🧵 Five students brought a lawsuit against Columbia and Barnard after they were punished for participating in the 2025 Butler Library protest. Barnard and Columbia’s lawyers found two AI-generated hallucinations in one of their court filings: “As for the second case Petitioners rely on, ‘Matter of McCormack v. LaHood, 85 A.D.3d 1070, 1071 (2d Dep't 2011),’ the reporter citation is to a case of a different name that has no relevance whatsoever, and after a diligent search, Barnard is unable to locate any case with this name.” “Again, one of the cases Petitioners cited, ‘Matter of Ortiz v. Coughlin, 86 A.D.2d 660, 661 (2d Dep't 1982),’ does not appear to exist-the citation goes to the middle of another case of a different name with no relevance here, and after a diligent search, the only three cases with these names in the caption are completely irrelevant.”

It is not stupid at all. It correctly identifies your real concern.

60yrs ago today, LBJ & Pat Brown, after the CA primary, discuss Ronald Reagan & the gov race. Brown: "This fellow is a part of the kook crowd in the United States." LBJ: "He's got a better television personality and he's more effective [than Goldwater], but he's more dangerous."

The Lancet, one of the most important medical journals in the world, published a petition today calling for the suspension of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) from the World Medical Association (WMA). 1,150 professionals signed the petition because the IMA "failed to condemn the genocide of the Palestinians, the destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system, and the torture of detainees." The IMA has, in actuality, spent the entire war advocating for Gazans, petitioning the government to ensure medical supplies were entering Gaza, and demanding that hospitals in Gaza remain safe havens. But they're evil because they didn't use the word genocide? It doesn't matter what you do for Palestinians or how you fight for them if you don't use a certain word? What happened to "actions speak louder than words?"

Worth noting that Mehdi Hasan’s recent hate binge and rhetorical escalation are also a sign that his cause is losing its sway over the Western public and a bid for in-group cohesion. He’s had to attack Seinfeld, John Cleese, Bari Weiss, and Mark Dubowitz in the span of the last 24 hours alone to do damage control within his cohorts, which are losing steam and legitimacy. It’s incendiary and not to be taken lightly, but the doubling down seems to stem from realizing his narratives are unwinding and need defending.

These anguished essays leave me puzzled as to why professors are puzzled as to what to do.. If students can't do the work then give them a bad grade to reflect that. End of. chronicle.com/article/my-stu…

It’s possible Trump & Collins are so much weaker than in 20 that any Dem can win, but hard to ignore how much harder & uncertain Platner makes this race for Dems. Until 7/13 the party can replace him if he drops out. Will Bernie/Warren ask him w/more polls like this?

"It's a lot more about what you're advocating for that gets you indicted or not indicted, rather than what you did," Abdul El-Sayed said on Friday night. detroitnews.com/story/news/p…

NEW from me: Darializa Avila Chevalier co-created a taxpayer-funded college course that promoted the abolition of schools as engines of “genocide” and “white supremacy”, and assigned materials in a separate course around “penis panic,” anonymous gay sex in bathrooms, and a podcast unpacking “problematic childhood songs.” freebeacon.com/democrats/the…

If your chancellors are organizing to discredit whole disciplines on your campus, your faculty should get organized too! Joint statement from WashU and Vanderbilt AAUP chapters on the report just dropped:

MAINE POLL - Senate 🟦 Graham Platner: 46% 🟥 Susan Collins: 45% March poll: Platner 7 —— Generic Ballot 🟦 DEM: 50% 🟥 GOP: 40% —— Net Favs Collins: -14 Platner: -17 @QuantusInsights | 6/8-10 | 870 LV polls.quantusinsights.org/po…