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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

If ACA healthcare subsidies are not extended, a 60-year-old earning $65k in Key West, Fla. could see premiums go from $460 a month with the subsidies to $2,400 a month without.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Maps show how expected increases in monthly premiums vary by age and geography.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 5h

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

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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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 5h

How did he threaten staff? I don’t see a threat in what was posted.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · Dec 13

I’m going to say it again, generative AI and the push for it to be used in every Avenue of learning and education is because generative AI literally is a weapon for knowledge destruction not a knowledge creation tool and silicon valleys goal is to monetize and gate off all of human knowledge

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Dec 13

The more this is explained the worse it appears.

An AI-assisted textbook at UCLA has some academics worried

The UCLA literature professor who developed the textbook says it will save students money and allow her to be the teacher she’s always wanted to be. Others aren’t so sure.

www.insidehighered.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7h

yo they hired Mamdani video guys. someone's doing some thinking somewhere

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 9h

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 9h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 13h

Interesting; I hope your read is correct.

Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 1d

I opposed this when it came before the committee that passed it, but it is ONLY for exceptional courses that are recorded. I personally think it’s still ridiculous. But see below from student handbook on left and list of pre-approved courses on right.

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 1d

But these schools didn’t come together; they were put together by that very administration.

If higher ed HAD come together in a united front, as @mashagessen.bsky.social suggested on March 15 (see screenshot), that might have been productive.

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 1d

Nice analogy.

Jonah Blank @jonahblank.bsky.social · 1d

Here, and in @theatlantic.com, Prof Allen urges colleges to work together with the Trump Administration to reform higher ed.

The core error of this plea would be obvious to any freshman:
♦️It's like telling the Three Pigs to work collaboratively with the Big Bad Wolf to advance their mutual goals.

Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 2d

Danielle Allen has proposed many good things for Harvard, so I’m puzzled by her reading of the word “compact” here, as if this would be an agreement freely entered into. She rightly says that, as written, this shouldn’t be agreed to. Maybe leave it there? therenovator.substack.com/p/why-im-exc...

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 1d

Yup, really concerning!

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 1d

The argument presented by Allen is both politically naive and historically erroneous. Accepting a compact *for higher education at this point in time* is suicidal. A 🧵

Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 2d

Danielle Allen has proposed many good things for Harvard, so I’m puzzled by her reading of the word “compact” here, as if this would be an agreement freely entered into. She rightly says that, as written, this shouldn’t be agreed to. Maybe leave it there? therenovator.substack.com/p/why-im-exc...

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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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, 🎯

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 1d

I hope not!

Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah that section was just 🤯

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile, …

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 1d

ACLS statement against White House “compact”: THIS IS SOVIET SHIT

Screenshot from statement “Universities and colleges have one mission: to advance knowledge. Faculty carry out the mission by conducting research and teaching students. The knowledge they produce and circulate is independently assessed by professional peers. Interfering with that process by forcing knowledge to pass through a political filter is a tactic adopted by the Soviet Union and other authoritarian states. The White House is dressing up its compact as a reasonable corrective to what it views as problems in campus culture. Let no one be deceived. This proposal imposes government censorship on academia. It is anti-American, and it weakens our democracy by devaluing academic expertise.”

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 1d

Right!

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 1d

Right! Like, let’s not make this into a world it isn’t. Reform, sure. But not on these terms.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2d

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d

Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?

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carlita1964.bsky.social @carlita1964.bsky.social · 2d

No, this is not a COINCIDENCE

This is DEFINITELY RETALIATION FOR HER “DEFIANCE”

Yay for her trying to STOP MAGA MEDDLING

However, with all those RICHER THAN RICH REPUGNICANS IN WASHINGTON AND ACROSS THE WORLD this is only the BEGINNING

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

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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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 2d

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

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

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 2d

I much prefer the take of Erwin Chemerinksy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

www.nytimes.com

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 2d

Danielle Allen has proposed many good things for Harvard, so I’m puzzled by her reading of the word “compact” here, as if this would be an agreement freely entered into. She rightly says that, as written, this shouldn’t be agreed to. Maybe leave it there? therenovator.substack.com/p/why-im-exc...

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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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 3d

Yay! 🥳

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