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"It is going to be disastrous if this continues"

Nobel Prize physics laureate John Clarke says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US scientific research

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Antonio Scurati: la democrazia dei lettori ci salverà dai sovranismi
Antonio Scurati: la democrazia dei lettori ci salverà dai sovranismi
Per la prima volta da cinque secoli la base della piramide di chi legge si restringe. E così la capacità di interpretare il mondo arretra a favore delle sempli…
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Here’s video of the incident
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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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CBS News current president Tom Cibroski praised Weiss on the call, saying "Bari's energy and passion is infectious and you will feel it, big time." He also added that the Free Press and CBS News "are going to learn a lot from each other...that's what this is all about."
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by Laurent Pech — Reposted by: Jan W. Mueller

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Exactly right. See also by Professors Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg: "Holding hostage federal loans and grants, the “compact” is essentially a unilateral executive decree that cannot be refused"

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CBS News current president Tom Cibroski praised Weiss on the call, saying "Bari's energy and passion is infectious and you will feel it, big time." He also added that the Free Press and CBS News "are going to learn a lot from each other...that's what this is all about."
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by Jan W. Mueller — Reposted by: Jan W. Mueller, Laurent Pech

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Rarely has so much creativity been poured into the creation of euphemisms: "tradition-bucking, " "norm-breaking," etc. ...
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President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.
Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained
President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.
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by Jan W. Mueller — Reposted by: Jan W. Mueller, Brendan Nyhan, Stuart White , and 1 more

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"Precisely because they have been losing court cases over free speech and visas for foreign students, Trumpists now seek to entrap universities in a deal that effectively removes the protections of federal law and gives the administration arbitrary power over them."
US universities must reject Trump’s ‘compact’. It is full of traps | Jan-Werner Müller
The administration is trying to make nine universities an offer they seemingly cannot refuse
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President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.
Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained
President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.
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by Jason Lyall — Reposted by: Jan W. Mueller, David Darmofal

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"All nine institutions must reject this proposal: it is a thinly veiled attack on academic freedom; it is a test case for whether Trumpists can get away with demanding loyalty oaths; it exceeds the president’s powers to begin with..."
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US universities must reject Trump’s ‘compact’. It is full of traps | Jan-Werner Müller
The administration is trying to make nine universities an offer they seemingly cannot refuse
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👇Alas, work on architecture and politics also underrated…
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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 1d
This Thursday, we celebrate the retirement and work of Michael Minkenberg, one of the most underrated scholars of far-right politics. I will give an online keynote but there is also a great in-person panel with, among others, @andreapirro.it & @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social

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Keynote und Diskussion: Rechtsextremismus-Studien in Zeiten von Trump • Europa-Universität Viadrina
Pressestelle: Die öffentlichen Veranstaltungen der Universität
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by Cas Mudde — Reposted by: Jan W. Mueller

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Students from countries with better university systems continue to come to U.S., whereas those from countries with lesser university systems have dropped significantly.

Seems foreign students understand racism of Trump 2.0 very well — even if some underestimate the randomness of the repression.
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by Cas Mudde — Reposted by: Jan W. Mueller, Cas Mudde

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This Thursday, we celebrate the retirement and work of Michael Minkenberg, one of the most underrated scholars of far-right politics. I will give an online keynote but there is also a great in-person panel with, among others, @andreapirro.it & @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social

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Keynote und Diskussion: Rechtsextremismus-Studien in Zeiten von Trump • Europa-Universität Viadrina
Pressestelle: Die öffentlichen Veranstaltungen der Universität
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by Michael S. Roth — Reposted by: Jan W. Mueller

Sounds like #HigherEd "lawyers who used to uphold the standards of the legal profession are compromising them to adapt to the Trump era" @aaup.org @aceducation.bsky.social @aacu.org @cato.org @chronicle.com @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social @mollyjongfast.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...
‘Bow to the Emperor’:We Asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency
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by Jan W. Mueller

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'Putin used the example of US president Donald Trump as a leader who reoriented his country away from the “globalist agenda” and towards resolving domestic issues—just as Europeans should be doing. Putin praised Trump and his politics at least six times during his speech and Q&A...'
Enemy number one: What Putin’s foreign policy speech says about Europe
At this year’s Valdai club, Vladimir Putin gave his most anti-EU speech yet, citing his determination to see new anti-establishment politicians to come to power and improve Europe’s relations with…
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by Michael S. Roth — Reposted by: Jan W. Mueller

How authoritarianism works: “But many of them..don’t want to speak on the record. These are people with stature…custodians of the American Bar….But now they’re worried about retribution, for their law firms or their family members, if they draw Trump’s ire” #highered www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/m...
‘Bow to the Emperor’:We Asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency
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The US government shutdown is not about policy disagreements; it is about a chief executive governing by whim and with impunity. The Democrats' case is easy to make, and easy to understand, notes @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social.
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How the Democrats Can “Win” the US Government Shutdown
Jan-Werner Mueller urges the party to adhere to some key lessons about confronting would-be autocrats.
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by Brendan Nyhan — Reposted by: Jan W. Mueller

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See also Eugene Volokh (UCLA), who lists numerous ways in which the "Compact" is unconstitutional reason.com/volokh/2025/...
The Proposed "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" and the First Amendment
[1.] There's a lot going on in the Trump Administration's proposed "Compact," and there's a lot that we might want…
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by Brendan Nyhan — Reposted by: Jan W. Mueller, Efrén O. Pérez, David Darmofal

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The legal basis of Trump higher ed "compact"
-"the most sweeping pile of unconstitutional conditions that any Am. constitutional lawyer has ever seen" (UCLA law prof) balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
-"a rather blatantly unconstitutional attempt" (Chicago) blog.dividedargument.com/p/the-uncons...
Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
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by Jan W. Mueller

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Crucial analysis by Fishkin:

"...so all universities have to do now is do nothing—no accepting the compact, no counter-offers, nothing—and the government will be left with no more power to coerce and control the First Amendment-protected activities of major American universities than it has today."
Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
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This regime's version of DEI:

Discretion, extortion, impunity.
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
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Édouard Louis: “La mia Francia teatro della lotta di classe”
Édouard Louis: “La mia Francia teatro della lotta di classe”
Figlio della classe operaia, lo scrittore riflette da sempre sull’impatto del potere nelle vite dei poveri. E qui dice: “Oggi i dominati partecipano d…
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Once again, where is the CNO? SECNAV? After what just happened in Quantico, when will the military top brass speak up?
I asked this after the disgrace at Ft. Bragg, too.

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If you're not familiar with @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy's work here is a great primer. Who broke the internet and why. From capitalism to surveillance to AI and the broligarchy... it's a #TrueStory Time to fight back.
Join the resistance #optout #reclaimtech
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Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d
It used to be that if you wanted to figure out "what's happening in Portland?" you might seek out The Oregonian or Oregon Public Broadcasting or a local free weekly. Those still exist and are doing generally good work, but they get almost zero algorithmic traction on Twitter, Facebook, Insta, etc.
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My review of Osita Nwanevu's The Right of the People is here; 1) we have a short window to improve American democracy; 2) a Second Reconstruction is a good way to imagine it; 3) we need to learn from Chile's (unsuccessful) recent attempt and build wide support newrepublic.com/article/2011...
Can America Become a Democracy?
What it would take for the United States to live up to the promise of its founding
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It used to be that if you wanted to figure out "what's happening in Portland?" you might seek out The Oregonian or Oregon Public Broadcasting or a local free weekly. Those still exist and are doing generally good work, but they get almost zero algorithmic traction on Twitter, Facebook, Insta, etc.
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