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DÉCRET IMPERIAL CONCERNANT LA FÊTE DE SAINT NAPOLEON ET CELLE DU RET ABLISSEMENT DE LA RELIGION CATHOLIQUE EN FRANCE. Au Palais des Tuileries, le 19 Février 1806.

We, Napoleon, Emperor of the French, King of Italy [whose birthday happens to be August 15], declare as follows:

Article 1: The feast of Saint Napoleon and of the reestablishment of the Catholic Church will be celebrated throughout the Empire each year on the 15th of August, Assumption Day

Screenshot of post by Ron Filipkowski on the SCOTUS decision about Texas gerrymandering

Exactly right by @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social - "VA must redistrict after the Supreme Court’s decision in the Texas case. The last excuse not to is gone." bluevirginia.us/2025/12/thur...

this encapsulates the essential relationship between the people running universities, the people doing academic work in universities, and the people looking to smash and grab as much as possible from universities while we're on the way down

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three democratic appointees, #SCOTUS puts Texas's new House maps back into effect for (and, presumably, through) the 2026 midterms.

The three Democratic appointees, in an opinion by Justice Kagan, dissent.

I'll post the ruling shortly.

hi i'm a billionaire my company, which will definitely not murder everyone, is named SauronMurdersEveryone Inc after the beloved jrr tolkien character sauron whom i have always admired for his disruptive use of world changing technology and for murdering everyone

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It's ethnic cleansing, and it has to stop.

Sources say the provost search this spring was ‘unusual.’ Here’s why. Sources qualified the search or elements of the search as “highly unusual” in large part because of the actions of Porter Wilkinson, who was at the time a member of the Board of Visitors and is now vi...

Once again: the presidential and provost search must be paused, Sheridan and Wilkinson must resign, and the student newspaper is utterly outpacing all other news sources. Wahoowa!

“Presidential Pardons: A Bipartisan Crisis”
-the New York Times Editorial Board, probably soon

The other part is that it appears to be an effectively unfunded mandate—institutional ”support” for conversion apparently consists of converting a max of 4 documents per instructor. So more labor for faculty with the biggest burden on non-TT faculty with higher teaching loads

if we’re trying to, say, measure Instructure’s value to PE (see below), and the value’s primarily in the data whether student/faculty interactions but especially the words-as-content, this mandate significantly increases avail words. bsky.app/profile/loui...

Feels like we got about 5 minutes notice on this. Honestly, in conjunction with the LLM situation, it’s going to drive me back to all-codex even faster

“I question the energy that is being dedicated to harming vulnerable people and children rather than tackling the much bigger and very real risks facing women and girls.” 100% this.

ChatGPT app suggestions look suspiciously similar to ads – even Pro subscribers are affected, and users are furious OpenAI has started testing app suggestions inside ChatGPT conversations, and even $200 a month Pro users are seeing them.

This makes me happy on some level. I want AI companies, fueled by the greed that theft isn't cheap enough, will begin charging and inconviencing their users, driving them to worse AI platforms, causing them to get caught/fail, and slowly killing this cancerous fad. I hope.

And forget about transit funding to increase bus frequency

And who can blame the Europeans, really?

Sighs in historian of the post-revolutionary era

Very happy that my article "Imperial Masculinities: Involuntary Losses of Semen as Markers of White Virility (France, 1830s–1880s)" is out now, in the European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health! brill.com/view/journal...

Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business Alex Karp vows to use his

So many ways to sell your soul and this man chooses one of the very worst and then gets on stage and tells us all about it.

After spending his term pardoning corrupt conservative Republicans, Donald Trump has pardoned a corrupt conservative Democrat. Where was this bipartisanship from Obama and Biden?

FBI Seeks ‘Seditious Conspiracy’ Probe of Democratic Lawmakers The FBI is pressuring domestic terrorism agents to open a seditious conspiracy investigation into six Democratic lawmakers who advised military service members to defy unlawful orders, according to th...

Scoop: FBI aims to escalate its inquiry into 6 Democrats who made video for troops by pressing domestic terrorism squad to launch a formal seditious conspiracy investigation. Washington Field Office leaders are pushing back b/c they don't see a crime. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Right? Spend $25K, but don’t pay taxes on it!

That's not healthcare

"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried

YouTube video by The Bulwark Olivia Nuzzi: "I don't know how to responsibly handle this on camera."

Watch til the end. How has no one asked her this before
www.youtube.com/shorts/yhhWj...

MORE Breaking on MS NOW: Pete Hegseth refused an interview request for the Pentagon Inspector General's investigation into Signalgate, according to two sources who read and were briefed on report.

Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.

Mark Warner, the top Dem on the Senate Intelligence Committee, says he reviewed the DOD IG's Signalgate report and Pete Hegseth either needs to be fired or resign.

ALL IMLS grants restored in every state & territory.

In response to a ruling from a federal judge in Rhode Island, the Institute of Museum and Library Services reinstated all previously canceled grants in every state and territory. It's a huge win for libraries and our communities.

"The reinstatement of all IMLS grants means that libraries across the country will be able to resume vital services for learning, imagination, and economic opportunity. We are breathing a sigh of relief, but the fight is not over." ALA President Sam Helmick. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.

This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!

Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

Really letting the hood slip, here.

Three key figures have embraced the idea, all of them billionaires: Mr. Trump; the education secretary, Linda McMahon; and Stephen A. Schwarzman, the Blackstone chief executive and Harvard Business School alum, who has emerged as one of the university’s lead negotiators. In their view, Harvard, which has an endowment worth about $57 billion, should consider a fine as a business decision — a payment to revive what had been a longstanding and close partnership between Washington and Cambridge. But Harvard officials recoiled. Some view a cash payment as tantamount to a bribe and not commensurate with the accusations about what government officials say the school did wrong.

This is the essence of the story: three billionaires with no understanding of higher education are seeking to force Harvard to pay a bribe.