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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 1h

Attention university presidents and boards of trustees:

"Those who oppose authoritarianism have to play a different game, creating solidarity among an unwieldy coalition, which knows that if everyone holds together, they will surely succeed."

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 14h

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to use a hub in Vermont to bolster its digital surveillance capabilities as the agency ramps up operations across the country at the direction of leaders in President Donald Trump's administration.
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ICE Plans to Boost Social Media Surveillance Using Contractors

ICE plans to use a hub in Vermont to bolster its digital surveillance capabilities as the agency ramps up operations across the country.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 23h

In 2012, I published a book about the collapse in trust in the mainstream media. I argued that a widely trusted media establishment was probably incompatible with a polarized party system that is heavily sorted by ideology. /1 www.jonathanmladd.com/why-american...

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 23h

it's weird how several decades of organized assault on higher education has led to a cratering of American public opinion on higher education

news.gallup.com/poll/695003/...

Perceived Importance of College Hits New Low

The percentage of Americans who consider a college education "very important" has slipped below the majority level.

news.gallup.com

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Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly the details in this story sound so crazy that I assume they are just not accurate.

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Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 1d

So people have classes where no attendance is taken, no in-class participation is required, lectures are recorded, and 60% of students get an A? That sure doesn’t sound like a student problem.

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Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 1d

This article is a weird mashing of real problems and exaggerated problems and the framing about viewpoint diversity is silly. But me he fact that Harvard lets students enroll in classes that MEET AT THE SAME TIME 🤯 should maybe be its own article.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

Harvard Students Skip Class and Still Get High Grades, Faculty Say

www.nytimes.com

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Adrienne Wood @adriennewood.bsky.social · 1d

Over 400 faculty and staff from the #uva College of Arts and Sciences convened for an emergency vote. 97% of eligible voters endorsed a resolution demanding President Mahoney refuse to consider the Trump admin's Compact for Academic Freedom!!

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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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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Danielle Allen fails the Lando test / lives out the Arrested Development meme: "A deal on the core principles in a compact could then become a framework for negotiating on legislation." Come ON. With this administration and this Congress?
therenovator.substack.com/p/why-im-exc...

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Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 1d

What people cannot seem to get through their heads is that the justifications the Trump administration uses to attack higher education is a *pretext* not the actual reason. There is no reasonable permanent compromise available, because their actual goal is control.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Danielle Allen fails the Lando test / lives out the Arrested Development meme: "A deal on the core principles in a compact could then become a framework for negotiating on legislation." Come ON. With this administration and this Congress?
therenovator.substack.com/p/why-im-exc...

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Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 1d

"What if we did totalitarianism, but with technology!" is a depressingly popular viewpoint in silicon valley.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10d

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

fortune.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller was just talking about how this kind of thing was needed

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 4d

The question journalists need to be asking is: WHY is the government trying this?

It’s because they want to control universities in unlawful ways that courts will not allow; it’s not working; so they’re trying to get universities to sign up “voluntarily” for unlawful levels of government control.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

For every horrific act of fascist abuse you’ve seen video of in recent months, there are hundreds that you’ll never even hear about.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.bsky.social · 4d

🔥 Finally an EU leader says it out loud:

“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Gary Sands @yangguizi.bsky.social · 3d

The ruling is the latest to use Decree 54, a law that makes it illegal “to produce, spread, disseminate, send or write false news ... with the aim of infringing the rights of others, harming public safety or national defense or sowing terror among the population.” apnews.com/article/tuni...

A court in Tunisia sentenced a man to death for Facebook posts seen as insulting to the president

A court in Tunisia has sentenced a 51-year-old man to death over Facebook posts deemed offensive to the president and a threat to state security.

apnews.com

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Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 3d

And then the inevitable 3 follow up emails, because half the faculty have stopped reading their emails.

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Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 3d

Land of the free amiright?

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 3d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly, I would be fine with charging .05 *cents* per message. The problem is that sending emails is free, and reading them is costly. Even a touch of friction would be amazing.

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Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 3d

My dream is to tax all internal emails on a per-recipient basis. Want to start a monthly newsletter for everyone who has a university credit card!? Sure, but it's gonna cost you.

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Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 3d

My number one priority as university emperor would be reducing email traffic. I am convinced that nothing would improve productivity and work satisfaction more.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 3d

Starting in Obama's first term and continuing through the presidencies of Obama, Trump, and Biden, the relationship between income and presidential vote has switched.
Connected to this, the relationship of education and racial resentment with Democratic voting has become much stronger.

Thomas J Wood @thomasjwood.bsky.social · 5d

The last time I posted the income relationship to presidential vote among White respondents to the @electionstudies.bsky.social ANES, people asked for additional estimates among all voters.

Updated estimates here:

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Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 3d

There is a world where Senate dems keep playing it safe and end up running with AOC at the top of the ticket.

Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 7d

Pew Research showing Democratic approval of their Congressional leadership now resembles Republican approval of their Congressional leadership in 2014, which historians might remember as the year before Donald Trump took over that party www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

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