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US president’s claims around painkiller also known as Tylenol contradict scientific consensus

Julian Lucas profiles Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web and a co-founder of Inrupt, on the occasion of his memoir, “This Is for Everyone.”

The quote book besides the bed is wild.Stream a new episode of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver now on BINGE.#LastWeekTonight #WhatToWatch #LastWeekTonight...

"We want to put them in trauma." No one says that when they're cutting private-sector jobs.

Federal workers say they have little choice but to depart, with 100,000 leaving under deferred resignation program

Mark A Welsh III steps down after student’s complaint led to firing of teacher and dismissal of dean and department head

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

Sinclair stuff here is not normal

The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts

During an April 2 speech to the National Republican Congressional Committee, President Donald Trump once again attacked wind power, falsely claiming that noise from turbines causes cancer and that turbines sink property values by 75 percent. Both claims are unsubstantiated.

Nobel prize-winner says US institutions have collapsed much quicker than expected under the Trump administration

Violent crime is defined as murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault.

16K likes, 733 comments - louie.1107 on April 24, 2025: "In 2011, George Bush warned about the rise of fear… During a Q&A on C-SPAN, President George Bush reflected on what he saw as a resurgence of familiar currents in American politics: isolationism, protectionism, and nativism. He pointed to the 1920s as a moment worth revisiting — an era marked by “America First” sentiment, more restrictive immigration laws, and skepticism of global trade, all of which some historians connect to the economic struggles that followed. His message wasn’t a condemnation, but a caution: history has patterns, and it’s worth asking where those patterns might lead. What stood out most was his hope for a future shaped by thoughtful, forward-looking immigration policy. More than a decade later, it’s still a question worth considering: how does history inform the choices we make today? #Politics #GeorgeBush #Immigration #Government #Throwback".

In Canada, a case of gangplank mentality?

Dan Osborn is challenging Republican incumbent Pete Ricketts in Nebraska to become a rare independent senator

The Senate Appropriations Committee rejected the Trump administration’s massive proposed funding cut to the National Institutes of Health, advancing a measure that would increase the agency’s budget by $400 million.  The White House budget called for slashing NIH by $18 billion, a decrease of 40 percent. Instead, the committee advanced the bill on a 26-3…

And their diffidence empowers pathological liars

Trump’s efforts haven’t sunk global efforts to fight climate change – instead, new leaders are stepping up and working together, even within the US.

One hundred years after the Scopes trial, the culture war over evolution and creationism remains intense.

A scholar and former college dean explains why higher education’s reliance on majors to measure academic quality may be an outdated approach.

If we imagine religion as a technology, argues Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith, we can better see the cause of its decline: obsolescence.

The joint federal-state health insurance program covered 71.4 million Americans as of January 2025.

MISSION STATEMENT Empower others to leave MAGA and tell their stories. Foster reconciliation with their friends and family. Develop movement leaders to help others leave. Dear MAGA Americans, I was a devoted member of MAGA nation for seven years; it made me feel I was part of something important: a movement that was trying to

It is possible to reduce emissions while growing the economy. But this decoupling needs to happen faster.

Don’t cry for millennials or Gen Z. Save your pity for those in their 50s

The potential pact would mark an escalation in resistance from universities to President Trump's push for them to follow his agenda.

Also: Full credit to Mike DeWine for educating himself about the issue.