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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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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.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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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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“It’s not corruption if we do it in plain sight” is the American way

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 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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In my house, we call this “Ender’s Syndrome”

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I was a few days ahead of the discourse!

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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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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.

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Facebook is how: - the kids’s school - soccer team - Girl Scouts - local municipality ….. distribute info. Meta owns us

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Starlink: “enoineered” by SpaceX, so you can trust its good

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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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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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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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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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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.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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This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum.

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No War But Class War : DSA :: No Pluralism But Intellectual Pluralism : MAGA

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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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Can somebody help me understand WTF is wrong with the people of Maine?

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I wanna say that I know Jon is both thoughtful about this and not a knee-jerk AI skeptic

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Sometimes I’m happy to live in a flyover nowhere place

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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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On most days I get at least one piece of mail to remind me that Abdul is not white.

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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 · 21/09/2026

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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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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From AI Use to Funding Cuts: How Provosts Navigate 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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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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