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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 1d

MIT says it will reject the Trump university compact. USC, when we asked today, declined to take any further position on the proposal. @danielnmiller.bsky.social and I report:

www.latimes.com/world-nation...

As USC considers Trump’s offer tying funding to conservative policies, MIT firmly rejects it

MIT is among the first to express forceful views either in favor of or against an agreement the White House billed as providing "multiple positive benefits."

www.latimes.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 1d

Much of the coverage of this White House "compact" remains really very bad, including today's headlines about MIT. Read @fishkin.bsky.social on what's actually going on here.

talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/the-tru...

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Brian Mann @brianmannadk.bsky.social · 1d

Please pay attention www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 1d

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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Nour Kteily @nourkteily.bsky.social · 5d

@elijfinkel.bsky.social
& I are recruiting a postdoc in the #LitowitzCenter for Enlightened Disagreement at Northwestern University. We seek research excellence regarding navigating conflict.

Application deadline: Nov. 17.

Salary: ~$80k.

facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjQzNw==

Northwestern Faculty Search -

facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 8d

“Nice university you got there…”

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

“U.S. universities were and are the envy of the world,” Mr. Rowan told Bloomberg Television. “We can destroy that. We can lose it.”

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 8d

I'm not going to post another whole thread on this but journalists need to take a serious look under the hood before they glance through this document and conclude that it looks mostly normal.

*It looks that way in order to fool you into saying that. That's the point.*

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 9d

They folded the big First Amendment violations in with a bunch of other stuff, including things that are totally unobjectionable and that universities are already doing, in order to make the overall document read as reasonable to someone who doesn't know the ins and outs of it. Don't be that person.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 9d

"Trump's 'compact with universities is just extortion... the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it."

Very good from UC Berkley law dean Erwin Chemerinsky.

Higher ed leaders should all do so, and donors, unions, anyone with influence should pressure them to.

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

www.nytimes.com

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 9d

First Trump blackmailed universities into suppressing free speech. Now he’s bribing them with taxpayer dollars to enforce his agenda. Corruption and authoritarianism, plain and simple.

No university should cave to this blatantly unconstitutional coercion.

Trump offers top universities funds if they boost conservative ideas

Brown and MIT among nine schools told to back conservative views or risk losing federal support, sparking free speech fears

www.theguardian.com

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 9d

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls

Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

people.com

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Josh Johansen @jojolab.bsky.social · 10d

Excited to announce that I'll be moving to the Univ of California Irvine @ucirvine.bsky.social next Spring!🌴

Happily, this is not goodbye to Japan as I'll continue my lab @RIKEN_CBS for some time.

Help spread the word: the new UCI lab will be hiring, DM or email ([email protected]) if interested!

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Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 10d

This is part of a broader effort to use the power of the state to force all aspects of society to conform to MAGA values (Gleichschaltung). Accepting would be an egregious violation of academic freedom.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

www.nytimes.com

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 10d

Every one of these agents must be held accountable for violating the 4th amendment

Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 10d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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-C-M-F- @chrispps.bsky.social · 11d

coming to digital release in December 2025 and print release in February 2026, after a long My-Bloody-Valentine-esque period of gestation

cover of forthcoming Federico, Feldman, and Weber, The Authoritarian Divide

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 12d

I'm looking forward to this preconference; come join us!

Mikaela Spruill @spruill.bsky.social · 12d

The Critical Perspectives in Psychology Preconference is back again for year two!! If your research breaks boundaries in mainstream social psych or you are applying exciting methods to your experimental research, our submissions are open! #SPSP2026

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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 12d

Join the 2025-2026 APSA Public Scholarship Program, and produce summaries of new research published in #APSR. Fellows collaborate w/ journal editors, authors, and APSA staff to share this work thru PSNow and Political Science Today, APSA's member magazine.

Apply by October 3rd: buff.ly/zTkn1by

Public Scholarship Program

Centennial Center

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 13d

"Data manipulation by the US Gov...makes crucial datasets untrustworthy and unusable. If the US Government secretly changes datasets for political reasons, researchers relying on the data might erroneously recommend ineffective or counterproductive interventions."
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Data manipulation within the US Federal Government

A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and the words were also switched in ...

www.thelancet.com

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Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · 14d

I enjoyed the peaceful cherry blossom 🌸 vibes in Portland earlier this year. A beautiful and calm city

Daryl Cameron @dcameron.bsky.social · Mar 25

The cherry blossoms 🌸 were peaking in Portland before my departure
@affectscience.bsky.social

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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 14d

Every public university in California is now under political attack by the Trump administration. Its time for the regents and @uofcalifornia.bsky.social and @calstate.bsky.social leadership to get real.

Fight back! Your faculty are fighting, why aren't you?

www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

Trump administration launches probe of alleged antisemitism at CSU system

The Trump administration has launched an investigation into alleged antisemitism at the California State University system and has reached out to CSU faculty about their experiences on campus.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Brian Mann @brianmannadk.bsky.social · 14d

I just spent a week in Portland. The city was busy with tourists and locals enjoying late summer. A prosperous downtown. Factually, there is no observable evidence of a city needing military intervention. A reminder that this is not normal. Please pay attention.

NPR @npr.org · 14d

President Trump said Saturday he will send troops to Portland, "authorizing Full Force, if necessary" to handle "domestic terrorists" as he expands his controversial deployments to more U.S. cities.

Trump says he'll send troops to Portland, Ore., to handle 'domestic terrorists'

President Trump said Saturday he will send troops to Portland, "authorizing Full Force, if necessary" to handle "domestic terrorists" as he expands his controversial deployments to more U.S. cities.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 15d

NSF GRFP is out 2.5 months late w/key changes

1. 2nd year graduate students not eligible.

2. "alignment with Administration priorities"

3. Unlike prior years, they DO NOT specify the expected number of awards... that is a BIG problem.

a brief 🧵 w/receipts

www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 17d

Here is the formal letter the NIH sent today to UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk.

“These projects are fully reinstated, and the letter dated July 31, 2025 is rescinded without conditions. Funds will be made available immediately and are no longer suspended, terminated, or restricted.”

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 17d

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube.

It would be a shame for you to share it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

www.youtube.com

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