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Cornell University to pay $60M in deal with Trump administration to restore federal funding Cornell University has agreed to pay $60 million and accept the Trump administration’s interpretation of civil rights laws in order to restore federal funding and end investigations into the Ivy Leagu...

This capitulation will only embolden Trump to target other universities and institutions. This helps no one and only feeds the beast.

We must continue to stand with those who resist Trump’s lawlessness and call out those who don’t. Shame on Cornell.

New York state legislators should strip land grant status from this university.

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Pier showing the wave generator

Close up of how big the generator was compared to people

In 1896, the Capitola pier hosted the world’s first electric wave power motor for commercial power generation. The Gerlach wave generator never produced the 440 kW of electricity it was designed too, and was destroyed that winter by a wave storm.
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How Does A Blind Model See The Earth? A tiny LLM eval with pretty pictures

Interesting analysis outsidetext.substack.com/p/how-does-a...

The only thing I care about in a president for 2028 is holding every one of these people accountable under the law in the harshest manner possible. Anything short of that is a waste of time.

Wait, which is it. Million or Billion? Because the former is like .3 lbs and the latter is 355 pounds per American.

Adam and Eve under an apple tree with a snake sort of peering down at them

Did Women Ruin The Workplace

Equipment list:
Sandwich (mass noun)
Ballistic gelatin (1200 gallons)
High desert
Railgun

The Railgun Footlong Experiments

Holy ass he said it out loud. They can't make us feed hungry people. This is insane. Like insane right? This is our tax money earmarked for SNAP and he's like no it's mine now, check out the ballroom.

The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.

I gotta say, I’m seeing the most Live Laugh Love women I went to all girls high school with in Ohio posting anti-ICE Instagram reels and demanding people pay attention to the threat of fascism

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

phew glad that got settled
great job every body
finally a jury of people without any vested interest weigh in

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."

Using a government jet to fly you to a girlfriends country music gig/wrestling match and then covering it up and rage tweeting about it on X is sort of a microcosm of Trumpism. thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel-fbi-director-private-jet-problem-nashville

Wild that a Fed judge has to remind federal law enforcement that obeying the Constitution isn’t something they can call a “harm.”

"Judge rules Trump administration prohibited the free exercise of religion" is a blockbuster, click-generating (and 100% true!) headline that I wonder if we'll see anywhere in the coming day

Excessive force. PERIOD!

They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.

📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

I remember when we voted for independent redistricting in CA, there was a sense that “this’ll be fair for everyone, good idea” then the Republican president called us demons and his entire party went insane

Gerrymander the fuck out of my state please, they wanted a fight and they’ll get one

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Counterpoint: this bullshit policy was touted as something that should be rolled out nationwide, as a fking paragon of progressive policy. It showed up in “detracking” decks in districts across the country.

While parents in SF literally filed FOIAs bc the district lied ab impact. No retcons tks.

NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear | CNN Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.

One building that has been shuttered houses Goddard’s GEMAC, a one-of-a-kind radio-proof room for testing spacecraft antennas before they launch. One source likened it to "taking a Maserati to the junkyard to get crushed because your driver’s license expired.” www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...

This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans.

Nero would be proud.

Dick Cheney dreamt of a unitary executive and now we all have to live in his nightmare.

buy a drink for the iraq war vet in your life. bring out the confetti. bake em a cake.