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A thread on our recent paper (w/Raihan Alam @raihanalam) in PNAS on why punishment often fails and what it means for crime, cooperation, democracy, and the rule of law. I’m super excited for it, it’s the lab’s most extensive experimental work to date. Check it out! 1/
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Still haven't read the full agreement because I deserve nice things occasionally. But there's really a need for a propublica-type investigation into the social network of these boards, presidents, & donors with the admin. At the same time, exploring the similarities and differences across deals.
I would love to see detailed reporting about how these deals come together. This one looks like an inside job even more than Columbia’s.
I’ll look at it in more depth later but Northwestern’s agreement seems more campus-specific than previous deals and imposes restrictions on campus conduct beyond what others ave agreed to. Northwestern seems to have surrendered autonomy to a shocking extent. www.northwestern.edu/president/do...
November 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Still haven't read the full agreement because I deserve nice things occasionally. But there's really a need for a propublica-type investigation into the social network of these boards, presidents, & donors with the admin. At the same time, exploring the similarities and differences across deals.
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Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)
RTs appreciated.
RTs appreciated.
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)
RTs appreciated.
RTs appreciated.
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Since administrators all over the country treat shared governance with faculty as a joke, they need to be reminded, it seems, much more clearly that faculty have a place in governance.
Faculty must unionize now.
Faculty must unionize now.
November 29, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Since administrators all over the country treat shared governance with faculty as a joke, they need to be reminded, it seems, much more clearly that faculty have a place in governance.
Faculty must unionize now.
Faculty must unionize now.
one pattern we keep seeing is that faculty governance has no teeth anymore. coupled with trustees and admin who are corporate stooges w/no loyalty to the mission and the end result is the destruction of what a university even is and stands for
You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 3:35 AM
one pattern we keep seeing is that faculty governance has no teeth anymore. coupled with trustees and admin who are corporate stooges w/no loyalty to the mission and the end result is the destruction of what a university even is and stands for
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caving to a weak president with a 60% disapproval rating implies you AGREE with him
Fuck, Northwestern just caved. Reading the deal now. ( www.northwestern.edu/president/do... )
www.northwestern.edu
November 29, 2025 at 12:32 AM
caving to a weak president with a 60% disapproval rating implies you AGREE with him
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Northwestern and Columbia being famous for journalism and bending over for Trump seems a little too on the nose these days
This is the second largest payout from a private university to the Trump admin yet, second only to Columbia’s $200m
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Northwestern and Columbia being famous for journalism and bending over for Trump seems a little too on the nose these days
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The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
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Northwestern bent the knee, choosing to give in to extortion at the expense of academic freedom.
Among the provisions:
-Pay a big bribe
-Give the govt data on students
-Validate BS about "fighting antisemitism"
-Be cruel to trans students
What to do about Vichy universities (now, later, or both)?
Among the provisions:
-Pay a big bribe
-Give the govt data on students
-Validate BS about "fighting antisemitism"
-Be cruel to trans students
What to do about Vichy universities (now, later, or both)?
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Northwestern bent the knee, choosing to give in to extortion at the expense of academic freedom.
Among the provisions:
-Pay a big bribe
-Give the govt data on students
-Validate BS about "fighting antisemitism"
-Be cruel to trans students
What to do about Vichy universities (now, later, or both)?
Among the provisions:
-Pay a big bribe
-Give the govt data on students
-Validate BS about "fighting antisemitism"
-Be cruel to trans students
What to do about Vichy universities (now, later, or both)?
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My alma mater, Northwestern, has decided to grovel to a desperate loser, at vulnerable people’s expense
TL;DR: basically the same contemptible garbage as all the other schools, anti-trans, anti-protest, more restrictive on admissions than the court held in SFFA. 75 million dollar tribute payment. At least no surveillance of teaching evaluations I guess?
November 29, 2025 at 2:03 AM
My alma mater, Northwestern, has decided to grovel to a desperate loser, at vulnerable people’s expense
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👀 when it comes to "harassment" and student protest, northwestern has given the trump administration what appears to be a veto over changes in policy: "Northwestern shall not revise or modify these policies and procedures without the consent of the Assistant Attorney General".
horrible.
horrible.
You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
👀 when it comes to "harassment" and student protest, northwestern has given the trump administration what appears to be a veto over changes in policy: "Northwestern shall not revise or modify these policies and procedures without the consent of the Assistant Attorney General".
horrible.
horrible.
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BTW, any story about a possible Northwestern capitulation should include this detail (screenshot is from the oped linked below)
November 27, 2025 at 2:31 AM
BTW, any story about a possible Northwestern capitulation should include this detail (screenshot is from the oped linked below)
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Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
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It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
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So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Hi everybody,
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
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Relevant again today—and every day.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...
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What Is Political Violence? - Boston Review
Pundits and politicians conceal the truth: it’s all around us, perpetrated by our political system itself.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Relevant again today—and every day.
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„The terms of the agreement have not been made public and could change.“
"The New York Times reported Wednesday that Northwestern would pay a $75 million fine to the federal government under the deal." chicago.suntimes.com/education/20...
Northwestern University nearing deal with Trump administration that would restore federal funding
Northwestern University is expected to enter into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Education that would reportedly restore $790 million in frozen federal funding and end an investigation into ...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:10 AM
„The terms of the agreement have not been made public and could change.“
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Remember, BDS is intended as a civil society alternative to violence: a boycott is a non-violent form of protest against well-documented human rights crimes by the Israeli state. What I hear when ppl decry BDS as too strict is that ppl would rather Palestinians not resist their displacement at all
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Remember, BDS is intended as a civil society alternative to violence: a boycott is a non-violent form of protest against well-documented human rights crimes by the Israeli state. What I hear when ppl decry BDS as too strict is that ppl would rather Palestinians not resist their displacement at all
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This whole thing is racist, but take particular note of the threat of denaturalization. That's stripping people of their citizenship, and that's the road to mass murder and atrocity.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 AM
This whole thing is racist, but take particular note of the threat of denaturalization. That's stripping people of their citizenship, and that's the road to mass murder and atrocity.
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the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
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Is the Trump admin using ICE to settle family disputes?
This is fucked up.
This is fucked up.
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Is the Trump admin using ICE to settle family disputes?
This is fucked up.
This is fucked up.
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The American Studies Association was one of the first US academic institutions to approve by member vote the academic boycott of Israel. I was proud to vote “yes” on the resolution. The US ACBI guidelines are v clear usacbi.org/guidelines-f...
November 26, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The American Studies Association was one of the first US academic institutions to approve by member vote the academic boycott of Israel. I was proud to vote “yes” on the resolution. The US ACBI guidelines are v clear usacbi.org/guidelines-f...
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I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
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Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz describes her post–October 7 campus intervention tour to save Jewish students who reject Zionism.
She describes college students who separate antisemitism from antizionism as “irrational” and confused, and in need of realignment, so they can accept their love for...
She describes college students who separate antisemitism from antizionism as “irrational” and confused, and in need of realignment, so they can accept their love for...
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz describes her post–October 7 campus intervention tour to save Jewish students who reject Zionism.
She describes college students who separate antisemitism from antizionism as “irrational” and confused, and in need of realignment, so they can accept their love for...
She describes college students who separate antisemitism from antizionism as “irrational” and confused, and in need of realignment, so they can accept their love for...
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Nobody walks into an interview begging, “Hire me because I’m Black.” We walk in saying, hire me, I’m qualified. Hire me, my degree cost the same as everyone else’s. Hire me, I earned this and I need a job just like anyone else.
Hire me, don’t discriminate against me.
Hire me, respect me in my role.
Hire me, don’t discriminate against me.
Hire me, respect me in my role.
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Nobody walks into an interview begging, “Hire me because I’m Black.” We walk in saying, hire me, I’m qualified. Hire me, my degree cost the same as everyone else’s. Hire me, I earned this and I need a job just like anyone else.
Hire me, don’t discriminate against me.
Hire me, respect me in my role.
Hire me, don’t discriminate against me.
Hire me, respect me in my role.
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gen z is—WHILE SEEKING WORK AMID LAYOFFS/AI FALLOUT—currently: rallying at detention centers and tracking ICE sweeps; organizing mutual aid coordination of funds, food; building code to help people find affordable housing; *still* pushing their universities to divest from weapons manufacturers; +++
November 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
gen z is—WHILE SEEKING WORK AMID LAYOFFS/AI FALLOUT—currently: rallying at detention centers and tracking ICE sweeps; organizing mutual aid coordination of funds, food; building code to help people find affordable housing; *still* pushing their universities to divest from weapons manufacturers; +++