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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 13h

What world are we living in anyway

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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 15h

Not just a lunatic but a moron

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 21h

Less than random: a Trump loyalist who's put his name on very big buildings (whole colleges) at Yale, MIT, and this month, Oxford. Still smarts over his teenage rejection by Harvard:

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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 18h

The tragedy for the country is that you have to be unhinged to be a Republican and resist Trump

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 19h

One of the things that's terrifying about what's happening now is the number of Republicans who won't stand up to Trump because they're cowards who are terrified of backlash. MGT strikes me as just unhinged enough to not be sensitive to that, which turns out to be a liability for them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Marjorie Taylor Greene on CNN (!): "I'm getting phone calls from people that are saying if the ACA tax credits expire, they aren't gonna be able to have health insurance. They're going to have to drop it."

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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 13h

What world are we living in anyway

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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 15h

Not just a lunatic but a moron

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 1d

Poems touring without poet

Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Events for The Poems of Seamus Heaney begin on publication day tomorrow. See below for dates and locations 🎟️

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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 18h

This one is for old-time Massholes.

On the left, Kowloon on Route 1 as you and your parents knew it.

On the right, future Kowloon.

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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 18h

The tragedy for the country is that you have to be unhinged to be a Republican and resist Trump

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 19h

One of the things that's terrifying about what's happening now is the number of Republicans who won't stand up to Trump because they're cowards who are terrified of backlash. MGT strikes me as just unhinged enough to not be sensitive to that, which turns out to be a liability for them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Marjorie Taylor Greene on CNN (!): "I'm getting phone calls from people that are saying if the ACA tax credits expire, they aren't gonna be able to have health insurance. They're going to have to drop it."

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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 19h

Millennials are young! How did this happen?

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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 20h

Working for Drew Faust when she was Harvard Prez, I heard her say this was the first uncomfortable lesson she learned: that unlike the scholar she'd been, as president her job would now require her to say the same thing over and over.

Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 21h

Glib replies by Yale leaders as to why (so far) they have been spared, but at least someone asked & YDN could report

yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/10...

Addressing parents, McInnis guesses why Yale has avoided Trump’s ire

In her Family Weekend speech, University President Maurie McInnis addressed the impending hike to the tax on Yale’s endowment investment income.

yaledailynews.com

Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 21h

@jfallows.bsky.social

Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 21h

During Nobel week, when US-based research scientists including several immigrants are winning the prizes.

Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 21h

Much of this piece is (rightly) about lack of solidarity among the appeasing university leaders, and yet Nobel week is proving to be a good opportunity to fight back: 4 laureates from UC alone.

One could say: Trump wants his peace prize while stopping research that wins this country real Nobels.

Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 1d

Harvard (and all universities) must take a stand against Trump's extorionary "compact". Enos and Levitsky.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard Must Take a Stand Against Trump’s Compact | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard, rather than quietly pursuing its own appeasement strategy, should lead the way to preserve academic freedom and democracy.

www.thecrimson.com

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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 21h

Sometimes you have to take writers off the beat. After 5 or 6 of these articles over months with nothing breaking the way they've suggested, these three Timesmen need replacing.

Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 23h

Nothing shows the dangerous tendency to normalize authoritarianism like the New York Times coverage of the extortion of Harvard. One could read this article and think it is about a free agent inking a contract with the Yankees. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Harvard Seeks Assurances as Talks Restart in Washington

www.nytimes.com

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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 21h

Less than random: a Trump loyalist who's put his name on very big buildings (whole colleges) at Yale, MIT, and this month, Oxford. Still smarts over his teenage rejection by Harvard:

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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 21h

Well, you're asking the right question!

Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 22h

Inconceivable we're hosting the World Cup.
www.dw.com/en/will-the-...

Will the 2026 World Cup be a disaster for fans? – DW – 10/08/2025

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is set to be the most expensive, polluting and political yet.

www.dw.com

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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel week is proving to be a good opportunity for higher ed to fight back against Trump's attacks. 4 laureates from UC alone, after he tried docking UCLA $500 mn in research funds.

"Trump wants his peace prize while stopping research that wins this country real Nobels"

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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel week is proving to be a good opportunity for higher ed to fight back against Trump's attacks. 4 laureates from UC alone, after he tried docking UCLA $500 mn in research funds.

"Trump wants his peace prize while stopping research that wins this country real Nobels"

Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 1d

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

www.nobelprize.org

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Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing the shit that still comes out of his mouth - you'd think it was all out by now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 1d

I saw it online. I didn't realize it was page 1 in print. Above the fold.

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1d

Shocked, just shocked, by this important scoop on front page of today's NYT. /s/

Based on report that came out ... nine months ago

And behavior long predating that

("Skip a class? Perish the thought!!" Says anyone who ever worked on a college newspaper, which covers a lot of people in the media.)

NYT front page headline: "Harvard Finds Skipping Class Part of Culture."

Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 1d

Wonder if Mormons make it into the book. From the NYT yesterday:

Eric Weinberger @ericweinberger.bsky.social · 1d

A year ago, one thing we weren't discussing weeks before Election Day was how many large US cities a future President Trump would be sending the National Guard to for no reason at all.

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