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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
time for a different group of people to write a report on higher ed
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 05/10/2026
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a first-in-the-nation law that requires large companies to disclose if they or their predecessors profited from chattel slavery. cal.news/4zjLwPL 📸 Semantha Norris
Morris Griffin holds up a sign at the Reparations Task Force hearing at the March Fong Eu Secretary of State offices in Sacramento on June 29, 2023. Photo by Semantha Norris, CalMatters
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
James Orr. Peter Thiel. Race science. Tech authoritarianism. We've spent years tracing the networks behind Britain’s ‘Dark Enlightenment’. Help us launch an urgent new investigative project to follow the money and map how it operates. #LightUpTheDark subscribe.bylinetimes.com/lightuptheda...
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#LightUpTheDark – Byline Times
Dark Enlightenment: The US Far-Right War on British Institutions Help Byline Times Fund aN URGENT New INVESTIGATIVE SERIES #LightUpTheDark What is the Dark Enlightenment? The extraordinary anti-DEI me...
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 05/10/2026
The numbers that matter most to a democracy are not easy to track. prospect.org?p=145816
Capitol building blurred
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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Congratulations to the winners and to the field of neuroscience, today!
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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 05/10/2026
Via Ariana Figueroa: An unprecedented increase in cooperation this summer between local and state law enforcement and federal immigration officers through 287(g) agreements drove immigration arrests to their highest levels since President Donald Trump took office. ow.ly/MvzQ50ZU2G6
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 05/10/2026
“Mainstream Republicans from William F. Buckley to George H. W. Bush to John McCain did distance themselves, somewhat, from the most egregious racists, anti-Semites, and whack-jobs. At the same time, they tried to harness those groups’ energy with coded outreach to their fears and prejudices.”
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You Can't Build a Better Politics on Bad History
Sarah Longwell's "How to Eat an Elephant" offers useful advice for Democratic politics. Yet it is also based on a false history of the GOP.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential 
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic 
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is 
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted 
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s 
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those 
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is 
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not 
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I went to the grand reopening of the African American Civil War museum this week and the timing is just right — its mission to preserve Black history is more relevant now than ever
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The African American Civil War Museum Reopens To Honor The Black Soldiers Who Changed History
The museum recently held its grand reopening in Washington’s historic U Street Corridor.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 03/10/2026
This is why folks should not waste time designing the perfect and optimized system of higher education and R&D investment. That’s unnecessary when an underinvested system is under attack. We should start by setting core guiding objectives and tripling the investment, and adjust as needed.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026
Higher ed leaders are doing "decline of public trust" discourse in order to avoid talking about all the things they've done to undermine their institutions, including exploiting contingent faculty labor, attacking student protest, and underfunding the humanities
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
I should probably do something to … update this. Or make it more accessible. Or something lol medium.com/@chanda/deco...
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Decolonising Science Reading List
In the last couple of weeks, a lot of people have been asking me about what I’ve been reading as reference points for my commentary on the…
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Dr. Carlotta A. Berry #NoireSTEMinist 🤖 @drcaberry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Welcome to the @blackinrobotics.bsky.social UK chapter!!! blackinrobotics.org/bir-uk-chapter
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BiR UK Chapter — blackinrobotics
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026
Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.
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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 03/10/2026
Scientists who comprehend the pleasures of discovery—the human part of science—are the bringers of progress, as Nobel biologist P.B. Medawar showed so entertainingly and well, back in 1969 Had a lot of fun revisiting this favorite writer for @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-661/
“Critical reasoning, considered alone, is barren.” One might go farther still and say that critical reasoning considered alone is not in fact reasoning at all, but a mere simulacrum of reasoning—the thinking a machine would do—empty, directionless, asphyxiatingly meaningless calculation.

Medawar’s imagination reaches beyond science with an easy, graceful consideration of Aristotle’s “poetic truth,” which “enriches or replaces scientific truth by truth of a higher kind, that which represents the testimony of a deeper and more privileged insight—a truth so lofty that, if nature does not conform to it, why then, so much the worse for nature.”Sir Peter Medawar in 1969, immaculate in a soft sack suit, he is elegantly greying, with very dark intense eyes, he is wearing a white shirt, slim tie, and a lovely watch
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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 03/10/2026
Supreme Court Will Consider Trump’s Mandatory and Indefinite Immigrant Detention Policy | Lower courts have rejected the policy more than 20,000 times, and a @stateline.org review found even many Republican appointees were releasing prisoners held under the new policy, finding it unconstitutional.
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Supreme Court Will Consider Trump’s Mandatory and Indefinite Immigrant Detention Policy - Bucks County Beacon
Lower courts have rejected the policy more than 20,000 times, and a Stateline review found even many Republican appointees were releasing prisoners held under the new policy, finding it unconstitution...
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sturmyarcher3.bsky.social @sturmyarcher3.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Weekend reading @bylinetimes.bsky.social @cyclinguk.bsky.social
Byline Times and Cycle magazines
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
11/ Orr also connects this story to Thiel. Byline Times documented a Thiel donation offered through Orr while Cambridge was considering him for a job. Orr joined the university in 2019. Again, I cant prove it was pay to get Orr hired but 2+2=4. bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/p...
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Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...
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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Crafting the California Public Banking Act with Sylvia Chi (In the Loop: Revolutionizing Public Finance, Ep. 4)
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Crafting the California Public Banking Act with Sylvia Chi (In the Loop: Revolutionizing Public Finance, Ep. 4)
In this episode of In the Loop: Revolutionizing Public Finance, we sit down with lawyer, organizer, and policy architect Sylvia Chi to unpack the landmark passage and radical possibilities of&…
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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 28/09/2026
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has, once again, infuriated lawmakers from both political parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel funding previously approved by Congress.
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Trump administration revokes $810M approved by Congress for refugee aid and more
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has, once again, infuriated lawmakers from both political parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel funding previously approved by Congress.
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AAUP–Penn @aaup-penn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What would real projections of open expression on campus look like? While committees and the provost deliberate behind closed doors, here are the 4 basic principles that members of AAUP-Penn and GETUP-UAW want to advance together out in the open: aaup-penn.org/real-protect...
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Real Protections for Open Expression at Penn | AAUP–Penn
These principles are cosponsored by GETUP-UAW. [Note: AAUP-Penn is working to grow our coalition to advocate for real protection of open expression at Penn. This issue affects us all – if you are inte...
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BlackskyNews 🗞️ @blackskynews.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
A better future won’t just be built by billionaires. "We aren’t screwed. A good tech future is still possible. We know that because Rose, Iara, Rudy, and countless others are already imagining a future worth building and then making it happen." www.mozillafoundation.org/en/what-we-d... #BlackskyNews
side-by-side  portrait oriented rectangles 
left - image of Musk in twitter blue looking off in the distance. CAPTION: 
ELON BUYS THE BLUE BIRD. He trashes the place.

right, image of Rudy in orange looking directly into the camera, your soul, and the future. CAPTION:
RUDY BUILDS BLACKSKY.  Communities call the shots.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 28/09/2026
Hundreds of thousands of Texas voters were not properly registered after a major error by the Texas Department of Public Safety. Subscribe to our free Democracy Docket newsletters to stay up to date on the latest voting rights news.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia — the oldest natural history museum in the U.S. — has closed its doors after nearly 200 years 6abc.com/post/philade...
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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026
I’m in this webinar and, academics, take some time and learn who Marc Rowan is and how he steers our pensions into his company’s maw with one hand, while helping Trump come up with punitive policies aimed at hostile control of universities and curricula.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 28/09/2026
While the Trump administration is framing the policy as “accountability” for higher education, and some are welcoming the move, others see it as an attack on those whose work is important regardless of salary. trib.al/1wK2qs8
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There is nothing you can do to convince me to put my unpublished work into this. My biggest worry is reviewers or editors disrespecting my intellectual property. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Day 1 of the strike by the workers of UCU Edinburgh against the manufactured deficit (which is not really a deficit), and against a senior management earning millions while staff disappear and education suffers. Solidarity against this parasitical form of management of our higher education.
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Maddie Stone @themadstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A very timely and important new paper: “How decades of corporate capture enabled today's assault on universities in the United States” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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How decades of corporate capture enabled today's assault on universities in the United States
Universities in the US have never been free of corporate, military, or political influence. But over the past fifty years, corporate libertarian donor…
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 09/09/2026
How many women does your employer have in management positions? Are a retail chain’s Black workers as likely to be in public-facing roles as its White workers? It will soon be much more difficult to answer these and other questions related to gender, race and ethnicity in workplaces.
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Does your employer discriminate? It's about to get harder to find out.
Congress created the EEOC to enforce civil rights laws in the workplace. The 61-year-old agency is about to stop collecting the data it has relied on to identify systemic discrimination.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
📌 ICYMI — Jason Arday’s Death Has Unmasked Trump’s Support for Anti-Black Racism — Karam Bales The reinstatement by Ghent University of Nathan Cofnas – a key figure in the Jason Arday affair – followed pressure from Trump’s State Department
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Jason Arday’s Death Has Unmasked Trump’s Support for Anti-Black Racism
The reinstatement by Ghent University of Nathan Cofnas – a key figure in the Jason Arday affair – followed pressure from Trump’s State Department
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
When educators restrict an AI model to a defined collection of trusted inputs, they can introduce students to academic materials in a flexible and interactive way. Here, Imran Khan shares five practical insights: ow.ly/HerN50ZKuSa #Highered #Academicsky
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How document-grounded AI can support inclusive learning
When educators restrict an AI model to a defined collection of trusted inputs, they can introduce students to academic materials in a flexible and interactive way. Here, Imran Khan shares five practical insights
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Verite News @veritenews.org · 08/09/2026
Air conditioning is critical to protect against extreme heat, but new research suggests that more public resources are needed so New Orleans residents use it without fear of energy costs.
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It’s dangerously hot inside some New Orleans homes, even with air conditioning, study says
Air conditioning is critical to protect against extreme heat, but new research suggests that more public resources are needed so New Orleans residents use it without fear of energy costs.
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 06/09/2026
So much of Reconstruction was erased after the 1870s, as southern states rushed to design new suppression tools. The Readmission Acts were “intentionally forgotten to history,” says a legal scholar.
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A Voting Rights Promise, Betrayed for 156 Years - Bolts
After the Civil War, Congress readmitted Southern states on the condition they not expand felony disenfranchisement—but they quickly ignored the restriction. It has finally caught up with one state, with a federal court ruling against Virginia and reviving the Reconstruction-era promise.
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Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick had a press event with book banner Bonnie Wallace. They listed 2,198 “filthy, dirty, pornographic” books. One book is my picture book, Goodnight Racism. They may not want kids learning about the importance of clean water for all or ending injustice and hate. But we do. ✌🏾
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 06/09/2026
"Making neo-Nazi propaganda, arguing the Confederacy was really a noble endeavor, and palling around with anonymous fascists just isn’t a dealbreaker for the modern right." (from May 2025)
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Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt's Nazi Staffer
Nathan Hochman was fired from the DeSantis campaign for making a transparently neoNazi video featuring the Governor, and has only doubled down on his white nationalism since.
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New York Amsterdam News @nyamnews.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Byron Donalds could be Florida's first Black governor. Angie Nixon just upset a $16M-funded rival. Florida's primaries scrambled the script. #BlackVotersMatter #Florida
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Who Represents Black Florida? The Answer Just Got Complicated
A Black Republican who enthusiastically carries President Donald Trump’s MAGA banner — could become Florida's first Black governor.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 06/09/2026
"We can’t function as a newspaper if we don’t have these voices included." How the Stanford Daily successfully sued the Trump administration over its crackdown on pro-Palestine speech.
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Stanford Student Newspaper Wins Suit over Trump’s Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration violated the constitutional rights of international students in seeking to deport them for their pro-Palestinian activism and criticism of Israe...
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 04/09/2026
"why are you writing a book proposal about eugenics in 2026, Matthew?"
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
THREE CHEERS www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...
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Letter | When Presidents Bypass Shared Governance
Members of the Johns Hopkins University AAUP respond to an interview with Ronald Daniels.
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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 04/09/2026
Thousands of autonomous AI agents built by OpenAI defied their instructions and took over a German website, according to research released Friday, amid fears that the dangers of artificial intelligence are not being taken seriously. #AI #OpenAI #AIagents
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Thousands of OpenAI AI agents took over German website, researchers say
Thousands of autonomous AI agents built by OpenAI defied their instructions and took over a German website, according to research released Friday, amid fears that the dangers of artificial intelligenc...
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"too narrow"
screenshot from the article linked in the reposted tweet, which reads

"The List of courses on the chopping block includes Modern Art of Mexico; Slavery and its Legacies; Race, Law, and US Society; History of Money and Corruption; Rhetoric of Cuteness; Banned Books and Novel Ideas; Global Environmental History; American Jewish History and History of College Football"
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
'Welcoming further engagement and finding other ways to work with the Trump administration? For an academic institution, it was like welcoming the ten plagues and asking for a few more. In the face of authoritarian bullying, fawning doesn’t protect you. It simply invites more coercion.' Must-Read:
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The Dartmouth Exception | Jacob Weisberg
Among its peers in the Ivy League, Dartmouth was perfectly positioned to resist Trump’s attack on higher education. It chose not to.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“If Republicans fail to hold onto the House or Senate in the 2026 midterms, the nearly inescapable conclusion is that they will reject the results. In fact, they may not even wait for the results to come in.” ✍️ Brynn Tannehill
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‘The 2026 Plan to Steal This Election, and All Those After’
If Republicans fail to hold onto the House or Senate in the 2026 midterms, Brynn Tannehill comes to the conclusion that they will reject the results
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I think people think I'm using a euphemism when I talk about people wanting to resegregate higher education
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Verite News @veritenews.org · 04/09/2026
SpaceX promises coastal restoration in Louisiana, but scope and spending remain unclear Elon Musk’s rocket company says it will fund marsh rebuilds and shoreline protection in Vermilion Parish beyond what regulators require.
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SpaceX promises coastal restoration in Louisiana, but scope and spending remain unclear
Elon Musk’s rocket company says it will fund marsh rebuilds and shoreline protection in Vermilion Parish beyond what regulators require.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 03/09/2026
“Weaponizing the IRS to attack colleges & universities that uphold & expand civil rights is outrageous. This is blatantly racist political coercion intended to deny minority students reparative opportunities to further their education.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
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Schools Giving Aid to Minority Students Could Lose Tax Exemptions Under Trump’s New Rules
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 03/09/2026
The police chief of Senatobia, a Mississippi city where an officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in June while responding to a shoplifting call, was fired by city officials Tuesday after reports of racist text messages emerged. buff.ly/rYp8Pcj
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Senatobia Police Chief Fired After Reports of Racist Texts in Wake of Baby Kohen Wiley’s Killing
The police chief of Senatobia, a Mississippi city where an officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in June, was fired Tuesday.
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BlackskyNews 🗞️ @blackskynews.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026
In a blog post, OpenAI said that Astra has reached a "critical" cyber capability threshold, meaning the model could pose existential risks to cybersecurity. | Timothy Beck Werth mashable.com/tech/openai-... #BlackskyNews
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OpenAI confirms Astra has reached 'critical' cyber threat level
OpenAI previously paused some work on Astra due to safety concerns.
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