Sam Nelson

They vanish. Congress already did its job when it passed IEEPA years ago. Refunds who knows?

Oh, not just a woodworker - a turner. The real mystical arts of the woodworking world. That's some really nice work.

a baseball game is being played in front of an advertisement for play ball.org Alt: Video of the final out of the 2016 World Series. Cubs win.

Pitchers and catchers report. A phrase filled with promise that ushers in 6 weeks of hope and optimism followed by the long bumpy road to despair. Except for that one time.

This really is a good recipe. I always do the brown butter variation now and it is worth the extra work. The day in the semester students are happiest to see me walk into the room is the day I bring these.

Roan Brittany running through fresh snow kicking up a cloud of snow.

Kudos. That’s a real commitment and a nice milestone. Be careful though. I hear there’s a notorious medal thief there in DC.

Overturning Humphreys is a classic heads we win tails you lose move. A future D admin would only be able to use this power if they have a senate majority. If a D pres fires board members and can’t replace them due to R senate majority the boards can’t function which is what Rs want anyway.

Stella Parks's Bravetart. It isn't comprehensive but the recipes are fantastic and they work. Not simple but not super chef-y either. The things a beginner wants to bake are there. Also a section on homemade Oreos, etc. IMHO, the best straight chocolate chip cookie and brownie recipes I have baked.

This is my second biggest pet peeve about recipe writers. The top spot goes to baking recipes with volume measurements “because people don’t own scales” or worse yet recipes written in volumes and converted to weights mathematically without testing the weights recipe.

W!

Horton v Skenes is kind of an exciting matchup. Hoping for a good game.

How Venture Capitalists Built A For-Profit "Micro-University" Inside Our Public Flagships You can graduate any time, but you can never leave.

I don't think we call things bangers anymore, but if we did, this piece from @mattseybold.bsky.social would be one. theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/how-ventur...

The Supreme Court should preserve the status quo until legal questions are resolved and explain the disposition of cases for the public. They are abdicating basic principles of equity and failing to fulfill their institutional role. They aren’t pretending to try. There isn’t even the veneer of law.

Rhymes with Taney.

Cherry pie with a deep brown crust that smells fantastic although the picture can’t show that particular quality of the pie, of course.

Not going to lie, I look forward to eating this cherry pie that just came out of the oven. When it cools off. I was super careful about it but still got some shrinkage around the edges.

If you’d told me in March that I’d be watching the teams with the two best records in baseball on a Friday in June I would have said sure that makes sense. If you told me that’d be Cubs v Tigers I would not have believed it. And it’s a pitcher’s duel to boot!

Overturning Humphreys is a classic heads we win tails you lose move. A future D admin would only be able to use this power if they have a senate majority. If a D pres fires board members and can’t replace them due to R senate majority the boards can’t function which is what Rs want anyway.

HOU@CHC: Kerry Wood ties ML record with 20 K's YouTube video by MLB

Happy Kerry Wood day to all who celebrate. youtu.be/hbICt4N4U-w?...

This is definitely one of those wind blowing out at Wrigley games!

Steve Kerr is awesome.

I have a real banger of a lecture on constitutional interpretation that I illustrate with a selection of cookies. Do you like this tollhouse cookie with no chocolate chips? Originalism is the theory for you!

What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

Head and shoulders portrait of a mostly white English Setter with long brown ears.

Friday dog post.

"When for any reason in a university on private foundation or in a university supported by public money the administration of the institution or the instruction in any one of its departments is changed by an influence from without; when an effort is made to dislodge an officer or a professor because the political sentiment or the religious sentiment of the majority has undergone a change, at that moment the institution has ceased to be a university, and it cannot again take its place in the rank of universities so long as there continues to exist to any appreciable extent the factor of coercion."

News that Columbia is considering ceding to the Trump admin’s demands that it change how it regulate speech on campus and teaches students in order to continue to receive federal funds made me think of this passage from a speech that UChicago President William Rainey Harper gave in 1900

Paczki!

Here’s why Ohio university presidents stayed quiet on Senate Bill 1 The lobbying group for the state’s public universities advised them to sit on the sidelines over Senate Bill 1, records show.

President Carter told us he was fighting for us. But this article based on public info requests shows that the Ohio presidents jointly decided to stand down before SB1 was even introduced.

signalakron.org/ohio-univers...

We can— and must— defend constitutional norms as if they are institutions worth protecting while simultaneously acknowledging that those institutions are not self-executing and require political work to preserve.