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Ronald Barba

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Senior editor at @chronicle.com, leading branded editorial. Ex-tech journalist, ex-Google 🥴.

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Francie Diep @franciediep.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Breaking: Trump's higher-ed compact is open to all, I confirmed for @chronicle.com: www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-tr... “We welcome any institution that wants to adopt these principles to sign the compact,” a source told me.
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Trump Welcomes ‘Any Institution’ to Sign Onto Compact Outlining His Priorities
An administration source told The Chronicle that “any institution that wants to adopt these principles” could sign onto the document, which offers a purported edge in grant funding.
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Ronald Barba @ronaldpbarba.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
He's threatened to "expose ideological corruption at the Department of Education" and created a playbook that's being used against colleges that advocate for DEI. Hear from the conservative activist Christopher F. Rufo in our latest episode of College Matters: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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Chris Rufo Floats Calling in ‘Troops’
Podcast Episode · College Matters from The Chronicle · 09/17/2025 · 59m
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Ronald Barba @ronaldpbarba.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Shared one professor listed on Turning Point USA's Professor Watchlist: “It was the greatest stress of my life, and I literally was just coming off having stage-three breast cancer...It was far more stressful than the cancer, far more stressful.” www.chronicle.com/article/char...
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Charlie Kirk’s Watchlist Made Some Professors’ Lives a ‘Living Hell’
His murder conjured up for targeted faculty mixed emotions ranging from empathy to contempt.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
A sign of the times? You mean a clock? Lol
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...
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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
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Ronald Barba @ronaldpbarba.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
"We can expect to see an intensification of the Trump administration’s political and legal battles with universities...and the continued erosion of academic freedom on campuses targeted by the administration." www.chronicle.com/article/char...
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Opinion | Charlie Kirk’s Death Is a Catastrophe for Higher Ed
Things were already bad. They’re about to get worse.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 09/09/2025
Every Apple event
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Ronald Barba @ronaldpbarba.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Person from your past who has zero desire to ever see or connect with you ever again: “Don’t be a stranger!”
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Ronald Barba @ronaldpbarba.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Sending my best friend Taylor and her partner a huge congratulations on their engagement.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Some incredibly good news: One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print. In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast. In short, it’s working. So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.
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Exclusive | The Onion Brought Back Its Print Edition. The Gamble Is Paying Off.
Publications turn to the old-style products to appeal to nostalgic readers and stand out in a crowded digital-media landscape.
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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 15/08/2025
As President Trump’s immigration crackdown plays out, the impacts are rippling across colleges –– from increased ICE presences to limits on access to education. Experts say the changes can hurt students’ success, retention rates, and whether they even come to campus. chroni.cl/4fXrUZj
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How President Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Affecting Higher Ed
Increased detentions, stripped tuition benefits, and other policy changes are imperiling college access for undocumented students — and instilling fear in the broader Hispanic community.
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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
the @chronicle.com has launched what is going to be a tremendously useful tool: a tracker of the Trump administration's activities affecting higher ed, particularly in the areas of civil rights, research, policy, and immigration. check it out: www.chronicle.com/article/trac...
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Tracking Trump’s Higher-Ed Agenda
The federal government is reshaping its relationship with the nation’s colleges. Use our new tracker to keep up with the latest.
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Ronald Barba @ronaldpbarba.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
“Donald Trump is going to war with higher education.” Tomorrow, we're talking Trump and higher ed in this @chronicle.com virtual forum: what has happened so far, which news is worth paying attention to, and how things will shape the future. connect.chronicle.com/trump-higher...
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Donald Trump and Higher Ed: What’s Next?
Join us Thursday, February 20 at 1 pm ET to discuss Trump's first month in office and to look ahead at what it portends for colleges and the people who work at them.
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All Kinds Of Nope @woozleweasels.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I've started investing in stocks : beef, chicken, vegetable... One day I hope to become a bouillonaire.
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Richard Blandford @rblandford.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Loads of spelling mistakes in this.
Copy of The Canterbury Tales.
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Ronald Barba @ronaldpbarba.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
JPM analysts, associates, and VPs: Welcome to the resistance, comrades.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/01/2025
the world is collapsing into fascism but I got my annual performance rating and it was solid and I still have a job so I got that going for me, which is nice
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Me: Oh no that trolley is going to run us over! Guy tied up on the track next to me who somehow thinks he's actually the guy holding the lever: Lol cry more 😂
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
lmao no, TikTok users are not moving to Bluesky. They would literally rather learn Mandarin than learn how to read a feed of text posts. This is a millennial retirement home.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
(replying) Hey man your post should've been different. You should've used a different word or possibly expressed a totally different idea entirely. Preferably the one I would've used
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onion person @junlper.beer · 07/01/2025
we are in the era of “it FEELS true” mindset
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
i do not understand how rotisserie chickens operate as a loss leader. you did not trick me into grocery shopping using the chicken, i had to go grocery shopping and now i have a delicious cooked chicken for only 7.99
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 04/01/2025
Was not particularly interested in seeing Wicked, and then my wife gave it a Media Studies framing and said it’s actually about how a gullible and ill-informed public is easy to manipulate with misinformation and I was all in, great movie, 10/10 so far.
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Anthony Iannaccio @mrtonynacho.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Mister Rogers never misses
You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful 

Mister Rogers’ NeighborhoodThan any computer could ever be. You know why?

Mister Rogers’ NeighborhoodYou’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine.

Mister Rogers’ NeighborhoodHuman beings are far more wonderful than machines.

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/01/2025
commenting on something happening in some corners of tiktok right now but this is a general observation: it is absolutely brain-breaking how so many people have lost the ability to disagree with someone without denouncing them as ontologically evil or pathological or whatever else
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Ronald Barba @ronaldpbarba.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I took a screenshot of my gold Mew EX pull while FaceTiming my boyfriend lmao
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Ronald Barba @ronaldpbarba.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Hm okay
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
With all the photoshopped content out there someone explain to me how this is actually real
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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Oh is there a football scrimmage today? I didn’t notice. I was in my laboratory, curing the world’s diseases
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 28/12/2024
This was, uh… ten years ago now
My tweet saying, “If Asian Americans talked about white Americans the way whites talk about black folks, they'd bring back the Exclusion Act.”
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Ronald Barba @ronaldpbarba.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Send help.
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Anna Iovine @annaroseiovine.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Constantly thinking of this Marilyn Frye quote From @taylorlorenz.bsky.social’s newsletter www.usermag.co/p/tiktok-is-...
Headline: Do men know what an actual woman looks like?

Candid, paparazzi photos of actor Sydney Sweeney in a purple bikini

Text: After candid photos of Sydney Sweeney in a bikini leaked online, thousands of men on X have been having a full on mental breakdown because she doesn't look exactly the same as when she's glammed up for an award show or airbrushed in a magazine. They've been tearing her apart for her body, her face, and basically calling her an ugly hag and a catfish.The entire "controversy" reminds me of the famous quote from philosopher Marilyn Frye, who wrote in her book, The Politics of Reality:
Essays in Feminist Theory, "To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire... those are, overwhelmingly, other men.
In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex. Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving."
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Self awareness is the most important trait you can cultivate. Only through constant introspection can you develop the wisdom necessary to be sad all the time
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
oh wow you’re about to watch your favorite xmas movie? omg its die hard? lol that’s so cool bc like, its an action movie so you wouldnt think, but wow thats super cool. you should go tell everyone you know what your favorite xmas movie is
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago 🧪 #IDsky www.science.org/content/arti...
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Here's the visual proof of why vaccines do more good than harm
See year by year how vaccines beat back nine dangerous infectious diseases
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
starbucks barista: order for cathy lou cthulhu: (visibly incensed) i guess that's me
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 14/12/2024
Randomly remembered this galaxy brain take
Jack Posobiec: What if instead of a vaccine we just were able to get exposed to a weak version of the virus that enabled us to build the antibodies we need to fight the real thing.
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 13/12/2024
you (plebeian, unrefined): Die Hard is a Christmas movie me (worldly, sophisticated): Die Hard is a Christmas film
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Call me old-fashioned, but I truly believe soup is meant to be made in a cauldron over an open fire under a full moon with the sound of wolves in the distance.
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Cake 🍰💖 @freusan.co · 11/12/2024
WHAT DO YOU MEAN FOX NEWS AIRED A LUIGI FANCAM WITH A RENAI CIRCULATION ENGLISH COVER 😭
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Steinbeck: What did you think of my draft of 𝘖𝘧 𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘢𝘯? Publisher: It needs more characters. Steinbeck: I'll see what I can do.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 11/12/2024
you actually can fill the void at the core of your being with worldly possessions if you're really, really good at buying stuff
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/12/2024
republicans should definitely try to stop the corrupt democrats from winning with the electoral college by getting rid of it
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
ST PETER AT THE PEARLY GATES: yep one moment, just pulling up your Likes tab
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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 09/12/2024
JESUS LE TITS NOW
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doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
reading hp lovecraft is wild because you'll finish a story that shook you to the core with its timeless and inimitable depiction of unfathomable cosmic body horror and then learn he wrote it as an allegory for, like, interracial dating
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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 08/12/2024
My big project: The Death Generator. It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything. deathgenerator.com
The Mario 64 intro scene with a letter from Princess Peach, reading:
Dear Mario. Please come to the castle. I'm down bad. Yours truly-- Princess Toadstool (Peach)CATS from the video game Zero Wing (the All Your Base Are Belong To Us game), saying: "I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is Futile"Dracula from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, saying to Richter "Get out of my house"The transportation advisor from SimCity 2000, saying "YOU CAN'T STAY ON TWITTER! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!"
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