Kelly E. Lipp

Mom, former journalist, book addict, family tree climber, bad TV watcher, napper. Ball State grad, Notre Dame glutton 4 punishment, ⚡️🏒💙

[Kelly E. Lipp @KellyELipp]

I spent the last several months working on a Gold Star Families Memorial for the county I work for. It was an honor and privilege and one that I hope stands for a long time. We wanted to tell the world about these brave men - about their deaths, yes - but more about their lives.

[Roger Parloff @rparloff]

Kash Patel's "VIP Snorkel" with 9 guests, accompanied by Navy Seals, over the tomb of 900 sailors at Pearl Harbor: "[A]s disrespectful as playing kickball on top of the graves at Arlington."
https://t.co/oNwsCXBigJ

[Vivian @suchnerve]

Remember when you used to get called a conspiracy theorist if you said the USA’s military budget is to blame for our lack of properly funded social programs?

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 Two MAJOR bombshells in 30 minutes.

CBS News: The Trump administration concealed the true extent of Iran’s strike on a US base in Kuwait. Dozens of service members suffered severe injuries. 30 remain hospitalized right now.

They hid it.

The New York Times: A US military investigation has concluded the United States was responsible for the strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran.

165 girls. Ages 7 to 12.

Trump said the Tomahawk was “very generic.”

Trump said Iran bombed its own school.
Trump said he’s “willing to live with” whatever the report shows.

The report shows it was us.

And while Trump was lying about dead children, his administration was hiding dozens of wounded American service members from their own families and the American public.

Concealing American casualties.
Lying about dead Iranian children.
Blocking terror warnings to law enforcement.

Sealing the Epstein files.

This is a pattern.

[WIRED @WIRED]

Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned. https://t.co/08MD1SPr7W

[Dr. Sally Sharif @Sally_Sharif1]

I just gave a closed-book, pen-and-paper midterm exam in my 300-level course at UBC with 100 students. All exams were graded by an experienced graduate-level TA according to a rubric.

*** The average was 64/100.***

My class averages at UBC are usually 80-85.

Context:
• This was the first midterm, covering ONLY 4 weeks of material.
• Students had a list of possible questions in advance: no surprise questions.
• Questions included (a) 3 concept definitions, (b) 3 paragraph-long questions, and (c) a 1.5-page essay.
• I have taught this class multiple times. Nothing in my teaching style changed this semester.
• We read entire paragraphs of text in class, so students don't have to do something on their own that wasn't covered during the lecture.
• Students take a 10-question multiple-choice quiz at the end of every class (30% of the final grade).
• Attendance is 95-99% every class. Attention during lectures and participation in pair-work activities are very high → anticipating the end-of-class quiz.

*** But unfortunately, I suspect many students are not reading the material on the syllabus. They are asking LLMs to summarize it instead.***

After the midterm, students reported:
• They thought they knew concept definitions but couldn't produce them on paper.
• They thought they understood the arguments but struggled to connect them or identify points of agreement and disagreement.

My view:
It might be “cool” or “innovative” to teach students to summarize readings with ChatGPT or write essays with Claude. But we may be doing them a disservice: reducing their ability to retain material, think creatively, and reason from what they know. If you only read what AI has summarized for you, you don’t truly "know" the material.

Moving forward:
We have a second midterm coming up. I don't know how to convey to students that the best way to do better on the exam is to rely on and improve their own reading skills.

[Democratic Republic Freedom Fighter @FLDemocrat42]

@anna_c_kramer

[Anna Kramer @anna_c_kramer]

NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East — but State Dept is not helping them do it.

We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."
https://t.co/ku89fL99bV

[Woke Former Senator @WokeMitt]

I’m old enough to remember when Republicans had like 9 congressional investigations on Benghazi.

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

BREAKING - DOJ is REMOVING Epstein documents from public data set.

CBS finds 65,527 pages deleted - including of Epstein’s cell and details of his death, photos of computers and devices seized, call logs, and photo of Epstein with Howard Lutnick.

THIS WHOLE THING IS A COVERUP.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

BREAKING: Satellite imagery shows an Iranian ballistic missile struck the AN/FPS-132 phased array radar at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.

If the damage is as severe as the imagery suggests, Iran just destroyed a $1.1 billion piece of equipment that took years to build and cannot be replaced on any timeline relevant to this war.

The AN/FPS-132 is not an ordinary radar. It is one of a handful of early warning sensors in the entire US global missile defence architecture. It detects ballistic missile launches at ranges exceeding 5,000 kilometres. It provides the initial tracking data that allows Patriot, THAAD, and Aegis systems to calculate intercept solutions. Without it, every other layer of missile defence in the Gulf theatre is operating with compressed reaction times and degraded situational awareness.

Qatar intercepted 101 ballistic missiles during this conflict. Sixty-five missiles and twelve drones were fired at Al Udeid specifically. The base’s layered defences stopped nearly all of them. Two got through. One of them appears to have hit the single most valuable sensor in the entire region.

This is the mathematics of asymmetric warfare in a single event.

Iran does not need to overwhelm the defence system. It needs one missile to reach one target. The defender has to intercept everything. The attacker has to succeed once. A ballistic missile costs Iran a fraction of what the radar costs. Even at the most generous estimate of Iranian missile production costs, the exchange ratio is hundreds to one in the attacker’s favour.

Now connect this to the insurance mechanism.

I have written all day that the B-2 and B-52 campaigns are destroying Iran’s conventional military but not its ability to threaten asymmetric targets. This is the proof. The most heavily defended air base in the Middle East, housing CENTCOM’s forward headquarters, protected by Patriot batteries and the most advanced interception systems the US deploys, just lost its primary early warning radar to a single ballistic missile that evaded every layer.

If the US military cannot protect a $1.1 billion radar inside its own most fortified base, on what basis does any reinsurer model that a tanker transiting the Strait of Hormuz is protectable by Navy escorts?

The DFC insurance backstop announced hours ago promised Navy escorts would secure Gulf shipping. The AN/FPS-132 strike demonstrates that even the most sophisticated US defensive systems cannot guarantee protection against Iranian ballistic missiles in a saturation attack environment.

One missile. One radar. $1.1 billion. And a defence architecture that just revealed its fundamental constraint: perfection is required, and perfection is impossible.

The escorts cannot guarantee what the base defences could not. The insurance market already knew this. Now the satellite imagery proves it.

https://t.co/ULBgEzZ3A8

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 Trump’s new defense plan quietly creates a National Guard “response force” — trained for crowd control and civil unrest — deployable across all 50 states by April 2026.

This wasn’t in any headline. They buried it.

Now connect the dots:

Epstein files drop. Names get redacted. Evidence of child abuse gets withheld. A war starts the same week. And now — a domestic force trained to suppress the American people is operational by spring.

Ask yourself: spring of what?

2026. Midterms. The last election cycle that could strip his power before 2028.

This is a man actively building the infrastructure to never leave office.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Trump's DOJ has been quietly removing Epstein files from the DOJ website since the attack in Iran ; CBS reports.

This is a coverup.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Oil prices rise in early market trading after attacks in the Middle East disrupt global energy supply. https://t.co/lhTFZlEpoZ

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Mehdi Hasan on Iran: “Every Republican president does this. Comes to office, cuts benefits for the poor, cuts taxes for the rich, raises prices, then bombs a Middle East country. He ran as the anti-war candidate. No more forever wars, no more regime change. It was all a lie”

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

PSA: Bombing a country on the other side of the globe won’t make the Epstein files go away, any more than the Dow going above 50,000 will.

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

This is a deliberate policy choice to encourage the spread of HIV, because keeping HIV+ people at undetectable viral levels stops the sexual transmission of the virus entirely. Florida is choosing to give people HIV and to allow it to develop into AIDS.

[octavia @peakybastard]

that's what happened. that's very much what happened.

[Kelly E. Lipp @KellyELipp]

If deportation is the goal, why are we building prison camps?

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Alex Pretti, who is identified as the man fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis on Saturday, was an intensive care nurse dedicated to treating veterans.

Read more about him here: https://t.co/Yx1zBIWasz

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

🚨Border Patrol whistleblower outraged by ICE's conduct exposes over a dozen secret ICE programs in documents leaked to me:
https://t.co/n3Wby6CFO9