Eva von Schaper

I’ve been having a few too many conversations like this. Them: Hi Kate, how are things with your work, with the world? Me: the university is under attack, democratic norms being broken in half, so, pretty bad. Them: But everything is going to come back and be okay after the midterms. Me: Uhh, no.

CANARY: imma check out this coal mine brb

It is an extraordinary loss of intellectual expertise that the American people invested millions in developing

Every scientist who earns a graduate degree in the US is the product of an investment by the public

This is like setting money on fire

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood—and kept selling them.

How did 3M’s “forever chemicals” end up in all of us? Inside the story of the corporate scientists who discovered—then helped to conceal—the dangers of its chemicals.

I saw Flavor Flav in the mirror

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New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for “The President Violated the Constitution” “The president remained steadfast in his novel interpretation of constitutional law.” “Faced with the choice between clinging to the letter of the ...

New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for "The President Violated the Constitution" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/new...

Rachel's great piece

Today is the day! After eight long years, They Poisoned the World, is out. The book interweaves the moving story of a small town on the frontlines of an epic global crisis with a deep investigation of one the most brazen cover-ups in corporate history. 1/

Has anyone checked on Francis Fukuyama?

Your group chats have made you soft and weak

MAGA Voter Assumed Trump Would Only Deport People On List She Mailed To White House SAN DIEGO—Shocked by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids affecting her very own community, local 43-year-old Jillian Beamer told reporters Monday she had assumed President Donald Trump would...

MAGA Voter Assumed Trump Would Only Deport People On List She Mailed To White House

it's a lot of drama because *someone* didn't get into Harvard

Judge blocks Trump administration from barring Harvard’s enrollment of international students The university sued the Trump administration, arguing that its move violated the First Amendment.

A US federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s move to bar Harvard University from enrolling foreign students, hours after the college sued the government over the policy.

this was the main entertainment at a 6th birthday party....have yet to recover

RFK Jr. Swims in Washington Creek That Flows With Sewage and Bacteria

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, posted photos on Sunday of himself and his grandchildren swimming in a contaminated Washington creek where swimming is not allowed because it is used for sewer runoff.

Reading is a privilege that many have died for. Don’t take it for granted

Belgium, folks.

NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

Dungeons AND Dragons? Yn thys economye?

#booksky

bitch get in line

Textes from Sisyphus:

UGH, YOU WILL NOT *BELIEVE* WHAT JUST HAPPENID *AGAYNE*

Bloomberg Has a Rocky Start With A.I. Summaries (Gift Article) The outlet has issued dozens of corrections to A.I.-generated news summaries since it started using the technology to write them this year.

and I thought the human was the problem
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/b...

Yes, Pete Hegseth and Michael Waltz violated all sorts of national security protocols by sharing military secrets with a journalist. But at least they were White when they did this.

by Charlie Kirk

AOC and Bernie in front of the rally crowd in Denver

Zoomed out crowd shot of 34,000 people in downtown Denver with Colorado mountains in the background

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.

This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.

Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.

And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

So uh... how exactly is America going to host the World Cup next year with all these travel and immigration restrictions?

Have heard that Max Planck Gesellschaft has hired someone just to deal with incoming US applications