Tim Huber

Protestan en el Valle del Río Grande como parte de la jornada No Kings Mira aquí las imágenes.

My Family on Telemundo at No Kings McAllen, TX

No Kings, McAllen TX

Donkey with wild sunflowers

Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen.
-Octavia E. Butler

on approaching hard problems Friends, colleagues, and lovers of words, I usually use this space to talk about books, but today I want to tell you about my friend Adriana Salerno. Like...

My friend @mathyadriana.bsky.social lost her job last week, and I want you to know the story:

buttondown.com/yarntheory/a...

This. This is the problem.

Mathematics is complicated and requires compromise, discussion and debate.

Is 2+2 4 or 6? Clearly we must compromise and say that it is 5.

Trump’s Orders Could Drain Millions From Universities, but Few Protest Openly Efforts by the administration to cut diversity efforts and foreign aid have upended campuses. But many university leaders seem wary of provoking a president who has glorified retribution.

I get the sense from many of my colleagues here on #academicsky that the problems US universities are facing due to the current admin are worse than this article suggests: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...

Interested in your thoughts.

Ice on mesquite is unusual for deep South Texas

Cumberland Falls, Kentucky, with water pouring over the falls behind a huge rainbow arcing across the scene. Behind are rocks and forests, the trees in early fall colors. Restoration of the Cumberland River is one of our great achievements, but must continue. Copyright Tom Kimmerer

We the People, against the corruption of Richard Nixon, decided that the Earth needed our help. We the People created the major environmental legislation and policies that improved life. We can't pause in the face of more corruption. We must stop burning fossil fuels and restore Earth's diversity. 1

Some faces for you

Embrace diversity.
Unite—
Or be divided,
robbed,
ruled,
killed
By those who see you as prey.
Embrace diversity
Or be destroyed.

-Octavia E. Butler

Front entrance to Frida Kahlo’s Blue House in CDMX

La Sal Del Rey, Texas

Do me a favor..breathe. It’s going to be ok.

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Border agent caught on video striking migrant with patrol unit U.S. Border Patrol officials say they are aware of an incident involving an agent hitting a migrant with a marked unit along the border wall, which was captured on camera and is circulating on soci…

Get ready for more inhumanity