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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 1h

I honestly can’t bring myself to read this but I do think it’s very important for people in the US to remember that this is happening right now because of our government.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 8h

Columbus City Schools may have to stop bussing high school students entirely because Ohio law requires public school districts to prioritize bussing for charter and private school students - and the state is already fining Columbus more than $10 million/year for not complying enough

Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · 12h

Columbus City Schools Board of Education has voted to remove a requirement that the district provide busing for high schoolers as a potential cost-saving move amid district financial challenges.
www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...

Columbus Schools board votes to remove requirement to bus high schoolers

Columbus City Schools voted to remove a requirement that the district provide busing for high schoolers as a potential cost-saving move.

www.dispatch.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10h

According to hacked emails obtained by @dropsitenews.com, 'journalist' Douglas Murray was allegedly writing secret draft speeches for the Israeli ambassador to the UN while also pretending to be an independent 'journalist'.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 14h

Pushing “market logic” into higher education has made the wealthy schools richer and the poorly resourced schools poorer.

@lookheron.bsky.social builds on his arguments and findings in his recent report for @lpeblog.bsky.social.

lpeproject.org/blog/the-neo...

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 14h

No post—it’s a bsky exchange

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 17h

Zabar's, for me, is inevitably tied to my grandmother, who also died this year.

As my dad pointed out, it's not clear the grandson of somebody murdered in a pogrom would want to be called "Czar", but I guess that term has lost its historical meaning?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20h

Breaking News: Saul Zabar, who over seven decades made the Upper West Side food emporium Zabar’s a New York institution, is dead at 97. nyti.ms/42qGl2n

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 21h

Let's do the fucking news

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 21h

let’s do the fucking news

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 21h

Just want to make some deals, Mr President

Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 22h

Now: Debt Collective Raises Hand to Purchase Chunk of Federal Government Student Debt Portfolio

The Debt Collective has purchased billions in household debt over the past decade

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, after a new POLITICO report that the Trump administration is “exploring options to sell off parts of the federal government’s $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio to the private market,” the Debt Collective is announcing its willingness to purchase the entire portfolio for its true market value. The Debt Collective will then subsequently cancel the debt.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 22h

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 23h

Wilford Brimley, Jason Statham, Eric Andre

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 23h

There are weeds there, too!

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

An elderly German Jewish man was arrested for comparing Gaza to Auschwitz.

His relatives were killed by the German state in Auschwitz.

Talk to me about how Germany was denazified

www.instagram.com/reel/DPL44U4...

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 23h

Totally. I don't think Beau and I disagree about that! (In fact, I'm not sure how apart we actually are, but in terms of this post)

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 1d

I’m back up in @lpeblog.bsky.social today

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as an antagonist to @beaubaumann.bsky.social in this generative post about thinking bigger in our rebuilding ambitions

lpeproject.org/blog/rebuild...

Rebuilding State Authority In A Post-Trump America

In the ruins of the administrative state after Trump, many on the left see an opportunity to design a New Deal-type reconstruction agenda. But building state capacity requires a government that is…

lpeproject.org

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 1d

Shahrzad’s research laid the foundation for this report! Speaking of sowing fertile ground

Shahrzad Shams @shahrzadshams.bsky.social · 1d

Important piece by @lookheron.bsky.social tracing how the steady neoliberalization of higher education has sowed fertile ground for its takeover by authoritarians

LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 1d

Today, @lookheron.bsky.social argues that, for higher education, it's been one battle after another: how the neoliberal era laid the groundwork for the recent authoritarian turn.

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James Brandt @jamesbrandt.bsky.social · 1d

"by pushing 'market logic' into higher education, these reforms have made the rich richer and the poor poorer... It seems to me that this increasingly unequal system did a great deal of harm to higher education’s standing in our society, opening the door to right-wing attacks."

LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 1d

Today, @lookheron.bsky.social argues that, for higher education, it's been one battle after another: how the neoliberal era laid the groundwork for the recent authoritarian turn.

The Neoliberal Foundation of the Authoritarian Turn in Higher Education

Recent authoritarian attacks on higher education mark a significant shift from the neoliberal era, which celebrated institutional independence from the state, the role of education in boosting worker…

lpeproject.org

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 1d

It's full of red flags. She's also the only person resembling left wing speaking at this "post-neoliberalism" conference and I'm just wondering if she's always been overrated? Is this a democratic theory thing? Discourse democracy?

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 1d

Keep this guy talking. Incredibly charismatic and inspiring. Great message discipline

Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 1d

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Stephen Miller: "It's simply a factually accurate statement that when a judge assumes for him- or herself the powers that have been relegated or delegated by the Constitution to the president, that that is a form of illegal insurrection." ...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: You called the judge's ruling 'legal insurrection.' Are you recommending the president take action against judges who rule against him?

STEPHEN MILLER: No. It's simply a factually accurate statement

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Shahrzad Shams @shahrzadshams.bsky.social · 1d

Important piece by @lookheron.bsky.social tracing how the steady neoliberalization of higher education has sowed fertile ground for its takeover by authoritarians

LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 1d

Today, @lookheron.bsky.social argues that, for higher education, it's been one battle after another: how the neoliberal era laid the groundwork for the recent authoritarian turn.

The Neoliberal Foundation of the Authoritarian Turn in Higher Education

Recent authoritarian attacks on higher education mark a significant shift from the neoliberal era, which celebrated institutional independence from the state, the role of education in boosting worker…

lpeproject.org

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 1d

Today, @lookheron.bsky.social argues that, for higher education, it's been one battle after another: how the neoliberal era laid the groundwork for the recent authoritarian turn.

The Neoliberal Foundation of the Authoritarian Turn in Higher Education

Recent authoritarian attacks on higher education mark a significant shift from the neoliberal era, which celebrated institutional independence from the state, the role of education in boosting worker…

lpeproject.org

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 1d

But what was the purportedly palatable version? The cover story. But I think I get it: it's meant to play on the ambiguity. It was more diverse because something other than "woke groupthink" was on offer

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely. But, of course, the government could resolve the collective action problem by regulating both! And if they collectively lobbied for those solutions, they'd have antitrust immunity. It's just a weird lack of appreciation for how these things work

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 1d

They meant diversity of thought? Or diversity of identity?

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 1d

The application of anti-trust law here wouldn't be straightforward, but that is certainly another consideration.

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 1d

What is even the vision of democracy here? Leaders of elite universities should get together to hammer out the terms of higher education governance that are acceptable to them? And we hope they'll adopt the right principles because...they believe in the American project?

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