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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine an NYPD lt. admitting they were “shaken to the core”. No, that did not happen. 😂😂😂

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h

The essence of Bari Weiss: not reporting, but crude partisan propaganda presented in the form of reporting—and usually pronounced from the mouths of anonymous sources which likely don't exist. Expect this sort of prolefeed at CBS News soon.

Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 3h

Well congrats! Amazing!

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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 3h

This is bananas. 42% of Republicans. Wow.

JM Rieger @riegerreport.bsky.social · 3h

The percentage of Americans who say Trump has definitely or probably improperly used his office to punish those who say things he does not like, per new Pew Research Center survey:

Overall: 66%
Republican: 42%
Independent: 66%
Democrat: 90%

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 9h

The irony is this will make it much more expensive to hire faculty in STEM fields but won’t have much impact at all in the “woke” fields that they hate so much.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump’s H-1B Visa Fee Could Strain Universities and Schools

www.nytimes.com

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 10h

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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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 1d

New from me and @brendannyhan.bsky.social

Why Trump's "Compact for Academic Excellence" is a devil's bargain and should be rejected in all forms

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.

Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.

www.msnbc.com

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 1d

The Founders could not fathom that a future president would seize the Article I taxing and spending powers for himself and Congress would just shrug.

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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 1d

Out here doing state socialism. I’m just glad Reagan isn’t alive to see the modern GOP.

www.reuters.com/business/tri...

www.reuters.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

My new op-ed with @lkfazio.bsky.social:

Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.
Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 1d

This is a big country. The federal government does not have enough lawyers or negotiators to deal with everyone at once. If you are a big organization and you are paying lawyers do not do anything they ask without taking them through the legal process. This will shortly collapse of its own weight.

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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 1d

The idea that private actors have to, or should, sit down and make deals with Trump is insane. The administration is acting outside of the law. They should not be engaged.

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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 2d

No I think you are correct. The host did that though. It seemed to me the journalist being interviewed had no idea this was a riff on a real song.

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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 2d

Truly shocking! 😂

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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 2d

Just heard a journalist discussing the Russ Vought reaper video and they clearly had no idea that this is based on an actual song. That makes me feel old. And Blue Oyster Cult rocks.

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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not sure threatening to lay off workers after months of stories about how too many people from key positions were fired is such an effective threat.

www.npr.org/2025/10/03/n...

A federal worker explains why she's not afraid of Trump's layoff threat

Some federal workers closely following President Trump's threats of mass layoffs and funding cuts in the shutdown say it's nothing new. He's been doing those same things since January.

www.npr.org

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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 2d

But couldn’t the GOP just agree to Dem demands or nuke the filibuster? Why is it so obvious that Dems are forcing the shut down? I think it’s very far from obvious, especially if you don’t follow things closely, because the GOP controls all relevant institutions.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

Just imagine the thermonuclear reaction -- not just from Fox News, but the legacy media sphere -- if any Democratic president said this about the GOP during a speech to a military branch.

Meanwhile, this won't even stay in the news cycle 24 hours, if at all.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 4d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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