Nick Fleisher
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Linguist at UW-Milwaukee. Syntax & semantics, higher ed, Wisconsin politics &c.
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Grammar/syntax/semantics Wisconsin politics Academic freedom and shared governance Philadelphia and Philadelphia sports Modular synthesizers Open source software Stockholm, Sweden All things Donald Fagen
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Saying that far-right extremists also hate women is like saying that Paris is also in France
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Milwaukee got a new mayoral administration in 2022 that started going ham on protected bike lanes and hardened safe streets infra. And the results have been as expected. Material drops in traffic fatalities.
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Nick Brumfield
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These people simply do not understand the importance of the social in teaching The performance is important for both the teacher (who is compelled to internalize and wrestle with the material enough to perform) and the student (who is compelled to learn by participating in the performance)
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Gingrich is impressed to learn that everyone in the region hates Iran (decades-old common knowledge) and believes this could be a Vietnam-level win for the United States?
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Pam Herd
about 3 hours ago
I've conducted NIH/NSF funded research for 20 years.These rules, from laying waste to scientific expertise in funding decisions to catastrophic burdens placed on the agencies and universities, will destroy scientific agencies from the inside out.
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
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Summary of Key Changes in OMBās Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science
https://elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of-key-changes-in-ombs-proposed
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Jacob T. Levy
about 6 hours ago
"Inflation is good actually" is a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for them.
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"America 3 People" does sound less impressive
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Keerthika Uthayakumar
about 18 hours ago
The NBA will have a different NBA champion for 8th straight season, extending the longest streak in league history. 2019 - Toronto 2020 - Los Angeles Lakers 2021 - Milwaukee 2022 - Golden State 2023 - Denver 2024 - Boston 2025 - Oklahoma City 2026 - New York/San Antonio
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I want thinkpieces on how much Bluesky hates SGA
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The White House complex faces south toward the Washington Monument. But the sightline here seems to be east-west along the Mall
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about 19 hours ago
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Also that's not what the yips are
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John Muller
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The World Cup is about celebrating exotic host nation cultures
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Chris āOH NO! DISASTER! WHAT A BAD IDEA!ā Dobbertean
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Dr. Nick Riviera was ahead of his time
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Trump's anger is like the least interesting thing about him. He gets angry at everything all the time. He was famously angry at Rosie O'Donnell for years What these stories never quite come out and say is that Trump's emotions dictate his actions to an unusual degree. That he is a weakling
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America's most dominant technology company, done in by its own stupidity and the soft presuppositions of English wh-questions
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Laura Bassett
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Their new girlfriend is women
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NPR in the role of playground shit-stirrer. This isn't a report about anything real, this is the media going up to Talarico and saying loudly, in front of everyone, "he just called you a pussy"
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mtsw
2 days ago
After having seen STAR WARS 500 times as a kid, I remember having my mind blown learning that the entire "the death star is about to blow up the rebel base as its being attacked" beat of the ending was invented in the editing room using outtakes and ADR.
variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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Marcia Lucas, Oscar-Winning āStar Warsā Editor, Dies at 80
Marcia Lucas, George Lucas' former wife and Oscar-winning editor of 'Star Wars,' died Wednesday. She was 80.
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/marcia-lucas-dead-star-wars-editor-1236762833/#recipient_hashed=a51a2b6361234b92023a6f0737b201317354daacb0595a58c86d37407961eb99&recipient_salt=a6fb76b1f0077820081bf09446635ec11b11580a75adcf6343fb477ce8a7e866&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=685233_05-29-2026&utm_term=12760735?utm_medium=&utm_source=&utm_campaign=&utm_content=&utm_id=
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That final split-second shot of Tarkin
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Sean T. Collins
2 days ago
Imagine being the person who cut both Taxi Driver and Star Wars, two of the best edited films ever made! Her brilliant career feels infuriatingly brief, cut short by the stress of working with one of the most difficult friend groups in Hollywood history.
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The lead guitar comping during the verses! Just a note perfect Revolver bonus track
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Universities, allocating millions for Civil Discourse Incubators and edgelord faculty lines: "Surely this will save us!" Vought: *asserts veto power over all scientific research*
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A+ photo editor work here
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Wisconsin Congressman Steil touts water funds he voted against
U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil touted Wisconsin water funding despite voting against the infrastructure law that provided it.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/29/wisconsin-congressman-bryan-steil-touts-water-funds-he-voted-against/90314099007/
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Robin Vos's email newsletter today contains the proposition that "compromise shouldn't be a dirty word in Wisconsin politics" and I would like to invite him to please go away forever
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Impossible to believe that enormous, epoch-spanning intervals like 1977-1992 and 1966-1981 are the same length as 2011-today
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Tim Onion
2 days ago
Absolutely shocking how easy this is.
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Erin Vanderhoof
2 days ago
honestly i think my entire adult life has built up to me being able to write this paragraph
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š now 12-5 in the 7th
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Vishnu Reddy
6 days ago
coffee: the bean juice
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one might ask why a free speech org is scrutinizing the small dollar political donations of private citizens
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Don Moynihan
2 days ago
I have more good things to say about FIRE than most people on here, but this stuff is clueless. It assumes that the ideal university is one where faculty contribute equally to the political parties that support and oppose science.
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Carl T. Bergstrom
3 days ago
Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.
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Tough to build an audience when you're slotted behind Suddenly Susan
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Professa Murray
2 days ago
The Presidentās ability to set agenda priorities does not mean he can ignore Congress. Congress writes the statutes that set the priorities; the President has to execute them. This is why Russ Vought needs to be impeached; he is an anti-constitutionalist reactionary.
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Josh Chafetz
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1/ This is awful for so, so many reasons. Just to pick one: even if you thought it was lawful and appropriate to vet funded research for consistency with the government's priorities, *the president is not the government*.
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Bill Grueskin
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It is, by definition, a āconflict of interestā for a president to buy stock in a company, then shill its products and then oversee an agency that awards it a huge contract. Thereās no mere āappearanceā here.
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Neil Lewis, Jr.
3 days ago
Goodhart's Law strikes again: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
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The most consistently misused term in English isn't "disinterested" or "comprised of" or "begs the question", it's "backslash"
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Whoever thought I would enjoy vertical video of Ross Douthat in headphones was very wrong
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Mark Copelovitch
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This is the destruction of federal funding for scientific research & universities as we know it. A total, comprehensive politicization of the process & an end run around Congress.
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Mark Copelovitch
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Your regular reminder that there are <exactly zero> societal institutions that are <more protective> of free speech and viewpoint diversity than universities.
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Mark Copelovitch
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Quite literally, we can't know anything about what causes declining trust in universities if we don't bother to benchmark that decline against the declines of other institutions. It's looking under the lamppost outside your house for your keys when you left them at the airport last week.
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Also: doing these hires won't make conservatives like or "trust" American higher ed. It is counterproductive both on the merits and as a confidence-building measure, occurring as it is under obvious duress and dishonesty. It will just make universities worse for everyone.
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Yep, see also Swedish "smƤrta"
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There won't be any successor to Trump, exhibit 87:
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Benjamin Gill
5 days ago
Yep... I seriously don't have words...
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NSF Eliminates Geoscience Postdocs - Eos
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has eliminated its postdoctoral fellowship funding for Earth scientists.
https://eos.org/research-and-developments/nsf-eliminates-geoscience-postdocs?fbclid=IwY2xjawSDFbhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA80MDk5NjI2MjMwODU2MDkAAR7QswIE1UZc6SaqtAynL66OWd4oKXdW8CX6f7WZEiP2VI2nkSscUojsxcCllw_aem_rJewa1EYxVmfuhQdOzEaUQ
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Dan Garisto
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Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universitiesāand their collaboratorsāhave been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.
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Exclusive: NSF puts new research grants to top universities on hold
US science funder once again restricts awards to Harvard University and other research institutions.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01667-6
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
4 days ago
just remembered the time, back when I was on twitter, that I said 'originalism is astrology for people who feel bullied by the Civil Rights Movement' and a bunch of people into astrology were like 'how dare you' š
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Phil Rocco
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Very sad to report that the work of the vaporware organization Kevin mentions in this post (I wonāt link to them) continues to be cited in articles and op-Edās about politics in, among other states, Wisconsin. A zero-credibility operation.
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