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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 1d

569 Dartmouth faculty members have signed a petition urging College President Sian Leah Beilock not to sign the Trump administration’s “Compact”

More than half of Dartmouth faculty members sign petition against Trump compact

The petition states that signing the compact would “undermine” the College’s “academic freedom.”

www.thedartmouth.com

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 5h

Well well well
www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/t...

US drops out of world’s most powerful passport top 10 list for the first time | CNN

Once a ticket to visa-free travel across the world, the US passport’s potency has dwindled in recent times. And now, for the first time, it’s completely fallen off the leaderboard of nationalities ran...

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 12h

Like, we know Evangelicals think this way- Catholics aren't Christians and non-Evangelical Protestants aren't going to heaven. But this approach to policy demonstrates an effort to enshrine this in law. The US will be a Christian nation, and by Christian, they mean *only* Evangelical.

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Study of Religion as an Analytical Discipline Workshop @soraaad.bsky.social · 12h

Religion in the U.S.

First Amendment
Establishment Clause

Ipsita Chatterjea (she/her) @ichatterjea.bsky.social · 12h

The spec for this law down to translation, chapter and verses speak to the crafting of a law in response to decades of frustration w/ how people have defeated the imposition of these as reqs (which version of the 10?!) and malicious compliance (sure its in the room)

www.4029tv.com/article/univ...

University of Arkansas to display Ten Commandments posters in campus buildings

The University of Arkansas will soon hang posters of the Ten Commandments in buildings across campus, a spokesperson confirmed to 40/29 News.

www.4029tv.com

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 12h

Basically, by including word for word the 10 Commandments from THEIR CHOSEN VERSION of the Bible, Arkansas Evangelicals are creating precedent that other Christians don't count. This is a big deal!

Ipsita Chatterjea (she/her) @ichatterjea.bsky.social · 12h

The spec for this law down to translation, chapter and verses speak to the crafting of a law in response to decades of frustration w/ how people have defeated the imposition of these as reqs (which version of the 10?!) and malicious compliance (sure its in the room)

www.4029tv.com/article/univ...

University of Arkansas to display Ten Commandments posters in campus buildings

The University of Arkansas will soon hang posters of the Ten Commandments in buildings across campus, a spokesperson confirmed to 40/29 News.

www.4029tv.com

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 13h

I know larger Substacks

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 15h

"While the drilling location isn’t in line with the map revealed during an Aug. 7 pitch to Music City Center officials, the company has previously expressed interest in expanding to other parts of the city..."

www.tennessean.com/story/money/...

The Boring Co. breaks ground near Vanderbilt for 'exploratory borings'

The Boring Co. also drilled for exploratory purposes earlier this month along Broadway.

www.tennessean.com

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 15h

I think about these contextless museums in juxtaposition with the museums that have very few artifacts and rely heavily on context, storytelling, digital displays, and interactive elements, and it saddens me.
Without a story, stuff is just stuff.

Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 1d

📜 New blog post! I wrote about "contextless museums" and similar spaces and what they potentially mean for the future of the sector.

animalarchaeology.com/2025/10/13/i...

Is the Museum of the Future Contextless?

A photo of four paper museum labels reading (clockwise from top left): Oland. Thomson. Coll., Tetrastictus terminalis Thomson 1878 Lectotype, MZLU Type No 4922, and Loan 444 (Photo Credit: Biologic…

animalarchaeology.com

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 1d

That HAD to have been an homage, right?

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 2d

Chancla to Columbus!
He was an enslaver and rapist.
A stain on history.

Image of Columbus with a chancla to the face, sans attribution like I found it. Did you make this? Well done.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 2d

Chancla to Columbus!
He was an enslaver and rapist.
A stain on history.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 2d

I fear you are right.
Everyone is holding their breath to see what VU's next move will be.

Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 2d

To those of you who sent me this one, I thank you.

A play on the "Join, or Die" cartoon snake from the American Revolution urging the colonies to band together, only instead of the colonies, the sections of the snake are named after the nine Universities which have been offered the incredibly contrioversial Higher Education Compact from the Secretary of Education.

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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 11d

Windows 10 End of Life is in less than 2 weeks!
But you don't have to upgrade to Windows 11!!

This video will show you how to extend the life of Windows 10 by 3 more years via Extended Security Updates program safely, for free.

MS throws you to the wolves, but the wolves will throw you a bone.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

"Nobody will do that though." Oh I guess there's nothing to be done, then. Very convenient if what you'd like is to avoid having to do anything.

I've noticed "we're cooked, it's over" is often the call of the person whose strategy is to hope they will not be in the oven.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 2d

It's obvious but unsaid that the first 9 schools chosen for the Compact for "Academic Excellence" in Higher Ed were selected so that the federal government can watch how this faustian proposal will play out in different scenarios: public, private, ivy, red/blue state, various endowment sizes.

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Politico @politico.com · 3d

MIT’s rebuke of the Trump admin's compact presents an opening for other college presidents to resist.

MIT’s resistance gives boost to academics' efforts to defy Trump

MIT’s rebuke of the Trump administration’s compact presents an opening for other college presidents to resist.

www.politico.com

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2d

The soft opening for this was telling teachers to necromance chatbots out of Anne Frank. There’s a historical parallel to this I’ve been chewing on, a bit of gristle stuck in my teeth since I wrote this footnote about a public debate in Weimar Germany on the educative potential of replicas. 🧵

The use of copies to fill lacunae in collections was by no means always hitched to a progressive cause, as it was in this debate. For example, the Nazi-sponsored traveling exhibition Deutsche Größe of the early 1940s comprised replicas entirely. See Diebold
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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 2d

I'm going to say something that will offend all Germans and Israelis: the Japanese have perfected the schnitzel.
Katsu reigns supreme.

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 9d

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 11d

The question journalists need to be asking is: WHY is the government trying this?

It’s because they want to control universities in unlawful ways that courts will not allow; it’s not working; so they’re trying to get universities to sign up “voluntarily” for unlawful levels of government control.

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 3d

The thing about any compact (“compact”) worth the Trump administration is, even if it weren’t authoritarian garbage inimical to the values of higher education, the only thing you can trust the Trump administration to do is ignore what it promised to do.

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 10d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 3d

Yes.

Interestingly the compact doesn’t even include any promises by the government so there aren’t promises to break.

But if you sign, you’re agreeing to give the government more leverage to take things from you they can’t take now.