Brian Jones

Harvard “is seriously considering resolving its dispute with the White House through the courts rather than a negotiated settlement.”

The university president said “the suggestion that Harvard was open to paying $500 million is ‘false’”

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

a fun game to play with BLS numbers is to go “that’s stupid, why do they do it that way” and then go find the paper explaining why they do it that way to see if you still think it’s stupid, and if you do, you win

I am like 0 for 19 lifetime at this game

You don't have to go home but you can't stay here

We often complain of Dems being obsessed with poll-tested, focus-grouped talking points. But it's not really that. They're stuck on a kind of blind conventional wisdom and untested assumptions within their bubble. It would be an *improvement* if they were actually following polls and focus groups.

We are failing.

This is a really crazy thing to do.

Your periodic reminder that the estimated cost to end hunger in the U.S. is $25 billion.

It's better to be lucky than good

If Obama and Comey made up the Epstein files, why didn't they USE them?

OMG this list is amazing.
If I would like all the recs on this list that I haven't read as much as I like the ones I have, I need to devote the next couple of years entirely to this.

Commercial journalism has become primarily an entertainment business.

People pay to be entertained, not to become informed. Now people are conditioned to expect from journalism something entertaining: surprising, shocking, lurid, or fueling outrage.

People in positions of privilege and power are more afraid of losing that status than protecting the people beneath them. It sucks.

I'm really happy for Safehouse.... but isn't this a can of worms? I mean, it was already open before this, but if any organization can claim that anything they want to do is free exercise, can anything be illegal any more?

Maybe I'm missing something in the legal bits

The veneer of civilization is thin

8REZ574

Okay internet who can run a plate

7XAN403 is another one

8KIA748

That's not a DHS license plate, it's a civilian one.

Who does it belong to?

This deal will last until Columbia's check clears

#NeverAgainisNow

oh yeah I guess you never watched sneakers did you. My voice is my passport, verify me. checkmate lib

(Sneakers is still a really good movie)

@lizdye.bsky.social Help! Can you give us a civ pro primer on AAUP Harvard v. DoJ?

What was that hearing today? Was it for summary judgment? If so what does that mean, from a civ pro perspective? How will this case proceed?

Oh hey, that’s me. 👋

One of these days we will all need an EMP gun instead of mace

Yes I was kidding.

Someone in the administration suggested that Brazilian tariffs would bring banana production home

I think the Epstein case shows the way. Make it into a conspiracy theory. "What aren't they telling us? What are they hiding?"

They blame Biden for appointing Jerome Powell... who was appointed by Trump

We have a crisis of epistemology

I wish I could give credit to that teacher. It was going around so you can probably find it if you search

I saw one teacher say they assigned the students to have chatGPT write an essay on a topic, and then go research why it was wrong. Seems like that could work well in law.