:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(749x0:751x2)/nashville-shooting-victims-032823-317fc5020843422ead7dddd83871590d.jpg "Nothing we can do to prevent this, says Congressman from only country in the world where things like this happen regularly")
“We’re not gonna fix it.” This is what Tennessee Republican Representative Tim Burchett said Monday in the aftermath of three children and three adults being shot dead at a school in Nashvi
Views differ! Ohio college and university instructors could be barred from teaching climate science without also including false or misleading counterpoints under a sprawling higher education bill tha
In an extremely unusual twist, the shooter was a 28-year-old woman. (I can’t think of a single similar incident in which the shooter was a woman, although I can recall one in California a few ye
This is a post about how things can fall apart quite quickly. I’ve got nothing systematic to say here; I’m just noting some impressions about a series of events that are either unconnected
If you had told me in 40 years ago that the overwhelming favorite to win the Republican 2024 presidential nomination in 2024 was going to be Donald Trump, and that he would be introduced at a rally by
Speaking of the uses and abuses of increasing computing power: Compare the lived reality where people interact, mostly in peace, and go about their lives with the Trump-centered, fake world available
This is a followup to this morning’s post on the Stanford Law School/Kyle Duncan controversy. On Wednesday, SLS’s dean, Jenny Martinez, sent a ten-page letter to everyone at the law school
Tirien Steinbach, the Stanford Law School DEI administrator who has become the focus of one the right wing’s endless Two Minute Hate extravaganzas after she tried to mediate a rhetorical brawl b