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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · Jul 1

Big day in the NY Times for NYU SHERP. Congratulations William Herkewitz (SHERP 31) and @alexaroblesgil.bsky.social (SHERP 42)! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/o... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/s...

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Jon Sternfeld @jonsternfeld.bsky.social · Jun 3

It's incredible how much GOP messaging has been this argument for the last ten years...

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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · May 24

"Advice" from someone who has insisted on surrounding himself with yes men (and women) his ENTIRE LIFE. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Tells West Point Graduates Not to Be ‘Yes Men’

www.nytimes.com

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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · May 1

Bravissimo!

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Alex Lando @alexlando.bsky.social · Apr 25

Went to a science journalism talk from @danfagin.bsky.social, who shared this mind-blowing idea: people are not irrational for ignoring scientific evidence, they're being TOO rational. They recognize that the social cost of going against their "tribe" is just not worth what they gain from the truth.

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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · Apr 29

I signed. Beilock's stance is both wrong and witless. If your policy of "institutional restraint" doesn't exempt the greatest threat to higher education in memory, then your policy is actually institutional silence. And if you give in to the bully once, then he'll take your lunch money every day.

Urge Dartmouth College to fight federal government attacks on higher education

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · Apr 25

Universal message.

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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · Apr 15

#Cornell friends, looking forward to seeing you April 24! Thanks for spreading the word! events.cornell.edu/event/univer...

University Lecturer Professor Dan Fagin

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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · Jan 22

Slouching toward Mar-a-Lago

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Alison Frankel @alisonfrankel.bsky.social · Jan 20

A tragedy

Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · Jan 20

Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active duty U.S. military personnel, are having their flights canceled under President Donald Trump's order suspending U.S. refugee programs. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Exclusive: Trump administration canceling flights for nearly 1,660 Afghan refugees, say U.S official, advocate

Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active duty U.S. military personnel, are having their flights canceled under President Donald Trump's order suspending U.S. refugee programs, a U.S. official and a leading refugee resettlement advocate said on Monday.

www.reuters.com

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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · Jan 20

"Come on, there is no best moment of watching a vicious kakistocracy be installed in the chamber its followers once desecrated in a coup attempt." @michellegoldberg.bsky.social for the win.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/o...

Opinion | ‘American Carnage 2: Ultimate Carnage’: Best and Worst Moments From Trump’s Inaugural Address

14 opinion writers assess the substance and style of Trump’s speech.

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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · Jan 20

2nd inaugurals then & now:

"With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds."

"We are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America."

Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · Jan 16

@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social Hi Rob, I don't think we've met, which is surprising, but I've admired your work for years and would like to put you in front of my EJ grad students this spring. Since I don't have your email, can you email me at [email protected] so I can explain? Thanks!

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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · Dec 9

If this is a dream, don't wake me.

Jon Heyman @jonheyman.bsky.social · Dec 9

Breaking: Juan Soto to the Mets. $765M. 15 years.

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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · Nov 27

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!

Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚

Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep Water

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof Beats

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our Moon

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember

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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · Nov 27

The Big Pedosky.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Nov 27

Elon's definitely, totally not mad.

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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · Nov 26

We're here! go.bsky.app/B6LJP7U

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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · Nov 27

Join the party, Andrea!

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Scienceline @scienceline.org · Nov 22

How well do you know the depths of New York City? Dive deep in Scienceline's latest Special Project: NYC Under the Surface scienceline.org/special-proj... #nyc #sciencejournalism #sciencenews #healthnews #environmentnews

NYC Under the Surface - Scienceline

Plunge into the depths and peel back the surface hiding the city’s secrets: mussels of Newtown Creek, the National Guard stationed in subways, the beavers of Astor Place — and more! Click the icons to...

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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · Nov 26

We're here! go.bsky.app/B6LJP7U

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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · Nov 26

I guess the game here is to extract small concessions, claim they're huge concessions, and then move on to the next outrageous performance. Good timing with overdoses and crossings going down, more "victories" to claim. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11...

Trump Transition Live Updates: Latest News on the President-Elect

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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · Nov 25

would go around defacing 'Shed Fred' bumper stickers.

Rest in Power, Fred, the OG Sen. Harris. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/u...

Fred R. Harris, Senator Who Ran for President, Dies at 94

After eight years in the Senate as a moderate Democrat, he took a leftward turn toward “new populism” in a failed shot at the presidency in 1976.

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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · Nov 25

... wrote back in full agreement and told the paper about it, which put the story on page 1 because... actually, I have no idea why. Slow news day, I guess. When Oklahomans really started to hate Fred for his opposition to the war, me and my childhood friend John Mosburg, now sadly departed,...

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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · Nov 25

...really got anywhere. As for me, my first Page 1 experience was in the Daily Oklahoman as a 9-year-old when I scrawled a letter to Harris advocating an immediate pullout from Vietnam because "the Vietnamese would not come all the way to America to fight us." Savvy politician that he was, Harris...

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Dan Fagin @danfagin.bsky.social · Nov 25

... thta Humphrey was picking Muskie instead of him as his VP candidate. He didn't take it well. Our family was so sure Fred was going to be president that we had him carve his initials into a post on our porch, just for posterity. But his two subsequent campaigns, in 1972 and 1976, never...

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