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Happy Easter from a 1980s mall Easter Bunny photo that I can't believe my parents actually paid for and am so glad they did.

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As long as we’re doing French Revolution takes, let’s all remember that Mark Twain’s is undefeated:

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Never forget that the richest man in the world chose to take food from the mouths of the world’s poorest children. Burn in hell.

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So close to figuring it out and yet so far

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The National Gallery only exists in the first place because cash-strapped Russian officials decided to secretly sell off the greatest works of the Hermitage to Andrew Mellon during the Great Depression -- could be a chance for Putin to bring them home. A sweetener in a Ukraine peace deal.

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Andrew Mellon donated the building, his art collection, and an endowment to the people under the condition that Congress pass a law specifically exempting the museum from this kind of nonsense.

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To be fair, it's really easy to confuse fascist_unconstitutional_demand_letter_final_send_after_agreement_v2.pdf for fascist_unconstitutional_demand_letter_final__v2.pdf. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

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top 5 website we need to still exist

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Old enough to remember when the GOP thought the biggest scandal in the world was the Obama admin's IRS reviewing the tax exempt status of some right leaning non-profits.

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A couple thoughts on this: 1. It violates the law. In 1998, Congress explicitly provided that the President could not, directly or indirectly, request that the IRS start or end an audit or other investigation of a taxpayer. www.taxnotes.com/research/fed... 1/

submitted 4 days ago • 69 comments

Every law firm that cut a deal with Trump will sell you out if the $$ is right and should never be trusted again.

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The “nor any other private university” part seems deliberately designed to increase the reputational cost to Columbia of signing a consent decree.

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JD Vance just broke apart the College Football Playoff National Championship trophy on live television.

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"[Harvard] will not negotiate over its independence or its constitutional rights... No government—regardless of [who] is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue." www.harvard.edu/president/ne...

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"What we are seeing is a purge—of the administrative state, of the universities, of expertise—that is consistent with events like the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s and ’70s, or the dismantling of the tsarist civil service after the Bolshevik Revolution" www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Through a competitive free market in education there will emerge school districts with their own lead abatement departments for parents who value such amenities www.cbsnews.com/news/milwauk...

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Oh

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Hang together or hang separately

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

I see we are in the “[unambiguous legal requirement] shall be disregarded, for I command it” phase

submitted 10 days ago • 36 comments

Universities need to band together, go to court, and use their endowments to get through the next four years -- or let Donald Trump and his minions take over everything. Those are the only choices.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

demand your uni tap its endowment to fight trump. especially if you work in cambridge. "Still, about 20 percent of the Harvard endowment is 'unrestricted,' so the money can be used for any purpose. That’s more than $10 billion." from @kevincarey1.bsky.social www.vox.com/education/40...

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“Appeasement right now is a disastrous policy… What’s at stake here is freedom. If you give up your freedoms to someone who wants more power, they’re going to take more of your freedom.” -Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University

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"Harvard could lead a coalition that pools money to weather funding-cuts, joins in legal action to protect students’ rights, and be willing to pay the financial price of standing by our commitment to academic freedom and democracy. If a university of Harvard’s stature won’t step up, then who will?”

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.

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Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx

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The thing about negotiating with hostage-takers is they just keep asking for more and never release the hostage. Don't negotiate! www.science.org/content/arti...

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The NIH just froze ALL grant funding owed to Columbia University, meaning that the university's concessions to the Trump administration clearly didn't go far enough to satisfy the federal government.

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I wrote for @vox.com about why university leaders are so reluctant to use their endowments to fight back against Trump administration persecution -- and why they can and should do it anyway. www.vox.com/education/40...

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Normally if the new administration adopts your reform manifesto and gives you a sweet White House job, you don't feel the need to lie and and hide about it. Meanwhile his former boss Rick Hess goes full hot-dog guy. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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Treasury yields going up as equity markets crash is a big red warning light on the crisis dashboard. Treasuries are usually a port in a storm. If investors are taking their money elsewhere, life is about to get a lot more expensive for the world's largest borrower. www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-...

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I wrote about education, citizenship, and the administration’s sledgehammer approach to the gains we’ve made since the civil rights era for @nytopinion.nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/o...

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I have a new essay out today in @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Gutting research and science hurts Americans.

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the arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards "it's one banana, michael. would could it cost, $10?"

submitted 16 days ago • 61 comments

How much of the trade war is because people think “repatriate” kinda sounds like “patriot” and is therefore based and good?

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Very strong March 2003-era "Hey, this could work! You don't know! What's the alternative, huh? Shut up!" vibes in segments of the media right now

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Oopsies. "The formula for the tariffs ...does not make economic sense. ... But even if one were to take the Trump Administration’s tariff formula seriously, it makes an error that inflates the tariffs assumed to be levied by foreign countries four-fold." www.aei.org/economics/pr...

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