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Angela Sutton (she/her)
@drangelasutton.bsky.social
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Author: Pirates of the Slave Trade Professor: Communication of Science & Tech Director: Fort Negley Descendants Project & Builders and Defenders Database www.buildersanddefenders.org www.AngelaSutton.info My views are my own.
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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · Aug 20
✨ Book Deal Announcement ✨
It's official! @learothawms.bsky.social and I have signed with Vanderbilt University Press to publish Fightin' to Get Free: Fort Negley and the Struggle to (re)Define a City!
Under Contract: Fightin' to Get Free: Fort Negley and the Struggle to (re)Define a City, edited by Angela Sutton and Learotha Williams, Jr. with support from the Friends of Fort Negley, Vanderbilt University Press
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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 6h
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 · 7h
I fear you are right.
Everyone is holding their breath to see what VU's next move will be.
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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 8h
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 · 9d
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 · 1d
"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 · 17h
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 · 1d
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 · 21h
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 2015•
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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 1d
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 · 8d
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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 9d
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 · 1d
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.
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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 8d
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
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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 1d
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.
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Joanna Kenty @jokenty.bsky.social · 1d
There is a straight line between Penn’s censorship of student protests against genocide and the Trump compact. No surprise.
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The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities
www.nytimes.com
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𝕁, Accused Boyfriend of Antifa @checkwithscience.com · 1d
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact... wow this is so much worse than I imagined
Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
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Dr. Irving Forbush @drivingforbush.bsky.social · 1d
In emergency meeting, Vanderbilt Faculty Senate votes to condemn Trump administration ‘compact’
tennesseelookout.com/briefs/in-em...
In emergency meeting, Vanderbilt Faculty Senate votes to condemn Trump administration ‘compact’ • Tennessee Lookout
The Vanderbilt University Faculty Senate is opposing entering into a compact with the Trump administration to comply with new directives.
tennesseelookout.com
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d
Candace Owens is currently helping to lead a campus tour of HBCUs specifically targeting young Black people with reactionary bullshit and anyone circulating her shit is helping her do damage to all of us
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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 1d
Not necessarily.
www.entrepreneur.com/business-new...
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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 1d
Oh boy!
So fun for digital scholarship!
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d
Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job
US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board
www.telegraph.co.uk
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2d
Marc Rowan says the "compact" will "protect free speech," but First Amendment scholars across the political spectrum are of one mind that the compact is flagrantly unconstitutional, and every major free speech org--from the ACLU to FIRE to PEN--agrees. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 3d
Harvard (and all universities) must take a stand against Trump's extorionary "compact". Enos and Levitsky.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Must Take a Stand Against Trump’s Compact | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard, rather than quietly pursuing its own appeasement strategy, should lead the way to preserve academic freedom and democracy.
www.thecrimson.com
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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 1d
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2d
MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 2d
"To put it bluntly, the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating."
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 2d
[At last.] It’s no surprise MIT’s Sally Kornbluth is the first to flatly reject Trump’s deal
MIT rejects proposed federal ‘compact’ as other institutions weigh their options. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/10/m...
It’s no surprise MIT’s Sally Kornbluth is the first to flatly reject Trump’s deal - The Boston Globe
Kornbluth deserves all the credit for standing up for her institution’s core values, even at considerable risk.
www.bostonglobe.com
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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d
The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 2d
They know it's coming because they are creating it.