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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 6h

"The premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone," Kornbluth said in her letter, which was posted to an MIT website.

Reuters @reuters.com · 8h

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling reut.rs/471tkNZ

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling

Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she "cannot support" a memo that the White House sent to nine elite U.S. universities last week detailing policies they should follow to get preferential consideration for federal funding.

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Damon Kiesow @damon.kiesow.net · 7h

MIT refuses suicide pill, other schools weighing options.

Reuters @reuters.com · 8h

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling reut.rs/471tkNZ

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling

Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she "cannot support" a memo that the White House sent to nine elite U.S. universities last week detailing policies they should follow to get preferential consideration for federal funding.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 1d

Argh. But think of the poor Library folks being forced into this unholy arrangement

Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 1d

Yup

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 1d

Have you ever seen such a perfect example of vacuous consultant-speak?

Roberts and Dean wrote. "The new school will grow and amplify the impact of research and scholarship, foster interdisciplinary collaboration and expand opportunities to respond to the challenges of our time."

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 1d

WTF? A “School of AI”? This is some serious and shameful bullshit

Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 1d

“Students [who thought they’d be graduating] from a highly ranked 100 year old institution, and are now told that they’re going to be getting a degree from a department in an ill-conceived ‘School of AI’ are feeling, rightfully, betrayed… to get this now-tarnished and politically co-opted degree.”

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Spiegel on the criminal complaint against James: The US legal system has become a farce. When lackeys can file charges on the orders of their masters, no one can feel safe anymore. Then arbitrariness prevails. The end of the rule of law and freedom. And that affects everyone

US-Justizministerium klagt prominente Trump-Gegnerin Letitia James an

Die Vorwürfe lauten Bankbetrug und falsche Angaben: Das US-Justizministerium hat Anklage gegen Generalstaatsanwältin Letitia James erhoben. Die Widersacherin von Donald Trump reagierte mit einer Kampf...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 1d

Hallucinatory. Remember the whole “forgiving student loans as expressly provided by statute is unconstitutional executive overreach” business?

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 1d

“Isn’t horrible that billionaires can’t just buy a university, fire all the tenure faculty, and remake it in their image like Bezos did with the Post?”

That’s the question posed by Trump’s Compact.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17d

I think…people’s obsession with “a cause”…is precisely because autism’s genetic randomness is hard to stratify by social class……………..

Audra Mitchell @audralmitchell.bsky.social · 17d

THERE. ARE. NO. 'CAUSES'. OF. AUTISM.

(other than being born as a member of Homo sapiens, which is a huge risk factor for turning out to be Autistic).

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 1d

This. The Big problem is on the defensive side of the ball

Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 1d

We all know what the issue has been, and unfortunately still is. It's the fact that our defense can't stay healthy. Matt Milano might as well just be a healthy scratch until January so we can hopefully manage to get him to limp through 3-4 games in a row. The secondary is a real problem.

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Edwy Plenel @edwyplenel.bsky.social · 1d

L’obsession de Donald Trump pour le prix Nobel de la paix, renouvelée par la signature de son « plan » pour Gaza, peine à masquer la réalité : le milliardaire a surtout lancé, encouragé et légitimé des guerres. Démonstration sur @mediapart.fr www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

Donald Trump, un va-t-en-guerre sous son masque de « faiseur de paix »

L’obsession du président des États-Unis pour le prix Nobel de la paix, renouvelée par la signature de son « plan » pour Gaza, mercredi 8 octobre, peine à masquer la réalité : le milliardaire a surtou…

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 1d

One silver lining of the last few months has been the courage, clarity, and determination of colleagues across Grounds. It’s a privilege to share this work with them

Kathryn @kathrynlaughon.bsky.social · 1d

Today the UVA School of Nursing passed, with overwhelming support, a resolution demanding that the rector and interim president reject the compact. bit.ly/3KPRMKV

SON resolution against the compact

The University of Virginia School of Nursing places the ethical principles of our profession at the center of its work. The American Nurses Association's Nursing Code of Ethics affirms nurses' obligat...

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 1d

I just love trying a new public transit system. Never gets old. Maybe because bus/subway were an absolute revelation to tween/teen me? For little enough money that allowance or babysitting money could cover it, I could go so many places my parents couldn’t/wouldn’t schlep me. Such liberation

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

Could not be more clear the president wishes he had unilateral power to imprison people, like in an absolute monarchy

He doesn’t so instead he’s forcing the govt to bring charges against his enemies because he wants vengeance

Nakedly corrupt, the sort of thing that necessitates removal from office

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Trump's handpicked prosecutor in Va. has criminally charged a second person he urged Pam Bondi to prosecute "now": NY Attorney General Letitia James. Halligan brought the charge to the grand jury herself, signaling resistance of career proseutors.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 1d

Here's your lede:

Less than three weeks after Donald Trump ordered his attorney general to hurry up and start charging his enemies, the Justice Department indicted a second one: New York Attorney General Letitia James, the prosecutor who defeated him in court.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.