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▫️writing about ed policy and politics ▫️former middle & high school teacher (13 years 🇺🇲 & 🇧🇷) ▫️PhD in international ed policy ▫️posts are mine & reposts mean "hey look at this” https://campsite.to/stephmhall

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Stephanie Hall (she/her) 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephmhall.bsky.social · Apr 7

The ADA turns 35 this summer, and we should be celebrating & talking about more/new ways to make sure our disabled students and friends (and ourselves!) can _be_ in society. Instead, just about everything that makes that possible is at risk, including Section 504: www.teenvogue.com/story/texas-...

How a Republican Lawsuit Targeting Trans Kids Could Undo Major Disability Protections

Texas v. Becerra is a fight for the future of civil rights in America.

www.teenvogue.com

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oscar wilde women do 🇯🇲 @adrierising.bsky.social · 1d

the aws outage should be evidence that running half the internet on a single company's servers is a terrible idea but i fear nothing will change

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1d

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 1d

“Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.” Everything about this is so cursed. Masks off at the University of Oxford.

Curtis Yarvin & David Starkey - The End of the End of History
By Oakeshott (formerly Scruton)
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The second Oakeshott Lecture of 2025 - with perennially viral tech philosopher Curtis Yarvin and eminent historian David Starkey

In the second Oakeshott (formerly Scruton) Lecture, Curtis Yarvin will address the End of the End of History in the Post-Cold War Era.

A former software developer, Curtis Yarvin came to international prominence under the pen-name Mencius Moldbug as a critic of contemporary democracy. An avid promoter of technocracy and critic of ‘the Cathedral’, Yarvin has become an influential figure on the American right - a reliably controversial voice and a confidante of JD Vance and Peter Thiel.

Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 2d

Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 5d

News story two days ago in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social .

As far as I can tell, zero mention in NYT, WSJ, etc.

Though there was space for a front-page NYT story last week about Harvard students sometimes skipping class. (I am shocked, just shocked.)

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

A Majority of Frozen Federal Funding Has Been Restored, Harvard Says | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard has now received payments on the majority of funding that it lost since the Trump administration froze its access to federal grants this spring, the University notified faculty this month.

www.thecrimson.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6d

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 7d

If you’re a man in the room and a public official says this about your female colleague, you don’t continue as if nothing happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Ryan M. Allen @politicsanded.bsky.social · 8d

"Campus, on online two-year college backed by Sam Altman and Shaquille O’Neal, has acquired AI learning platform Sizzle AI for an undisclosed amount."

What a sentence this is. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Sam Altman–Backed Campus Acquires AI Start-Up

Campus, on online two-year college backed by Sam Altman and Shaquille O’Neal, has acquired AI learning platform Sizzle AI for an undisclosed amount.

www.insidehighered.com

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 8d

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 9d

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 9d

University leaders: [terminate programs, close campuses, cave in to political pressure from demagogues]

Faculty, students, staff: you’re killing the university

Management consultants: looks like you got a real comms challenge here

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 9d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 10d

More info about the illegal firings at the US Dept of Education have been shared by the staff union with advocates.

Notably absent is the office that will implement the “Beautiful Bill,” which will significantly increase many student loan borrowers’ payments.

Full list of affected offices below ⬇️

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Marcelo Sabbatini @marsabbatini.bsky.social · 10d

Educação inclusiva sendo abolida nos Estados Unidos. Lembram do risco que passamos por aqui, com ministro dizendo que crianças com deficiência "atrapalham"

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10d

a russ vought special

Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 10d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 10d

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 13d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Austin Slaughter @austinslaughter.bsky.social · 14d

This is a terrific paper looking at which programs are likely to fail the new earnings threshold established by the OBBA

www.american.edu/spa/peer/upl...

Bar graph showing the percentage of students in low-earning programs by credential type. Undergrad certificates: 24%; associate's: 3.9%; bachelor's: 0.6%; grad certificates: 3.1%; master's: 2.9%; doctoral: 0.3; professional: 4.7%; total (with undergrad certificates): 3.7%; total (without undergrad certificates): 1.8%.

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 14d

Sign-on letter to oppose Trump's (extortion) "compact" for higher ed institutions. actionnetwork.org/petitions/un...

University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

actionnetwork.org

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@cr_possess 👻 @christianrincon.com · 15d

*Some Democrats* don't belong in office if they can't come up with better solutions than "forced medical care"

NPR @npr.org · 16d

President Trump says one part of the answer to homelessness is civil commitment and forced medical care. Some Democrats agree.

Some Democrats share Trump's goal of forcing more homeless people into medical care

President Trump says one part of the answer to homelessness is civil commitment and forced medical care. Some Democrats agree.

n.pr

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Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · 16d

Now published @newamerica.org: newamerica.org/education-po...

A New Raw Deal: The Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education

The “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” turns a manifesto of conservative grievances into policy and violates the very principles it claims to protect.

newamerica.org

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 15d

Literally just a few months ago Mike Johnson just spearheaded the largest Medicaid cuts in history, four times as large as the Reagan’s Medicaid cuts

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Mike Johnson: "Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock everyday to fix healthcare. This is not talking points for us: we've done it."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19d

Yes, New College is incredibly inefficient but it also dropped 60(!) spots on the US News & World Report rankings. Not easy!
Everytime Chris Rufo is introduced as an impt voice in higher ed, remember that the one time he had a hand in running an institution has been a disaster.
Competence matters.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 21d

You'll be shocked to learn New College of Florida is on the brink of implosion just a couple of years after DeSantis engineered an extreme right-wing takeover

Fun fact: NCF's new overlords spend $134K per student (!!...the average at other FL publics is $10K) www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Spending Soars, Rankings Fall at New College of Florida

Student outcomes and rankings are slipping at the liberal arts college while spending is up. Critics believe the college is at risk of implosion, and some are calling for privatization.

www.insidehighered.com

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"spooky simchas" daniel s. @self.agency · 15d

costco connection has 10x the number of readers

Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 15d

I’m sorry but touting 1.5 million readers and 170k subscribers is so funny. That is not that many!!!!

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 16d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15d

“You’re liberal bashing!”

Actually people are being bashed in the head right now. Do you hear how you sound?

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Ryan M. Allen @politicsanded.bsky.social · 15d

Trump's new 'Compact' stipulates universities cannot have more than 15% international student undergrad enrollment. But my analysis shows most top universities are already well below this.

International students do not steal spots from American undergrads:
www.collegetowns.org/p/no-interna...

No, International Students Are Not Stealing Spots from American Undergraduates

Trump's Compact and other statements have exaggerated concerns over international students at American universities.

www.collegetowns.org

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 16d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

contingentmagazine.org

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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 16d

“…the Trump administration is punishing the rest of the economy to the benefit of tech companies. Tariffs are making it more expensive to build or buy anything unrelated to computing, so consumers and businesses are effectively being incentivized into the AI ecosystem.”

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 16d

NEW from me:

In his 2nd term, Trump has pursued the largest trade war in modern US history—with 1 glaring omission. Computer imports are almost entirely exempt from tariffs

It's a special carveout that AI companies are now reliant on for their data center buildout🧵
www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...

The Tariff Exemption Behind the AI Boom

Data Centers get Tariff-Free Imports. Why Shouldn't we All?

www.apricitas.io

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