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Joanna Kenty
@jokenty.bsky.social
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Former professor of Latin/Roman history, author of Cicero’s Political Personae (2020). I write Humanist, a blog about teaching humanities in higher ed (humanist.ghost.io), and write about democracy for The Renovator (therenovator.substack.com). She/her
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 18h
Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.
Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site
Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.
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The Renovator @the-renovator.bsky.social · 2d
No, seriously. Hear Danielle out.
Why I’m Excited About the White House’s Proposal for a Higher Ed Compact
Now we have a chance for collective action
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Joanna Kenty @jokenty.bsky.social · 2d
This is…actually promising?
“one purpose of sending the letter to multiple schools was to help solve their collective action problem. The goal, she said, was to make it possible for schools to act “in things that are not hard decisions, but they are hard to go at it alone.”
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The Renovator @the-renovator.bsky.social · 2d
No, seriously. Hear Danielle out.
Why I’m Excited About the White House’s Proposal for a Higher Ed Compact
Now we have a chance for collective action
therenovator.substack.com
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Joanna Kenty @jokenty.bsky.social · 6d
I’m reading about academic integrity for Humanist and came across this ethics curriculum. Many students don’t know what counts as cheating, which should be something institutions address, but they often don’t. This is a free tool to help address cheating out of ignorance:
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Jason Diamond @jasondiamond.bsky.social · 7d
This is vile.
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404 Media @404media.co · 7d
AI-Generated Biography on Amazon Tries to Capitalize on the Death of a Beloved Writer Kaleb Horton

🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...
AI-Generated Biography on Amazon Tries to Capitalize on the Death of a Beloved Writer Kaleb Horton
‘I cannot overstate how disgusting I find this kind of AIdog shit in the first place, never mind under these circumstances.’
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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 7d
When education tops the list in the worst possible way 😭
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 7d
Via NYT Graphics:

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How Much Have Trump’s Cuts Shrunk the Federal Work Force? Shutdown Plans Offer a Clue.
The number of federal employees has been trimmed by thousands since President Trump took office, according to contingency plans drawn up by federal agencies.
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 7d
I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.

Republicans in Washington did this.

This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.
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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 7d
She built a legacy that wove science AND emotion together to help us better understand ourselves, our primate cousins, and nature. She was a giant and it’s on all the people she inspired and influenced to keep her work and her values alive. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
Jane Goodall, famed primatologist and conservationist, dies at 91
Jane Goodall, the most prolific primatologist of a generation, has died. She was 91 years old.
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Annie M Leonard @anniemleonard.bsky.social · 7d
“When I feel scared, I look to history. I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers — but there never has been. The only thing that has ever worked — time and time again — is solidarity: binding together, finding bravery in numbers too big to ignore, and standing up for one another."
Hundreds of celebrities relaunch a McCarthy-era committee to defend free speech
The Committee for the First Amendment first launched in the 1940s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee accused Hollywood actors, directors and writers of being communists or sympathizers.
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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 7d
This new column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social makes me think about when I recently had to talk to the police for yet another safety plan, I tried to “lighten” the mood by saying that we all knew this wasn’t my first rodeo. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
For at least the past 15 years, my colleagues in academia have grappled with angry letters to university officials for doing their jobs. They have weathered campaigns for their firing. They have contended with an internet army obsessed with doxxing them, their parents, their kids. I’ve been contacted by the F.B.I. more than once in my career. Not because I hold any important state secrets or know a biker gang but because one of my colleagues has lived with so much sustained harassment from right-wing “activists” that it has become a matter of federal concern. Watch lists (one of which was constructed by Kirk’s organization) do not distinguish between public intellectuals at wealthy enclaves and hoi polloi who teach popular classes at cash-strapped schools. In either case, an army of trained provocateurs stands ready to destroy their lives to prove their bona fides as conservative activists.
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HBCU Sports @hbcusports.bsky.social · 8d
HBCU campuses targeted by bomb threats

Several HBCU campuses were targets of violent threats once again Tuesday. Southern University, Delaware State, Morgan State, Prairie View A&M and Alabama A&M each alerted their communities of bomb threats made throughout the day. Delaware State halted classes…
HBCU campuses targeted by bomb threats
Several HBCU campuses were targets of violent threats once again Tuesday. Southern University, Delaware State, Morgan State, Prairie View A&M and Alabama A&M each alerted their communities of bomb threats made throughout the day. Delaware State halted classes and activities for the day while Alabama A&M received the all-clear for their threat earlier in the day. Southern, Morgan State and Prairie View each specified that the threats they received targeted their university libraries. The threats come less than a week after a pair of agitators caused a disturbance at Tennessee State University.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 8d
Meanwhile, Des Moines students stage a walkout to protest their superintendent's detention www.desmoinesregister.com/picture-gall...
A crowd of teenage students walk on a brick path beneath trees. Some hold signs—one says "ICE MELTS UNDER RESISTANCE."
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AAUP @aaup.org · 8d
BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:
Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com
Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...
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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 9d
We are thrilled to announce that @aadl.org plans to acquire the Ann Arbor Observer!

Public ownership of local news media is more important than ever, and this acquisition builds on years of partnership and archival work to ensure the future of this priceless community asset.

aadl.org/node/647334
The Ann Arbor District Library Plans to Acquire the Ann Arbor Observer | Ann Arbor District Library
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 9d
My kiddo came home from school today sad - turns out one of his classmates dad’s has been abducted by ICE, whereabouts unknown.

I told him that it’s normal to feel sad abt something so devastating, to let his classmate know that he is there for him, & that many grownups are working to stop this.
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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 9d
A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.
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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 9d
30% drop year over year!
Amid visa restrictions, international freshmen enrollment plummets at UW-Madison
This year’s number of international freshmen is the lowest recorded since at least 2015.
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 9d
Last night, we watched an episode of Zillow Gone Wild wherein a young girl in the 1970s convinced her parents in Lake Tahoe to paint her bedroom like the palace at Knossos and I have never felt closer to a small child.
A house in Lake Tahoe that has a very Minoan theme.
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Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 9d
A grad student came to an undergrad class outside of his field specifically to agitate, a university committee found no wrongdoing, and no one has even heard the (possibly illegal) surreptitious recordings that constitute the “evidence”.

This is the stuff that keeps me up at night.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 9d
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
Early last semester, Droubi said, students began approaching Cheyfitz with complaints that a graduate student in the “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance” class appeared to be recording them, possibly to “gather their names and comments” and intimidate them. “We believe that a student came to the course for the sole reason of surveilling and potentially harming students in the class,” Droubi said. “That ended up proving itself to be true because multiple students came forward and shared their concerns with Professor Cheyfitz.” Cheyfitz said one Palestinian student quit the class after telling him she felt upset and frightened. Current Issue Cover of October 2025 Issue October 2025 Issue According to Cheyfitz, the graduate student often steered conversations away from the assigned readings—which at that point mostly focused on definitions of genocide and international law on Indigenous rights—to defend Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza and argue with others in the class. “He clearly had not done the readings,” Cheyfitz said. “It was disruptive.” Cheyfitz said he met with the graduate student in late January and spoke to him about concerns from his classmates. During the conversation, he asked the graduate student to drop the course, and by the next class, he did, Cheyfitz said. The graduate student, Oren Renard, a PhD candidate in computer science whose identity was confirmed by other students in the class, previously served in Israel’s elite military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, according to his LinkedIn profile.
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Joanna Kenty @jokenty.bsky.social · 9d
New post on @the-renovator.bsky.social! I interviewed three Carnegie Young Leaders working on civic projects. WOW. I focused on how they found their way to this work, through formal education as well as community support, because we need more of whatever they're getting.

#TeachLearnSky
#EduSky
The Gen Z-ers Saving Democracy
Carnegie Young Leaders get to work addressing gerrymandering, polarization, government responsiveness, and more
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 10d
The $170 billion in funding going to Miller’s agenda could build more than 7,000 new elementary schools, pay for more than 1.5 million young Americans to attend an in-state public college for four years, or fund the Head Start program for nearly 14 years: open.substack.com/pub/americas...
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 11d
Thanks so much for your reporting on this, Ben. I just got an email from my campus's IT office triumphantly advertising free student access to four different AI models -- at the same time as we have a hiring freeze, caps on grad enrollment, and a 7% budget cut -- and wanted to scream.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 11d
Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 12d
Between falling salaries and rising scrutiny, it's no wonder so many districts are facing teacher shortages.

And of course, that's all by design.
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Economic Policy Institute @epi.org · 12d
In the past 10 yrs, teachers' wages DECREASED by $46/week after adjusting for inflation. Wages increased by $220 for other college grads

Why are we penalizing teachers for working one of the hardest & most important jobs in our communities?

We need to pay teachers more! www.epi.org/publication/...
The teacher pay penalty reached a record high in 2024: Three decades of leaving public school teachers behind
Over the past three decades, stagnant weekly wages of public school teachers have fallen further and further behind those of college graduates who chose other careers, resulting in an ever increasing ...
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 13d
Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
www.theguardian.com
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Joanna Kenty @jokenty.bsky.social · 12d
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The Dekleptocracy Project @dekleptocracy.bsky.social · 15d
Trump's corruption is the country's top national security threat. This story is beyond belief. buff.ly/8pcAn0o
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