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Reposted by: Jacob Montgomery, Anna O. Law

mississippifreepress.org
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.
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Reposted by: Jacob Montgomery, Will Jennings, Suzanne de Cheveigné

jonmladd.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Jacob Montgomery

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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.
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by Jacob Montgomery

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

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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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by Jacob Montgomery

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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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by Brendan Nyhan — Reposted by: Jacob Montgomery, Lisa W. Fazio, David Lazer , and 17 more

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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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by Jacob Montgomery

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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.
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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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by Jacob Montgomery

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"What if we did totalitarianism, but with technology!" is a depressingly popular viewpoint in silicon valley.
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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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Reposted by: Jacob Montgomery, Lisa W. Fazio, Nancy Kanwisher , and 2 more

adriennewood.bsky.social
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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by Brendan Nyhan — Reposted by: Jacob Montgomery, Lisa W. Fazio, Jason Reifler , and 4 more

brendannyhan.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Jacob Montgomery, Ashish Arora, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 6 more

govpritzker.illinois.gov
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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Reposted by: Jacob Montgomery, Kimberly A. Prather, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 12 more

thetnholler.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Jacob Montgomery, Anna O. Law, Tom Clark , and 13 more

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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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Reposted by: Jacob Montgomery

yangguizi.bsky.social
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.
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by Jacob Montgomery

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

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Land of the free amiright?
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Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 3d
@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.
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by Jacob Montgomery

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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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by Jacob Montgomery

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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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by Jacob Montgomery

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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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Reposted by: Jacob Montgomery, Will Jennings, Ken Caldeira , and 15 more

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@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.
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by Jacob Montgomery

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There is a world where Senate dems keep playing it safe and end up running with AOC at the top of the ticket.
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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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by Brendan Nyhan — Reposted by: Jacob Montgomery

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Really striking graph. DC Democrats won't make a change but the base is wildly dissatisfied.
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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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by Brendan Nyhan — Reposted by: Jacob Montgomery, Joanna Bryson, Lisa W. Fazio , and 3 more

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This is what authoritarians do - use the powers of the state to humiliate and degrade their opponents in public so that others will not challenge them
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4d
“The source told CBS News that [Kash Patel and Dan Bongino] asked for "large, beefy" agents to conduct an arrest of Comey "in full kit," including Kevlar vests and exterior wear emblazoned with the FBI logo.” The leadership of the FBI is now in the hands of infantile psychopaths.
The FBI is weighing an arrest and perp walk for Comey — and suspended an agent for refusing to help, sources say
The FBI is considering carrying out a "showy" arrest and perp walk of the agency's now-indicted ex-Director James Comey, sources tell CBS News.
www.cbsnews.com
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Reposted by: Jacob Montgomery, Ben H. Ansell, Nancy Kanwisher , and 10 more

dpmoriarity.bsky.social
Dartmouth response to the Trump Administration Compact

president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...
Response to the ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’ | Office of the President
president.dartmouth.edu
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Reposted by: Jacob Montgomery, Kim L. Scheppele, Richard S.J. Tol , and 13 more

defenddemocracy.bsky.social
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

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

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Reposted by: Jacob Montgomery, Anna O. Law, Stefan Reis , and 8 more

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History repeats.
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Reposted by: Jacob Montgomery

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"It sounds totally reasonable to not make students uncomfortable by talking about current events in any law, political science, philosophy, climate science, economics, or any other course," says one academic apologist.

#Satire
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Reposted by: Jacob Montgomery, Trevon D. Logan, Alan Richardson , and 1 more

fishkin.bsky.social
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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by Jacob Montgomery

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It is OK, and probably good, for Democrats to stand for something rather than just passively watching.
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 4d
As everyone else has noted, the ice stuff is just going to get worse and the dem plan of ignoring it isn't going to get better
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