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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 11h

In a letter to state health officials earlier this month, Ronald Ward -- the acting head of SNAP -- warned that "if the current lapse in appropriations continues, there will be insufficient funds to pay full November SNAP benefits for approximately 42 million individuals across the Nation."

SNAP benefits to halt in some states amid government shutdown

SNAP serves roughly 42 million low-income Americans.

abcnews.go.com

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Mainer 📎 @mainelife.bsky.social · 11h

Maine has just announced that due to the @GOP shutdown, SNAP benefits will not be distributed on time in November. This impacts our children at a disproportionate rate.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 16h

“Blood Relatives,” a new series from the Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast In the Dark, examines the story of the Whitehouse Farm murders—the most infamous family massacre in British history.

In the Dark Releases “Blood Relatives,” an Examination of a Notorious British Crime

The New Yorker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative podcast returns with a six-part series that asks whether one of the U.K.’s most famous murder cases ended with a wrongful conviction.

www.newyorker.com

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ProfKakie @profkakie.bsky.social · 17h

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17h

In his bid to be New York City mayor, Andrew Cuomo proposed that the city take over some parts of running the subway system from the state agency that controls it.

Cuomo Proposes That New York City Take Partial Control of Subway

Andrew Cuomo, whose stewardship of the M.T.A. as governor was contentious, suggested that the authority hand over responsibility for capital construction and maintenance to the city.

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David 🇵🇸 but imagine some spooky wordplay @ididtheiggy.bsky.social · 1d

“Fuck. Gotta call Alex and tell him we’re adding more dates. These World Series ticket prices are insane”

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ProfKakie @profkakie.bsky.social · 1d

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.”

My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

www.lawfaremedia.org

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Visual Science @visualscience.bsky.social · 1d

#VisualScience #AcademicSky #GraphicDesign #SciArt #Scisky #SciComm 🧪

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

just to break down the profoundly degraded discursive state we're in
PROTESTORS: the president is not a king! no kings in this country!
PRESIDENT: [posts video of self in crown, shitting on citizens]
PRESIDENT'S FRIEND: there is a king. King Jesus
NOBODY IN PRESS ROOM: you've missed the point

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Megan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social · 1d

Today's the feedback deadline for the Trump compact's initial nine recipients. @chronicle.com has a fresh live updates page to track the latest - follow along here. #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Compact Live Updates: More Colleges Weigh Responses as Deadline for Feedback Looms

Monday is the deadline for the nine colleges who received the Trump administration’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” to submit feedback on the document.

www.chronicle.com

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No Kings Haiku @andy-schocket.bsky.social · 1d

"Compact" is nothing
But extortion. Good riddance!
Colleges should say no.
#academicsky

Opinion | Our Politics Differ, But We Agree: Trump’s ‘Compact’ Violates Academic Freedom

Using federal funding to dictate who colleges admit and what faculty can say crosses a dangerous line.

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ProfKakie @profkakie.bsky.social · 1d

Working parents often schedule to the minute. Same w working non parents. Same w student athletes. Same w people taking 21 credit hour because they can’t afford one more semester. Reschedule exam.

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Academic Abuse @academicabuse.com · 1d

Anyone else's head spinning yet from all the culture wars in higher ed?

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🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾🔬 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #BlackEduSky #FeministSky

AHA Sends Letter to Rutgers University Addressing Threats Made to History Faculty Members

The American Historical Association (AHA) expresses deep concern about recent threats made against Professor Mark Bray that extended to his partner, Professor Yesenia Barragan, both faculty members…

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mikenietzel.bsky.social @mikenietzel.bsky.social · 1d

John Kirby to take over as director of U. Chicago Institute of Politics. #AcademicSky #HigherEd www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

John Kirby Named New Director Of U. Of Chicago’s Institute Of Politics

John F. Kirby will become the new director of the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics. Kirby, a retired U.S.Navy rear admiral, will take over on November 15.

www.forbes.com

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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 1d

Your favorite thing is down because DynamoDB at Amazon's AWS US-EAST-1 Regionwoke up with Main Character Syndrome.

This is the default /legacy backbone for a ton of things.

Including Amazon's own stuff.

Massive outages.

Here's what's going on & what we know 1/

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Books to Prisoners (Seattle) @bookstoprisoners.bsky.social · 2d

Today is the 1st day of Prison Banned Books Week, a week examining the catastrophic impact of censorship on information access in carceral facilities. Go to prisonbannedbooksweek.org for updates & actions this week, and SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BOOKS TO PEOPLE IN PRISONS GROUP via books, $, volunteering!

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 2d

"Exposure to more unvetted views does not automatically bring one closer to the truth..“Disciplines do not create expert knowledge through a marketplace of ideas in which content discrimination is prohibited and in which all ideas are deemed equal” ..some ideas are better than others."

#academicsky

Viewpoint Diversity Is a MAGA Plot

Defenses of the policy miss the political point.

www.chronicle.com

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Academic Abuse @academicabuse.com · 2d

Students stand up against hypocrisy at Northern Michigan University

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NMU Queers and Allies speak out on funding discrimination during 2025-26 academic year

On the first day of this fall semester, members of the student organization Queers and Allies received word that numerous university departments would no longer assist in funding, planning, or…

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tubycat.bsky.social @tubycat.bsky.social · 3d

Participants need! Higher education staff, administrators and faculty.
10 min survey for research study.

#HigherEd #EDUsky #academicchatter #sustainability

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Stand Together for Higher Ed (STHE) @standhighered.bsky.social · 3d

"Now we are seeing an effort to turn universities into instruments of propaganda for government ideology in the name of fostering a free marketplace of ideas."

Read the latest from Kumble Subbaswamy, STHE co-chair & Chancellor Emeritus UMass Amherst buff.ly/VduYYO4

#AcademicSky #Academia

"Now we are seeing an effort to turn universitites into instruments of propaganda for government ideology in the name of fostering a free marketplace of ideas." Kumble Subbaswamy, Co-Chair, Stand Together for Higher Ed, Chancellor Emeritus, UMass Amherst, Former Provost, University of Kentucky

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ProfKakie @profkakie.bsky.social · 3d

Served as his TA in a « Ways of Knowing » interdisciplinary first-year student curriculum. A brilliant physicist and leader.

Stand Together for Higher Ed (STHE) @standhighered.bsky.social · 3d

"Now we are seeing an effort to turn universities into instruments of propaganda for government ideology in the name of fostering a free marketplace of ideas."

Read the latest from Kumble Subbaswamy, STHE co-chair & Chancellor Emeritus UMass Amherst buff.ly/VduYYO4

#AcademicSky #Academia

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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 3d

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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 3d

Dartmouth has rejected Trump's compact. Here is the response from Dartmouth Courage, www.dartmouthcourage.com, a coalition of Dartmouth alumni.

We applaud President Beilock and the Dartmouth Board of Trustees for their decision to reject the Trump Administration’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” In doing so, Dartmouth joins MIT, Brown, Penn, USC, and UVA in refusing to compromise institutional independence in exchange for preferential federal funding.
President Beilock made clear that “the involvement of the government through a compact—whether it is a Republican- or Democratic-led White House—is not the right way to focus America’s leading colleges and universities on their teaching and research mission.” This statement reflects a vital principle: No administration has the authority to demand political “compacts” that impose ideological compliance as a condition for federal research funding or academic legitimacy.
This is not merely the rejection of a single proposal—it is a clear repudiation of the tactic itself. This decision is a milestone in an ongoing struggle to defend American universities from political interference. Dartmouth now has both an opportunity and an obligation to stand visibly and vocally for the principles to which President Beilock has said she is committed.
While we commend Dartmouth’s rejection of the compact, we remain vigilant about what comes next. President Beilock stated she is “open to other ways to work with the federal government to enhance higher education.” But many of the compact’s proposals would weaken higher education, not improve it—and we are skeptical that this White House genuinely seeks to strengthen universities rather than control them.
As Dartmouth Courage, we will continue to advocate for freedom of thought and expression, institutional autonomy, and the promotion of diversity in all its forms. The next Alumni Council meeting is November 13-15, and Dartmouth Courage will call upon our alumni representatives to stand with the more than 1300 alums and 569 faculty members who have spoken out to ensure that the Board of Trustees and…

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Tom Langen @calocitta.bsky.social · 3d

Many universities are swiftly, even eagerly slipping into the wave of repression against free speech and press. U. of Indiana and Purdue U. are two of those. Bravo on the Purdue Exponent for coming to the support of IU's beleaguered student newspaper. Makes this alumnus proud.
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