Michelle Appel

Heartbreaking

VICTORY: A federal court just put the chainsaws down at East Potomac Park The plan was to turn a public park into a private tournament course for Trump & wealthy golfers. The trees stay while we fight it out in court @democracydefendersfund.org & partners are on the case 👇- TN

Not that long ago, three major lower-court rulings against the executive branch on three unrelated topics would’ve been a busy *month,* and outlets would’ve rushed to write up such a run of adverse rulings. Now, it doesn’t feel unusual when we get three on the same *day.* It’s all … exhausting.

I would pay $20 a month for an AI and gambling free broadcast of every game.

Hello claimants in the Anthropic copyright suit! The parties filed a stipulated agreement asking for an update to the website. In this stipulation, there are two important things (although there are more that might matter for individuals).

Excited for the World Series. I love seeing Milwaukee so happy and the team is fun! And thrilled for former Os teammembers that flew south. I hope Ceddy and Wellsy and Jorge and Baker and Hyder get a ring. But if they don't, the Brewers are fun too!

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"Those who follow NSF see the pending in-house leadership vacuum as another sign that the agency, created in 1950 as an independent agency to support academic research, has become a wholly owned subsidiary of the current administration." #AcademicSky #Science

My dear friend Merc is fostering a spooky 13 cats right now (1 young stray mama, 9 newborns, & 3 bonus abandoned four-week olds). In the spirit of Halloween, throw a few bucks their way.

Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth. Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.” From the archives:

Here's a good reason to vote, in case you were looking for one!

This season of The Diplomat is sooooo good.

Tressie bringing the Friday humor.

Final: Brewers 6, Dodgers 4 The Milwaukee Brewers are going to the World Series. Holy crap, the Milwaukee Brewers are going to the World Series. Soak it in, Wisconsin. You deserve it. The Milwaukee Brewers are going to the World Series, and they swept the Dodgers to do it.

Mourning for Bend.

Do you need a nice little cry? Here you go.

The Justice Department is threatening an antitrust lawsuit against the American Bar Association (which ED is trying to derecognize as an accreditor) over its requirement that most first-year law school classes be taught by full-time faculty. The handling attorney at DOJ is an adjunct at Catholic.

Woooooo

My spouse "I forgot what it was like to watch a team that was actually good at baseball."

Go Brewers!

Guys, we are well past the point where we need to preface tweets about Ilhan Omar with "If she really did something, show us the evidence." We all know she did not do something and there is no evidence.

Proposing analog to,”racism can explain every weird thing in America” is, “women are busy working for money is the secret reason everything we miss about a society is now dying.”

Watching the Eagles documentary on Netflix. I forgot how much I liked their stuff.

How can one guy fuck up so many things at once?

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

*taps the sign*

Higher Ed peeps and #IRWatercooler - IPEDS dropped a new ACTS package for review. Comments due December 8. Yes, this is 2026 and not 2025. www.regulations.gov/document/ED-...

Higher Ed data peeps, check out this article on the newest AIR Professional File. Timely and useful. www.airweb.org/publication/...

Yet another nightmare proposal.

Finished the newest season of Ted Lasso. So thoroughly satisfied.