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Megan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social · 1d

Brown becomes the second of nine initial invitees to decline the Trump administration's #HigherEd compact, joining MIT. This comes several months after it struck a deal with the feds to restore research funding and resolve OCR investigations. @shenandoahkate.bsky.social has the story @chronicle.com.

Brown U.'s President Declines Trump’s Compact, Saying It Would ‘Undermine’ the Institution

Agreeing to commit to the document “would restrict academic freedom and undermine the autonomy of Brown’s governance,” Christina H. Paxson said in a letter Wednesday.

www.chronicle.com

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 1d

Did you know that the UC Regents refuse to reveal the letter UCLA received from the Trump admin? Faculty requested a copy under the Public Records Act, but Regents refused, citing unidentified pending litigation. Now a judge has sided with @uclafa.bsky.social, saying UCLA must show us the letter.

Judge rules UC must publicize Trump administration settlement demands - Daily Bruin

This post was updated Oct. 14 at 11:30 p.m. A judge ruled Tuesday that the UC Board of Regents must publicize the Trump administration’s proposed settlement demands to UCLA.

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CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education (CADHE) @cadhe.bsky.social · 12h

#CADHE responds to #CUNY Interim Provost Alvero's recent statement on #AcademicFreedom.

#MADC #SUNY

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Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 14h

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.

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Jonathan C @jonathancornick.bsky.social · 12h

#CADHE #MADC

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14h

Their new plan to punish universities: force the IRS criminal division to find cause to strip them of their tax-exempt status.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump's allies zeroed in on using the IRS-CI after
encountering obstacles in a separate effort to
strip tax-exempt status from certain nonprofits,
according to current and former officials
For months, Trump administration officials have
been trying to find a way to alter the rules to
revoke tax-exempt status more easily after the
president said Harvard University, a nonprofit
that is battling the White House, should lose its
status.
The administration officials sought to use the
illegality doctrine," a rule that causes nonprofits
to forfeit their status if they break the law.

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CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education (CADHE) @cadhe.bsky.social · 11h

Better link

Academic Freedom at CUNY: The Latest Challenge – The CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education

cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 8h

Horrifying and unsurprising at the same time.

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 9h

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 7h

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.

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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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AAUP @aaup.org · 7h

🚨🚨🚨

And THREE stood up!

Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact.

When we join together and fight back, WE WIN!

No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent.

LET’S GO!

#DefendHigherEd
@aaup-penn.bsky.social

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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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 6h

Sen. Mark Warner: "these compacts...are illegal & frankly would politicize our universities at an unprecedented level, would be a disaster for any university to sign...I’ll be anxious to see what [UVA] does," hope they'll reject it like MIT did. bluevirginia.us/2025/10/vide...

Video: Sen. Mark Warner Wonders, “if [Trump] starts ignoring court orders, the question is, do we have a constitutional democracy anymore?”

See below for video and transcribed comments by Sen. Mark Warner from his weekly press availability, held earlier today. Bolding added by me for emphasis of key points, as usual... "Here we are now ov...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 4h

BREAKING: USC HAS JOIN THE RESISTANCE!

That’s four (MIT, Brown, Penn, USC) of the nine schools Trump targeted.

Stay tuned! 🍿

#DefendHigherEd
#StandUpFightBack

USC rejects Trump education compact aimed at shifting the university to the right

USC interim President Beong-Soo Kim said in a statement that he had sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education turning down the Trump offer.

www.latimes.com

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Queensborough Community College @qcc-cuny.bsky.social · 4h

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Group of diverse young people outdoors under trees promoting free application for high school seniors at Queensborough Community College for Fall 2026 enrollment.

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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 3h

Interested in preserving due process and privacy rights on your campus? Have we got a resolution for you!

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

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Jimmy Malone @malonespeaking.bsky.social · 1d

It's almost like getting vaccinated is beneficial. "According to state data, both counties linked to the outbreak have low vaccination rates among school children "
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Measles outbreak in SC sends 150 unvaccinated kids into 21-day quarantine

The outbreak includes at least seven confirmed cases, but some are clearly being missed.

arstechnica.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Finally, some common sense from Oklahoma education.

Ryan Walters turned classrooms into culture war battlegrounds. Reversing his Bible mandate isn’t “anti-religion,” it’s accepting the fact that the Bible is not a history book!

Schools should teach, not preach.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 1d

#tdih 1902 Chemist warned that burning coal could lead to heating planet (later called "greenhouse effect.")

Shows how long industry has known of dangers of fossil fuel extraction.

One of many entries in our Climate Crisis Timeline.

#TeachClimateJustice

More ⬇️
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Oct. 15, 1902: Chemist Warns Burning Coal May Lead to Boiling Earth

Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius calculated that burning fossil fuels (coal) will, over time, lead to a hotter Earth. His findings led the way for the emergence of modern climate science and a better ...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23h

There’s a common feeling across the U.S. right now, a sense of helplessness. Many people want to do more but feel like they can’t. Remember: every action you take pushes the resistance forward.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7h

Pritzker: Illinois is not a place you can conquer and our people are not your subjects

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 7h

The "ceasefire" does not seem to be going great

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 1d

Democrats are back in DC, ready to get to work. Republicans are nowhere to be found.

It’s time to get back to work, protect health care, and end this Republican shutdown.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

US president has taken a series of escalatory steps that appear aimed at toppling the Venezuelan government.

Trump appears to confirm report he authorised CIA operations in Venezuela

US president has taken a series of escalatory steps that appear aimed at toppling the Venezuelan government.

bit.ly

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

"It is ridiculous that antifa has become this boogeyman. If they're going to tell us they are going to find the founder of Antifa, isn't the founder of Antifa...Winston Churchill? FDR? Didn't they lead a war against fascism? Wasn't that anti-fascism?" - me
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
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Dr. Mar 💙 @boldnewme.bsky.social · 2d

We have a 79-year-old failed casino owner making decisions for 350 million lives, bankrupting everything he touches.

He created this disastrous situation with China and won’t take responsibility.👇

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