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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 18h

A Democratic governor celebrating a hedge fund billionaire's donation to a private university feels very on brand for the party's higher ed agenda.

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Imagine if Tufts stopped admitting white men bc a white male former student allegedly did a crime. Oh wait. That exact scenario happened (Steve Tisch, Epstein files) & Tufts did nothing of the sort bc that'd be ridiculous. But the same logic is fine for formerly incarcerated folks of color? Cool

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‘TUPIT matters’: Students maintain community as future of TUPIT remains unclear - The Tufts Daily

MyTERN, the Education and Reentry Network program run by the Tufts University Prison Initiative at Tisch College, brings formerly incarcerated students to the Tufts campus to learn alongside full-time...

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Powerful plea today from my colleagues on the Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board, urging Pennsylvania to join most of our neighboring states in blocking local cops from working with ICE under 287(g), in which police terrorize our immigrant communities www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

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Pennsylvania’s shameful contribution to President Trump’s immigration crackdown | Editorial

Gov. Shapiro should seize the opportunity to counter a cruel attack on the state’s communities.

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Mnem @mnemonicer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

How are we just low finding this out 1.5 months later? Where was the NCAA and Kentucky State outcry? Where was the motherfucking press release? Where was her coach? Her AD? Academic advisors? Teachers? Dean? Provost? Teammates?

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport. She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury. It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players. They have failed.

Aminata Seck, 26, a student-athlete at Kentucky State University, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport while traveling with her school's basketball team Aug. 7, said Sadiqa Reynolds, a lawyer helping coordinate Seck's case.

Seck's team was headed to New York for a tournament, and she was taken into custody after going through airport security, said Reynolds, former president and CEO of the Louisville Urban League.

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Shireen Ahmed @shireenahmed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I had some thoughts about Sydney Sweeney and her recent commercial. This entire debacle has made me see and hear the powerful voices of women in sport. But make me question why we take Sweeney seriously at all. My latest for CBC Sports www.cbc.ca/sports/opini...

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OPINION | Sydney Sweeney has nothing to do with sports. So what is it about her ad that is making us so mad? | CBC Sports

If we start to consider Sydney Sweeney a notable personality in sports then we have really lost the plot.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Last week, I told you how local cops have partnered with ICE to bring tons of arrests and spread fear in small towns and rural areas like Schuylkill County, Pa. Now, I am asking Gov. Shapiro and others why PA can't ban 287(g) like NY, NJ, and MD have My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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Next-door states banned ICE-cop deals. Why not Pa.? | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, the threat to human civilization that isn’t AI.

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Kathleen Fitzpatrick @kfitz.info · 14/09/2026

What an *amazing coincidence* that the moves to undermine public higher education by shifting its costs from the government to students and families begins in earnest in the 1970s.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You know what gets a library perpetual access to a book??? Purchasing the physical book. I guarantee the publisher won’t come steal it back!!!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2026

mackenzie scott really seems like the only billionaire to figure out that you can be a literal hero to millions with a relative pittance

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Paul Steege @p-steege.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Very clearly articulated thread!

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is a good article. Thanks to @mikevachow.bsky.social for sharing it.

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The Lepage Center @lepagevu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Sept 23 | Virtual Panel: History Wars Join us for a virtual panel conversation on the history of historians under political scrutiny in the modern era. 🔗 Register: bit.ly/4yf39zl

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Paul Steege @p-steege.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“Two things can be true at the same time. That the university is under attack and that the university is complicit with the very terms of engagement that place it under attack should not be seen as a contradiction.”

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/09/2026

AI is not everything. You can still go to a library and pick up a book. We could have made the centerpiece of discussions of ed systemic underfunding & inequality. But instead the centerpiece is AI. There are other things we could be talking about, like the working conditions of teachers & staff.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is very good advice, even if the true problem is at the cultural and systemic level rather than at the individual level. We write too much because academic culture and system value quantity over quality. And this quantity clogs the system, further weakening the quality.

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Paul Steege @p-steege.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In the midst of everything a (small) bit of good news.

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

PSA: If you can't state this proudly, why are you running as a Democrat? More importantly, why are you asking me for $?

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Organizing a blue-ribbon committee to investigate…” “We’ve established five working groups on affordability…” Indistinguishable from parody. And this from @kentremendous.bsky.social is eight years old.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It's worth noting that this isn't a random number but a goal that would simply restore the court to an earlier norm in which there's one justice for each of the judicial circuits. We used to have nine, we now have thirteen. The people defending the current setup have the tougher case to make here.

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Christiane Reinecke @chreinecke.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In seinem gerade frisch erschienen Beitrag zum "Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe" diskutiert Lennart Schmidt die Genese und den Gebrauch von "Überfremdung" als "politisch wirksamer Problemformel". Unbedingt lesenswert!

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A very positive sign that, nearly a year after Kirk's death, many if not most of the people punished for speaking truthfully about him have won legal cases against their former employees and compensation. Again, panicked compliance with Trumpism has only *cost* institutions.

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 24/08/2026

Here are some of the declines in international student applications and enrollment revealed in a lawsuit challenging new duration of status regulations that would limit the ability to offer some programs of study and create administrative bloat on campus. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

Institution Grinnell College
Enrollment data 15.8 percentage point decline in international student yield from fall 2023 to fall 2026
Institution University of Illinois Chicago
Enrollment data 50 percent decline in admitted international students over historic levels
Institution University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Enrollment data 25.1 percent decline in international graduate applicants from 2025 to 2026 cycle
Institution University of Maryland, Baltimore
Enrollment data 37.9 percent decline in new international student enrollment from fall 2024 to fall 2025. Thirty-two students admitted for fall 2026 have withdrawn applications, and 14 have requested to defer their admission.
Institution University of Maryland, College Park
Enrollment data anticipated 30 percent decline in new international graduate students year over year
Institution University of Wisconsin–Madison
Enrollment data 10.9 percent year-over-year decline in undergraduate applications, and 27 percent year-over-year decline in graduate applications. Five undergraduate students who put down deposits have since withdrawn.
Institution University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Enrollment data 42 percent decrease in applications, 29 percent decrease in admissions and 38.7 percent decrease in enrollments year over year

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"The real trouble with us professors was that we were absorbed in our day-to-day tasks. Most of us can say with some justice that we were good workmen. Is it equally true to say that we were good citizens?" Marc Bloch, 1940.

The movements of the Stock Exchange vary according as the fluctuation of current prices are or are not known to the aggregate of shareholders. But of what is the general mind composed if not of a multitude of individual minds which continually act and react upon one another? For a man to form a clear idea of the needs of society and to make an effort to spread his views widely is to introduce a grain of leaven into the general mentality.
By so doing he gives himself a chance to modify it to some small extent, and, consequently, to bring some influence to bear upon the course of events which, in the last analysis, are dictated by human psychology. The real trouble with us professors was that. we were absorbed in our day-to-day tasks. Most of us can say with some justice that we were good workmen. Is it equally true to say that we were good citizens?

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is great and helps us appreciate what's being systematically destroyed

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

There is no moral, empirical, or politically strategic argument for the left to support existing expenditures on the bureaucracies of repression. Anyone telling you candidates have to pretend to support extant budget allocations between repression and care is not being serious.

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Paul Steege @p-steege.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This database is an incredible resource.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 17/08/2026

Extractivism. Occupy the thing to be extracted, control it, then sell it back to the people you've dispossessed.

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Paul Steege @p-steege.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"Fascinating" is a rather generous assessment, TBH. The connection you make seems pretty spot on.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A succinct verdict on the persecution of the poor young academic who just died by suicide. Plagiarism is common. Persecution of the kind he endured is uncommon, aka selectively applied. The reason why he was targeted seems as clear as it is ugly.

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Annia Ciezadlo @anniaciezadlo.com · 15/08/2026

"Universities now have more adjuncts than tenured and tenure-track professors combined. Many adjuncts make around $4,000 a course, and a quarter of adjuncts make less than $25,000 a year. In no city in the United States is this enough money to live off comfortably."

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This says it all about the double standards to which Jason Arday and other Black academics have been subjected to under the guise of anti-DEI, anti-wokism, anti-affirmative action. From Dr. Stacey Patton’s Facebook.

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ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This summer, Black scholars in THE NEW YORK TIMES and THE ATLANTIC have become spectacles. Meanwhile, white mediocrity remains OUT of the spotlight. Notice that and save your sanity! www.korithamitchell.com/seeing-black...

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Seeing Black Scholars Targeted, Noticing What Too Many Miss - Koritha Mitchell

The New York Times placed an ugly spotlight on a Black scholar in mid-July and on another (across the pond in England) a few weeks later. These stories revolved around Black individuals, but the frami...

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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is excellent! "The additional awards, made possible by an anonymous donor, will support scholars confronting official constraints on their research and writing owing to the contested nature of their fields." www.acls.org/news/acls-an...

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ACLS Announces Additional Fellowships to Support Scholars

Ten additional awards will be added to the ACLS Fellowship Program for the 2026-27 competition year.

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026

There are so many incredible Black scholars in academia who have produced theoretically powerful, methodologically rigorous work & yet publications are desperate to give attention to one who has decided to leverage his grievance agenda into a career. Please learn from Black scholars doing the work

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If you've ever thought about why two Japanese cities were obliterated or President Truman's role in the decisions, read this thread. It's probably not what you thought!

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"Election officials and lawyers noted how surreal it is, even after a decade of Trumpism, to treat the nation’s duly elected president as the primary threat to the freedom and fairness of American elections." Yes. Always keep this front and center.

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Paul Steege @p-steege.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A sure sign that the fall semester isn’t too far away: @cjdenial.bsky.social pops into my feed with something that gets me thinking about teaching and learning.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

“It is the backbone of a superstructure that merges regressive politics with unchecked economic power in the guise of technological innovation. Put simply, there is too much $$, some of it too untraceable, giving a small group of unelected ppl too much power over the people. That’s data politics.”

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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Now available in Open Access! 🔓 A special issue of "Geschichte und Gesellschaft" (@ggjournal.bsky.social) on "Gender Regimes", edited by Christina von Hodenberg (GHIL) and Sylvia Walby (Royal Holloway, UoL), which brings together historians, sociologists, & political scientists. 1/3

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Wer die zunehmend schneller werdende Faschisierung hierzulande nur als Ergebnis effektiv bespielter Aufmerksamkeits-Ökonomie abtut, verkennt, worum es eigentlich geht: die massive Gefährdung und Entmenschlichung von marginalisierten Gruppen, die längst nicht nur in der afd stattfindet

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Bradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Great thread. Yale’s efforts at some kind of settlement should cast doubt on its much-publicized April report on the humanities. It wasn’t a report, but a performance to satisfy political censors. Pundits who praised the “report” as a source of “bold ideas” for reform should admit their complicity.

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Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com · 02/08/2026

Perhaps one day people will understand and acknowledge that the far right, and especially far-right discourse, is not an anomaly, something taking place far "away" from the democratic "mainstream", but rather something now firmly established within and fundamentally part of it.

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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Somebody should adapt this Merwin poem, that’s what I think

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Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com · 01/08/2026

The "mainstream" discourse on Ceuta shows quite clearly how the discourse has shifted, how norms and humanity have eroded, and how fear of (or perhaps, agreement with) the far right shapes the politics and discourse of the day.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

People need to start getting disbarred for this shit.

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