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TheJonesest

@thejonesest.bsky.social
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Currently: Higher education academic & adminstrator. Alumni: USMC (Infantry) & University of Florida (PhD)

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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dallas is going to murder Daniels if he doesn't start getting rid of the ball.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A real successful 1A day here on campus. Heavy hitters. Big student turnout. Engaged questions. My notes for the academic freedom panel is a sort of Cliff Notes of how I approach this thing. This is it. My whole talk.
Notes app reads: Neoliberalism weaponizes bias to justify austerity. Austerity creates corporate universities. Corporate universities are unhealthy organizations. Unhealthy organizations cannot inculcate or defend academic freedom. Without academic freedom to check administrative power,  corporate universities will translate austerity into financialized predation. Predation undermines public trust in higher education. Death spiral accelerates.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Looking forward to the book! I've been working on a paper on subnational authoritsrianism vis a vis Florida higher Ed and your work looks critical to understanding what's happening.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
100%. Of course the challenge we're seeing in several red stars is that university presidents were chosen specifically to enable exactly this sort of nonsense (and get paid millions to do so).
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BSG remains undefeated.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
TEXAS: Please send all of your California tech companies here. We love them! ALSO TEXAS: Wait, *who* works at these tech companies?
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Also, parents have always been able to decide where their kids go to school. School Choice just means they want the state to pay for it now.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I think they're on to a post-doc now....
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Listen, he's from Missouri. How is he expected to know anything about a place as far away as Iowa?
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Continued parallels in the States in that the commidification of *everything* has made art (it's creation, pollination, appreciation, etc) more challenging to say nothing of the corrosive effect late stage capitalism has had on creatives in general.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For sure if there's one thing my teen daughters and my wife and I all agree in its "family dinners" (JK it's "nothing")
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Having limited bullets and not being able to hit a damn thing perfectly encapsulates my video game experience
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The problem with this is that it implies that everything the station says is an official state pronouncement, made on behalf of, and in accordance with, all applicable state laws. This isn't how journalism works, and we have hundreds of yrs of 1A jurisprudence backing this up.
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Georgetown CEW @georgetowncew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Our new three-report series helps policymakers, researchers, practitioners, and administrators better define, measure, and assess the value of postsecondary education and training. bit.ly/4zLIy7F #AcademicSky #Postsecondary
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Postsecondary Educational Value: Why It Matters, Who Is Measuring It, and Where We Go Now - CEW Georgetown
CEW’s new three-report series helps policymakers, researchers, practitioners, and administrators navigate the complex challenges of measuring postsecondary value.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is a concerted effort to dismantle key guardrails in higher education that Democrats and the Left were not prepared for (despite many, many warnings). Their faith in norms is causing so much damage
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I bet his ChatGPT history is *crazy*
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's crazy how the GOP used to make fun of this "hippy stuff" until they realized they could make money off of it. Now reverse morgages and Sell Your Gold ads are out but Healing Crystals and Earth Magik are as American as an assault rifle.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The second and third orders of effect that will happen if/when the ABA is dismantled...are crazy. The idea that an entire political party has taken the view of "If you don't go along with our crazy idea we will destroy your entire organization" needs more attention. These are vandals.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This continue's the GOP's desire to turn American higher education into a separate Red/Blue system where states might not recognize degrees from other states.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The ABA is being grilled in today's NACIQI hearing and it's (another) red flag on the road to the continued dismantling of #highered in America.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"The target area is only two meters wide. It's a small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port. The shaft leads directly to the reactor system. A precise hit will start a chain reaction which should destroy the station."
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Keeping Paramount, and their jobs, in California
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
That's just the Bucs' playbook
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Eagles games find a way to win in the least exciting way every week.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's been Fire Bowles season for a few years now and it's cost us two good OCs who are now good HCs.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A strategic plan to reduce confidence in higher education funded by taxpayer dollars. #highered
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
gizmodo.com
71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So, I don't know if you just never learned this because you didn't go to Harvard, but it is gauche to tell people who went to Harvard that they are/were/or could be wrong.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I see it's No Defense Sunday across the NFL today.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Bucs picking up right where they left off last season...ugh
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
There's that improved Bucs O-Line everyone's been talking about.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The genre of elite educated white men who are ashamed of having elite educations needs to be studied.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Does a person running for office in Texas not know the state is 40% Hispanic?
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
W (rightfully) gets a lot of the blame for the WoT but Obama's 8 years of kicking the can down the road is inexcusable.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Can you share the prompt and what tool you used?
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10/09/2026
The TV adaptation of “The Shards” is “little more than a collection of unsettling murders, great outfits, and hot people being mean to one another”—but the Bret Easton Ellis novel it’s based on is about so much more than that, @jeremygordon.bsky.social argues:
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Don’t Watch 'The Shards.' Read It.
Ryan Murphy’s adaptation has transformed a great book into a bad show.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NFL kickoff 2026 giving us the most Gen X National Anthem ever.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'm sure they'll get it together in time for next week's game against (checks notes)... Alabama.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Fast Company has entered the chat.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I think $75-100k for an EV is nuts but that's what people are paying for Rivians. $30k is what 90% of cars should cost.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Willy Wonka: Stop. Don't. Come Back.
ALT: Willy Wonka: Stop. Don't. Come Back.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Does The Void count? Indie cosmic horror done well.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Who among us....
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Billboard's number one band looking like the guy who sold my dad a Plymouth Champ in 1983.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
These new CAPTCHAs are getting ridiculous.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Well, in Red states they'd get fired if they did this. Actually almost any employee would and they're very sure you're aware of that.
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
As with American culture, Dolly sought to represent the best of what southern culture can be, in defiance of the no-good peckerwood assholes who try to define it at its worst
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The next Dem administration needs to codify all this stuff so dudes like this get hauled off in cuffs when they pull this nonsense. The days of gentlemen's agreements are long past. If it's a regulation, make it an actual, enforceable regulation.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Per Google Mr Freedom is "Turkish-American former basketball player and human rights activist." Feels like that headline needs an update.
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TheJonesest @thejonesest.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Listen...you don't pay $230 million for a QB 3. WRs are just going to have to adapt to his unconventional "aim at everyone's feet" throwing style.
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