The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 3w ago

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.

If Other Jobs Were Like US Senator www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The U.S. keeper waffled, and you really can’t do that against the Belgians. They know their waffles.

Is the nickname “the Wizard of Oslo” taken yet?

Australian fan rooting for Brazil: OH, NOR!

If 4 out of 9 supposedly expert mathematicians says that a triangle has four sides, it isn't a 'win for geometry'. @joshtpm.bsky.social #BirthrightCitizenship

in addition to every other problem here, mamdani spends the vast majority of his time in the public eye speaking about hyper-local new york city governance issues. the idea that he is preoccupied with israel at all times is based on nothing other than the fact that he is muslim

brent sewer socialist🚰🌹@therealbrent.bsky.social · last mo.

I hate this guy so much

I’m an writer and I don’t use AI because, as you might recall my mentioning earlier, I’m a writer.

Laura Keating@lorekeating.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

"I think everybody knows instinctively, something is wrong here, and that’s a concern” -- House Speaker Mike Johnson

Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Look, I’m sorry but I just can’t believe the Knicks came all the way back. And I bet a lot of my fellow basketball fans feel similarly. This calls into question the legitimacy of their Game Four win.

the thing that’s been painfully obvious for years is that unchecked capital accumulation paired with gutting the social safety net and public goods was going to lead to commerce without customers. an economy built on consumption when no one has money to consume.

852dude@852dude.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Its starting.

roberts and alito have concocted a jurisprudence in which constitutional amendments explicitly ratified to secure the right of black americans to vote now restrain congress from securing the right of black americans to vote.

One reason FDR's court-packing plan failed to catch on is that the Supreme Court was perceived by many Americans as apolitical and therefore a victim of unwarranted aggression from the president. This court, however, is nakedly partisan. And any Democrat in power should be saying so early and often

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

This is a decent story but bad description. The AAUP is absolutely filling a need for faculty to fight back against a government attacking higher education at a time when other institutions are failing to do so.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3mo ago

As the American Association of University Professors has grown, and become more aggressive, it has also faced sharp criticism. Some worry the group's political stances risk undermining its goals, as the Trump administration targets what it calls a left-leaning tilt on campuses.

i think it is a testament to the inherent radicalism of the reconstruction amendments that the supreme court’s main project with regards to them has been to limit and weaken their impact on american society.

Texas tech now bans students from writing about LGBTQ issues in any form. Mentions of gender identity, orientation etc in textbooks must be skipped. Deafening silence so far from all the brave heterodox free speech absolutists www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

Texas Tech Issues Ban On Students Writing On LGBTQ+ Topics

The ban applies to theses and dissertations, and is expected to begin going into effect on a rolling basis.

erininthemorning.com

I recently realized that I have reached the age where I have clothes that are older than my students.

It would be nice if, at a moment when academia is under brutal assault from outside forces that are opposed to the very core of its mission, academics weren't so obsessed with self-flagellation.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The article's existence negates its own argument. The fact that the easiest way for an academic to land an opinion piece in The Chronicle or Inside Higher Ed is by offering contrarian takes about how awful academia is suggests a strong desire to look in the mirror.

👇🎯 Your regular reminder that <no one> knows the right amount viewpoint diversity on college campuses, & there are <exactly zero> societal institutions in America with more respect for viewpoint diversity than universities. It's not even close. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Stephen Morrison@stephen-morrison.bsky.social · 4mo ago

And why stop at universities? Let's have viewpoint diversity in law enforcement! Let's have it in the officer corps of the military! Let's have it in corporate boardrooms!

This feels like step 1 of an elaborate plan that ends with university presidents collectively agreeing to select future professors from a Leonard Leo-approved list.

The Harvard Crimson@theharvardcrimson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

SCOOP: Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish endowed professorships in a bid to reshape faculty under the banner of “viewpoint diversity,” according to two people familiar. Hugo C. Chiasson and Elise A. Spenner report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

College grads have been “prolentarianized": Universities minted too many knowledge workers, and now they're working at Starbucks in unprecedented numbers. This is a popular narrative. But the share of recent grads in low-wage jobs is tiny (and down since the mid-90s) www.vox.com/politics/485...

One thing I’ve learned in my years in higher ed is that depts established for the express purpose of promoting rightwing thought will always go over budget on alcohol, and when all of the other depts find out about it the response is, “we’re allowed to spend university money on alcohol?”

Robert Kelchen@robertkelchen.com · 4mo ago

The University of Iowa's new Center for Intellectual Freedom appears to be off to a rocky start in terms of enrolling students. They also went over budget on alcohol and food for their introductory event, which isn't surprising when faculty and legislators get together.

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

Michael Li (李之樸)@mcpli.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Today is the 128th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship in U.S. v. Wong Ark Kim.

Academic freedom or lack thereof: Decline of institutional autonomy in the United States compared to its decline in other prominent (former) democracies that have autocratized, namely Hungary, India, and Türkiye academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

US at one end, Canada at the other

Pew Research Center@pewresearch.org · 5mo ago

We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country. The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: www.pewresearch.org/...

Keep hearing commentators/Hegseth saying a version of "this is not Iraq, we are not doing nation-building, it's a decapitation, the people will handle it." That's what Iraq 2003 was supposed to be! Nation-building, de-Baathification, disbanding of Iraqi army, it all came *after* things went wrong.

This allows the Trump administration to literally condition citizenship on what it defines as acceptable speech

Brennan Center@brennancenter.org · 5mo ago

The 3 million-plus people applying for immigration status changes will now be required to provide the government with their social media handles. This expansive new requirement poses a serious threat to constitutional rights. bit.ly/4aE5uKa