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Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 51m

From the roofs of HVCC to the river of Troy

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 4h

People are distrustful of higher ed, but don’t like Trump’s approach. The administration is bad at using carrots to get longer-term results. That’s encouraging on the one hand because it’s implies we could move on. It’s discouraging on the other because Trump’s only play is to wreck.

Survey: Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Trump Higher Ed Cuts

The poll also found more Democrats, Republicans and independents strongly trust universities to do what’s right than strongly distrust them—ranking colleges just behind hospitals and doctors, the mili...

www.insidehighered.com

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 4h

Glad that at least some universities see that re-segregating their schools, and excluding international students for the hope of grant money that will never come, is a bad idea. It also took them way too long to realize that.

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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 5h

And now Penn rejects the compact! Students, faculty and staff unite. @aaup-penn.bsky.social @aaup.org 🔥 www.thedp.com/article/2025...

Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment

With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.

www.thedp.com

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Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 4h

To every chancellor, president, and board that doesn’t join the compact, SUNY University Faculty Senate has your back! To everyone still considering a response, please share this widely!

SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 5h

UFS agreed on Saturday; Executive Committee approved the following statement this morning. I’ve signed the petitions that UFS charged me to. Now I’m asking you to share our statement opposing the McMahon-Mailman mutual assured destruction compact.

dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/server/api/c...

SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 2d

Time for NO in thunder

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Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 4h

Please share!

@genevievelakier.bsky.social @timothyburke.bsky.social @steadystatevets.bsky.social @volokhc.bsky.social @thefireorg.bsky.social @walterolson.bsky.social @bethakers.bsky.social @stanfordaaup.bsky.social @aacu.org @aceducation.bsky.social @edtrust.bsky.social @acls1919.bsky.social

SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 5h

UFS agreed on Saturday; Executive Committee approved the following statement this morning. I’ve signed the petitions that UFS charged me to. Now I’m asking you to share our statement opposing the McMahon-Mailman mutual assured destruction compact.

dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/server/api/c...

SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 2d

Time for NO in thunder

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 1d

"The Department of Education’s proposed 'compact for higher education' is unconstitutional and should be unequivocally rejected by universities" -- new from Amanda Shanor & @serenamayeri.bsky.social at @knightcolumbia.org

A Brief Legal Analysis of the Department of Education’s Proposed Compact for Higher Education

knightcolumbia.org

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Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 4h

Please share widely! @trevorgriffey.bsky.social @cantb.bsky.social @paulboxer.bsky.social @aaup-penn.bsky.social @ncaaup.bsky.social @fishkin.bsky.social @sivav.bsky.social @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social @uupinfo.bsky.social @psc-cuny.org @mit.edu @brendannyhan.bsky.social

SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 5h

UFS agreed on Saturday; Executive Committee approved the following statement this morning. I’ve signed the petitions that UFS charged me to. Now I’m asking you to share our statement opposing the McMahon-Mailman mutual assured destruction compact.

dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/server/api/c...

SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 2d

Time for NO in thunder

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Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 4h

Asking everyone I know in all the networks I’m part of to share this! @cadhe.bsky.social @standhighered.bsky.social @wearehighered.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social @sfndhe.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social @mattseybold.bsky.social @cnewf.bsky.social @aaup.org @texasaaup.bsky.social

SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 5h

UFS agreed on Saturday; Executive Committee approved the following statement this morning. I’ve signed the petitions that UFS charged me to. Now I’m asking you to share our statement opposing the McMahon-Mailman mutual assured destruction compact.

dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/server/api/c...

SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 2d

Time for NO in thunder

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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 5h

UFS agreed on Saturday; Executive Committee approved the following statement this morning. I’ve signed the petitions that UFS charged me to. Now I’m asking you to share our statement opposing the McMahon-Mailman mutual assured destruction compact.

dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/server/api/c...

SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 2d

Time for NO in thunder

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 3d

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 6h

On third thought, maybe JD Vance is right that this is what "young boys" do. The problem is that he, Trump, Hegseth, Miller, Bannon, Leavitt, and all the rest of them do it too. So if he's implicating himself in the accusation that MAGA are a bunch of 12 year olds, then sure.

Young Republicans, same as the Old Republicans

You’d think they’d learn. The Young Republicans had a signal chat where they thought everything was confidential among themselves, so they indulged themselves in profanity, misogyny, an…

freethoughtblogs.com

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Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 6h

Hearing Toyota is close on hydrogen-electric hybrids!

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Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 8h

OMG, we’ve gotta set one up! Maybe next week? All I did for my report to UFS at my first plenary was take questions, so at least I have practice!

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Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 8h

lol insert cliche/song lyric of your choice [“we have not begun to fight”] [“things can only get better”] [“better to burn out than fade away”]

Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 8h

Today is going to be the happiest day of my UFS presidency (and not just bc I slept in). Now to get ready to let everyone know why!

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Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 12h

Good morning! Last thing I read online before turning to @matthewboedy.bsky.social new book (which gave a a super-cool nightmare!). Going to try to sleep in for once now!

hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...

How to Protect Your Right to Culture

The United States government’s coordinated repeal of the right to culture has grave consequences for the texture of our daily lives. But there are ways to fight back.

hyperallergic.com

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Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 18h

Marc Rowan and Bill Ackman should get together and buy up a struggling college or university, or just found one from scratch, and run it like they think US higher ed should be run. Get in that marketplace and compete, gents! Pull your higher ed outfit up by its bootstraps, boys! You know the drill!

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Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 18h

The Bills win! The Bills win! The Bills win!

Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 20h

Blue Jays outscore Bills challenge

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Kat Mahoney @kmahoneylaw.com · 19h

Watching city council. I carry my passport everyday too. And I know many of my white friends do not. That’s privilege. That’s racism in action. Who’s gonna get stopped? Who’s assumed to be a citizen?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
U.S. Code
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 20h

Blue Jays outscore Bills challenge

Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 21h

Similar reaction to seeing Jays up 8-2

👻 Pope BoniSkeetz of Avignon 🎃 @tjay56.bsky.social · 21h

HELLO WE'RE DEPARTMENT
BACK
I'D LIKE TO FILE A CLAIM

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Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 21h

Newsom for Veep

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Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social · 21h

Full @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Survivor ad. 🔥

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Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 21h

This would be ALMOST enough to stop my lifelong flight from playing soccer (dating back to junior high school when one of my favorite teachers ever tried every day to get my brother and me to try out fir his team), but you gotta stick to your principles, I say!

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

We’re kicking the politics of the past aside and scoring a new generation of leadership — and we want you on our team.

Join us for The Cost of Living Classic, a free citywide soccer tournament in Coney Island this Sunday, co-hosted by NYC Footy.

Details + register at zohranfornyc.com/colclassic ⚽