FYI this is going around seeming to be from me and Liz. This is not from us.

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There are like a dozen videos this bad or worse per week now. This stuff is insane.

If I’m a Dem in Congress I’m asking my constituents to log into healthcare.gov and tell me how much their premium is going up next year and I’m posting that on social media all day long.

Was reading this and thought this was about the shutdown before I got to the last word.

These are the lowest cost insurance options for a 62 year old Georgian making $65k. 2025: $228 2026: $1142 She will lose $704/month in credits because of GOP cuts to health care. This is a crisis. We cannot wait to fix this.

I did treat it like a lie and it didn't matter to voters because many of them - maybe even a majority - do not base their votes on my takes. If you want to make fun of the reporters/fact checkers who, in 2024, said "FALSE, Trump has said this is not his plan" please go ahead!

Here's another Lying Works example. Right before the election, Howard Lutnik went on CNN and said that RFK wouldn't be HHS Secretary. Good message for their audience. Total lie. And there is no cost if you lie then win - there's not some bureau that DQs you. Acknowledging this is not endorsing it!

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The “compact” only makes it clearer that universities will have to wean themselves off federal funding. No matter what a future government says, everyone now knows it is a source of immense vulnerability.

And it's not a one-time capitulation. If DOJ ever says you violated the vague and unconstitutional terms, they will take back ALL federal funds from that year and you have to return ALL private funding from donors who want their gifts back from that year. It's a never-ending protection racket.

Useful reminder here in some of the replies that people who share your politics are also capable of using them as a pretext to be awful to people and feel righteous about it bsky.app/profile/ocas...

I am sickened by today’s attack in Manchester. Antisemitism is on the rise around the world, and we must do all we can to stomp it out. I am grateful to first responders and congregants who showed incredible bravery, and I am praying for those who were killed.

Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism but saying this in response to a post about a Yom Kippur attack on a synagogue outside of Israel absolutely is antisemitism. Hope that clears this up.

Rolling over in his grave right now.

UPenn professors have responded forcefully to the Trump administration's that colleges sign a "compact" in order to secure funding: "When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

I gave an interview on the impact of Trump’s H1-B policies on higher education. The interviewer identified me as a professor at Michigan State University. Reading the “compact,” I believe one possible interpretation is that I could be disciplined for the speech. www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...

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Holy moly. I would feel so violated.

It’s interesting that Republicans have basically given up on ever winning an election in Virginia again when their current governor is a Republican.

An unintended (who am I kidding, intended) consequence of freezing tuition could be to make higher education, less affordable and accessible. To maintain or grow real revenue campuses could shift away from students receiving institutional need-based discounts.

Hey, remember when during the campaign they swore up and down they had absolutely nothing to do with Project 2025? Good times.

This is so much a “thing that did not happen” that I’m actually impressed with the attempt.

It's simply ending the partnership between government and academia that drove the most successful era of science anywhere ever. There's no eternal rule that required this system, it was a just a specific, creative innovation that worked. It seems wr will learn its value the hard way now.

BREAKING Four people were injured in a car-ramming and stabbing attack outside a synagogue in Manchester, England, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. The suspect was shot by British authorities.

This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

This is the sort of thing where Dems on higher education committees should be saying things like they view this as illegal, and expect they will withdraw funds from schools who go along with Trump when they regain power.

I’m not even sure this is a poisoned chalice. It’s more like a poisoned glass of that stuff you drink for colonoscopy prep.

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

This is the way to talk about the shutdown. I find the whole “did the D’s or R’s cause the shutdown” thing tiresome, as I suspect most Americans do. Who cares? Talk about *why* you don’t accept the other side’s proposal.

So, there’s no way he doesn’t switch parties before his term ends, right?

Last night, the ADL took down its "Glossary of antisemitism" which included an entry for the term "globalist," describing it as a far-right codeword for Jews. Hours later, the official DHS account authors a post with a common far-right meme, saying that "globalists" will be denied entry to the US.

Kind of concerned that his criticism of ADL is quite different from mine.

The director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute: "Their words should leave no doubt in anyone’s mind that the civilian leadership intends to use the threat and actuality of violence to infringe on Americans’ constitutional rights."

This Josh Shapiro guy seems pretty good. Maybe he should be Pritzker’s vice president.

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It's becoming difficult to hide that a major purpose of the Trump administration is siphoning tax revenues from Blue states and redirecting them into subsidies for Red states. At what point does this become intolerable?

So true

Working hard or hardly working?

This is a bailout, no matter what he calls it.

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Here's the order, nothing more (i.e. the status quo prevails and she remains on the Board of Governors). The fact they're not letting him remove her in the interim is a huge tell, because in all the other independent agency cases they permitted removal. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

BREAKING BERLIN (AP) — Three alleged members of Hamas were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of plotting attacks on Israeli or Jewish institutions in Germany, officials said.

Just a reminder of one of the things that got us into this mess in the first place.