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The Academy of Arts & Sciences stands up to be counted! www.amacad.org/news/board-s...

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USA’s Brexit: self harm of ludicrous proportions.

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Superb piece by Jill Lepore on how Musk's futurism constitutes a retread of the reactionary, antidemocratic, and bizarre technocracy movement that his grandfather led. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...

submitted 84 days ago • 5 comments

Three things were critical to America's rise to become a superpower. One was a system of government that was both stable and an example to the world because it was a system "of laws and not of men." Next, was the trust earned by the country as a consequence of its stability. Third was...

submitted 84 days ago • 42 comments

Great quote about the Trump Crash from former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, taken from @hcrichardson.bsky.social 's newsletter Letters To An American. "This is to economics what creationism is to biology, astrology is to astronomy or RFK thought is to vaccine science."

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

This clearly needs ongoing amplification, because way too many people seem fixated on the Goldberg element of the story, when the real story is wanton disregard for the fundamentals of national security and one party apparently being totally okay with that.

submitted 93 days ago • 5 comments

Pete Hegseth must resign or be fired immediately.

submitted 93 days ago • 5442 comments

Steve Witkoff's controversial comments on the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine have prompted criticism from Ukrainian lawmakers, with one even calling for the envoy's removal from the negotiations to end Moscow's full-scale invasion.

submitted 94 days ago • 23 comments

Amateur hour!!! This is what you get when you have DEI hires (unqualified white men) playing at governing.

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Scary buffoons are in the White House. One can barely make up this level of incompetence combined with animus.

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Democracy being saved by the courts! www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-f... #USPolitics

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D.C. Circuit arguments in the Alien Enemies Act case, JGG v. Trump, are beginning now. You can listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DoT...

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BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

submitted 94 days ago • 138 comments

Proud of my organization for standing up to authoritarianism. www.historians.org/news/america... #AcademicSky @historians.org

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They're terrorizing our federal employees in real ways and the impact is devastating for all of us. I spoke to a VA employee and FBI Agent about what they're experiencing and it will shock you. This is the most important thing I've written. Please read and share. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 97 days ago • 571 comments

The USA is becoming a rogue state… 😡

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The Shame of Columbia: violating academic freedom “Not even during the communist witch hunts of the early 1950s did a university agree to put an entire academic department under special oversight because of what its faculty researched or taught.” open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

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Columbia University has failed to defend academic freedom & freedom of speech & allowed a great institution to be bullied & extorted into submission by an administration hellbent on contorting higher education to their will. The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.

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This.

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I was supposed to discuss our book The End of College Football tonight in Washington, DC. I won't be there because I was denied entry to the United States. They refused to say why; my best guess is some combo of the inauguration, politics, Palestine, and maybe, a new normal.

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Finally!!! President Eisgruber of Princeton stands up to academic freedom!! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... #Acsdemicsky #fascism

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American civil society is full of abject cowards, that is the issue. The government is a mafia state but it is winning because most American elite institutions are devoid of anything resembling integrity and are folding rather than stand on principles that were little more than marketing.

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Researchers at the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands have received a questionnaire from the US with questions that are an attack on academic freedom. The University of Leiden advises not to respond www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/announcement...

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Hey folks can everyone please give @informedalarmist.bsky.social a follow! They are part of our #USAID #AltGov #AltFam thanks!

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In the 2000s, the Supreme Court ruled time and again that even suspected terrorists captured in war zones overseas were entitled to due process. In no sane world does Rubio's position pass constitutional muster.

submitted 99 days ago • 46 comments

Hand over all the power plants in your country to the US and 50% of your minerals and we will help broker a peace deal where you give up a big chunk of your country to Putin, among other things.

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Academics: do not travel to the #USA! #AcademicSky

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Trump’s Demands to Columbia Reflect Assault on Higher Ed, Experts Say The administration wants @columbiauniversity.bsky.social to make sweeping changes to its discipline and admissions processes. Experts say the demands are overreaching. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3DPuSAf

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The Wilson Center being dismantled. I never thought I would see this.

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Universities need to treat the Trump administration's hostage lists as organizing lists. A large majority of the universities on these lists should issue a JOINT public response making clear that they won't give in and why they're right not to. That creates space for the rest of the sector to join.

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A Nigerian senator accuses the senate president of sexual harassment, but SHE ends up on a six-month suspension. Insane story from the circus that is Nigerian politics. Story by @eromoegbejule.bsky.social

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'Trump is installing what scholars call patrimonialism. Understanding patrimonialism is essential to defeating it. In particular, it has a fatal weakness that Democrats and Trump’s other opponents should make their primary and relentless line of attack.' (Corruption)

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New, from me: Trump is whitewashing American history, removing not just people, but also the stories, images, and values to anyone who does not conform to his impoverished vision of America. Here is a partial inventory. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...

submitted 103 days ago • 88 comments

Why elite institutions MUST speak out.

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When the most sociopathic President in US history is congratulating you, you’re on the wrong side of history…

submitted 105 days ago • 83 comments

Walz: I think they hate public education because it’s easier to run an authoritarian government if you don’t have a population that knows.

submitted 104 days ago • 931 comments

The British are devilishly good at this.

submitted 105 days ago • 131 comments

I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”

submitted 105 days ago • 378 comments

Jennifer Rubin on why we should all be standing up to protect the constitution!! open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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Senator Adam Schiff doing a great job of explaining what’s needed for funding the US government . schiffnotes.substack.com/p/is-the-gov...

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How Trump is reshaping reality by disappearing public data W/ my fabulous colleague @ashendruk.com wapo.st/4iCmMtn

submitted 108 days ago • 23 comments

Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.

submitted 108 days ago • 31 comments

Pensioner Grant Grissom’s ad in the NYT calling on PINO to resign as president. Thank you! thinkinthemorning.com/resign/ #USPolitics

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The Fulbright program is required by law. It’s literally named after the senator that passed the bill.

submitted 111 days ago • 59 comments

So it goes without saying, but let's say it anyway: the concentration of attacks on trans people isn't because trans people are the only people fascists hate (although they absolutely do hate them). It's because they're the people they think non-fascists are least likely to defend.

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