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Michael Connor

@michaelconnor.bsky.social
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Executive Director, Open MIC. Owner, Business Ethics Magazine. Former media exec (Dow Jones, Cablevision), journalist (WSJ, ABC News) and lifelong Yankee fan.

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Michael Connor @michaelconnor.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Trump Administration Texted College Professors’ Personal Phones to Ask If They’re Jewish theintercept.com/2025/04/23/t...
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Trump Administration Texted College Professors’ Personal Phones to Ask If They’re Jewish
“Barnard was not given advance notice of this outreach,” the college’s general counsel wrote in an email to faculty.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Apart from everything else—his mendacity, his malevolence, his depravity—Trump is just … dumb.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
For years conservatives and some liberals complained incessantly about ‘cancel culture’ and the lack of ‘free speech’ on campuses. None of that stuff comes even close to what the right is now doing in power, in terms of the open bullying and pressuring of colleges and censoring of curricula.
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Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard Crimson
Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, Hist...
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 29/03/2025
Affirm says that it’s reached an agreement with JPMorgan Chase to offer its buy now, pay later loan services to merchants on the bank’s payments network.
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Affirm announces JPMorgan Chase merchants can now offer installment loans at checkout
The deal follows a similar announcement from rival Klarna last month, in which the Swedish fintech lender said it would be available to JPMorgan’s merchants.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The tell here is that Vance’s statement only makes sense if NATO ceases to matter. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Michael Connor @michaelconnor.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Government efficiency at its best.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Sending a Russian dissent back to Russia to be tortured and/or killed perfectly encapsulates this loathsome administration’s lack of American values.
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