Michael Connor
@michaelconnor.bsky.social
Executive Director, Open MIC. Owner, Business Ethics Magazine. Former media exec (Dow Jones, Cablevision), journalist (WSJ, ABC News) and lifelong Yankee fan.
Trump Administration Texted College Professors’ Personal Phones to Ask If They’re Jewish theintercept.com/2025/04/23/t...
Trump Administration Texted College Professors’ Personal Phones to Ask If They’re Jewish
“Barnard was not given advance notice of this outreach,” the college’s general counsel wrote in an email to faculty.
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Apart from everything else—his mendacity, his malevolence, his depravity—Trump is just … dumb.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last yr.For the second time in the last 24 hours, Trump suggests that he thinks he will be putting tariffs directly on fentanyl smuggled into the United States illegally.
For years conservatives and some liberals complained incessantly about ‘cancel culture’ and the lack of ‘free speech’ on campuses. None of that stuff comes even close to what the right is now doing in power, in terms of the open bullying and pressuring of colleges and censoring of curricula.
Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard Crimson
Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, Hist...
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Affirm says that it’s reached an agreement with JPMorgan Chase to offer its buy now, pay later loan services to merchants on the bank’s payments network.
Affirm announces JPMorgan Chase merchants can now offer installment loans at checkout
The deal follows a similar announcement from rival Klarna last month, in which the Swedish fintech lender said it would be available to JPMorgan’s merchants.
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The tell here is that Vance’s statement only makes sense if NATO ceases to matter. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Sending a Russian dissent back to Russia to be tortured and/or killed perfectly encapsulates this loathsome administration’s lack of American values.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · last yr.Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.