Andrew Conneen

Just a government teacher at a government school working to restore trust in government's institutions. #ProjectCivicsWorks

Illinois’s campus is 120 miles from the Final Four in Indianapolis. This was the scene as the Illini took the court for open practice.

APCompGov Iran

I still think it’s hilarious that with the birthright citizenship MAGA has become living constitutionalists (this is a problem they didn’t consider in 1868!) and lefties have become plain meaning/originalist types.

President Johnson announces he will neither seek nor accept a nomination for re-election, 58 years ago today. -OS

What's the difference between 3M views and a few thousand? A whole lot of rage. Our "tip of the hat" at the end of the show... is to you. At least those of you who get the bulk of your news from journalists as opposed to content creators.

ARE YOU WITH US? For the first time since 2005, we're heading to the FINAL FOUR.

APCompGov: Correlation / Causation

For the second time in three years, WE ARE ELITE.

#Illini freshman David Mirkovic on Illinois answering every time Houston tried to make a run: "Our biggest growth since last game was keeping the lead and staying mentally focused for the course of 40 minutes... I'm really proud of us. We were thinking about that, we were working on that and we were mentally locked in for 40 minutes." (Video from NCAA)

Officials announced a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb was found in Oaxaca. "The discovery was actually made months earlier by looters who took all the objects from the tomb’s floor," writes @aliregarcia. On the under-funding of Mexico's cultural institutions. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@StevenTDennis Both sides are just performative on this without a substantial proposal for a national, photo voter ID accessible to all eligible voters.

Thune says he will force a vote on a photo ID amendment. Not clear to me yet if it would be "clean."

Schumer tells press Democrats are *not* opposed to photo voter ID.

@MarcEdelman The IHSA as the originator of “March Madness” might have a better case. si.com/college-basket…

As someone who has often condemned #DraftKings, they find an unexpected ally in me here: 1. Using "March Madness" as they do is not trademark use. 2. Nobody thinks the #NCAA owns DraftKings. 3. No reputational harm: many NCAA schools actually have sports betting partnerships.

Congress is debating voting rights while IL gerrymandering predetermines general election outcomes.

Alabama airman and father of 3, Major Alex Klinner, identified as one of the six Americans who was killed when a KC-135 crashed in Iraq. Klinner was a father to a two-and-a-half-year-old and seven-month-old twins. His wife, Libby, posted the following on Instagram: “On March 12, our world shattered. Alex and his crew were on the plane that crashed in Iraq. I'm devastated to lose the best person I know, the person that made everything more fun, my best friend. But even more so, my heart is broken for our three kids who will grow up not knowing him. They won't get to see firsthand the way he would jump up to help in any way he could. They won't see how goofy and funny he was. They won't witness his selflessness, the way he thought about everyone else before himself. They won't get to feel the deep love he had for them. He was an incredible person and husband, but he was the best dad. It still doesn't feel real. I keep thinking that I'll get a text from him saying 'Sorry honey! Didn't mean to scare you' and everything will be alright. Because Alex always made everything alright. We just moved to a new home and we had so many exciting plans in the next few years. Now we are left to navigate the void left in our hearts. Thank you to everyone who has reached out. Your words mean more than you know. These are some of the last photos we have together before he deployed. He was crushed that he had to leave us. I'Il forever remember this heartbreaking goodbye.” I am linking the GoFundMe below that was launched by Klinner’s sister-in-law, Sarah Rose Harrill. Heartbreaking. Videos: libbyklinnerteaching / ig.

I worked in Office of General Counsel at Department of Defense. This by @dan_maurer, former Army Judge Advocate, is spot on. Warns of criminal liability Gives legal precedents Recommends public retraction of statement justsecurity.org/133970/legal-a…

Virginia is the only state that requires gambling abuse be addressed by schools in a similar manner as substance abuse. SB3718 would make IL the 2nd state ilga.gov/Legislation/Bi…

Hereditary peers to be removed from Lords as bill passes bbc.in/4seAibO

"A nation of 90 million is now going to be led by a man who has never given a single public interview or speech.” @arash_tehran on Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s new supreme leader. theatlantic.com/international/…

Remember the death of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Turns out, it was greatly exaggerated.

.@HdxAcademy wrote up a case study on how University of Wyoming is leading on free expression, open inquiry, and constructive dialogue.