We’re so back

I went to watch When Harry Met Sally on this airplane and it showed me this

“Universities function as the protective cocoon in which naïve youth are meant to transform into enlightened adults. It is in these secluded environments that a country’s intellectual elites are tasked with instilling their acquired wisdom in the minds of a new generation.

Abbott and UT Austin’s egregious response to peaceful protest and protected speech on campus doesn’t just violate Texas state law. It also violates the First Amendment rights of college students and faculty.

My latest for FIRE:
thefire.org/news/texas-tra…

rude

aster, hater era attaboy, close that epistemological window quick before you accidentally see something that makes you go hmm

the teacher did *what*

“Disrupting a university for owning the S&P 500 implies 1 or 2 things: a misunderstanding of “investing” or a lack of knowledge about what you’re protesting in the first place”

I strongly suspect it is both

Today, 10,000 students, across five districts in Westchester NY, are subject to early school closures––some shutting as early as 11am––because President Biden is attending a private fundraiser this eve at Michael Douglas's house, and there will be road closures.

All afterschool

I am never leaving this website

Can’t believe this story was published a year ago today.

I’m still so proud of this piece, and so happy that Morgan has since received a settlement from @uva.

yessssssss

I think the fancy laudatory word for this is 'trenchant' but perhaps more importantly, it is extremely funny

Glitch in the matrix: Here’s a drawing of Elvis that Jimi Hendrix made as a child, on display at Graceland. Elvis sure looks like … uhhh … someone else.

gentle parenting baby hitler, coming this fall on NBC