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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

Along with the Antifa nonsense, the goal here is to reclassify any dissent as dangerous. Which is not something elected officials in a democracy do.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 7h

And the international students paying full tuition subsidize much lower tuition for in-state folks, increasing affordability & student body size.

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 7h

They know that the power they hold is illegitimate and they’re increasingly preparing themselves to justify doing whatever it takes to hold on to it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Tom Cutterham @tomcutterham.bsky.social · 7h

In 1776, a Scottish housepainter called James Aitken set out on a secret mission to destroy the British navy and win the War of Independence for the United States. His story is the core of my book, EMPIRE ABLAZE: The American Revolution and the Atlantic Working Class, out next summer with Verso!

The cover of "Empire Ablaze: The American Revolution and the Atlantic Working Class," which features an image of an eighteenth-century building on fire, with small sailing boats visible on a river in the foreground.

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gzt aka zoidberg @giziti.bsky.social · 7h

international students typically pay for domestic students. they aren't taking slots, they're expanding the pie. unless you're talking about the handful of universities that account for like 1% or whatever of college enrollment.

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 8h

3) I don't see the evidence that domestic students are being "crowded out" by international students. There are many excellent private and public universities desperate to increase (or even maintain) the size of their student bodies. The idea that there is not room for all rings false to me.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 7h

He and May Mailman, the Trump administration's point person on "deals" with elite universities, make broad generalizations about universities without direct knowledge and a small sample size of informants, many of whom, I imagine, are ideologically motivated./10

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 7h

I'm struck by the confidence that this person, not situated in academia, who apparently did not speak to any students--and my guess is that the number of other people he spoke to is not "countless" but can easily be counted--has in his bold claim that "the system is broken."/9

But the system is broken. Over the past year, I have spoken with countless university presidents, directors and advisers; scholars and academics; and lawmakers, policy experts and activists. The one thing they all agree on is that our university system, which was once one of the nation’s greatest strategic assets, has lost its way.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 7h

Link to the opinion piece by Marc Rowan, Chief Executive of Apollo Global Management, who "played a part in the compact’s initial formulation, working alongside an administration working group."/8
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

The House Majority Whip is also insisting that a peaceful "No Kings" demonstration is in fact a "hate America rally" held for the "terrorist wing" of the Democratic Party.

Really feels like they're trying to manifest a violent reaction to it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8h

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspaper.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 8h

Most of this laundry list of "overwhelming evidence" is tendentious. Let's go through them.
1) A big driver of high costs at public universities has been a decrease in state appropriations. Many public schools have been forced to act on a public/private model as a result..../1

The evidence is overwhelming: outrageous costs and prolonged indebtedness for students; poor outcomes, with too many students left unable to find meaningful work after graduating; some talented domestic students and scholars have been crowded out of enrollment and employment opportunities by international students; and a high degree of uniformity of thought among faculty members and administrators, which can result in a hostile environment for students with different ideas.

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 7h

The University of South Carolina has frozen tuition for in-state students for the past 7 years, meaning it costs 25% less to attend than before that. We also guarantee free tuition for 4 years to in-state students in the top 10% of their high school classes with family incomes below 80k.

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 8h

Most of this laundry list of "overwhelming evidence" is tendentious. Let's go through them.
1) A big driver of high costs at public universities has been a decrease in state appropriations. Many public schools have been forced to act on a public/private model as a result..../1

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 7h

our discussion is about tensions in the text (say between small government and Goldwater's desire to have a strong military), about how the text links to or conflicts with others that we have read, say, Russell Kirk or Phyllis Schlafly, and about how it relates to the historical events we study./7

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 7h

To take an example: in analyzing Barry Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative, discussion is rarely shaped by whether students identify as conservative or not, although students occasionally volunteer this information. Most don't, not because they are afraid to but because the essence of.../6

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 8h

As I've mentioned before, when we discuss primary sources in my classes, I find lots of conflicting interpretations and productive discussions. But these discussions are grounded in textual analysis, and rarely in whether the student agrees or disagrees with the politics of the text. /5

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 8h

If anything, domestic students are subsidized by international students. And my own students reliably mention the university's internationality as one of its finest features.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 8h

4) I find the "uniformity of thought" critique simplistic. How does this operate in engineering, the natural sciences, computer science, and business, the fields which most students study? I don't think it is a fair critique of how the humanities and social sciences operate either./4

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 8h

3) I don't see the evidence that domestic students are being "crowded out" by international students. There are many excellent private and public universities desperate to increase (or even maintain) the size of their student bodies. The idea that there is not room for all rings false to me.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 8h

We also need more oversight of the student loan system.
2) Not sure it's fair to blame universities for the lack of "meaningful work," but certainly many of them have been incentivized to promote the STEM fields and, now, AI, which follow boom and bust cycles./2

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 8h

Most of this laundry list of "overwhelming evidence" is tendentious. Let's go through them.
1) A big driver of high costs at public universities has been a decrease in state appropriations. Many public schools have been forced to act on a public/private model as a result..../1

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 8h

I had incredibly low expectations for our broken brunchlord press when kakistocratic authoritarianism came knocking, but every single day they demonstrate I still somehow over-estimated them

Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 8h

Incredible things are happening, as ever, at The Paper of Record.

two articles in a row that feel like very 2025 slaps in the face:

Frank Bruni, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Nate Silver

‘Democrats Fumbled This a Bit’: 3 Writers Assess Where We Are With the Shutdown

Marc Rowan

Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.

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Isabel M. Perera @isabelmperera.bsky.social · 8h

For #WorldMentalHealthDay, check out @namicommunicate.bsky.social and its resources.

We won’t get better mental care unless we advocate for it:

National Alliance on Mental Illness @namicommunicate.bsky.social · Mar 20

How can engaging with your community support your mental health?

If you are seeking peers who are also on a journey towards learning about mental health conditions, or a place to be involved with events raising awareness of mental health - your local NAMI is here for you!

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 8h

Lot of people confidently missing the point in the replies to this: if every cent of Elon musks net wealth was liquid, which it isn’t, that’s not even enough money to run the govt for two weeks. The problem less that they have money, and more how they use that money in destabilizing ways.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 11h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 11h

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d

The advice I give young people on choice of degree programme. Choose something you love. You’ve got the rest of your life to be frustrated and miserable.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 1d

"Knock on wood" 👀

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1d

Trump: I'm going to do a sort of semi-annual physical, which I do. I think I'm in great shape. Knock on wood. Mentally I feel very good. I like to check. It's a lesson for a lot of people. But I also did a cognitive exam. I had a perfect score. One of the doctors said he's never seen a perfect score

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