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Making Texas higher education great again.
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Jeffrey Keese
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Imagine just leaving this team
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Christopher Hale
about 5 hours ago
While the Catholic Left hosts theology panels no one understands and writes essays no one reads, MAGA Catholics are winning elections and consolidating power. Itās time to stop talking to ourselves and start building a movement that reaches people, wins elections, and defeats authoritarianism.
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My Interview with Crux: Restoring the Catholic Left in American Politics
We canāt out-organize MAGA with theology debates, ivory tower panels, and essays no one reads. Itās time to try something new.
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/my-interview-with-crux-restoring
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
about 6 hours ago
Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and thatās it for me tonight.
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Weāre Going To Keep The Popehat
about 7 hours ago
Expect to see a surge of proud ignorance and proplawganda about what you can say about ICE agent Jonathan Ross, identified by local media as the person who shot and killed Renee Good. In particular, expect a repeat of Rittenhouse-era āaccusing him of murder is defamationā rhetoric. Itās not. /1
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David M. Perry
about 10 hours ago
Iām ready. Why stop at two popes.
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FlexNP
about 12 hours ago
Mary Sue drug confirmed. Tirzepatide + Taltz (an IL-17a MAB) significantly improved psoriatic arthritis symptoms and caused significant weight loss at the same time in data published this afternoon.
@rheumcat.bsky.social
@mikejohansenmd.medsky.social
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Courtney Milan
about 13 hours ago
There is so much money and power to be had by selling out everyone's rights to fascists, and the people who do it make me sick. I'm specifically referring to JD Vance here but the list this applies to is long.
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Sarah Weinman
about 9 hours ago
The criminal legal system is not set up for justice. And every day, someone learns this for the first time.
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public health is anti-war. guy
about 20 hours ago
kids, donāt forget to eat a steak soaked in milk every day so you can grow up looking like RFK Jr
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Matt Gabriele
about 20 hours ago
Just to back up Anthony as a medievalist, thatās one of the dumbest fucking claims imaginable. There have never NOT been people from continental Europe, Africa, and Asia moving to/ from the British Isles for 2000 years. In early modernity, this included the Americas!
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
about 14 hours ago
My very limited take away from the new food "guidelines" is that we don't talk about gout enough.
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Radley Balko
about 15 hours ago
This is bullshit. They absolutely have jurisdiction.
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FlexNP
about 19 hours ago
We don't stop statins just because your LDL is now 70. Same for blood pressure. It's controlled by medication. Same rules apply here with obesity treatments.
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ETX Gov
about 17 hours ago
This is for a state crime.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
about 16 hours ago
Sub āanythingā for āsportsā and thatās me
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If you are a newspaper/aggregator with a national audience and your headline today isnāt that ICE murdered a women in cold blood and the Trump admin is defending the murderer, you are part of the problem.
about 16 hours ago
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Dominique Baker
about 17 hours ago
They are gonna leave anyway so orgs like ABA, SACS, etc. should spend more time crafting good policies and enforcing them (instead of trying to appease)
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Courtney Milan
about 18 hours ago
I watched this last night. The top two women's skaters in the US are queer women, with pride flags waving in the audience in support. That really meant something to me in this moment.
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Brendan Cantwell
about 16 hours ago
The Chair of MSU's Steering Committee - hour highest body for shared governance - has taken the job as Vice President for Research at Texas A&M. To me, this is a curious choice.
stories.tamu.edu/news/2025/12...
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Texas A&M University names Dr. Angela Wilson as vice president for research
Former National Science Foundation division director and American Chemical Society past president will lead the university's $1.4B research enterprise.
https://stories.tamu.edu/news/2025/12/17/texas-am-university-names-dr-angela-wilson-as-vice-president-for-research/
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Texas Conference of the AAUP
about 18 hours ago
An associate dean told English faculty āliterature with major plot lines that concern gay, lesbian or transgender identities should not be taught in core-curriculum classesā¦faculty may assign textbooks with chapters that cover transgender identity, so long as they do not talk about the material.āš
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Plato Censored as Texas A&M Carries Out Course Review
A&M officials have also instructed English faculty not to teach books in core classes that have major plotlines concerning gay, lesbian or transgender identities.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2026/01/07/plato-censored-texas-am-carries-out-course-review
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Isaac Kamola
1 day ago
I'm really proud of this academic freedom syllabus language that the
@aaup.org
CDAF fellows developed. Having language like this opens up an opportunity to talk with your students about what academic freedom is (and is not). If you add it to your syllabus this semester let me know how it goes!
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Acyn
1 day ago
AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long timeāthat it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.
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All In with Chris Hayes
1 day ago
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
: āA 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.ā
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Aaron Rupar
1 day ago
Rep. Wesley Hunt: "The bottom line is this: when a federal officer gives you instructions, you abide by them and then you get to keep you life"
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David M. Luebke
1 day ago
Texas A&M has forbidden the teaching of Plato's "Symposium." As Corey Robin notes, there was bound to be a "showdown between, on the one hand, the right's claim to be defending the great books and the western canon and the classics, and...
#edusky
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/texas-am-bans-plato/
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Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
https://dailynous.com/2026/01/06/texas-am-bans-plato/
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NBC News
1 day ago
"They carried her body out, just like by her limbs, they didnāt even have a stretcher," a witness says. "She was carried out like a sack of potatoes."
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Watching woman die 'will change my life forever,' neighbor says
Emily Heller, 39, wasn't even dressed when she heard whistles alerting the neighborhood that ICE agents were in the area this morning. āIāve never seen
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/minnesota-ice-shooting-live-updates-rcna252852/rcrd95861?canonicalCard=true
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Aaron Rupar
1 day ago
Tim Walz: "Our administration is going to stop at nothing to seek accountability and justice. The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is working on the investigation."
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Ted McCormick
1 day ago
one thing I like to do when I have a new technology with no domain-specific purpose that soaks up time and does various harms to its users is to test it out first in hospitals and schools
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Paul Cohen
1 day ago
Dr Mehmet Oz announces the latest FDA dietary/health guidelines regarding alcohol consumption: "Don't have it for breakfast"
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Ann M. Lipton
1 day ago
Also you will never convince me that this isn't a gender/masculinity thing
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/w...
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Kennedy Flips Food Pyramid to Emphasize Red Meat and Whole Milk
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/well/rfk-jr-food-pyramid-nutrition-guidelines-protein.html
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Craig Harrington
1 day ago
Lol this is an actual South Park episode.
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Carlos NoreƱa
1 day ago
re-upping for the feral hordes of archeologists and classicists descending upon san francisco today now this very moment
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The Salt Lake Tribune
1 day ago
It took careful work to recover the UNIX V4 operating system from the 9-track magnetic tape. The software is foundational for most devices used today, including iPhones.
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Hidden in storage, a University of Utah research associate happened upon the only known copy of this ārevolutionaryā software
It took careful work to recover the UNIX V4 operating system from the 9-track magnetic tape. The software is foundational for most devices used today, including iPhones.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2026/01/07/university-utah-finds-tape-with/?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot
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AAUP Texas A&M-College Station Chapter
3 days ago
From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
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Moira Donegan
3 days ago
The most unsubtle, heavy-handed claims made by pomo academic types have turned out to all be true. Gender is a relation of domination that requires constant, affirming witness. Capitalism will require extractive colonial relations. Thereās no subtlety. Every day is like a 101 seminar at Oberlin.
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jamelle
3 days ago
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
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public health is anti-war. guy
4 days ago
i realllllly want to stress that this change is most likely going to be stopped in court, and quickly. but the confusion rfk jr. is spreading is also part of the project. thatās long term damage
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Kennedy Scales Back the Number of Vaccines Recommended for Children
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/health/children-vaccines-cdc-kennedy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CFA.uaRS.kXFRLZiF1yaI&smid=url-share
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Dominique Baker
5 days ago
"Garber appeared to tie many of higher educationās oft-cited ills ā namely, a dearth of tolerance and free debate ā to a culture that permits, and at times encourages, professors to foreground their identity and perspectives in teaching." I expected nothing less
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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Garber Faults Faculty Activism for Chilling Campus Debate and Free Speech | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard President Alan M. Garber ā76 said the University āwent wrongā by allowing professors to inject their personal views into the classroom, arguing that faculty activism had chilled free speech an...
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/1/3/garber-faculty-activism-podcast/
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Dominique Baker
5 days ago
I didn't know these levels of shamelessness existed and that's on me
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Philip Bump
5 days ago
Wrote this before yesterday but it gets at what undergirds that (and lots of other things in politics). "The internet universalized subjectivity instead of objectivity. ⦠We have reverted from acting on what we *know* to acting on what we *think*."
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Opinion | How the internet fractured the information ago ā and drove down regard for actual facts and education
Philip Bump: We have reverted from acting on what we know to acting on what we think.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/internet-alternative-facts-right-wing-misinformation-education
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Aaron Huertas
6 days ago
Theyāre speedrunning the worst of every awful presidential term with ket, roids, uppers and social media brainrot.
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Dan Osborn
6 days ago
And there ya have it⦠Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate āinvestment prospectsā of the country. āThe trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.ā
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Finance Industry Eyes Investment Opportunities in Venezuela
Some on Wall Street are already considering possible investment opportunities in Venezuela following the capture of NicolƔs Maduro, according to Charles Myers, chairman of consulting firm Signum Globa...
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/venezuela-strikes/card/finance-industry-eyes-investment-opportunities-in-venezuela-CmtLevzMTXEvRLkADjbG?mod=author_content_page_1_pos_1
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Ennius
6 days ago
Cicero wearing a crown, flanked by Cato and Caesar, triumphing over the Catilinarian conspirators Bodleian Library MS. Barlow 40; Cicero, De inventione rhetorica; 12th century, 2nd quarter; Italy, North? or French, South?; f.1r
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Charlotte Clymer
6 days ago
"Iām going to walk yāall through why this is very bad, and Iāll attempt to make it as clear as possible to outline the unnecessary risks and complications Trump is now forcing upon our country and the people of Venezuela and international stability."
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Trump Invaded a Country While You Were Sleeping
Illegally and immorally.
https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/trump-invaded-a-county-while-you
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Mark Copelovitch
6 days ago
This is exactly the reason why this is not only wildly illegal, under both domestic & international law, but also why it is so disastrous for world order & US national security.
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Jenny Go Blue
6 days ago
And we're cutting staffing at the VA but going to create even more need.
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James Henson
6 days ago
A few looks at Texas views of Venezuela, from December 2024 UT/Texas Politics Project Poll.
texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/venezuel...
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