Phil Ciciora

A new paper indicates that heirs remain concerned with how those meaningful possessions will be passed on to new owners, says new research co-written by @giesbusiness.bsky.social expert Ravi Mehta. Read more here: news.illinois.edu/heritage-goo...

Obama: Y'all must not've been to my rallies before, bc you know you're not supposed to boo. What are you supposed to do? Crowd: VOTE! Obama: They can't hear your boos, but they can hear your vote

Trump is literally killing Americans—you!—to increase profits for his corporate cronies. Putting greed—not America—first and making Americans gasp (for clean air) again. Good work, NYT.

O Captain! My Captain!

google's ai proving absolutely indispensable in dublin

one funny thing about Alito is he is constantly fuming over his critics. just a big blubbering baby.

“Relax, I’m not gonna fly off the handle or anything like that, but I am just a bit curious as to why you chose not to see this film.” — Tom Cruise

This reminds me of two scenes in the German movie “Downfall,” which depicts, historically accurately, Hitler’s last days. Both scenes involve Hitler and Albert Speer discussing Hitler’s “Nero Order,” by which the Führer had ordered the destruction of the Reich’s remaining economic infrastructure...

Anyone telling you Crab Salts Ultra gives you headaches is LYING.

Lots being said about this, but another important dynamic here is that a generation of GOP staffers has been raised with such contempt for journalism and factfinding that they've never stopped to think how basic journalistic factfinding practices could save them undue embarrassment

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

"the President of Narnia said..."

As a former megachurch youth pastor I can tell you that Hegseth is running the military like a megachurch youth pastor, which as a former megachurch youth pastor I can tell you is a bad idea.

Washington Post: "More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to six U.S. officials familiar with the Defense Department’s internal casualty accounting data." Defense Secretary:

Put another way, the awesome scifi doom presupposes that we, collectively, are doing a *much better job* than there is any reason to believe we are, or should be expected to.

No one gets a PhD in "what if the people in charge of the Pentagon are chud idiots and they collapse the world economy because caring about strategy is Woke and Gay". But that is (self-evidently) a far more likely thing to happen, simply because it only requires stupidity to accomplish.

The first step in gauging the existential risks of AI should be a common scale with independent verification, says Robert Brunner, the chief disruption officer @giesbusiness.bsky.social Read more here: news.illinois.edu/ai-apocalypse/

"Have another brain cigarette, it's probably fine"

Crowds took to the streets of Dublin to protest Trump’s visit to Ireland, with demonstrators invoking Trump’s ties to Epstein and his alliance with Netanyahu.

You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.

A Labor Day reminder: having a job is no longer enough to protect millions of Americans from homelessness. For many workers, the greatest threat isn't losing their job. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours, never offer enough stability to keep them housed.

Who wore it better?

I didn’t understand how bad his personal crisis was til I saw this

Looks like standing lessons have laid off! Nothing awkward about that pose.

I like that this design appears to show the birth date of liberty as 1776, and its death as 2026

Read more here: news.illinois.edu/labor-action...

The Labor Action Tracker is a comprehensive database of labor strikes and labor protest activity in the U.S. during the postpandemic era that was created to better inform policymakers and researchers, says Johnnie Kallas, the director of the project and a labor professor of labor at Illinois.

the most difficult question in American politics is “who was president in 2020” the second most difficult question, apparently, is “who is president right now”

Bond War -- the reviews are in: "cranky", "whimsy", "self-limiting", "self-defeating", "a mistake" going great! www.ft.com/content/a50d...

Mired in a shooting war with Iran and a trade war with Canada when we could have just not done either of those, totally voluntary completely stupid national self-harm.

#Illinois professors Sara Gerke, Jingrui He, Marc Hertzman, Vesna Stojanoska and Wendy Yang were named the 2026 University Scholars. Read more here: news.illinois.edu/five-illinoi...

A new book co-written by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign political scientist Matthew S. Winters explores the “state-centric persistence” of poor citizens of the Global South in their pursuit of benefits from government-run social welfare programs. news.illinois.edu/persistent-c...

Crazy idea: Spend money on supplies for our well-trained and modestly paid sailors, not on electric shock gloves for poorly trained and overpaid ICE agents.

amazing article

“.. there’s no denying the current erosion of his position,” writes Noonan. It’s “not only that the conflict is dangerous and unresolved, or that his attempts at diplomatic resolution seem half-baked, but that almost six months in, he seems utterly out of his depth ..” www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

Big news for Colin Kaepernick.

e-bikes are out of control. Get off the sidewalk. Also wear a helmet. Teenage boys go flying down hills with no helmets and get killed in LA weekly. Maybe they can start handing out $1000 no-helmet fines to their parents.

The Cline Center for Advanced Social Research and an interdisciplinary team of #ILLINOIS experts have produced a new data-driven dashboard to pinpoint U.S. counties that have an unusual number of police use of lethal force incidents relative to national benchmarks. news.illinois.edu/spotlite-ano...

MLB owners of losing teams getting ready to point to the Dodgers for why they need a salary cap

NAVALNY: “Because of Putin, thousands of 🇺🇦 & 🇷🇺 citizens will die… Putin & his senile thieves are the main threat to Russia… the Kremlin is making you poorer… to save 🇷🇺 is to fight for the removal of Putin and his kleptocrats, and peace…” Sound familiar, Americans?

Oh, you're still bitter about school closures six years ago? Buddy, my generation's arc was formed by 9/11; the Global War on Terror; the Great Recession; countless mass shootings; a decade of open fascism, oligarchy and superstition; a million dead in a REAL pandemic; and now your shitty podcast

Genuinely looks like a scene from a Batman movie where a cartoonishly evil villain somehow makes it onto mainstream media to rant against the establishment.

Way more than enough evidence in these papers not only to get Comey’s charges 86’d before trial in federal district court, but also to get Blanche—and Trump—86’d at an impeachment trial in the Senate.