This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

It describes the compact as a "Mafia protection racket" and a "shakedown."

My latest: Why early interventionists -- who provide critical therapies and care for developmentally disabled babies and toddlers -- may be the only professionals in America who haven't gotten an absolute pay raise in 30 years: www.the74million.org/zero2eight/3...

Donald Trump is offering nine universities funding if they sign a compact that’s a “complete adoption of the MAGA high-education agenda,” Kevin Carey writes. The document is “shot through with the tensions that mark Trumpism in its latest form”:

The compact defines "benefits" as access to loans, grants, and contracts, research funding, student visas, and preferential treatment by the tax code. It then says "Institutions..are free to develop models and values other than those below, if the institution elects to forego federal benefits."

Setting aside the philosophical questions about the relationship between higher ed and democracy, accepting this compact is to accept lies about the history of higher education. I wrote a whole book about it. adamhsays.substack.com/p/a-raw-new-...

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

In a just and normal world, billionaires with opinions about restructuring all of American higher education would be not-so-politely told to pipe down and go back to Wall Street. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

“The administration is inviting universities to voluntarily put on a yoke and hand it the keys.“

From @kevincarey1.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I wrote about Trump’s new higher education “compact” for @theatlantic.com. It’s bad!

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Trump administration compact with higher education turns a manifesto of conservative grievances into policy, sprinkled with cost-cutting measures, and violates the very principles it claims to protect. I wrote about it here. It's free: adamhsays.substack.com/p/a-raw-new-...

This is their MO with these deals, the terms are vague and contradictory, the goalposts keep shifting, and universities will be put into a permanent purgatory of non compliance where there will always be one more thing they need to do to please Trump

I went to pull up a list of land-grant universities...and was greeted by the following statement on the USDA website. This isn't a typical government shutdown.

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").

Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

I'll take the bullheaded, deeply flawed, 1990s quest for authenticity and cultivating a core which you shouldn't sell out over this any day. Any day.

It was obvious from the start that turning over a public institution of higher education to dimwit ideologues would end in tears. These people are a bunch of incompetents who can't do anything but tweet.

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

After increasing spending to $134,000 per student (!!!) and facing retention problems, the New College of Florida is apparently having discussions about privatization or closure after DeSantis leaves office.

1/ Check out this brand-new, very cool analysis from my colleagues at New America's Education Funding Equity Initiative.

In short: It's time for America to un-gerrymander its public school districts.

www.newamerica.org/education-po...

I hear you but hope we don't have to maintain public services that grossly advantage the rich in order to keep the rich from exiting the public sphere altogether.

9/ Many of these rich and poor districts are *right next to one another,* as the report below shows.

This is not a matter of moving students or money over long distances. It's about making a foundational public service fair for everyone, at the local level.

www.newamerica.org/education-po...

8/ Unequal school districts don't just reinforce inequality -- they accelerate it. Rich people buy their way into expensive, property-rich districts, generating more money for better schools, which in turn drives up prices. For poor districts, the cycle runs in the opposite direction.

7/ School district boundaries might seem permanent and unchangeable, but they're not. In 1940, America had 117,000 school districts, for less than half as many students as we have today. Decades of consolidation followed, often in ways that were deliberately discriminatory.

6/ Our interactive web tool lets you select any state and compare the current district map to three alternatives: A completely new map with all-new boundaries, a map that improves equality by consolidating existing districts, and a map that uses county boundaries.

redrawingthelinesmap.org