Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books 4083514610584
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence: 2636210085726
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialRobert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 10/09/2026As a higher ed finance person, I keep emphasizing that more students are enrolling in high cost of educating fields like health and engineering and fewer in lower-cost fields like the humanities. This squeezes institutional budgets as cross-subsidies disappear.insidehighered.comReport: Humanities Majors DisappearingAnxiety about job prospects and heavy reading loads have led to dramatic declines in humanities majors since 2012, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 110329
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialBell @pocono.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This should freak everyone out. This is racism and bringing back segregation. They want to make sure minorities are uneducated. There's nobody left to stop this shit www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...nytimes.comTrump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools. 13375192
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Rufo was "supplying policy blueprints and social-media firepower for an ambitious conservative overhaul. In return, FL became Rufo’s proving ground, elevating the up-and-coming activist into one of the movement’s most influential cheerleaders." www.chronicle.com/article/flor...chronicle.comFlorida’s Great Conservative Crack-UpIn the behind-the-scenes effort to install Stuart Bell as the flagship’s new president, Gov. Ron DeSantis played a starring role — to the chagrin of his onetime allies. 28019
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/07/2026Ossoff: "The price of admission to the president's service seems to be proof you're willing to lie for him. Maybe you saw Jay Clayton refuse again and again under oath to affirm Donald Trump's defeat in 2020, or Pete Hegseth ... There's something uniquely despicable about lying a nation into war" 8157681597
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialBryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Texas created an outcomes-based funding model for community colleges. Students and colleges outperformed expectations, so now the state wants to change the rules so they don't have to pay what they promised. www.texastribune.org/2026/07/22/t...texastribune.orgTexas may limit community college's incentive fundingA formula designed to reward colleges for student success generated larger payouts than budgeted. Now, Texas’ higher education agency may limit how schools receive such funding. 7210104
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 22/07/2026it does actually sound like taylor farms and the white house teamed up to try and blame taco bell for the outbreak. unprecedented corruption 245109954412
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I have said repeatedly that Russell Vought should be impeached. Congress appropriates and this is a high crime against its powers under Article I. The most important thing DOGE did was take over the appropriations pipes at Treasury. If you wanted to close USAID and CFPB pass a bill. 292112680
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/07/2026😳 Trump just flubbed his way through his meeting with Zelenskyy, at various points referring to the "Islamic Republic of Japan," repeatedly calling Zelenskyy "President Putin," and railing against the "JCPOC" Here's the blooper reel: 41033881402
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-... 42795092545
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 30/06/2026The legal arguments for Trump's birthright citizenship executive order are vapid and embarrassing. Multiple lower court judges legit laughed DOJ lawyers out of the room. The fact that four Supreme Court justices twisted themselves into logical pretzels to buy it is a constitutional emergency.ballsandstrikes.orgThe Constitution Is On Life SupportFour justices are prepared to stuff the Fourteenth Amendment’s promises in the garbage because Mister Trump demands it. 4938061030
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming. 5544421113
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Jesus, Ezra. That isn't what happened at all. Rufo did not "try to figure out if" it's true." He gleefully amplified the lie, then offered a bounty to anyone who could retroactively "prove" it. It spurred death threats. Thousands will soon be deported because of it. Many of them will die. 1163779818
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialDaniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Ok, people have been asking me what I am seeing in my new wave of IDR/PSLF interviews. So far, I have 43 (60+ minute) interviews done and I have generated a visual abstract of the core findings. Something to strongly consider essentally ALL said they have no trust in the system right now. 03111
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20/06/2026The plan is for this plane to be in service for two years and then Trump will take if for himself. No President has ever stolen an Air Force for himself. And you paid for it. The total cost could be $1 billion of your money for a new luxury jet for Trump and his family. 2282161897
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 18/06/2026My new theory paper (early draft) A new reason why concentrated wealth destroys democracy: common ownership A standalone media owner maximizes profit. A common owner like Musk (who owns X + SpaceX) will run the media firm at a loss to increase the $ of his total portfolio tinyurl.com/mcekr7cd 13547189
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialscarylawyerguy.bsky.social @scarylawyerguy.bsky.social · 14/06/2026started/going 17563881589
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 07/06/2026Trump: "I didn't guarantee no war." Trump guaranteeing no more wars: 26952992100
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialAdam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Trump filed 60 cases claiming the 2020 election was rigged. He lost them all His own Attorney General said the election was fair Yet today he says it was crooked-then insults Meet the Press and storms out Stop begging him to stay, Katie Weller Call him a liar to his face and lay out the proof 1913543
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialEddy Conroy @econroy.bsky.social · 06/06/2026It’s insane that we are where we are today because he was made fun of at the Correspondents dinner, but that’s basically driven everything he’s done since. Also why billionaires shouldn’t exist, no one should have the power to take a grudge this far. 720842
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/06/2026Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift linknytimes.comPolice Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration 5629151465
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialSilverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 31/05/20261) Someone really needs to push back on this idea of 1st Amendment zones. I haven't taught polisci 101 in 20 years, but last time I checked the entire US was a 1st Amendment zone. 2) What's the point of having 1st Amendment zones if you're just going to have police rampage through them? 231483399
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Former human rights lawyer here: under international human rights law, bombing or gassing a medical facility is a crime against humanity. Last night, the NJ state police gassed the medic tent at Delaney Hall over and over and over again until medics had to abandon it and flee for their lives. 371432658
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialJay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...thedreydossier.substack.comI found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White HouseThere is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead. 6838042402
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialhannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 23/05/2026It’s worth noting that when Jan. 6 happened, the pro-Trump right used dozens of conspiracy theories to try and offload blame from themselves—e.g., claiming it was “antifa,” “feds.” Now, they seem keen to just admit they did it—all of it—and it was good. 4130971007
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialDiedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 22/05/2026this is happening 492348734
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialmuch ado about muffin @muffindoin.bsky.social · 21/05/2026good lord 1213587640
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in. 418164624188
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Bill Clinton used to have to walk across the street to use a private telephone to make fundraising calls so as not to violate the Hatch Act by using public resources for partisan purposes. Trump makes campaign commercials from behind the Resolute desk. 271559462
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialProf Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 17/05/2026What’s happening to science in the US now? In the future? 20% fewer grad students at MIT sums it up well Our future is fewer scientists, patents, cures, discoveries Less growth, less progress, less knowledge 14836
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/05/2026www.npr.org/2026/05/07/n...npr.orgCampaign staffers tell NPR they make 'thousands' betting on their own candidatesCampaign staffers are turning private polling data into personal paydays. They describe the election prediction market as a "Wild West" for staffers. 715558
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialCentral NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I don't really understand the point of voting if some right-wing judge can just toss out anything we vote for? 0111
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/05/2026What is especially galling is that this saved zero dollars, since the cruise ships pay for the inspections. And now their industry is less trusted because of perceived health risks. Amazing lose-lose policymaking. 743139958
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialT.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 07/05/2026I can totally see the argument for the Supreme Court as a conservative institution that modulates and slows abrupt changes. But the court’s majority conserves nothing. They are radical extremists without ideological or theoretical consistency, pushing the interests and plans of a political party. 1131660
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialAri Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026John Roberts claims the justices aren’t “political actors” Spare us the sanctimony. By destroying VRA in middle of election the court put its thumb on scale of midterms, turbocharging Trump’s gerrymandering war & imperiling majority-Black districts across South www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comAfter SCOTUS destroyed the Voting Rights Act, southern states rush to pass Jim Crow voting maps“We’re seeing the greatest purge of Black power since the era of Reconstruction.” 32571200
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Higher ed is under authoritarian attack. Joining the fiction that all college is a sociology class you don’t like, and that Dem politicians are beholden to it, doesn’t help. Around 40% of Americans went to or are in college. No other group that big gets cast by so many national figures as abnormal. 632663
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialThe Downballot @the-downballot.com · 05/05/2026This is partisanship at its rawest. SCOTUS has clamped down on lower courts for rulings that could alter maps many *months* before an election—even when those maps have been judged illegal. Here, it's rushing to let the Louisiana GOP change a map *while an election is underway.* 5831031221
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 04/05/2026Chief Justice John Roberts once decried partisan gerrymandering as “unjust.” Last week, the high court made a decision that doesn’t just tolerate but encourages the practice, @dgraham.bsky.social argues:bit.lyHow the Supreme Court Came to Accept a Practice It Called UnjustThe Court went from condemning partisan gerrymandering to effectively encouraging it. 2132697
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialMorgan Polikoff @mpolikoff.bsky.social · 23/04/2026A lot of folks were approvingly sharing Kelsey Piper's post about the problems of educational research. Here's my take. // Ill-Informed Essays About Education Research are Weak and Sloppy. Why? edpolicyhub.substack.com/p/ill-inform...edpolicyhub.substack.comIll-Informed Essays About Education Research are Weak and Sloppy. Why?Morgan Polikoff 65719
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Rufo is the epitome of a bad-faith interlocutor. If you have a tenured position, you’re representative of the fetid rot of academia. Don’t have a tenure-track job? You’re a failure. And that’s even before considering the gender angle. Why anyone engages with him as a serious critic is beyond me. 48413
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 07/04/2026This is: 1. Deeply moving. 2. The first time I've ever seen a real-life astronaut be anything other than serious or happy in space. Obviously they have been (they're human), but folks on earth have only ever seen this in movies or on TV. Imagine watching your tears of grief float around you. 242352467
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/04/2026“Copy Moon joy” #Artemis 3336811198
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 31/03/2026I don’t relish this. But, if law profs try to sell the Supreme Court a historical fantasy and change a constitutional rule for 340 million people, which if adopted, destroys the entire constitutional order. Honesty must yield to niceties. We have a higher calling. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comThe nonsense case against birthright citizenshipMeet the conservative legal minds telling the Supreme Court to side with Trump. 20754182
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.sociallastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd. 4533431029
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialBrendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 13/03/2026At long last, The Postliberal University is available for pre-order! hep.gse.harvard.edu/979889557111...hep.gse.harvard.eduThe Postliberal UniversityAn urgent exploration of the political and social conditions that shape contemporary higher education governanceIn the 2010s, many state governments began to... 67329
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income? Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero. Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit? Cavanaugh: No, we didn't. 27157921696
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 13/03/2026I kid you not... The same White House that forgot that invading Iran might lead it to close the Strait of Hormuz, is now arguing (through Peter Navarro) that war with Iran is a good idea because it'll prevent Iran from closing the Strait of Hormuz. 47150281799
Reposted by @wisren.bsky.socialWeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 12/03/2026This is Lance. He may have overreacted a little bit to a leaf, but when you are two inches from the ground, anything could be a potential threat. 12/10 (TT: katiemhartline) 1135136533