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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 7h

I missed this yesterday: the AAU has come out against the compact. I am pleasantly surprised. I think it makes it pretty hard for any university to accept the deal now, with a possible exception of Texas. www.aau.edu/newsroom/pre...

We have significant concerns, however, about any compact or policy that could damage or depart from our nations competitive merit base system for research grant funding. That system has been the foundation for science and and innovation for decades. Since World War II that special partnership among the federal government, industry, and research universities has fueled tremendous growth in our economy and educated the next generation of highly skilled American workforce contributed to the health of our people and made our nation more safe and secure.

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 9h

Such a complaint should be FOIAable so it would be foolish of him to lie about it.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10h

Ha ha ha they're like authoritarians www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 9h

Maybe I’m wrong but it seems to me that everything more or less comes down to SCOTUS and the army. Dems job is help people understand that so that court and army feel like they have to provide a backstop.

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 10h

Whatever you wanna say about Schumer, he was seemingly right that Trump would use a government shut down to consolidate power. The problem, of course was that Trump was always going to use all opportunities to consolidate power no matter what.

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 11h

I get the idea that you don’t want to create unnecessary barriers but come on, fine my lazy ass

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 11h

I just went to return a massively overdue library book and was informed that they “don’t charge fees” and this is the sort of thing that might end up causing me to be a reactionary centrist.

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 15h

Hold on is he arguing that anybody who expresses frustration, or any negative thoughts about the government, is a Chinese agent? I’m asking because I really don’t understand.

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 16h

Tenure allows people to prioritize the truth no matter what their views are

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 16h

District court judges, appointed by presidents from Reagan to Biden (including Trump I), seem to understand the assignment more than most law firms. This is curious because the data shows that lawyers as a whole are more liberal on average than federal judges

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 2d

Perry asks directly whether the feds started the alleged violence in Chicago.

She asks whether it matters if the inability to execute the law was "caused by the federal agents."

Hamilton: "No, your honor."

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 16h

Is it funding differences?

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 17h

I had to pay over $40 for mine!

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 17h

I have a big announcement: I’ve purchased an inflatable frog suit to go trick-or-treating with the eight-year-old.

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John Fea @johnfea1.bsky.social · 1d

"No university can present every possible outlook in equal measure, nor should it." thewayofimprovement.blog/2025/10/10/s...

Should a university provide a platform for “every perspective”?

Davidson College sociologist Gerardo Marti reflects on Donald Trump’s “compact” with higher education institutions. Here is a taste of his piece at Inside Higher Education: &#8230…

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Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung.bsky.social · 17h

I enjoyed speaking with Juliet Schulman-Hall for @masslive.bsky.social about how the Professor Watchlist and Canary Mission get us farther from, not closer to, a free exchange of ideas on campus. www.masslive.com/news/2025/10...

This isn’t Rate My Professor: Explosion in watchlists brings new threats to academics

Online commentary used to be limited to sites like "Rate My Professor," which jokingly rated how "hot" a professor was. It's changed drastically.

www.masslive.com

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 17h

Maybe I wasn’t paying close enough attention but in 2008 I don’t think I would’ve guessed that Cato would become far more interesting and worth engaging than AEI, and to ne honest, most of the center-left tanks. Where is CAP? Third Way is actively collaborating?

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 18h

In this area of unsettled politics, I am continually shocked at who I find myself aligned with. But this Cato Institute take down of the authoritarian “compact” is good.

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

Universities Must Defend Their Independence by Rejecting Trump's "Compact"

The Trump administration has proffered a “compact” to universities that would require them to surrender their independence and academic freedom. How many First Amendment violations can we identify in ...

www.cato.org

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 18h

As a general rule, if you want to win it takes more than 2 runs over 15 innings