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The presidents of 200 US colleges declare: "As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education." Good! www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

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Inflation forecasts are heading up, so Trump is trying to bully the Fed into … lowering interest rates.

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Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Message to journalism: Don't let him. This is in your power. President Trump is signaling that he will blame the Federal Reserve for any economic weakness that results from his trade war if the central bank doesn’t cut interest rates soon www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

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Now more than ever, we must go beyond merely defending universities. We must rebuild them so that they diminish rather than exacerbate inequalities & further the public good at a time when our collective survival is more imperiled than ever before.

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This is how this story should be covered every day: The Trump-Harvard showdown is the latest front in a long conservative war against academia www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"

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Just announced: University of Michigan Faculty Senate resoundingly votes to support Big Ten academic mutual defense compact. 92.8% of over 3,000 votes.

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quick question: why was noem carrying $3,000 in cash? was she just out selling drugs or something?

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I’m a Doctor! Really honoured to have all of these brilliant minds on my committee, thank you for everything @matthewpmcallister.bsky.social @victorpickard.bsky.social @mattjord.bsky.social @christopherali.bsky.social & Krishna Jayakar!

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Congrats to Dr. @sydneyforde.bsky.social, who passed her dissertation defense! She's pictured here with her committee: Krishna Jayakar, @matthewpmcallister.bsky.social, special member Victor Pickard (from UPenn), @mattjord.bsky.social and @christopherali.bsky.social.

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Man who embodies moral grandstanding for attention bothered by someone else getting attention.

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Right now, I’m paying attention to news from the shipping and trucking industries of leading indicators of how bad things are going to get. And the trends are alarming. Beginning to stock up on essentials now.

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Student who ran a political debate club at FSU shares that the shooter was kicked out of the club because of his far right rhetoric and white supremacist views.

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The freight guys have really started freaking out over the past 48-72 hours:

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My latest —

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Fascist Barbie's cross really pops

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If they had any evidence of either, they would not have needed to kidnap him, traffic him to a foreign prison, and do everything possible to deny him due process. There's no evidence he has committed any crime or has any affiliation with any gang. Literally none. Hence their actions.

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NEW: i spoke with several young AmeriCorps volunteers around the country who were abruptly pulled off projects building homes, readying forests for wildfire season, and working at food banks Tuesday afternoon. they are now on their way home thanks to DOGE cuts —

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Van Hollen says that he asked the VP of El Salvador why his government continues to hold Abrego Garcia even though he’s not charged with any crime and there’s no evidence that he’s MS-13. “His answer was that the Trump administration is paying the government of El Salvador to keep him at CECOT”

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This is not good. For context, a report from @newsguard.bsky.social today on the scale of the problem. Our media system is overrun by foreign propaganda.

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Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

submitted 6 days ago • 1158 comments

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

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It seems Tesla is detecting vehicles that may have problems, and artificially running their odometers faster so the warranty expires before they have to do any service Just incredible grift

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This is something we can all do.👇🏼 File a complaint with the FL and DC Bar to have Pam Bondi disbarred for not complying with the 9-0 Supreme Court ruling to return Mr. Garcia from El Salvador.

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NEW: Trump has reportedly urged Congress to authorize $175 billion for border security, more than 10x what was spent in his first term. Meanwhile, border residents in Texas and Arizona say their basic needs — like safe drinking water and hospital access — aren’t being met. W/ @texastribune.org

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I cancelled my WaPo sub and got a Philly Inquirer one solely so I could read and share columns like this one. Here's a Gift Link: share.inquirer.com/FLANNG

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Princeton University Will Not Change Polices in Response to Trump Administration Pulling Federal Funding, Says School President www.townandcountrymag.com/society/mone...

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Hearing the same from a direct source. People in Americorps being told they're done. It's over. No notice.

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I also wrote a bit about how the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) is delivering a lot of the "abundance" in broadband that Ezra Klein claims to be looking for. He just didn't mention it because he either didn't do research, or it contradicted his book thesis. Neither of which reflect well on Klein

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Absolutely correct. (And a great push back against the same tired savvy pundit horse race political theater garbage from old Hardball himself.)

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The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products.

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"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

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Malace and cruelty are the brand.

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