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Shailen Mishra 🇵🇸 🍉

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Fiction Writer. VAP at Swarthmore College. Co-editing an anthology on narrative empathy (2025/26). Invested in the intersections of body, ecology, emotions, rhetoric, narrative, and aesthetics. Anti-caste, anti-ethnocentrism, lefty. #freepalestine

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 11h
Eisenkot, the most likely alternative to Netanyahu for the next head of government in Israel, says yesterday that "two states for two peoples is a mistake" and that "Ben Gvir probably did some good things in the prisons". He also said he would not coalition with any of the Palestinian parties.
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Scroll @scroll.in · 11/10/2026
On Saturday, the Modi government pulled out all stops to protect #GyaneshKumar, India’s Chief Election Commissioner. scroll.in/article/1096... The police pulled every trick in the book to prevent protests. Detentions were arbitrary to the point of being illegal. Shoaib Daniyal reports.
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 11/10/2026
Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.
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Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes
Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.
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Balaeniceps tex 𓅣🌏🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☭ @socialistpuffin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
People tell me to "get a job" when I mention that I'm homeless. I was working full-time right before I had a mental breakdown that lead to me losing my job, housing, and possessions(and I have a job now even while living in a shelter). I wouldn't wish this on anyone.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BIG NEWS. Martin Soto, one of the orginal organizers of the Delaney Hall hunger strike, whose wife Gabi was an integral part of organizing on the outside against deplorable conditions, IS FREE. He was released just a few moments ago.
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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Srishti Gupta, a 28-year-old artist, has been in jail since April 11 after Uttar Pradesh Police detained her in connection with the Noida workers’ protest."
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'Her Crime Is Empathy’ How Srishti Gupta Went From Artist to Activist to Jail
Srishti Gupta’s journey from a fine arts student to working with Adivasi communities, women and children took her art beyond galleries and into grassroots life. Her involvement in the Noida workers’ p...
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 27/09/2026
Okay, you want more majors. But everyone knows that to do that you need small classes. And if you want small classes where students learn the content of humanities research knowledge and the methods of producing it, you need to hire more faculty and give them the resources to engage in research.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.
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Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)
At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.
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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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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
never forget that our universities fired and expelled people for opposing this
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 11/09/2026
The carceral system is a traumatic and deadly place — and it's only gotten worse in recent decades. From 2001 to 2019, deaths by suicide increased in state prisons by 85%. Incarceration is a mental health crisis.
Graph showing that suicide rates in prisons have always been higher than the general U.S. population, and the gap is widening. In 2001, it was 14 per 100,000 people vs. 10.4. In 2019, it was 26 vs. 14.2.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In country after country the story is remarkably similar. The ascendant far right has succeeded in getting center-right and center-left parties to accept their issue frames, and no one to the left of the far right is making a compelling case for an alternative. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How Sweden lost its soul – and stopped being Sweden | Martin Gelin
In 2022 my country entered a new era of cruelty. It will take more than one election to get the old, tolerant Sweden back, writes Swedish journalist Martin Gelin
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026
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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🎧NEW EPISODE🎧 As a Minnesotan and the daughter of a former 3M scientist, this one was a little bit personal. The incomparable @fastlerner.bsky.social asks the question, how does a multibillion dollar corporation keep a planet-sized secret... a secret? Listen here: www.propublica.org/podcast/fore...
Photo of Kris Hansen, former 3M scientist, in front of snowy scenery
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We’ve got a limited number of Understory toolkits printed for folks who attend our session at @socialismconference.org on Monday. We’ll be talking about how we created a spiritual and emotional support group for activists and how you can, too.
Kelly’s hand holding a printed, stapled copy of the Understory toolkit.
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
F-shaped blurbs, seducing chatbots, nicking quotes off GoodReads and paying BookTokers: in today's Guardian I investigated the book world's tricks of the trade.
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How to make a bestseller: insiders reveal the tricks of the book trade
From cover design to shelf placement and influencer partnerships … how publishers will persuade you to buy their books this autumn
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 27/08/2026
How many signatories of the open letter defending "academic freedom" for white supremacist "race realists" came to the public defense of Maura Finkelstein, a tenured associate professor at Muhlenberg College who was fired for reposting on Instagram a statement from a Palestinian American poet?
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Tenured Jewish prof. says she's fired for pro-Palestine post
Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College may have become the first institution since Oct. 7 to oust a tenured faculty member for such statements, though the professor is appealing the decision and still rece...
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Hrag Vartanian @hrag.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This review I published when I was EIC by Dexter Thomas, was the article that made it clear that Kusama anti-Blackness permeated her work, and even more disturbing, the art market was trying to cover it up in all sorts of ways.
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What the Art World Doesn't Want You to Know About Yayoi Kusama
A new publication tries hard to reinvent Kusama as a champion of racial equity despite her troubling record of anti-Black statements.
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Fansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
On July 8th, we published a piece on AI in Heated Rivalry fic fandom. On July 30th, the New York Times ran a piece on the same subject. We weren't surprised—because we knew a Times reporter had read our coverage. A tale of two fandom articles, part of a longstanding dynamic in the media industry:
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Lessons From a Heated Media Rivalry
How we learned that the New York Times has a Fansplaining account.
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Protean Magazine @proteanmag.com · 12/08/2026
Andy Hines on how profit incentive, prestige-seeking, and student repression intersect at elite universities. Despite institutions’ public commitments to free expression, willingness to quash protests can in fact be a selling point. www.proteanmag.com/2024/04/29/discipline-and-protest/
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Listen to chapter 1 of A is for Amoeba: The Story of Life in a Single Cell, by Nicholas P. Money. This lively and engaging biography of amoebas reveals why these tiny amorphous splotches with a spot in the middle have more to teach us than we ever imagined. press.princeton.edu/ideas/listen...
Amoeba: The Story of Life in a Single Cell, by Nicholas P. Money audiobook
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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com
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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Of course the University of Chicago just took a $50 million gift to “advance the University’s ambitious vision for AI by supporting the formation of a cohort of faculty who are pioneers in the use of AI in research in disciplines across the University” news.uchicago.edu/story/50-mil...
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$50 million gift to advance UChicago research and support faculty in AI
Gift from Rika and Joe Mansueto launches a nearly $200 million initiative to recruit and retain leading scholars across disciplines
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/08/2026
These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The moderates have lost several races in which they’ve outspent the left by 8-10x—and the NYT did not once frame it as “showing the limits of the establishment.”
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Hong’s Defeat in Wisconsin Shows the Limits of the Progressive Movement
Francesca Hong’s defeat in the Democratic primary for governor defied expectations and may have shown the democratic socialist wave cannot reach beyond urban centers.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Another way of saying this is: When admins hires an ed consultancy it is not to solve a problem. No cookie-cutter outsider is going to be better at solving uni problems than their own teams. Admins hire consultants to create problems that admins WANT to create, but don't want to shoulder blame for.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Remember, it's virtually impossible to sue federal agents, so it will be basically impossible to hold ICE officers who shock people without justification accountable. We should not be giving new weapons like this to a law enforcement agency that enjoys near-total impunity.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“We’re living in the effects of the casino economy,” Paulina Borsook says. “Until that changes, how are we going to change Silicon Valley? If there’s a big crash in AI, that may give us a real corrective. Because it’s all made of papier-mache and spit.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A tech prophet finally gets her second coming
In 2000, Paulina Borsook published a book foretelling the anti-government sentiments of the tech world. Now that it’s too late, people are ready to listen.
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Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
About 30% of the way through my personal AI empire big read! Many thanks to @karenhao.bsky.social @nsrnicek.bsky.social @roopikarisam.bsky.social @mattseybold.bsky.social @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Karen Hao, Empire of AI; Nick Srnicek, Silicon Empires; Rachel Adams, The New Empire of AI; Roopika Risam, Data Empire
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 06/08/2026
Complaining that primary voters picked the candidate more likely to lose on Election Day has become a face-saving tactic for moderates as they’ve watched their preferred picks lose against upstart insurgent campaigns like El-Sayed’s.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is an outstanding line and he should keep using it.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is the key takeaway: Haley Stevens got everything she could have asked for. AIPAC spent the most it ever has. The party pulled out all the stops. Millions were even spent to spread the false idea that the most popular president in modern US history endorsed her. And it still wasn’t enough.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 05/08/2026
A journalist covering events was severely beaten by Israeli soldiers, while locals were also attacked.
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Israeli forces detain Palestinians during raid in occupied West Bank
A journalist covering events was severely beaten by Israeli soldiers, while locals were also attacked.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Rather absurd framing when you consider the results up and down the ballot, and where expectations were before just the last few weeks.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 05/08/2026
‘I wanted to hug whatever remained’: Gaza families’ 3-year wait for funeral aje.news/mfsd6v
‘I wanted to hug whatever remained’: Gaza families’ 3-year wait for funeral
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
NEW: Israel has imprisoned an American teen. Soldiers raided Adam's West Bank home right before his sister’s grad party. They ignored his US passport. As they took him, they blew kisses at his mom. Adam is now the second American in Israeli prison. Trump just hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.
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Israel Has Imprisoned a 16-Year-Old Palestinian-American Boy for Two Weeks
Adam Karakrah is one of at least two Americans in Israeli prison – both held while Trump hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Just so everyone knows, this is a tried-and-true mainstream media tactic. For progressives/leftist candidates, every election is a “crucial test” and any loss would serve as proof to the media that the latest left-side moment is at its end. Any win, though, just means it’s time to find a new test.
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop
gun shop next door to a preschool
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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 02/08/2026
Nixon and Glendy's lives were cut short because anti-immigrant policies sent them back to a place where their lives were at risk. Now, three young girls are without their parents. 2/3
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Abby Vesoulis @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Just to be clear, I reported an exhaustive piece about the allegations against Max Miller on July 18. The New York Times published their story, without crediting me, on July 28. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"No," he said, "millions. One Jewish life, it's 10 million [Palestinians]." Challenged on the racism of his statement, he did not deny it. "Yes, I know," he replied. "But this is the truth, because God chose us [and] because of this you are jealous." This man is a lawyer. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Israeli West Bank settler tells BBC attacks on Palestinians are justified as revenge
Settler violence against Palestinians is on the rise in the West Bank, as settlements and outposts expand.
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Noah Lanard @nlanard.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Michigan's Democratic Senate primary now has more super PAC spending than any Dem congressional primary on record. It's hard to overstate just how lopsided the spending has been in favor of Haley Stevens. Article here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This story is so absurd that I think it didn’t get enough attention. Chicago police is violating the law to the tune of hundreds of thousands of secret traffic stops that it’s not reporting as the law requires. When Pascal discovered this, they said they’d fix it… but secrecy has only increased!
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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Some impressively obscene grifts here
Ivy+ University President Total Compensation FY 2025
Larry Jameson (UPenn)
$8,043,343
Ronald Daniels (Johns Hopkins)
$5,871,487
Daniel Diermeier (Vanderbilt)
$3,416,810
Vincent Price (Duke)
$2,206,978
Sally Kornbluth (MIT)
$2,151,788
Sian Beilock (Dartmouth)
$2,108,837
Paul Alivisatos (UChicago)
$2,082,741
Reginald DesRoches (Rice)
$2,074,566
Christina Paxson (Brown)
$1,953,784
Minouche Shafik (Columbia)
$1,826,091
Katrina Armstrong (Columbia)
$1,763,852
Christopher Eisgruber (Princeton)
$1,657,737
Alan Garber (Harvard)
$1,642,838
Jonathan Levin (Stanford)
$1,564,885
Michael Kotlikoff (Cornell)
$1,405,700
Maurie McInnis (Yale)
$890,194
Data from Northwestern and CalTech were not available for FY 2025 at the time of publication.
Chart: Seyun ParkSource: IRS Form 990 FilingsGet the dataCreated with DatawrapperDuke’s Highest-Paid Employees and Officers, FY 2025
Base Compensation
Bonus and Incentive Compensation
Other Reportable Compensation
Retirement and Other Deferred Compensation
Nontaxable Benefits
Neal Triplett
$887.72K
$3.98M
$5.02M
Manuel Diaz
$4.12M
$4.29M
Jonathan Cook
$2.7M
$592.44K
$3.39M
Jennifer Francis
$2.5M
$2.99M
Jonathan Scheyer
$1.59M
$1.15M
$2.83M
Joseph Turek
$2.25M
$2.6M
Justin Nixon
$1.27M
$2.28M
Evan Jones
$1.27M
$2.27M
Vincent Price
$2.11M
$2.21M
Kavita Nayar
$1.03M
$1.9M
Mary Klotman
$1.15M
$1.58M
Daniel Ennis
$1.33M
$1.54M
Alec Gallimore
$1.04M
$1.22M
James Gibson
$675.49K
$1.06M
Gary Bennett
$706.88K
$799.5K
Pamela Bernard
$679.21K
$765.11K
Rachel Satterfield
$670.29K
$730.12K
Kim Taylor
$682.92K
Mohamed Noor
$611.7K
Margaret Epps
$498.82K
$580.01K
John Noonan
$571.75K
Chart: Seyun ParkSource: IRS Form 990Get the dataCreated with Datawrapper
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Goodbye, Minneapolis, Chicago. Hello, Mt. Holly Springs, Pa., pop. 2,300 The inhumanity of mass deportation hits small-town America as a tiny borough with just 4 cops partners with ICE and pulls over dozens of drivers, turning over 32 for deportation My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/moun...
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This quaint Pa. borough is a ‘speed trap’ nabbing immigrants for ICE | Will Bunch
Police in Mount Holly Springs, a tiny borough in central Pennsylvania, have turned over 32 immigrants to ICE since March.
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