Corbin Baird

Recruiter - In the Woods - Small-scale revolutionary - Bad guitar player - Lover of all things Bicycles and Rock and Roll

[Btown Uber Driver @UberBtown]

Aerial photos from the path of last night’s tornado through Morgan and Monroe counties. (Photos credit: Tracey Richardson)

[Corbin Baird @CorbinBaird]

@steven_montoya Would you mind sharing what you send to parents? I think this could help our program

[Jordan Hall @JordanHallWX]

Significant ground scouring north of Koats, Indiana.
@MyRadarWX
#wxtwitter #inwx

[Charlie Bilello @charliebilello]

Price Increases over last 5 years...
New Cars: +19%
Groceries: +26%
Family Health Insurance: +27%
Shelter: +29%
Restaurants: +31%
Dozen Eggs: +35%
Home Prices: +35%
Electricity: +40%
Gas Utilities: +41%
Transportation: +42%
Gasoline: +52%
Auto Insurance: +54%
Ground Beef: +64%
Fuel Oil: +69%
Coffee: +108%

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Starting this month, more than 900 deep-sea ocean sensors will be pulled out of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans off the coast of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, North Carolina and Greenland. https://t.co/jmm86WQNcY

[MileSplit US @milesplit]

A request we received after the posting the 1600 graphic: isolate the sprint data.

[The Last Farm @TheLastFarm]

Idiotic hell society racing towards the cliff’s edge

[Tara Blume @tcblume]

Science gasps for breath. They are removing all the ocean monitors to understand changes in currents and climate, and the excuse is a master class in obfuscation & double speak . (1/2) https://t.co/vs782YbcI3

[MileSplit US @milesplit]

Our previous tweet has led us down a rabbithole.

We compared every single event and the number of high school athletes hitting the same elite benchmarks in 2019 vs. 2026.

The weird part? It almost completely disappears in the field events. 🧵

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

KUNG POW! ENTER THE FIST (2002) is one of the dumbest movies ever made, and that’s its greatest strength. Steve Oedekerk turns an old martial arts film into a comedy with badly dubbed dialogue, and somehow the joke works for the whole movie.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

84% of 11-year-olds aren't allowed to leave their street.

53% can't leave their front yard.

92% of 14-year-olds can't leave their neighborhood.

We built a culture obsessed with safety. The result? A generation that's measurably more anxious: https://t.co/oygf4qk5yW

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

Keep posting this so people don’t forget how truly bad this event was.

Don’t let people gaslight you into thinking it was peaceful and worthy of 1500+ pardons and slush fund payoffs.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Universities had 17 years of warning. They responded by doing the opposite of what the math demanded.

In 2008, American birth rates fell off a cliff. The Great Recession made people stop having kids. Those never-born children would be turning 18 right now. The number of U.S. high school graduates peaked at roughly 3.9 million in 2025. By 2029, that number drops 15%. By 2041, it drops by nearly half a million students per year.

Every school in this tweet had access to the same Census data. They all saw the same curve.

Administrative positions at U.S. colleges grew 60% between 1993 and 2009, ten times the rate of tenured faculty growth. Non-instructional spending (student services, administration) grew 29% from 2010 to 2018. Instructional spending grew 17%. Average tuition at public four-year schools went from $3,500 in 2000 to $10,560 in 2023. Yale now has more administrators than undergraduate students. 5,460 administrators for fewer than 5,000 undergrads.

They built the cost structure of a growth company on top of a customer base that was mathematically guaranteed to shrink.

The split in this data tells you everything. Clemson, Syracuse, Duke, UNC, and Indiana are all cutting because the model broke. Alabama, Ole Miss, and the University of Florida are turning away more applicants than ever. Harvard gets five applications for every spot. The middle is where the cliff hits. Elite schools absorb demand. Everyone between elite and community college fights over a shrinking pool. The Fed published a study in December 2024 predicting 80 colleges will close in the next five years. Since 2016, over 100 already have. In 2024 alone, 28 shut down. One per week.

These program cuts and layoffs are a decade late. The birth rate data was sitting in Census spreadsheets the entire time. Everyone in higher education administration saw the enrollment cliff coming. They hired more administrators anyway.

[Nathan Christensen @NathanC_AD]

Our @IndStXCTF captured the Women’s Outdoor Conference Championship on our home track, delivering an unforgettable weekend! Proud of this team, our coaches and everyone who helped make hosting this event such a success! #MarchOn

[Sycamore Track/XC @IndStXCTF]

Happy Victory Monday🏆🥇🤩

#MarchOn | #StayRooted

[Amelia @amelia_tweetz]

So let me get this straight…

We’re supposed to panic about falling behind China on AI like it’s some massive national emergency… but falling behind on high-speed rail, renewable energy, and even childhood nutrition is somehow totally fine?

Interesting priorities 👀

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

Excellence is not hustle culture bullshit:

[Jean Twenge (author of 10 RULES, GENERATIONS) @jean_twenge]

Reading scores, 3rd graders to 8th graders, 2015 to 2025. This is a national tragedy.

[Bloomington South Boys XC/T&F @bhssxctf]

These three sprinters have made the state 3 participant standard allowing them to all run the 200m in Sectionals next week. Gabe Taylor 21.78, Simon Barnes 22.14, and Khaliq Akou 22.08. This is the first time in school history this has happened. @BHSS_Athletics @JimGordillo