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Reposted by: Maya Sen, Robert Black

daveweigel.bsky.social
The View segment where Whoopi asked how ordinary people could read SCOTUS opinions was revealing.

They're free. They're online. They're much easier to read than legislation. Conquer your imposter's syndrome, you are smart enough to read a decision and know if it's bullshit.
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 17h
It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 17h
One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
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by Maya Sen

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The courts are not going to help us

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Trump open to invoking the Insurrection Act
The comments came a day after a federal judge blocked the president from sending National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.
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mayasen.bsky.social
She’s doing a lot of work throughout the piece to give the administration the benefit of the doubt

Ignores similar ideological attacks on law firms, private businessss, and political adversaries that together paint a very different picture l
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Universities should at some point step in to articulate a positive vision of higher ed & scientific research to our fellow countrymen

But that cannot be done under coercion
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She says this version should be rejected as executive overreach in favor of negotiations with Congress along similar lines

Which assumes universities will be taken seriously as negotiators by a benevolent Congress on a basis free from coercion

Not sure how you realistically get there from here?
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It’s immediately pragmatic and so good for someone in university leadership?
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Has the old post-World War II compact between universities and the government collapsed? Yes

Do we need a new one? Yes

Is this that moment? I don’t think so

Neither the executive nor Congress have a coherent theory for promoting scientific research or higher ed reforms beyond ideological ones
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by Maya Sen — Reposted by: David Darmofal

mayasen.bsky.social
Agree with @profmarylewis.bsky.social - very puzzling piece that assumes a good faith operations by the executive and eventually by Congress, and also assumes that higher education and research are seen as societally good by these relevant players

Also ignores the issue of govt coercion
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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
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by Maya Sen

mayasen.bsky.social
Puzzling take indeed

While she thoughtfully argues for a different, legislative-driven process where university have a say, that is not the reality of the situation!
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Reposted by: Maya Sen, Philip N. Cohen, Martin Paul Eve , and 2 more

profmarylewis.bsky.social
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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mayasen.bsky.social
Same thought but it was mom and tote bag
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“It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.”
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by Maya Sen — Reposted by: Maya Sen, Anna O. Law, James Q. Wilson , and 3 more

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Brett Kavanaugh and his clerks need to read this --->

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mayasen.bsky.social
Right, of course

(I’m definitely feeling like i need to brush up on 1A case law right now!)
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mayasen.bsky.social
Isn’t this unconstitutional under the cursing cheerleader case?
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Reposted by: Maya Sen, David Darmofal

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UC Academic Council letter to UC Regents and President calling on them to “reject governmental demands that compromise institutional integrity and academic freedom.”

Personally, I’d say reject all demands, since the demands are being made unlawfully.
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single handedly the most embarrassing quote I’ve seen from a university official this year, and that’s saying a lot
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Oh yeah I’m sure

Very embarrassing for him, even if he doesn’t know it
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by Maya Sen — Reposted by: Bryan D. Jones

mayasen.bsky.social
Genuinely feel badly for this person
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by Maya Sen — Reposted by: Laurent Pech, David Darmofal

mayasen.bsky.social
Big failure in reporting here to not put the obvious First Amendment problems front and center

That implies that the government can somehow “just do this” and normalizes unconstitutional government action

Pretty sick of this!

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Trump Offered Universities an Invitation for a Deal. Some See a Trap.
www.nytimes.com
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mayasen.bsky.social
Exactly

Not just this but it asks universities to *punish* speech that “belittles” “conservative ideas”

😵‍💫
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You are “belittling a conservative idea”, Ben
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by Maya Sen — Reposted by: Laurent Pech

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Straight up asking public universities to set up governing structures to violate the first amendment
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It’s also a failure of universities to have allowed the narrative to drift so badly from reality
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No, and agreed

We literally teach markert capitalism as a core part of our curriculum - exactly the kind of stuff conservatives claim they want to see taught
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mayasen.bsky.social
A long-term concern for conservatives should be educational polarization, but it’s hard to see how un-American moves like tying funding to ideology will win them over college-educated voters
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by Maya Sen — Reposted by: Marc Lynch, Georg Weizsäcker

mayasen.bsky.social
Incredible that they put this in writing
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Reposted by: Maya Sen, Anna O. Law, David R. Miller

cristianfarias.com
Honey, wake up: New unconstitutional extortion just dropped. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference
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mayasen.bsky.social
It’s a really great resource of excellent courses and degree programs, and a lot of people would favor its expansion

extension.harvard.edu
Harvard Extension School | Online Courses, Degrees, Certificates
Take your career to the next level with a course or credential from Harvard. Online courses, master's and bachelor's degrees, and certificates. Start today.
extension.harvard.edu
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mayasen.bsky.social
Will be very interesting/funny if the “trade school” Harvard will “operate” as part of this agreeement is actually its own already operating Harvard extension school
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d
Trump says $500m deal reached with Harvard to settle dispute
Trump says $500m deal reached with Harvard to settle dispute
US president says ‘Linda is finishing up the details’ but not clear whether university ready to announce agreement Donald Trump said on Tuesday that his administration had reached a deal with Harvard and that the school would pay $500m to settle the dispute between the federal government and the university. “Linda is finishing up the final details,” Trump told reporters at an event in the Oval Office, referring to Linda McMahon, the education secretary. “And they’ll be paying about $500m and they’ll be operating trade schools. They’re going to be teaching people how to do AI and lots of other things, engines, lots of things.” Continue reading...
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