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Brendan Cantwell

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 3h
That Warriors-Hawks game was an OT win for Atlanta despite Steph Curry’s 60 points in 41 minutes www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/20...
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Warriors vs Hawks, February 3, 2024 | Basketball-Reference.com
GSW (134) vs ATL (141). Get the box score, shot charts and play by play summary of the Warriors vs Hawks, February 3, 2024.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 5h
👀 www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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Gov. Kathy Hochul Requests ‘Independent Review’ of Cornell's Response to Alleged Chi Phi Gang Rape
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) has called for a review by "outside counsel" of the University's response to allegations of sexual assault and rape at the Chi Phi house in 2024.
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 5h
Our special boy is getting into Saparmurat Niyazov territory
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 6h
insert [guy in a hotdog suit]
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 9h
The era of divestment is basically over and they story now is about volatility in appropriations and “enrollment hoarding” by name brand public research universities.
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 9h
Opens this app and reads a few posts. Opens the news and reads a few headlines.
static.klipy.com
Nope
Alt: Nope
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Rachel Forsyth @rmforsyth.bsky.social · 17h
Me too, fire truck manufacturer, me too.
A toy fire truck for sale in a supermarket. On the packaging is a slogan "driven by inertia"
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 16h
I know it doesn’t matter consequentially, but to what extend do guys like believe this stuff?
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 18h
Higher education does need public reinvestment but it needs to happen with a mission discipline that doesn’t crush autonomy and academic freedom … and that’s a thigh political and policy nut to crack
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 18h
Deferred maintenance is no joke the stuff of nightmares
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every time I hear things like this I will remind myself that policy and downstream of politics and that we can thanks this stuff seriously but not literally
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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From my book The Privateers: “if evidence meant anything to education policy, vouchers would have died a decade ago.”
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I just read Reince Priebus’ name and realized that I had all but forgotten about him
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Support for the “everything is gender” theory
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is not a very sophisticated response, and I am not a poltical theorists, but I Allen’s has two basic problems here. 1. Shes doesn’t really understand higer education, and 2. She assumes that any elected government’s actions are legitimate if not clearly illegal www.chronicle.com/article/coll...
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Opinion | Colleges Should Take Linda McMahon’s Call to Action Seriously
Conversation is not capitulation.
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Which ethics experts argue the opposite? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
The spot is the latest in a series of pro-Trump ads funded by public money. Some ethics experts have argued that the Trump administration is violating federal laws banning the use of taxpayer dollars for propaganda, and the ads have drawn criticism from both parties.
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why do I feel sad that a completely meaningless game at the end of a disappointing season is cancelled?
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.
Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It’s not corruption if we do it in plain sight” is the American way
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just got my mail ballot. Now the work of figuring out how to vote on municipal charter amendments ….
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 27/09/2026
In my house, we call this “Ender’s Syndrome”
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I was a few days ahead of the discourse!
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
smoked pumpkin
An orange pumpkin on a stainless steel chimney
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Send this to every university President in the country.
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Whenever I read stories about how Trump and frineds have reduced capacity of the government to do useful things including producing public goods, I also think about how the federal deficit is soaring. This is NOT about efficiency or small government. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Good but why?
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You don’t gut the country's capacity to measure what's happening in its schools because you care about improving them. Guardian article below.
graph of number of employees at NCES
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Facebook is how: - the kids’s school - soccer team - Girl Scouts - local municipality ….. distribute info. Meta owns us
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Starlink: “enoineered” by SpaceX, so you can trust its good
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wasn’t Nancy Mace trying to do the sexless just care about the family checking account, Jesus, and the precious children thing not too long ago?
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
bsky: we hate the nyt also, bsky: all we want to talk about is nyt tv rankings which are wrong but also we agree mostly
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m a pretty engaged guy and I don’t really understand WTF the Supreme Court just did other than it’s probably delirious to voting rights
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Let me suggest that Dems have shown no special concern for academic worker precarity aside from a generally more pro-labor stance
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don’t know the answer to the specific question “does CUNY want research?” but I think the policy consensus among Dems and Dem-coded groups is that most of higher ed should do less research (which is read as status of vanity) and focus more on teaching and student success, ROI, etc.
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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum.
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
No War But Class War : DSA :: No Pluralism But Intellectual Pluralism : MAGA
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Chevy Bolt guy here. It’s the kind of car a professor can drive to say to their colleagues: yeah I have “faculty lounge” politics but not one of you.
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Can somebody help me understand WTF is wrong with the people of Maine?
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I wanna say that I know Jon is both thoughtful about this and not a knee-jerk AI skeptic
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sometimes I’m happy to live in a flyover nowhere place
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of the things that interests me about universities is that capital can substantially co-opt them but cannot seem to displace or replace them. These things pop up and yet they don’t really compromise the positional centrality of universities.
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
never!
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
On most days I get at least one piece of mail to remind me that Abdul is not white.
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
MSU is still a bit of a mess as the result of a power outage over the weekend and last night (I’m not joking) I had a dream about a cascading deferred maintenance crisis. If I were a senior administrator I think I might literally die from the anxiety 
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The whole benefit of the Dems controlling the Senate is about judicial nominees, right? Maybe public accountability through hearings as a second thing?They won’t have the ability to overcome the filibuster, and they won’t be able to convict impeachment.
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My coauthor Barrett Tylor, who is not on here, was interviewed by The New Yorker about the partisan takeover of Texas Tech and our "postliberal university" concept is used to explain what's going on in US higher education! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
During Donald rump's second term, state legislatures across the country hav deemed "woke ideology." More than half of American college students, in twenty- three states, are currently attending a school that has been forced to ban certain topics from the classroom, eliminate academic departments, or drastically weaken tenure protections for professors. Barrett Taylor, a scholar of higher education at the University of North Texas, described such measures as the first phase of a wider
movement to establish what he calls the "post-liberal university." The second phase involves installing political appointees to run universities. In 2022, only three per cent of college presidents came from the public sector. But in Florida a quarter of state schools are now led by former Republican politicians, and many other states, including Ohio, Virginia, and Texas, have increasingly turned to conservative lawmakers to run public colleges and universities in the past two years. As a former trustee at a Florida public college put it, "We are now over the walls and ready to
transform higher education from within."
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Walt Ecton @waltecton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I spoke with @michigandaily.bsky.social about whether college is still worth it. A thread with a few thoughts (spoiler alert - the answer is still "Yes!"): www.michigandaily.com/statement/is...
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Is higher education dying?
And most of all, I feel a sense of unease among my peers — from the stress of compiling a spreadsheet of internships in late August, to the early September Reddit posts from undergrads panicking about...
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just a shameless level of corruption www.cnbc.com/2026/09/22/t...
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Trump discloses more than 1,100 July trades, including up to $25 million each in sales of Microsoft, Amazon
Trump sold tech stocks including Amazon and Microsoft when the Mag 7 stocks popped on July 20, adding $291 billion in market value in one day.
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Provosts report widespread reductions to research funding, but virtually none say that their institution plans to reduce its research expenditures. 🤷🏻‍♂️ www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
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From AI Use to Funding Cuts: How Provosts Navigate 2026
Inside Higher Ed’s annual CAO survey reveals a fractured landscape, where academic leaders rely on personal AI tools amid broader technological and political disruption.
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’ve never heard of this song before
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