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missamandajones.bsky.social @missamandajones.bsky.social · 8h

Thank Godzilla. I hope Dartmouth is finally learning that being “Switzerland” is going to get them nowhere.

Also a hearty fuck you to The Dartmouth Review and all the troglodytes it produced.

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 9h

DARTMOUTH OUT!

We are at 6 rejections. Vanderbilt is the only private left standing "considering" the compact along with UT Austin and the University of Arizona.

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 9h

Dartmouth is OUT! Thank goodness... a friend at U of A and I have been playing "Who will be the last of the 9 standing?" and it's not gonna be us!

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 9h

DARTMOUTH OUT!

We are at 6 rejections. Vanderbilt is the only private left standing "considering" the compact along with UT Austin and the University of Arizona.

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 9h

Dartmouth is OUT! Thank goodness... a friend at U of A and I have been playing "Who will be the last of the 9 standing?" and it's not gonna be us!

Dear Secretary McMahon, Ms. Mailman, and Mr. Haley,
I appreciated the opportunity to speak with you yesterday.
I welcome further engagement around how we can (a) enhance the long-standing
partnership between the federal government and this country's leading research
universities and (b) ensure that higher education stays focused on academic
excellence. As I shared on the call, I do not believe that the involvement of the
government through a compact--whether it is a Republican- or Democratic-led
White House-
is the right way to focus America's leading colleges and universities
on their teaching and research mission.
Our universities have a responsibility to set our own academic and institutional
policies, guided by our mission and values, our commitment to free expression, and
our obligations under the law. Staying true to this responsibility is what will help
American higher education build bipartisan public trust and continue to uphold its
place as the envy of the world.
We remain open to other ways to work with the federal government to enhance
higher education.
Best,
Sian Leah Beilock
President

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missamandajones.bsky.social @missamandajones.bsky.social · 11h

Well, I’m sure “Will” appreciates you pointing out a job she had 13 fucking years ago, because that matters

I’m not a big fan of the constant arguing about leftist purity policing, but this? Is definitely that. Grow the fuck up and do some real activism instead of whatever this is.

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missamandajones.bsky.social @missamandajones.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks for missing my point.

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missamandajones.bsky.social @missamandajones.bsky.social · 1d

Ok but the people who beat her were *cops*, not ICE.

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missamandajones.bsky.social @missamandajones.bsky.social · 1d

Helps that he’s a white guy.

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missamandajones.bsky.social @missamandajones.bsky.social · 3d

Who even is “you” in that sentence, dude?

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missamandajones.bsky.social @missamandajones.bsky.social · 3d

“Hi, I’m Matt and I’m not really involved in the organizing I say we need to be doing.”

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missamandajones.bsky.social @missamandajones.bsky.social · 3d

who posted the original link, Matt?

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missamandajones.bsky.social @missamandajones.bsky.social · 3d

Yes and that takes time to organize.

People who post like they don’t know that organizing is actively happening tend to show off how little they’re actually doing right now.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 4d

I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually.

The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

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missamandajones.bsky.social @missamandajones.bsky.social · 4d

It’s not about the women; it’s about the idea that he appeals to women as a category.

missamandajones.bsky.social @missamandajones.bsky.social · 5d

He fucking loathes women, and it takes listening to him for about ten minutes to figure that out.

Get your shit together, GQ.

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missamandajones.bsky.social @missamandajones.bsky.social · 5d

Oh noes! they might stay on the Long or Staten Island and try to pay their mortgages by bouncing at nightclubs instead of harassing Black folks? Say it ain’t so!

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missamandajones.bsky.social @missamandajones.bsky.social · 5d

Cool, they can stay on Long Island and see if they can still afford their houses as bouncers or whatever.

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missamandajones.bsky.social @missamandajones.bsky.social · 6d

I guarantee none of you know who organizes NK or what they do.

missamandajones.bsky.social @missamandajones.bsky.social · 6d

I assume you know we can all find your acting resume and know the work you do would absolutely allow you time to get a group of people out there if you really wanted to.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 7d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

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Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 7d

Okay who did this

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 7d

Of course he did, because they don't actually believe the anti-vaxx bullshit they peddle.

CNN @cnn.com · 7d

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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missamandajones.bsky.social @missamandajones.bsky.social · 8d

Who cares. I don’t think we have to honor the pardons of a wannabe dictator.

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missamandajones.bsky.social @missamandajones.bsky.social · 10d

You don’t know because you’ve never checked.

missamandajones.bsky.social @missamandajones.bsky.social · 10d

The right does not like straight men. the right wants to feed straight men into the woodchipper along with the rest of us, just slightly later.

But a lot of straight men are a great army for them because they’ve done basically no work to liberate themselves from gender constructs.

missamandajones.bsky.social @missamandajones.bsky.social · 10d

Meanwhile you haven’t offered any real counter to the criticism except “it’s good,” so you clearly have a desire to counter but nothing of worth to counter with.

Soooooo many people with zero background in this subject are convinced this guy said something novel.