Trump’s first year of his second term featured a lawless grasp for power, exercised most dramatically in his culture war and reign of untrammeled corruption, writes Bob Borosage. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/donald-trump-2026-first-year/

Well, considering the world of NIL, rev share in DI, this seems a bit nuts: sports.yahoo.com/articles/aug...

An appointment I wasn't expecting: Ron DeSantis named former University of Florida and Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer to the New College of Florida Board of Trustees. www.alligator.org/article/2025...

Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

New College of Florida alumni are blasting that dreadful @nytimes.com article, pointing out that it is riddled with multiple errors, falsities, and a fundamental misunderstanding of the situation. www.novocollegian.org/blog/nca-res...

New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows. A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j

I’ve been writing an annual column for 20 years on the year in sports and politics. Here’s this year’s edition. Short version: 2025 was the fucking worst. But maybe 2026 sees a turnaround that’s already being glimpsed in unlikely places www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Donald Trump in his own words – the year in racism and misogyny

“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what a US Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters, @megomatz.bsky.social, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials. My column on the condemnation of good journalism.

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

As someone who has closely covered New College of Florida since early 2023, there are at least a dozen problems with this article (I stopped counting at 12). The most significant issue is how the reporter condenses runaway spending to a paragraph. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/u...

Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: Happy holidays, one and all, as Emporia State’s worst president ever finally leaves the building #ksleg

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Save the date: We're hosting a free webinar with @opensecrets.org to help journalists cover the 2026 midterm elections with financial data top of mind. Learn how to find, download, and incorporate public data into your elections-focused storytelling on deadline (+ more).

Our Favorite Stories of 2025 From scoops gleaned through public records requests to deep analyses of current events, these were some of the Inside Higher Ed team’s favorite articles of this tumultuous year. https://bit.ly/3MVrGHr #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

The In-and-Out List As the calendar flips over, Inside Higher Ed looks back at what happened in 2025 and what could be in store for 2026, with the return of our in-and-out list. https://bit.ly/3Y4emD8 #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

To pay for tax cuts, Republicans cut graduate student loan support for female-dominated professions. That turns out to be bad policy and terrible politics. @glastris.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/22/g...

Latest: I asked DHS' public affairs office if it considers recording or following federal law enforcement to be obstruction of justice. DHS response: "That sure sounds like obstruction of justice." reason.com/2025/12/22/d...

To survive a school shooting is traumatic enough but to then face a racist smear campaign that falsely accuses you of being the murderer is even worse. That, writes @jeetheer.bsky.social, was the fate of a queer Palestinian student at Brown University. https://bit.ly/3MO9hMK

Just re-upping this to note I got a "no comment" from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln chancellor and a "I can't really talk about it" from the university system president and @journalstar.com still ran the story. journalstar.com/news/state-r...

Exclusive: Mike Pence’s political group is poaching top officials from the Heritage Foundation as the conservative movement continues to splinter.

"Having a boss like Bari Weiss" is why many journalists are alcoholics

My story on the decision of CBS Editor in Chief Bari Weiss to pull a 60 Minutes story on alleged abuses of Venezuelan migrants sent to notorious Salvadoran Center. Updated with this morning's remarks from Weiss: www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...

Brooks had not only met Epstein in the past, but also attended a dinner alongside the infamous sex trafficker in 2011. There is still no addendum to his column saying this.

The Colleges That Couldn’t Survive 2025 At least 15 nonprofit institutions announced closures this year due to enrollment and financial challenges, down from 16 last year. There were also fewer mergers announced. https://bit.ly/4rZqCT7 #EDUSky #HigherEd

Utah System Head Calls Out Weber State for Censorship https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/12/17/utah-system-head-calls-out-weber-state-censorship?utm_campaign=IHESocialEditorial&utm_content=Utah+System+Head+Calls+Ou&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=bluesky

1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.

Harvard is investigating students who secretly recorded former president and current professor Larry Summers addressing his ties to notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein during class. (Summers is currently on leave.) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

The University of Arkansas spent $36,000 on balloons last year. After seeing what they got, we think it was worth every penny. In FOIAball this week, we EMBRACE THE HOG. www.foiaball.com/p/college-fo...

Who is Randy Fine and where did he come from? Spoke with folks on all sides of the aisle, a school board official he called a “whore,” a construction contractor who felt compelled to primary him, a classmate from his time causing ruckus in Harvard student government, and more to find out.

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

cool idea ESPN! I wonder if anything might have inspired you?

In FOIAball tomorrow, it's the post you've been waiting for... balloon expenses for all of college football's biggest programs Sign up today to get it tomorrow: foiaball.com/subscribe

Watching the NACIQI meeting and there's a @themountaingoats.bsky.social name drop by Bob Shireman. Not the crossover I expected.

New from me today: Heritage has appointed Scott Yenor Director of its American Studies center. Yenor is the founder of the far right men only Society for American Civic Renewal lodges, and appears to oppose full legal equality for women www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Texas universities deploy AI tools to review and rewrite how some courses discuss race and gender.

In 2025, @pressfreedomtracker.us documented at least 32 instances in which journalists were detained or charged — just for doing their jobs. Nearly 90% of them occurred while journalists were covering demonstrations. Read our annual arrest report:

Is DEI Dead—or Just Changing? After a year of repeated blows, diversity professionals and scholars are debating whether DEI has a future on college campuses, and if so, what its next iteration looks like. https://bit.ly/4aLXete

ICYMI | Headlines last week: 😶 After Censoring Again, Weber State Says It Will Be ‘More Nuanced’ in Applying Law 🚻 TX Tech Begins to Collect Info on Race, Gender Course Content 🌏 Purdue Allegedly Rejecting Chinese, Other ‘Adversary Nation’ Grad Students Read the full WNU! ➡️ https://bit.ly/4rPYDVX

Police have taken a person of interest into custody after a shooting at Brown University killed two and injured nine, according to the mayor of Providence, Rhode Island. Follow for more live updates here:

Release the boat videos. Release the Epstein files. Release the ICE and Border Patrol body-cam footage. Justice Brandeis: "Sunlight is the best disinfectant." And there's so much the Trump administration's doing that needs disinfecting.

UNC Professors Must Soon Post Syllabi Publicly The UNC system president cited low trust in higher education as justification for the new policy, which echoes rules in Florida and Texas. Faculty are fighting the decision. https://bit.ly/4s8vkxY #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

The Ring Boys case in which former WWE officials, including Linda McMahon, are accused of turned a blind eye to the sexual abuse of teenagers in the late 80s/early 90s has moved to discovery. (Separately, sources have told me there is no way Linda McMahon didn't know, since this was an open secret.)

When @dfriedman.bsky.social discovered a Goodreads page tied to the email of a top Pentagon official featuring “Asian wife sharing” books and other pornographic works, he did what any reporter would do: ask the Pentagon questions. The very next day, a threatening email from Jack Posobiec arrived.

Just announced: Willamette University and Pacific University are exploring a merger to potentially become the University of the Northwest. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Texas Tech Begins to Collect Info on Race, Gender Course Content For each of their courses, faculty must say whether they “advocate for” or “promote” certain race or gender identities. https://bit.ly/4oRNIIq #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

The legal fight over Virginia board appointments is over. The 22 Youngkin picks rejected by Democrats will not join their respective university boards, handing Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger a chance to immediately reshape VA higher ed. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Former Texas A&M President Mark A. Welsh III wasn’t pushed out over just one incident. The A&M Board of Regents came to want a more explicitly conservative leader who would shut down controversy before it reared its head.

After Censoring Again, Weber State Says It Will Be ‘More Nuanced’ in Applying Law www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...