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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

me when I actually succeed at getting them to let me speak to a representative

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 2d

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 2d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 3d

With one key caveat, this is potentially useful for students looking to transfer from a CC to a four-year. It's readable, practical, and concrete. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Thoughts on ‘A Complete Guide to College Transfer’

The book is clearly written, logically organized and full of brief case studies to make the concepts concrete.

www.insidehighered.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 4d

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

sites.stat.columbia.edu

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 4d

Today’s incoming mail is very on-brand.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5d

Chris Rufo's disastrous takeover of New College in Florida shows what universities would become if they sign the Trump regime's extortionary "compact."

New College was supposed to model the anti-woke conservative higher-ed Americans crave. Instead, it showed the opposite, and serves as a warning.

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 5d

From my numismatic days, I recall that it's illegal to depict anyone still living on US coins or paper money. That's why FDR didn't get on the dime until 1946 and JFK didn't get on the half dollar until 1964.

Chris Thompson @christhompson.bsky.social · 5d

a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny

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Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector

The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 5d

Seems like a good time to dust this one off... www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confes...

The Annual Reminder That McCarthyism Was Actually a Bad Idea

Florida, again …

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 5d

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 6d

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 6d

Wise and worldly readers come through with advice for The Girl www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Readers Respond on Advising The Girl

The best readers ever respond with alternatives to the professoriate for a prolific reader and writer.

www.insidehighered.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6d

Talarico: if you read the new testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick.

Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 7d

$134,000 per student! NCF is spending about sixteen times more per student than my college is, and its results are getting worse.

It's almost as if professional educators actually know something about how colleges work.

www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Spending Soars, Rankings Fall at New College of Florida

Student outcomes and rankings are slipping at the liberal arts college while spending is up. Critics believe the college is at risk of implosion, and some are calling for privatization.

www.insidehighered.com

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 8d

Another characteristically excellent piece by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social . As the kids say, no lies detected. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Opinion | When Silence Is the Only Logical Choice, Are We Really Free?

www.nytimes.com

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 10d

Suppose you have a kid about to graduate college. She would make a fantastic English professor if the field were still hiring, but it isn't, and likely won't be. What would you advise her to do? www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Advising The Girl

In good conscience, I can’t recommend she pursue a career teaching literature, at which she would excel.

www.insidehighered.com

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 12d

There should be more love songs for, like, libraries. And cheese. And people who stay calm when bad things happen.

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 14d

As the state continues to not pass a budget, colleges resort to burning through reserves www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

States Need to Pass Budgets

When states don’t pass budgets on time, colleges’ reserves can’t close the gap.

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 17d

We can't afford austerity. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Affording Austerity

Public austerity makes private economic coercion worse.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 21d

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments.

that fox news host still has his job.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 23d

Teenage me would have devoured this, tbh

Adam P. Knave @adampknave.com · 25d

So apparently at Universal Studios, you can get a 22 inch hot dog. It seems you can also get that with chili and cheese. Go forth, brave soldiers and make terrible life choices.

A 22 inch hotdog in a cardboard carrying container. It has chili and cheese on it.

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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 23d

Interesting polling data: Those with unfavorable views of Donald Trump are the LEAST LIKELY to support political violence.

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 24d

Looking for good data on whether teacher credentials make a difference in student success in dual enrollment, and wondering about the implications if they don't www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Dual Enrollment and Degree Requirements

Do students taught by teachers with a terminal degree succeed at higher rates than those taught by teachers without?

www.insidehighered.com

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Matt Reed @deandad.bsky.social · 28d

Wise and worldly readers respond with ideas for teaching American Government in light of (waves hands wildly) www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Consulting the Manual

How to teach American Government in Trump II? Focus on the Constitution, readers say.

www.insidehighered.com

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 28d

Expert on political violence, @lilymasonphd.bsky.social issues crucial warning:

Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 28d

1. We do not know the motive of the shooter. The man who shot at Trump was after attention.
2. The man who murdered MN legislators WAS motivated by politics, and I didn’t hear any Dems calling for reprisals against all Repubs.
3. It’s easy to start a cycle of violence. Not easy to end one.

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 28d

Very, very bad stuff coming from leading right-wingers

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 29d

This formulation is popular: contrasting SCOTUS' intolerance of race as an admissions factor with SCOTUS' tolerance of race as a detention factor. There are, in fact, doctrinal, historical, and logical distinctions between the positions, that one could use to dismiss this comparison.

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 29d

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

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