A federal judge decreed Donald Trump must open the doors to the literal house where he lives and welcome the Associated Press, which maintains — I learned today — a “First Amendment right” to sit with the White House Press Secretary and ask her questions. Fascinating. Does Pirate Wires also have a right to a White House press badge, or does the Constitution specifically state only outlets favored by the blob state matter? Obviously, the press has framed this incredible violation of free speech as a free speech victory because in an era of media fragmentation they need unfair advantages to survive. Meanwhile, left-wing judges want their friendly press in power, so they’re reinventing our laws. Free speech means you can say what you want. It doesn’t mean Donald Trump has to talk to you. Call me, AP, I’m happy to explain. And actually, I’m not asking — consider it my First Amendment right.

Tuesday, the Trump administration froze over $1 billion of Cornell’s federal funding and $790 million of Northwestern’s, citing civil rights investigations. The campaign against elite universities continues, fueled by accusations of antisemitism, contempt for the DEI industrial complex, and a broader cultural vendetta. Directionally, this is good — universities are bloated credential mills, non-STEM research is largely farcical, and the ballooning student debt crisis is untenable. But if you’re going to kneecap research institutions, throwing the baby out with the bathwater, you can’t just walk away. It’s time for the government to operate with a meaningful, constructive vision for the future. To bring back initiatives reminiscent of the Manhattan Project and Apollo space program, to fund frontier-expanding scientific inquiry in service of real goals: biological mastery, the exploration of space, and the harnessing of nuclear fusion in service of humanity. Sure, burn down the universities, but build something better in their ashes.

Candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America are surging in the polls for next month’s elections at the United Federation of Teachers — a powerful NYC union representing nearly 200,000 educators. One such man? Steve Swieciki, a social studies teacher who recently posted a Luigi Mangione meme on social media with the caption “Make bad people feel unsafe” (charming!). Look, folks: while some teachers, I assume, are good people, these liberal arts colleges aren’t sending their best. In fact, it looks like they’re sending actual communists. So the next time Trump floats gutting the DOE, and a pearl-clutching ‘Hands Off’ protestor invokes a sweet old grandma teaching second grade, I’ll have to remind you that a non-trivial number of these freaks are either mentally ill or genuinely want us to die. Sorry, but it’s time for a complete and total shutdown of teachers unions until we can figure out what is going on.

in 1992, congress quietly capped your shower at 2.5 gallons per minute. it was supposed to conserve water. but decades later, data shows that low-flow laws actually make us take longer showers, increasing water waste. read all about why it’s time to repeal this dumb, outdated regulation (trump signed an executive order on shower pressure literally 2 hours after we published this) (you’re welcome)

katherine dee turned to claude for help during a difficult period in her life, and soon found herself developing a genuine connection with the chatbot. read her eye-opening account, as well as firsthand interviews with others who developed emotional — and even sexual — relationships with llms

new deep dive from blake on a group of tech bros who are on a mission to save k-12 education... by building a network of schools that employ new technologies to fundamentally rethink how we teach kids. examples include but not limited to: helping them use ai to write novels, start local businesses, and even create their own youtube channels

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