Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio.
Magic!
Goodnight.
The Obamas just unveiled their first-ever commissioned portrait together which is located in the lobby of the new Obama Presidential Library. Beautiful.
My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com
Ricky Davila
Dr. Thrasher is on post book tour hiatus
Bodega Cats
Amy McEuen, Ph.D.
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Total 🦗 every day. University presidents, with ~3-5 exceptions, have been totally absent from the public square. An almost unparalleled failure of institutional leadership in the face of an existential assault on the entire funding structure & model of 🇺🇸 higher ed.
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they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.
A two-month period in the summer of 1946 birthed Trump, W., Clinton — and the baby boom itself. A look at how the boom shaped U.S. politics and how it didn't.
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RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
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Mark Copelovitch
molly conger
ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.
It's high time for university presidents to explain to the public and politicians that international students don't take seats from American students, they subsidize these students. At my university and many others.
Philip Bump
“It’s sad, it’s a sad day," says pepper-sprayed senator.
A 66-day stretch in 1946 produced Donald Trump, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. The coincidence offers insight into the power of the baby boom generation.
"A big factor in the decline in students is...the demographic cliff. In 2008, there was a steep drop off in the number of babies being born that never recovered. That generation is now reaching college age, meaning there are fewer traditional students enrolling..."
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Chancellor Mike Haynie said the university faces a budget deficit for the first time in a long time.
There were some really cool skies tonight that I missed because I was inside 😤
Laura
Backlit mammatus, a red-backed rainbow, and a fiery sky to close out the day. #dc #dcwx @capitalweather.bsky.social @popville.bsky.social @thehillishome.com @hillragdc.bsky.social
