Dr. Matthew Reid Krell
@reidkrell.bsky.social
JD/PhD. Alumni of GW, Alabama Law, and Alabama PSC. Assistant Professor CSU-Northridge. Research: institutions as sites of and participants in political dialogues.
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my tepid take today is that we don't say enough that networking is as intimidating for as many people as it is because it forces you to directly confront your fear that no matter what you do, nobody's going to help you in the way you need them to
December 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
my tepid take today is that we don't say enough that networking is as intimidating for as many people as it is because it forces you to directly confront your fear that no matter what you do, nobody's going to help you in the way you need them to
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Well, d’uh
One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
Laptops in the Long Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru
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December 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Well, d’uh
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the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation.
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2
December 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation.
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
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Birthright citizenship is good policy - the arguments that it’s not all seem either race stuff or the unfairness that other people have to wait.
We can fix that by admitting more naturalized citizens.
We can fix that by admitting more naturalized citizens.
December 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Birthright citizenship is good policy - the arguments that it’s not all seem either race stuff or the unfairness that other people have to wait.
We can fix that by admitting more naturalized citizens.
We can fix that by admitting more naturalized citizens.
What about...nah, not even them.
There are so few (really none) universities that deserve happiness and money off the backs of the Black players that make their football teams great.
December 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
What about...nah, not even them.
Haley Barbour.
That’s a new dinner party conversation: Who is someone that you hate so much that, if given the time, energy, and crew, you’d produce a 4-part documentary on them?
December 7, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Haley Barbour.
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December 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.
December 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.
I found the successor to Rav Hillel here.
The answer to “do Jews believe in” is almost always “well some Jew does”
December 7, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I found the successor to Rav Hillel here.
Teach the entirety of securities regulation in two and a half hours, they said. It'll be fun, they said.
(Past Me is the they in question.)
(Past Me is the they in question.)
December 7, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Teach the entirety of securities regulation in two and a half hours, they said. It'll be fun, they said.
(Past Me is the they in question.)
(Past Me is the they in question.)
"Just until this cigarette is ended. . . ."
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
"Just until this cigarette is ended. . . ."
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DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
December 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
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Zero tolerance for doomerism. Stop lazily accepting that everything is screwed forever. Stop normalising low expectations. That’s part of the problem & it’s what the bastards want. It’s also a product of privilege. People in more desperate situations don’t have the option to just sit back & shrug.
December 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Zero tolerance for doomerism. Stop lazily accepting that everything is screwed forever. Stop normalising low expectations. That’s part of the problem & it’s what the bastards want. It’s also a product of privilege. People in more desperate situations don’t have the option to just sit back & shrug.
Prof. Bender is correct, but also all you have done is replaced the editor with an "AI" at the desk reject phase.
Here's a rule of thumb: If "AI" seems like a good solution, you are probably both misjudging what the "AI" can do and misframing the problem.
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December 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Prof. Bender is correct, but also all you have done is replaced the editor with an "AI" at the desk reject phase.
While I wouldn't like to be a law student right now (what is constitutional law? Administrative law? Professional responsibility?), I would like much less to be a bar commissioner realizing that decades of enforcement deference to the powerful is having actual consequences.
This era is absolutely stuff of future ethics law students' nightmares.
December 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
While I wouldn't like to be a law student right now (what is constitutional law? Administrative law? Professional responsibility?), I would like much less to be a bar commissioner realizing that decades of enforcement deference to the powerful is having actual consequences.
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If your naturalization case is or will be put on hold by this, especially after the interview, go see an immigration lawyer now.
Naturalization is not discretionary, and federal judges have a unique role in deciding delayed naturalization cases.
Naturalization is not discretionary, and federal judges have a unique role in deciding delayed naturalization cases.
The Trump admin has paused all immigration and naturalization processes for people from one of the 19 travel ban countries; including Cuba and Venezuela.
Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.
Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.
Scoop: The Trump administration has paused all immigration applications filed by people from 19 countries banned from travel to the United States earlier this year, halting green card and U.S. citizenship processing for broad swaths of people.
More coming soon.
More coming soon.
December 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
If your naturalization case is or will be put on hold by this, especially after the interview, go see an immigration lawyer now.
Naturalization is not discretionary, and federal judges have a unique role in deciding delayed naturalization cases.
Naturalization is not discretionary, and federal judges have a unique role in deciding delayed naturalization cases.
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That Pentagon *press corps* performance with Matt Gaetz and Laura Loomer among those asking questions feels like a pretty good indicator of how far over the cliff we are. Worth checking out. 🇺🇸
December 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
That Pentagon *press corps* performance with Matt Gaetz and Laura Loomer among those asking questions feels like a pretty good indicator of how far over the cliff we are. Worth checking out. 🇺🇸
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Welp. I came across my first absolutely hallucinated “case” where it wasn’t checked (and wouldn’t even need to be shepardized) because it “cites” to a Supreme Court opinion written by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in the year 1944. Help me I can’t law anymore
December 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Welp. I came across my first absolutely hallucinated “case” where it wasn’t checked (and wouldn’t even need to be shepardized) because it “cites” to a Supreme Court opinion written by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in the year 1944. Help me I can’t law anymore
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SUBSKEET ALERT
This is your semi-regular reminder that if I haven’t mentioned an article that appears to be very much in my wheelhouse, it probably isn’t because I didn’t see it. Much more likely that I read it, found it wanting, and didn’t feel like spending my life critiquing.
This is your semi-regular reminder that if I haven’t mentioned an article that appears to be very much in my wheelhouse, it probably isn’t because I didn’t see it. Much more likely that I read it, found it wanting, and didn’t feel like spending my life critiquing.
December 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
SUBSKEET ALERT
This is your semi-regular reminder that if I haven’t mentioned an article that appears to be very much in my wheelhouse, it probably isn’t because I didn’t see it. Much more likely that I read it, found it wanting, and didn’t feel like spending my life critiquing.
This is your semi-regular reminder that if I haven’t mentioned an article that appears to be very much in my wheelhouse, it probably isn’t because I didn’t see it. Much more likely that I read it, found it wanting, and didn’t feel like spending my life critiquing.
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a demarcation I could work with while dying on my 'critique is service' hill 😀
"You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked." - Foucault
December 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
a demarcation I could work with while dying on my 'critique is service' hill 😀
-eyes the "use credit cards to transition to a new institution" rule of academia-
Being forced to take on debt so you can engage in the practice of your trade and still not reap the full benefits of your labor is a long time practice.
Stop being fucking dumb about your application of Marx.
Stop being fucking dumb about your application of Marx.
December 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
-eyes the "use credit cards to transition to a new institution" rule of academia-
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The fact that 12% of federal judges are Black shows the corruption of DEI. The fact that 67% of Supreme Court Justices belong to a small legal cult called the Federalist Society shows the power of meritocracy.
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The fact that 12% of federal judges are Black shows the corruption of DEI. The fact that 67% of Supreme Court Justices belong to a small legal cult called the Federalist Society shows the power of meritocracy.
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Look, there is no way to avoid TPUSA. You can give trolls a C-, B, B+. It won't matter. They can even get an A overall but if you give the feedback the very constructive OU instructor did, you're on the list. The assignment could be 2% of the grade (it might be in that class!). There is no defense.
December 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Look, there is no way to avoid TPUSA. You can give trolls a C-, B, B+. It won't matter. They can even get an A overall but if you give the feedback the very constructive OU instructor did, you're on the list. The assignment could be 2% of the grade (it might be in that class!). There is no defense.
named my fists Kennedy and Souter because they're not what the Federalist Society expected.
named my fists Miessler and Tarr because they're going to give you an improper rotation
named my fists Strunk and White because they help me omit needless words
December 1, 2025 at 3:36 AM
named my fists Kennedy and Souter because they're not what the Federalist Society expected.