Daniel B. Rodriguez

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.

Cool.
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Oh man.

🥇🥇🥇

@andrewhickey.500songs.com AH deconstructing provenance of songs on Zeppelin I was genius. First rate music journalist doing the work.

Next 36 hours will be about journalists reminding MAGA morons that Puerto Rico is part of the U.S. Good times.

Album That Has Nothing On Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’ Wins Grammy Award

Album That Has Nothing On Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’ Wins Grammy Award https://theonion.com/album-that-has-nothing-on-fleetwood-mac-s-rumours-win-1819576068/

This is the U Penn donor who helped push the President out, pushed to eliminate arts & science offerings, and drafted Trumps "compact" with universities.
People like Rowan repeatedly claimed the moral high ground to impose their agenda on students and faculty.

‘All-out assault on our democracy:’ Bondi’s Minnesota blackmail letter draws righteous fury from state election leaders “This isn't leadership. This is blackmail," Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said. "This is the way organized crime works."

🚨BREAKING: State election leaders and voting rights advocates across the country are blasting U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for exploiting the killing of a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis by a federal immigration officer to “blackmail” Minnesota into handing over access to its unredacted voter rolls.

Comic, first panel is two sports broadcasters with one saying "Sports fans - this is a world first" The second panel is the football on the turf w/ legs and a face now beginning to crawl with stunned onlooking football players. The broadcaster continues "The ball is evolving to walk on land!"

Super Bowl prediction

Many of you seem pretty excited about an Aaron Rodgers retirement announcement, and I get it. But let's just see how you feel when he's sworn in as HHS deputy secretary in like three months.

Rogers ain’t never been vaccinated against INTs, for sure

Tapper shreds Noem. Accept no substitute.

Looking forward to reading this.

Rankings blech.

@andrewhickey.500songs.com Looking forward to what Mr. Hickey will be spinning for us in 2026. The real deal.

Indiana U is a football school.

I regret to inform you there’s a new post telling us we’re rubes who’ve missed the obvious & clear meaning of the Const’n for a century.

This is the type of post you make when your goal is to juice engagement from those who want nothing more than to be told their policy goals are const’l commands.

A Review to a Kill

Nobody does Law Better

Can you say over reaction?

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

I love that @andrewhickey.500songs.com, the great popular music guru, has such an unabashed love of Christmas music.

So poignantly haunting yet heartening. Chag Sameach.

Northwestern wins nattie in women's field hockey! Def. Princeton.

Piece of cake!

Econ 101 midterm question: Based on what you know about risk pools and adverse selection in healthcare markets, will giving people money instead of giving them money to buy health insurance lead these markets to function more effectively, or will it just lead more people to be uninsured?

One of the things you learn about the law after a bit of study is how much legal compliance relies on socializing the law’s legitimacy. When law becomes purely transactional, it’s just another racket competing with all the others for dominance.

I gather this happens only in hardware stores where they sell plywood.

Short and Sweet from UPenn’s @aaup.org chapter on the Trump/Rufo “Higher Ed Compact.”

“When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation.”

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