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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

“Virtue signaling” has been an all-purpose tool to invalidate any form of advocacy which isn’t centered around selfishness.

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 5d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2d

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 2d

"If a student transfers in three quarters of their degree credits from other places, whose outcomes are being assessed?" www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Swirl and Assessment

Balancing residency requirements with outcomes assessment.

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 5d

Responding to a new statement from accreditors on credit transfer www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Changing the Default Setting

Tentative excitement about accreditors’ “urging” on AI and credit transfer.

www.insidehighered.com

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 6d

Oh! Also nice!

www.nashvillescene.com/bon/2025/med...

Best Columnist

Second Place: Holly McCall

www.nashvillescene.com

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations! I’ve loved your writing for (gulp) decades now, and I love that other people are seeing just how good it is, too.

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 6d

Should have included Carly Rae Jepsen. "Your Type" stops me in my tracks.

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 6d

Tom Waits and Bob Dylan leap to mind.
Liz Phair showed early promise, but didn't keep it.
Kendrick Lamar is genuinely impressive.
Springsteen, obviously.
Paul Westerberg.
Kristin Hersh -- "Your Dirty Answer" is a journey.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 8d

me when I actually succeed at getting them to let me speak to a representative

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 9d

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 9d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 9d

With one key caveat, this is potentially useful for students looking to transfer from a CC to a four-year. It's readable, practical, and concrete. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Thoughts on ‘A Complete Guide to College Transfer’

The book is clearly written, logically organized and full of brief case studies to make the concepts concrete.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10d

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 11d

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

sites.stat.columbia.edu

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 11d

Today’s incoming mail is very on-brand.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12d

Chris Rufo's disastrous takeover of New College in Florida shows what universities would become if they sign the Trump regime's extortionary "compact."

New College was supposed to model the anti-woke conservative higher-ed Americans crave. Instead, it showed the opposite, and serves as a warning.

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 12d

From my numismatic days, I recall that it's illegal to depict anyone still living on US coins or paper money. That's why FDR didn't get on the dime until 1946 and JFK didn't get on the half dollar until 1964.

Chris Thompson @christhompson.bsky.social · 12d

a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny

defector.com/treasury-dep...

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector

The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 12d

Seems like a good time to dust this one off... www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confes...

The Annual Reminder That McCarthyism Was Actually a Bad Idea

Florida, again …

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 12d

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 13d

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 12d

Wise and worldly readers come through with advice for The Girl www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Readers Respond on Advising The Girl

The best readers ever respond with alternatives to the professoriate for a prolific reader and writer.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12d

Talarico: if you read the new testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick.

Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 14d

$134,000 per student! NCF is spending about sixteen times more per student than my college is, and its results are getting worse.

It's almost as if professional educators actually know something about how colleges work.

www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Spending Soars, Rankings Fall at New College of Florida

Student outcomes and rankings are slipping at the liberal arts college while spending is up. Critics believe the college is at risk of implosion, and some are calling for privatization.

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 14d

Another characteristically excellent piece by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social . As the kids say, no lies detected. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Opinion | When Silence Is the Only Logical Choice, Are We Really Free?

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 16d

Suppose you have a kid about to graduate college. She would make a fantastic English professor if the field were still hiring, but it isn't, and likely won't be. What would you advise her to do? www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Advising The Girl

In good conscience, I can’t recommend she pursue a career teaching literature, at which she would excel.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 18d

There should be more love songs for, like, libraries. And cheese. And people who stay calm when bad things happen.

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 20d

As the state continues to not pass a budget, colleges resort to burning through reserves www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

States Need to Pass Budgets

When states don’t pass budgets on time, colleges’ reserves can’t close the gap.

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