If the current moment has taught us anything, it is about the uselessness of libertarianism.
The image sums it up perfectly. The Gadsden flag was all out during the Obama era. How often do you see it now? Most of the principled libertarians were happy to trad their principles for Trumpism.
ICYMI: @propublica.org has identified the two immigration agents who fired their guns in the confrontation that left Alex Pretti dead.
On Friday, the Hennepin County Attorney told The Intercept that she was getting more info from the media than from the federal government.
theintercept.com/2026/01/30/m...
Choose LaTeX. Choose spending 20 minutes looking for a "}". Choose waiting to compile before you can read what you've written. Choose editing decades-old templates so your margins match the current journal style and you can see the page count.
Choose collaborating with Physicists.
#chemsky
As a libertarian, I think it’s important that Americans understand that if they just do what the government says, they won’t get shot.
NEW: One of the most significant accomplishments of the Trump Admin: Decimating the US's humanitarian aid.
We went to S. Sudan to see the effects.
Rubio says no one has died from the cuts.
Spoiler: That's not true.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy:
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Never forget
Also, while I am Yelling At Clouds about grad school admissions, a note for all the universities with Ph.D. programs: I am going to look at your recommendation portal precisely ONCE per student. Stop asking me to create an account with a strong password.
extrajudicial killings are a lot like Jesus healing someone when you really think about it
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
So much to love in the new Frankenstein, but I do particularly love the choice to dress Elizabeth in the most poisonous shades of 19th century green - Paris and Scheele's. She's so doomed, poor thing.
A guy who went to Cretin and a guy who went to Highland Park
Saint Paul’s Highland Park neighborhood is absolutely crushing the World Series.
The Dodgers are the favorites in this series, but don't count out the Blue Jays, who just might be the favourites.
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
meme picture: i would like to save my files to the docs folder.... on my computer.... that I own... in my house
Psoralens are the phototoxicants apparently found in parsnips.
Actually, about driving to Gaithersburg MD on Clopper Road
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Me...
The NIST Webbook is great (and working at the moment!) but a lot of the IR spectra are trash.
Way too much sample or impure sample or a baseline like the Rocky Mountains.
If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully.
You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers.
Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.
ICYMI: The University of Maryland Senate voted last week to join an alliance of Big Ten colleges that have agreed to protect one another against potential attacks from the Trump administration.
The decision though will come down to school President Darryll Pines.
University of Maryland faculty vote to join Big Ten alliance against Trump
NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.”
@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
The UMD Senate just voted overwhelmingly to adopt the Big 10 Mutual Defense Compact. Ohio State was 15 minutes before us. The makes half of the Big 10 that have signed on.
A powerful call has just gone up on the website of the @aacu.org : “A Call for Constructive Engagement” signed by almost 200 college & university presidents (more sure to join), from community colleges to R1s! #academicsky #edusky @academic-chatter.bsky.social www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
NEW: Three Maryland institutions signed on to support a lawsuit against the federal government over its revocation of student visas. The University System of Maryland, which includes 12 public universities/centers signed on, but Johns Hopkins did not:
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...
