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Sara Partridge, PhD

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higher education policy • humanities & the liberal arts • progressive politics currently @ Center for American Progress • views my own

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Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Chaos and confusion on campuses as a result of the conflicting guidance given by the Trump admin to colleges about loan limits for students who are currently in school. For some students, it may mean they can't find the funds to complete their degrees. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Students and Colleges Grapple With New Loan Limits
Evolving guidance from the Education Department shut two students out of federal student loans. “It really feels like someone’s stabbing you,” one mom told Inside Higher Ed.
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Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Did the University of California system moving to test-blind admissions result in enrolled students being less prepared than previous cohorts, as some have claimed? A more comprehensive look at this problem indicates that it did NOT.
chronicle.com
A Researcher Adds What’s Been Missing From the UC Testing Debate: Nuance
A new brief by a prominent scholar argues that some criticisms of the University of California’s test-free policy are predicated on assertions that simply aren’t true.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/09/2026
Black text on white page that reads:

In 1882, 10,000 workers marched up Broadway in the first-ever Labor Day parade. Led by democratic socialists and organized by New York’s unions, they rallied the movement that went on to win us weekends, safety standards, overtime pay, a minimum wage, and social security.

None of those victories were guaranteed. And none are permanent.

We created the first-in-the-nation Office of Worker Power to put the full weight of City Hall behind the people who keep New York running. On Labor Day, we honor the workers who came before us by fighting for the workers who come next.

Happy Labor Day, New York. The future of worker power is ours to build. Learn more at nyc.gov/workerpower.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/09/2026
When 3M scientist Kris Hansen discovered that a chemical the company produced was in the blood of the general public, her bosses questioned her work. Yet all along, some people inside the company had known the same thing. Listen to this excerpt:
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21/08/2026
BIg Beautiful Bill
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/08/2026
Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. (Published April 2025)
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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/08/2026
There is little evidence that MAGA influencer Nick Adams’ nonprofit has provided the civics education it claims. A review of the organization's finances show that it has paid Adams and his mother more than half its recent annual revenue.
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This MAGA Influencer Runs a Charity to Teach Kids Civics. Much of the Money Goes to Him Instead.
Nick Adams’ Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness has brought in millions in donations and helped him land a State Department appointment, but records show there is almost no indication FLAG w...
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Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Who else is hurt by Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill"? K-12 students in public schools may lose access to free school meals as a result of the BBB's massive cuts to SNAP and Medicaid. This video explains how:
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Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
🔔 NEW from @americanprogress.bsky.social: "The Trump Administration Moves To Tighten Grip on Colleges" This report shows how forthcoming regulations would weaken and politicize college accreditation. Read more here ⬇️ www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
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The Trump Administration Moves To Tighten Grip on Colleges
New rules would gut key student protections on program quality and give the federal government leverage to exert ideological control over American higher education.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
As an American history professor, I regularly read new books, articles, and dissertations, and also evaluate unpublished manuscripts for journals and book publishers. I would not categorize the recent and emerging historiography in the binary way that Ezra Klein does.
There has been a severing of American history into two visions: one that can only see glory and one that can only see suffering and sin.
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allie10.bsky.social @allie10.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Climate.us 💥🌪️☀️❄️🌬️💦💧🌊🍀
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 25/06/2026
Bluesky launched in February 2023 as an invite-only platform. As of June 2026, we have 45 million users. For reference, that's almost the population of Argentina. Thank you for being here with us 💙 Here’s to the next 45 million accounts.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
New paper from me and @jaredb-econ.bsky.social on the debt and our fiscal outlook! Before we dig into the paper, I think we should be frank about how we got here. At the beginning of the century, debt was on track to be stable indefinitely. Then Congress enacted enormous tax cuts. Now it's not.
A line graph showing that the debt as a percentage of the gross domestic product are historically high outside of recessions and wars, but it would instead be declining if not for the Bush and Trump tax cuts.A line graph showing that interest payments as a percentage of the gross domestic product net of Federal Reserve remittances are historically high outside of recessions and wars, but they would instead be declining if not for the Bush and Trump tax cuts.A line graph showing that primary deficits are historically high outside of recessions and wars, but the United States would instead be running a primary surplus if not for the Bush and Trump tax cuts.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/06/2026
Obama shouts out "those ordinary people in the Twin Cities who braved frigid temperatures, risked their own safety, standing shoulder to shoulder to look our for their neighbors and sometimes for strangers because they knew that was the right thing to do"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/06/2026
it's notable to me that the administration tried to frame tonight's UFC event as a "gift to Americans" but you can't watch it unless you have a paid subscription to Paramount+
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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Props to CNN’s chyron writer:
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 11/06/2026
In upsetting news you may have missed - ~40 detainees in a California concentration camp have been on a hunger strike since *mid-May* Their demands? Basic rights: access to clean food and water and adequate medical care This is happening in our country. We should all be ashamed.
sanfernandosun.com
Immigrant Rights Advocates are Fasting in Support of ICE Detainees on Hunger Strike - The San Fernando Valley Sun
Michelle Arkin has been fasting intermittently in support of immigrants on a hunger strike at two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers in San Bernardino County. This week, the […]
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Buttigieg: We sit in a in a country that's got the wrong number of people on the Supreme Court, possibly the wrong number of representatives in the House of Representatives. And by the way, when you consider the disenfranchisement of the people of DC, we have the wrong number of states in the US
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arr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/06/2026
JACOBS: I have one last question for you. Who won the 2020 presidential election? MARCO RUBIO: I'm not here to answer about 2020 JACOBS: It seems like you have an issue admitting facts, just like you couldn't admit the shoes the president bought you were too big RUBIO: The florsheims fit fine
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Trump is giving himself a free hundred plus million dollars by preventing the IRS from auditing him, according to the tax records we’ve seen.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/05/2026
NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️
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It's the End of American Science As We Know It
We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 29/05/2026
1/ Cuba is out of fuel, strangled by the US fuel chokehold. People are dying, systems are breaking down. This is collective punishment against a people who have done absolutely nothing except live their lives under hard conditions imposed by the US blockade for decades.
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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026
President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...
So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.
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Tom Moore @thmoore.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I have me a Substack regarding the Corporate Power Reset, which aims to undo Citizens United (and is on the march!). Check it out!
corporatepowerreset.substack.com
Your State Can Kill Citizens United.
No federal Constitutional amendment required, no waiting for a new Supreme Court. Welcome to the Corporate Power Reset Substack. Here’s the whole idea in one post.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
This is evil collective punishment.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.
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Joseph Lewczak (Truth Seeker) @truthseeker59.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This painting is titled "Sun on a House, Dieppe" and was created in 1937 by British artist James Proudfoot (1908–1971).
Subject: The artwork depicts a sunlit building in the French coastal town of Dieppe, showcasing a stark contrast between bright yellow light and deep shadows.Style and Medium: It is an oil on canvas painting that utilizes an impressionistic style to capture the mood and character of the architectural scene.Location: The original painting is held in the collection of the Perth & Kinross Council in Scotland.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/05/2026
Black text on white page that reads: 

Amazon is worth $2 trillion. But it didn't deign to pay the millions of dollars it racked up in unpaid fines as its’ trucks illegally polluted our air and forced New Yorkers to breathe in their exhaust. 

We collected every dollar they owe the people of this city — and will continue to hold them accountable. In New York, corporations are held to the same standard as everyone else. 

No company — no matter how large or powerful — is above the law.
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
A bee's brain may be as small as a sesame seed, but it can recognize and remember human faces. Nature never ceases to amaze us. Every tiny creature plays a major role in our world. Protect bees, protect life, protect nature.
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Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
the kids are all right.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.
arstechnica.com
Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags
The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
My latest @nytimes.com oped shows that the White House is dramatically understating the cost of the war in Iran. By my calculations—and I show my work—this war will cost the typical American family thousands, and it could cost them tens of thousands. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/o...
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Opinion | Hegseth Says This War Has Cost $25 Billion. I Tallied Up the True Amount.
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:
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Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/05/2026
COLBERT: How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president? OBAMA: Well, you know, the bar has changed. I think you would perform significantly better than some folks we've seen. COLBERT: Is that an endorsement? OBAMA: It was not
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/05/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The “proposal, put forth by the Labor Department to fulfill a recent Trump executive order, is a consequential mistake,” Steven Rattner writes of the administration’s effort to allow Americans invest their individual retirement accounts in private equity.
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Opinion | This Trump Proposal is Good for Private Equity — and Not Good for Our Retirement Accounts
A win for private equity. A loss for our retirement assets.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 30/04/2026
Hillary was right about everything.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/04/2026
Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ theonion.com/supreme-court-overturn…
Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’
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Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Senate Republicans just canceled a closed-door hearing with Sec. Linda McMahon rather than allowing it be held in full view of the public. The public deserves answers and accountability for the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle the Dept. of Education. www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releas...
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Kaine Statement on Cancellation of Meeting with Education Secretary McMahon | U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the...
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 27/04/2026
The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
For rural communities, vouchers are not a cost-free policy that simply expands education options for children—they are a subsidy for wealthy urban and suburban families at the expense of strong public schools." via @epi.org www.epi.org/blog/voucher... (via @economicpolicy)
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Voucher programs fail rural schools
Voucher programs—which use public funds to finance private education—have been sweeping state and federal legislatures over the past few years. These bills are harmful to public schools, especially pu...
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The Trump administration has repeatedly framed mining, fishing, drilling, and logging as engines of rural economic revival. In reality, these extractive industries are increasingly automated, capital intensive, and designed to minimize labor. ampr.gs/41LzsrG
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Why Alaska and U.S. Territories Get Damage, Not Dollars, From Deep-Sea Mining
The Trump administration is advancing deep-sea mining in U.S. waters near the Pacific territories and Alaska, a process Indigenous leaders have identified as “resource colonialism” due to its prioriti...
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Someone really ought to write a book about the significance of #SCOTUS doing so many major things through unsigned and unexplained rulings, and how so much of it really is a recent phenomenon.
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AFT @aft.org · 14/04/2026
America's colleges & universities drive economic growth, create knowledge & expand opportunity for students seeking to build a better life for themselves and their families. That's why we joined the @aaup.org to release blueprint to strengthen higher ed. Read more: www.aft.org/.../aaup-and....
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Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The federal policy landscape for higher education has never been more complicated and urgent. Tune in to this @americanprogress.bsky.social event this Wed., April 15 from 11-12 PM ET to see how these changes are likely to impact community colleges.
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Gary @cytherian.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The real problem with data centers: they inherently create a serious pollution problem. There is no "closed-loop system" cooling those centers. They consume large amounts of water and produce toxic byproducts. Studies are compromised to hide these problems. REJECT! /P.1 #datacenters #pollution
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