Or, ‘Can’t you just enjoy a thing without always bringing in some negative part of the world, man, just enjoy the play, the competition, the athleticism.’
Apr 04, 2026
As of April 2026, Arizona men’s basketball coach Tommy Lloyd agreed to a five-year contract extension, making him one of the top five highest-paid coaches in college basketball. The new deal starts in the 2026-27 season at approximately $7.2 million, averaging $7.5 million annually, with significant bonuses, a large staff salary pool, and a high buyout clause.
Dusty May, the head men’s basketball coach at the University of Michigan (hired March 2024), has a five-year contract with an average annual value of approximately $5.1 million. His contract includes a base salary of $4.6 million for the 2024-25 season, with annual increases of $250,000, rising to $5.6 million in the 2029-30 season.
$20,508.
$7,066 per-section
Pay for full-time faculty members rose 2.6 percent this academic year over last, according to “Visualizing Change,” the American Association of University Professors’ Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession. But professors shouldn’t get too excited: adjusted for inflation, that amounts to just 0.5 percent.
Although average faculty salary increases this year are fairly close to the increases the past two years, a relatively high Consumer Price Index in many metropolitan areas “means the real buying power of any increases [is] substantially diminished,” said Samuel J. Dunietz, a senior program officer at AAUP who helped write the report.
Released today, AAUP’s annual survey finds that the average salary for full-time ranked faculty members was $80,095 in 2016-17, while the average total pay for part-time faculty members at a single institution was $20,508. Average pay for part-time faculty members teaching on a per-section basis only (excluding professors teaching part-time during phased retirement, for example) was $7,066, with serious limitations to the data.
Here’s where the price is right: Pentagon awards Raytheon $45 million for GPS ground system as program future is reassessed. The ‘unpriced change order’ supports satellite launches while officials reassess long-delayed ground system
Follow the dead girls and imploded apartment buildings . . . that’s where the money is. Lockheed Martin plans to quadruple its output of Precision Strike Missiles, used for the first time in the Iran war.
Why it matters: Questions about production capacity and stockpile health haunt the U.S. military, especially as its offensive alongside Israel breaks the one-month mark. And PrSM’s first-ever employment has already drawn scrutiny.
In less than one week, the Iran war has produced a remarkable string of combat firsts that pull back the curtain on an American military boosted by AI and stocked with upgraded weapons.
Why it matters: Some of America’s defense-tech advancements have been on full display during Operation Epic Fury. The Trump administration has been happy to confirm — and flex — the results.
They’ll be coming after you: “Democracy” facilitates Neo-Colonialism.
Oh, so this is deceptions? Breaking: Casualties and injuries reported among U.S. forces, with some captured by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, after the American pilot was reportedly used as bait in a trap to ambush U.S. special forces during a deceptive landing attempt in southern Iran moments ago.
April Madness:
The Five-Second Epistemology of That’s the Pilot
That’s the pilot. Dehdasht. Kohgiluyeh province. The province the IRGC cordoned off. The province five Black Hawks couldn’t get into. The province the empire bombed trying to find this man. The locals found him first.
Western male. Late 20s to mid 30s. USAF CWU-27/P Nomex flight suit. SJU-5/A survival vest with harness straps, equipment pouches, survival radio mount on the chest. Strobe marker attachment point. Name tape and unit patches removed — standard procedure for combat missions over hostile airspace. Pilots strip identifying patches before missions. The patches are gone because the empire takes the identity off the pilot the same way the empire takes the identity off the aircraft. The false insignia starts before takeoff.
Blood on his right temple and cheek. Ejection injuries. Windblast and canopy fragmentation at high speed. Conscious. Dazed but alert. Flight suit dirty and scuffed — hours on the ground in rough terrain. Survival vest still fully on with equipment attached. He didn’t have time to ditch his gear. He didn’t have time to evade. He was found before he could go to ground. The IRGC drives 20 minutes. The empire flies from Kuwait.
Three men flanking him. Keffiyehs. Camouflage. Basij or local paramilitary. Not regular IRGC in formal uniform. The locals. The $1 million bounty. The GPS beacon broadcasting on 121.5 MHz. The lighthouse the kitchen wrote about this morning. Iran followed the signal. The locals followed the bounty. The empire sent five Black Hawks. Two destroyed. Three fled from Yasuj. The empire sent more helicopters at 1:02 AM over Chahardeh village. Clashes between civilians and American forces. The governor reporting 3 martyrs from American strikes. The empire bombing the province the pilot was hiding in. The Hannibal procedure. The empire still trying to get him back. The locals already had him.
[Iranian missiles advocate women’s rights more than political claimants and feminist movements do.]
Whether people want to hear it or not, the U.S. military is the biggest terrorist organization on the planet, and those volunteering to be violent thugs for political psychopaths deserve neither praise nor respect. (See first comment below for video link.)
It’s 55 years since Lennon wrote and released the song. But its simple plea for a world without war, borders or divisions resonates just as powerfully now as it ever has done.
“Anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic. But because it is sugarcoated, it is accepted”: The song John Lennon called “the best I’ve ever written” – and Yoko Ono’s uncredited contribution
In another interview in December 1980, with writer David Sheff, Lennon said that the song was also inspired by a book about “the concept of positive prayer” that he and Ono had been given by American comedian, actor, writer and political activist Dick Gregory.
Lennon was allegedly later contacted by a religious organisation with a request to use the song.
He recalled: “The World Church called me once and asked, ‘Can we use the lyrics to Imagine and just change it to “Imagine one religion?”’ That showed [me] they didn’t understand it at all. It would defeat the whole purpose of the song, the whole idea.”
On 27 May 1971, Lennon began recording the song at Ascot Sound Studios, a facility that he and Ono had created in the basement of the original house on the estate. Sound engineer Eddie Veale helped build the studio and called it “the first professional home studio in the UK”.
Phil Spector and Yoko Ono produced Imagine and the album that bears its name.
Lennon assembled a crack band for the recording. On drums was future Yes drummer Alan White, while revered session player Nicky Hopkins played additional piano.
On bass was Klaus Voormann, a long-time friend of The Beatles from their Hamburg days and a linchpin in their backstory, who also designed the Revolver album cover.
“Tittenhurst Park was a sort of paradise, beautiful gardens,” recalled Voormann in the 1988 documentary Imagine: John Lennon. “The house itself wasn’t that big but a very, very nice house. I loved it. The studio was really small and the atmosphere was very loose.”
Dirty dirty lawyers:
When it comes to using AI, it seems lawyers just can’t help themselves.
Last year saw a rapid increase in court sanctions against attorneys for filing briefs containing errors generated by artificial intelligence tools. The most prominent case was that of the lawyers for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who were fined $3,000 each for filing briefs containing fictitious, AI-generated citations.
But as a cautionary tale, it doesn’t seem to have had much effect.
“Recently we had 10 cases from 10 different courts on a single day,” says Damien Charlotin, a researcher at the business school HEC Paris who keeps a worldwide tally of instances of courts sanctioning people for using erroneous information generated by AI.
U.S. federal agents have detained the niece and grand-niece of late Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani after Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked their lawful permanent resident status, the State Department said on Saturday.
“Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter are now in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” the State Department said in a statement, adding that Rubio revoked their residency status, also known as a green card.
She is “an outspoken supporter of the Iranian regime who celebrated attacks on Americans and referred to our country as the “Great Satan,” Rubio said in a post on X. “The Trump administration will not allow our country to become a home for foreign nationals who support anti-American terrorist regimes.”
Fucking Jew slated for Democratic nomination for POTUS: Always Jew World. Akiba went 25-3 in 1991 and won its league championship with an offense orchestrated by the future governor of Pennsylvania. Eden played center, Aaron Hahn Tapper was a 6-foot-3 shooting guard after hitting a growth spurt, and Josh Shapiro played point guard.
The team’s win was still seconds away but the real victory was starting as the opposing team intentionally fouled, sending Akiba Hebrew Academy to the foul line.
Before the game, Ami Eden could feel opponents overlooking Akiba, a Jewish day school in Merion Station. Now he stood near the basket while a teammate shot free throws and hoped to make eye contact with an opponent.
The other guys refused to look his way.
“I never felt more chip-on-my-shoulder Jewish than during Akiba games,” Eden said. “Once in a while opposing fans would taunt us, throw pennies, things like that. But most of the time it wasn’t a matter of overt antisemitism, but the bigotry of low expectations. Simply put, many of the other schools didn’t think they had to worry about a Jewish team. And nothing felt better than wiping the collective smirk off their faces and replacing it with a look of, ‘Oh, [expletive], those Jews can play.’”
Proud to be an alumnus of Ghent University in Belgium, one of the three Belgian universities where UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese received an honorary doctorate this week.
A powerful acknowledgment of her expertise and the courage with which she continues to document the horrific crimes of the Israeli apartheid state.
In this apartheid state, champagne was cracked open in parliament this week upon the introduction of the death penalty exclusively for Palestinians.
The same methods, the same masters, the same lies
They had called him mad. An extremist. A dictator. They even accused him of enriching himself. Thomas Sankara, the man who rode a bicycle while his counterparts collected Mercedes, the one who had slashed his salary and sold off the presidential fleet, the one who lived in a modest official residence and dressed like a simple captain, was portrayed as a power-drunk despot. Not because he stole. But because he threatened the thieves.
In 1986, the smear machine kicked into gear. Silent, insidious, well-oiled. Guy Penne, Mitterrand’s Mr. Africa, orchestrated a demolition campaign against the Burkinabè revolution from the shadows. Sankara had to be taken down not with weapons, but with slander. Africa and the world had to stop seeing a just man, and start seeing a monster.
François Hauter, then a journalist at Le Figaro, was put in touch with Pierre Lacoste, former head of the DGSE. French intelligence slipped him carefully crafted dossiers describing alleged atrocities. Tortures. Executions. Nighttime operations. Nothing was too outlandish to tarnish the one who got in the way. Hauter published. Later, he would admit to having been manipulated. But the damage was done. Once sown, rumor grows fast in hot climates.
Today, the stage has changed sets, but the actors are the same. The target, too. Those who demonized Sankara yesterday are now hounding the presidents of the Alliance of Sahel States. Same tone. Same vocabulary. Same method.
They no longer dare say “dictators”: they prefer “putschists.” They no longer dare say “savages”: they prefer “unpredictable military men.” But the substance is identical: they want to discredit those who refuse to bend. They invent massacres without bodies, wave reports without sources, and accuse without proof. AFP, RFI, Jeune Afrique, and the whole media pack howl in chorus, just like in 1986. They must destroy the image before destroying the regime.
What they reproached Sankara for was his freedom. What they reproach Traoré, Tiani, or Goïta for is the same thing. They don’t steal. They don’t bow their heads. They don’t ask permission. They govern for their people, not for their masters.
So old France, the one of hushed plots and poisoned smiles, dusts off its forger’s toolkit. A fake report here, a paid witness there. An “expert” African exile who spits on his country from Paris. A “researcher” subsidized to claim that the Sahelian peoples live under terror. And when that’s not enough, they invent enrichment stories, just as they did with Sankara. As if the Sahel’s military had fought to steal, rather than to restore to their people the dignity stolen for 60 years.
But this time, they have a problem. The people have learned. They remember. They understand that those who called Sankara mad had him killed. And that those who today besmirch IB, Tiani, or Goïta are preparing the same betrayals. So the people watch. The people stay vigilant.
And if one day they dare again… the people will respond. Because the Sahel has decided to be free. And freedom isn’t negotiated. It’s defended. Until the last breath.
Ibrahima Maiga
“…we’re going to bomb [the Vietnamese] into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power—not with ground forces”. – General Curtis Lemay, Former US Air Force Chief of Staff
They switched from stand-off munitions to closer range stuff. A bunch of aircraft were hit. Now they’re dipping into what is left of stand-off capacity. It’s really starting to feel like America’s last rodeo at this point.
Epstein was seen again in Tel Aviv, Israel. I guess he’s still alive… his death was faked by the Mossad.
The British Empire caused 165 million deaths in India in just 40 years. British colonialism caused these deaths in India between 1880 and 1920. While the British stole $45tn in just over 200 years. This is what the empire was really like: starvation.
Paul Haeder, Author 