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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 3h

Everyone hates Donald Trump, so let's not go directly after him! Brilliant!

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 5h

Imperialism is just too hegemonic in the US.

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 5h

Jim Crow has another couple of decades, but it feels like it's already been effectively forgotten.

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 5h

Throw the Great Depression/New Deal into that pot as well.

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 5h

They represent their desire for a "legacy".

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As I’ve asked many times now, what constituencies does a university president represent? Because too often, the answer seems to not include anyone who works or studies at the university, and that seems like a problem.

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 6h

I can only assume the people not saying this never saw it. To this day my mom says one of the worst parenting mistakes she made was letting me watch it. I whole heartedly agree.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 6h

How is this not the answer for EVERYONE???

Nightmare horror death bunny from Watership Down

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 6h

He's a troll in the classic internet forum sense, and I don't know why more people don't see that.

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 7h

Hahaha love your work ❤️

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 21h

It's an attempt to directly politicize higher ed in a way that it is not (despite right wing rhetoric) currently.

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 21h

It's an attempt to bully higher ed into embracing "both sides" discourse similar to journalism. What really gives it away is that they are very clear that "viewpoint diversity" simply means GOP vs. Democrats, a very impoverished and flawed notion.

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 22h

To me this reads as him bemoaning the fact that people focus on economic problems that affect them personally, something that has always been true.

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Being brain dead (when it comes to certain things) is a job requirement for most mainstream pundits.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

the idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Have you been awake for the last decade?

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm sorry, man, I just can't do the whole "disagree w/o being disagreeable" thing in fucking 2026.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why is reducing ideological bias a goal? To what end? Politics is almost always a fight over values, not facts. I don’t care if I am “biased” towards social justice, whatever that means.

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I still think it's highly unlikely Dems take South Carolina, but this is potentially shaping up to be a real barn burner.

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That's a very large/old child to try to pick up. Weird stuff.

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Plenty of universities currently ban fraternities. My alma mater did. You're still welcome to form whatever organization you want w/ no connection to the university.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 04/10/2026

Things I’d happily eliminate from our university system tomorrow if given the power to: frats and D1 college sports

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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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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

if claude is concsious it's also enslaved

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are a lot people who are quite intelligent and can analyze things well until their residual patriotism/nationalism short-circuits their brains. He's one of them.

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's great that liberalism, toleration, the modern state system of international relations, etc. directly rose out of a bunch of Europeans saying, "We can't keep doing this shit."

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I always find it interesting when academics identify a negative trend among their peers and chalk it up to personal failing when it's almost always actually a response to structural incentives.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I want to believe that someone at the Times knew what they were doing here.

New York Times homepage link reading:
FRANK BRUNI AND BRET STEPHENS:
Behold the Paragons of Rank Incompetence

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Finally someone says it! Every time I see one of these I wonder if these people have/had elderly relatives.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Perhaps the story “malicious wingnuts with horrible agenda release heavily edited emails and files to newspaper journos who stampede them into print, telling the public they reveal a terrifying scandalous outrage, but actually it’s just crank horseshit and everyone involved knows it” sounds familiar

September • 1 hr 5 min
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The thing that makes me the most annoyed about this is that we've seen this precise playbook so many times, right?
This is the Twitter files, this is the Lab League, this is the Quote and Quote whistleblowers at gender clinics. It's like, ooh, there's secret documents, and everybody constructs it as a scandal.
It's all about why weren't they more transparent with the medical records, blah, blah, blah, and then on the merits, there's nothing there.
There will be a slow drip of light coverage that's sort of like, and it doesn't really appear that there was anything here, but we've all learned a lesson.
So I found an academic article called
Climate Gate Public Opinion and the Loss of Trust, which shows that it appears not entirely, but mostly due to the scandal. US popular support for climate change fell from 71% to 57%. Almost a 15% drop in two years.

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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What I think people need to take from JD is that he and others see the future of the party as a viciously, overtly racist Christian nationalist party and they are laying the groundwork to be successful in that future while Democratic consultants are stuck in the 90s.

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The literal job of people like Kyle is to lie to students, faculty, alumni, staff, and the public on behalf of the current university administration.

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To be clear, though, I didn't think it would get this bad this fast.

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most predictable thing in January 2025 was that the public would end up hating Trump. But somehow our pundit class concluded the exact opposite.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To some extent the entire unitary executive project is downstream of Nixon.

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Man, they really are trying to settle all the old scores.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Is there any chance, I wondered to myself, that this book foregoes saccharine and mistaken appeals to Abe Lincoln? Nope. In the foreword, Jonathan Haidt invokes the "better angels" line from the First Inaugural, failing - as almost every politician does - the "and what happened next?" challenge.

In the polarized America of today, we desperately need leaders who see this danger, understand its causes, and show us a way out. We need figures who rouse the "better angels of our nature," as Lincoln later put it. We need leaders like Governor Spencer Cox.

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To clarify, I get why Biden apologists say this, but I'm seeing a lot of Biden critics saying it too, and it really does seem like an attempt to strike the pose of being "reasonable" by taking a position that's popular but strikes me as, at best, unproven and unprovable.

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This position that "reasonable" people are taking that Gaza would have gone exactly the same way even had the US cutoff weapons strikes me as bizarre and based in magical thinking. I'm not clear why so many people are just asserting this as self-evidently true.

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think folks underestimate how much all of them are completely high on their own supply.

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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And that five of them claim to be devout adherents of a religion whose doctrine makes clear that capital punishment is immoral and must be forbidden all while they rub their claims of devout adherence in everyone's faces.

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We also have plenty of instances of earlier presidents pulling the leash on Israel. Biden seemed uniquely unwilling to do this.

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This recent news about Biden and Israel hads allowed many liberals to indulge one of their worst flawed views of the world: that talking is equivalent, perhaps even superior, to doing.

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My students often say that any collective or authoritarian action is communism.

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I feels like they are trying to get people to bring Taylorism to their day-to-day lives, which is horrifying.

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I mean, I would give just about anything for Democrats to be in control of higher ed in my state, but I'm under no illusion that they would be good for the humanities.

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