Of course I saw the current Royals pitcher’s name and my first thought was “but that’s not a valid Wordle guess.”

What a shame—think of the free press it could have brought you.

If you are not already committed to one team or the other, may I point out that a Mets victory in this series eliminates a team from a swing state and reduces the pollution of political ads during games. #LGM#NLDS#MLBplayoffs

It’s moments like these — as the owner of Twitter/X is spreading conspiracy theories about FEMA during an active response — that make it easy to explain how I went from writing a dissertation about online volunteerism (“voluntweeters”) during disasters to studying online rumors & disinformation.

Newly out! We evaluate how well large-scale, nonprob, survey data do in estimating COVID infection rates. We find that these surveys do a remarkably good job at matching admin and wastewater data. The important advantages of the survey data are... jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

another reminder that Trump v. US is an abomination and very easily the worst Supreme Court decision since at least Plessy.

Jack Smith Exposed the Insanity of the Supreme Court’s Immunity Ruling

His latest brief in the January 6 case inadvertently suggests how a future President Trump could cling to power through “official” acts.

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In this thread, I am going to list all of the articles of the American Library Association Library Bill of Rights that this action violates. (There are a total of 7 articles, and this decision clearly violates at least 5 of them.)

I am offering a free tour of Civil War Boston for all #NCSS2024 attendees. Will meet on Thurs. Nov. 21 at 9:30am at the Robert Gould Shaw/54th Massachusetts Memorial in front of the State House. This is my way of saying thank you to all of of my fellow history/social studies teachers. 🗃️