Reposted by Isaac SpeerUniversity of California Faculty Associations @cucfa.org · 03/10/2026Thanks to the advocacy of hundreds of faculty who joined the fight through their Faculty Associations, the $7.5B California Research Fund (SB 895) is now headed to the 2028 ballot where this funding decision will be in the hands of California voters. cucfa.org/ca-research-... 01111
Reposted by Isaac SpeerDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Impossible to understand how anyone could look at Rufo's career and conclude he was someone engaged in a "forthright defense of meritocracy." Rufo's entire career is built on the idea of purging people who don't think or look like him from positions of power. 561569347
Reposted by Isaac SpeerNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Normalization is treating the president stealing from taxpayers to buy campaign ads and offer bribes to voters like it's just another day. Normalization is reacting with "won't work" or "polls poorly," and not "resign immediately or you'll be removed, we exist because of a revolution against that." 11394119
Reposted by Isaac SpeerMark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026Killed. 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. 151446528
Reposted by Isaac SpeerJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 03/10/2026So he did exactly what we thought he did -- instructing his aides to use taxpayer dollars to fund his propaganda ads. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...nytimes.comTrump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His PresidencyThe government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims. 810946
Reposted by Isaac SpeerDannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Do yourself a favor. Read these 7 pages by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social right now. It is the most concise explanation of the current situation in U.S. politics I've seen and it captures why calls to reduce "polarization" can ultimately worsen the problem 🧵 www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/pol...journalofdemocracy.orgPolarization Is Not the Problem | Journal of DemocracyAmericans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress. 12381174
Isaac Speer @isaacspeer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The worst people in the world keep doing terrible things with impunity. And then the good people are just supposed to turn the other cheek. 000
Reposted by Isaac SpeerErin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses... 9488303
Reposted by Isaac SpeerJacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Universities have been going for the “insiders strategy” of trying to lobby quietly without making public waves. Counterfactuals are hard, but I would say the strategy has been a complete failure. 310029
Reposted by Isaac SpeerJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 03/10/2026It’s weird to see so many higher education leaders beat their chests about “the decline of trust” from the public while refusing to acknowledge the conservative movement organizing to destroy it. Imagine someone stabbing you repeatedly while you complain about not having enough blood to bleed out. 5440131
Reposted by Isaac SpeerAdrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026New just now in The Atlantic: David Robinson resigned this week. He was among the longest-tenured employees at OpenAI—and oversaw safety reports on 12 frontier launches. He is very worried: “The time for trial and error is over.” You can read his essay here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...theatlantic.comI Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is BrokenThe industry’s approach to safety guarantees more failures. 12268111
Reposted by Isaac SpeerMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this. 27785304
Reposted by Isaac SpeerJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“Our business model is to bring enslaved conscious beings into existence, which we then murder at will.” So… you should all be in prison? 2776
Reposted by Isaac SpeerJosh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The entire last decade has been an exercise in creating a different set of standards for One Special Boy. Trump can never fail, people can only disagree about his performance. It isn't that he doesn't understand anything, he has unorthodox economic stances. It's delusions framed as evenhandedness. 59028
Reposted by Isaac SpeerAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026Trump: "Nobody knows that dumb has a B on the end" 3461356255
Isaac Speer @isaacspeer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026UCPD says it's not their job to stop classroom disruptions, even when those classroom disruptions involve sexually harassing faculty and students. It's a "boys will be boys" club with no regard for education or safety. 000
Reposted by Isaac SpeerSarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 01/10/2026“…the administration is using allegations of discrimination—including antisemitism—as a pretext for coercive strategies that are plainly unlawful and unconstitutional, and that undermine both civil rights–including the civil rights of Jewish Americans—and our constitutional democracy.”nationalcampusjewishalliance.orgPress Release September 28, 2026 — National Campus Jewish Alliance 132
Reposted by Isaac SpeerNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Amidst a failing war the US started, the SecDef chose to focus on measuring military members’ hormones, and injecting testosterone into personnel whose hormone levels he dislikes. He also fixates on PT while losing an air war. If you said this to someone a few years ago, they wouldn’t believe you. 85860202
Reposted by Isaac SpeerDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine. 462218778
Reposted by Isaac SpeerAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president 895254626027
Isaac Speer @isaacspeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My UCLA class was interrupted today by pranksters with a mariachi band. And I'm sure I'm not the only one. 120
Reposted by Isaac SpeerDavid Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 29/09/2026it's evidently too much to ask the rw justices to consider the irreparable harm to individuals treated to such inhumanity. they are complicit in this criminality. shame on all six of them. and shame on us for having a system that allows this illegality. 12417134
Reposted by Isaac SpeerMae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Seriously just enforce normal liability for AI on the owners and so much of this shit goes away AI companies want to be treated like the hired expert when it comes to pocketing any financial flows, but like a cursory Google Search whenever it comes to liability 635197
Reposted by Isaac SpeerDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient 192036615
Reposted by Isaac SpeerKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Democrats don't have any income" is an insane statement, but it's also an admission that he sees the money collected by the United States government as his personal piggy bank, to be raided as he sees fit. 611980413
Reposted by Isaac SpeerAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power" 346124754627
Reposted by Isaac SpeerHeidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This truly is horrifying. Not only is he unlawfully spending OUR money on a political ad, the whole point of the ad is that roughly half of the country consists of enemies who must be conquered. 44747162
Isaac Speer @isaacspeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Shame on UCLA, the "#1 public research university", removing classroom computers and forcing us lecturers to use our own laptops...as if UCLA cannot afford computers. This is a violation of lecturers' contract. Our union, UC-AFT, will be filing a grievance. 110
Reposted by Isaac SpeerNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The entire state government of California is a parable about how giving people more opportunities to vote on something is not, in fact, the same thing as making your political system more democratic. 719234
Reposted by Isaac SpeerMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A new trailer for Alex Gibney's documentary about Elon Musk was just released. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-do... 351301513
Reposted by Isaac SpeerMiriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 26/09/2026Why is UCLA (admin) LIKE THIS? The week before the fall quarter starts, we got told that all computers will be disappearing from classrooms. Especially frustrating for those faculty who don’t have a UCLA-supplied device. Thanks to @ucaft.bsky.social for pushing back. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comUC-AFT: Computer Removal/BYOD SurveyIt has come to UC-AFT’s attention that the University has begun the transition to a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) model for computer access in classrooms, and has already removed computers from several... 4298
Reposted by Isaac SpeerChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Every taxpayer, no matter your party, should be outraged by this. Your money is being used to fund campaign ads for Trump. It’s totally completely illegally. He’s stealing your money for his campaign. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...nytimes.com‘Love Me’ Ad Promotes Trump With Public Money Ahead of the MidtermsA disclaimer says the ad was paid for by the U.S. government, which could violate federal law. 25237161385
Reposted by Isaac SpeerDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say 6437511482
Reposted by Isaac SpeerBlake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Exciting new classroom capabilities, including “bring your own computer.” 4122
Reposted by Isaac SpeerEli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Boasting to the world of his mass terrorist atrocity: 1232878442
Reposted by Isaac SpeerColin @colin-fraser.net · 24/09/2026The simple facts are: 1. OpenAI deliberately designed software for carrying out autonomous cyberattacks (they were training it on something called “ExploitGym” for heaven’s sake) 2. They left it on completely unmonitored 3. Exactly what you think would happen happened 56714
Reposted by Isaac SpeerOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This literal morning the White House is in defiance of a federal ruling involving the first amendment and the Dem response is a shrug. I mean… 2467
Reposted by Isaac SpeerJennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 24/09/2026Reporters stood at the White House gate this morning holding a federal judge’s order that said let them in, & were turned anyway. No explanation. No comment. Just a president ignoring a court like it’s beneath him. This is an unprecedented, fascist assault on free speech. Free the press! 53772359
Reposted by Isaac SpeerKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 23/09/2026golly it's almost as if these right wing oligarchs are collaboratively dismantling systems designed to ensure informed electoral consensussemafor.comExclusive: Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investmentA cash injection from SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk could reduce investor Larry Ellison’s financial burden and bolster the deal’s investor base. 5329132
Reposted by Isaac SpeerJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 23/09/2026…also just happened to be conscious. We have no reason to expect that to be true. It’s like expecting a papier mache tiger to have a digestive system. juliansanchez.substack.com/p/dont-fall-...juliansanchez.substack.comDon't Fall in Love With Your ToasterA quick argument about AI consciousness 2354
Reposted by Isaac SpeerAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The CW idea impeachment backfires isn't true. Nor is there any value in surrendering in advance on conviction. But there's a more important long-term consideration. Looking at all this and saying nope, we're not even going to say he should be removed, is locking in a message for future presidents. 517347
Reposted by Isaac SpeerPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The media has done a terrible job highlighting that the ONLY refugees the US has accepted over the past year are White South African farmers. No one else is deemed worthy of consideration. It's an explicitly racist policy of the worst sort. 412945
