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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 22m

I am thrilled that the remaining hostages have been released, but when the dust (really rubble) settles, absolutely no one who had any power to stop the war will come out of this looking good. Horrible people all around…

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1h

“Your name will be remembered to generations.”

Hostage families and former hostages honor President Trump in Israel.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19h

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Jashvina Shah @icehockeystick.bsky.social · 18h

Bad journalists support other bad journalists because it makes them think they’re actually good at their job. Neither of these people are a good standard for journalism. They’re bad and should not have the positions they have.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 19h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 4d

"For some, the Trump administration's Chicago assault was a shock."

"But for Black Americans, none of it felt extraordinary. It felt remembered."

"We know 'them' becomes 'you' sooner than you think."
#Illinois #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Black People Knew This Would Happen

Generational experience has taught us what happens when the state builds a weapon for someone else: Sooner or later, it finds a way back to us.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 1d

Bar associations need to start disbarring. There's immediate precedent with Giuliani. To the point @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has repeatedly made, a polity that allows elites to repeatedly lie, obviously and with impunity, is not sustainable. Feels like the legal profession is at the same juncture.

Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 1d

The case against Comey is beyond weak. The case against James is worse. It is based on a lie, and they know they're lying because exculpatory evidence that contradicts the indictment had already been presented to a grand jury in another jurisdiction. Everyone involved with this needs to be disbarred

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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 1d

This is a surprisingly good analysis of the current situation. It reinforces the reality that the war should have been ended long ago. Hamas is an idea as much as it is an organization & will only cease to exist when both sides have decent leaders & there is peace. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/o...

Opinion | Trump’s Peace Plan Dismantled Netanyahu’s Vision for Gaza

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

What a horrific tragedy. This is what happens when people decide it’s acceptable for drug users to die, and when we allow law enforcement to pretend to be experts on drugs and how drugs work. It’s very likely that this man would be alive today if he had received medical care instead of imprisonment.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

“For more than 3 hours, officers can be seen walking past while he lay on the floor in his urine in obvious distress…noting he was foaming at the mouth & having seizure-like activity…mistaking his medical emergency for a drug overdose…”

Except a drug overdose is also a medical emergency...

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 1d

I haven’t paid much attention to the Nobel Peace Prize since Obama won in 2009 for not being George W. Bush. Some great people and movements have won over the years but politics is always going to be politics and this award is ultimately political…

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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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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 1d

Haha yes I really meant that I have no idea what Vandy’s financial calculus is!

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David Nir @davidnir.com · 2d

Some background on the "Qatari Emiri Air Force facility" planned in the western U.S. --> sofrep.com/news/qatari-...

Qatari Fighter Jets Over Idaho?

Folks in Idaho will be seeing F-15Q fighters with Qatari air force markings and no, they are not lost.

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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 2d

Haha wut????

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 2d

No clue about what motivates Vanderbilt!

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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 2d

My initial thought is don’t hold your breath!

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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 2d

MIT became the first university to reject the Trump administration’s compact of demands, after its president Sally Kornbluth said the school already “meet or exceed many standards outlined” by the federal government.

MIT becomes first school to reject proposed ‘compact’ with Trump administration - The Boston Globe

MIT president Sally Kornbluth said the university’s practices already “meet or exceed” the federal government’s list of demands.

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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 2d

Very curious to see what the public schools do. They seem to have been chosen strategically...

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2d

More of this. Signing this authoritarian devil’s bargain would betray higher education’s independence and the pursuit of knowledge.

Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 2d

MIT rejects "the Compact"
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 2d

I honestly would not be surprised if some of the schools agreed to the deal.

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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know about this. I wouldn't be surprised if a couple of the public schools on the list accepted the deal and who the hell knows what Penn is going to say...

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a snippet from the MIT president's letter to ED

Screenshot from link that reads: The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.

In our view, America’s leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.

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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 2d

MIT rejects "the Compact"
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d

Black families tend to have strong preferences against nursing homes, usually driven by concerns of inadequate care. Seeing that Black nursing home patients have significantly worse outcomes, and that they are driven by *within-nursing home* differences in care, confirms this suspicion.

NBER @nber.org · 2d

Nursing home value-added for black patients is 30 percent lower than for white patients, with most of the gap reflecting differences within, rather than across, nursing homes, from Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, @nealemahoney.bsky.social, and James C. Okun www.nber.org/papers/w34324

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 3d

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

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