I continue to think this will, eventually, pass. But we shall see

Genuinely suspenseful whether the Indiana Senate has the votes to pass it. I’m tracking senators’ positions here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.

Too many boards and presidents appear to believe that the value and legitimacy of their university resides in the brand when it, in fact, resides in knowledge and judgment, which in turn resides in the faculty and academic staff.

“Are you reading my mind?”

It’s a Christmas miracle, I suppose. But nobody can convince me that pew isn’t a TARDIS

A Grand Ole Opry Christmas is our first foray into Hallmark Christmas movies this season. A daughter can go back in time to see her country music star father by sitting on an old pew on stage? Why this is practically a Doctor Who special!

Name assimilation increases immigrants' earnings A LOT. osf.io/preprints/so...

Being Venezuelan in the U.S. these days feels like someone keeps hitting “next” on the suffering playlist.

NEW: An Indiana Senate Republican who President Donald Trump called out in a Truth Social post Sunday for not backing the White House’s plan to draw new congressional maps was later targeted by a swatting, according to local authorities. t.co/PWrWcuna1k

Indiana Senate Republican Greg Walker “said he would have reported the alleged violation to federal authorities “if I thought that there was anyone of integrity in Washington that would follow through on my accusation ..” @adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...

"Indiana’s Act 202 attacks intellectual diversity. And when administrators violate the law to suspend faculty for presenting controversial views, academic freedom is under even greater threat."

These senators will perform some hemming and hawing and, in the end, vote for redistricting 🤷🏻‍♂️

Before creating new degrees, Indiana’s public colleges and universities will have to explain to the state how they will promote American values. @indianacapitalchronicle.com

These types of items don't get automatically posted to social media outlets. I am posting this one manually. Because: Loons! bsquarebulletin.com/t-2/

Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...

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Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive. www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...

They line up perfectly.

Indiana doing the Trump admin a favor by forcing public universities to enforce the compact without having to sign it www.ipm.org/news/2025-11...

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

What’s with this framing? Nit even an “allegedly” in here?

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MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...

New chalkbeat piece that highlights some of the less well-known realities of our current moment for higher ed. I got to chat at length with Matt about the actual trend in tuition (flat or decreasing at publics) versus the perception in the media. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...

“I feel very strongly that we need to do all we can to stand against the notion that there is anything good about making compromises of the sort the Trump administration is asking universities to do." — Maria Bucur, AAUP Indiana University Bloomington

What a goddamn disaster

Dems do very well in VA. Win Gov by 14, AG by 5 (despite texting scandal), perhaps most impressive shift house of delegates from D 51-49 to D 64-36 Talk of NJ as swing state premature: Dem win Gov by nearly 13. Was supposed to be much closer Surprise 2 PSC D wins in GA most vote in but unofficial

“Too young” Madani is the same age Dick Cheney was when he became White House Chief of Staff

Casas vacías, arepas en riesgo y desesperación. Antes floreciente, Doral es hoy la cara del éxodo venezolano por las redadas cnnespanol.cnn.com/2025/10/30/e...

IU’s decision to suspend the print publication of its student newspaper is costing the institution: Alumni are pulling donations in protest. The university ended the IDS’s print edition after firing the paper’s adviser.

Indiana University Alumni Pull Donations Over Student Newspaper Censorship https://bit.ly/3LvA0ge #AcademicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd

Part of me suspects all this handwringing about not having the votes is performance. In the end, they’ll get the votes.

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So White House construction companies: ACECO (demolition): Deleted LinkedIn and Instagram profiles, took down their website with contact information entirely Clark Construction (construction): Limiting Insta comments and hiding or deleting critical ones. Do these companies think we'll all forget?

Protestors called for a stop to the suppression of the Indiana Daily Student at IU's Homecoming parade. This comes after the university cancelled publication of the paper's Homecoming-themed print edition, along with all future print editions.

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

If anybody is interested in seeing the news edition that the university sought to censor: issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

President Donald Trump was viewed favorably by 42% of Hoosiers and unfavorably by 49%. Gov. Mike Braun fared worse, with 24% favorable and 43% unfavorable, while 22% had no opinion and 11% had never heard of him. @indianacapitalchronicle.com

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched this TikTok since yesterday. Sherman was stressing those ladies out.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

I really appreciated this thoughtful piece about Ta-Nehisi Coates & Ezra Klein. Andrea Pitzer says “lost” folks like Klein “don’t have a clear idea how this moment fits into history and what it is exactly that they’re doing”. [degenerateart.beehiiv.com]

Therapy is so lit.

The official version of the budget released is not as granular as previous years, which included line items for individual departments. @weiss-a-woni.bsky.social

For their first project, my Kids and Society students have to create an infographic clarifying a common misconception about "kids these days." I'd prefer that they not use AI to create their projects, so I made my own infographic explaining why : )

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This spring @pewresearch.org asked people if they were happy with how democracy is working in their country. In the US, just 37% were satisfied. Countries with higher #s: Sweden 75% India 74% Indonesia 66% Australia 61% Germany 61% Canada 60% Mexico 51% UK 48% www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...