites RFK Jr.'s 'misinformation and lies' A top vaccine advisor at the FDA was forced to resign on Friday. In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks wrote "truth and transparency are not desired," by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

A top vaccine advisor at the FDA was forced to resign on Friday. In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks, wrote "truth and transparency are not desired," by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

We Study Repression in Turkey. Now We See It Here. The detention of a Tufts graduate student echoes the violation of rights in her home country.

“The Trump administration, like Erdoğan’s government, has started its consolidation of power by going after minorities with dissenting opinions,” Howard Eissenstat, @liselhintz.bsky.social and @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social write:

“Tax the rich” receives a lot of applause at the Spartz town hall

Airlines Cut Seats to the U.S. as Canadians Stay Away (Gift Article) Several airlines have reduced the number of seats on U.S.-bound flights in April, while industry data shows that bookings have declined significantly.

Canadians are very sensible people.

I hope Waltz didn’t lie to Trump. That would be bad.

Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’ Governor Ron DeSantis leads push to loosen child labor laws as immigration crackdown leads to workforce shortage Beneath the smugness of Ron DeSantis, at Florida leading the nation in immigration enforcement lies something of a conundrum: how to fill the essential jobs of the scores of immigrant workers targeted for deportation. The answer, according to Florida lawmakers, is the state’s schoolchildren, who as young as 14 could soon be allowed to work overnight shifts without a break – even on school nights. Continue reading...

Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’

SOOO many "paid agitators." Has anyone else gotten their checks yet?

U.S. State Department cancels WMU climate change education and research grant The U.S. State Department canceled a grant that would have allowed a Mexican climate change scholar to assist with research and education at Western Michigan University.

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Trump's top officials shared secret war plans in chat that included journalist In an accidental leak, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was included in a chat among top security officials on secret war plans.

Trump's top officials shared secret war plans in chat that included journalist

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Trump administration withholds from judge Venezuelan deportation flight details

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