A million grandpas and their stamp/model train/baseball card collections, would like a word

I’m terribly sorry to be the bearer of bad news

A few strategies I use: 1. Talk with students about how: 1) AI tends to produce work that is at best mediocre and at worst just wrong, 2) using AI habitually weakens the critical thinking skills that make college valuable, and 3) AI exploits environmental resources and content creators.

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

Unfortunately Morgan Stanley analysts said they were unable to locate a version of this chart that went past 1999

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More news on the Spokane protestors being charged for peacefully protesting ICE www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

Being hungry in the wealthiest country in the world is political. Policy choices, driven by politics are what create food insecurity. It’s what drives 13 Republican led states to turn down funds for kids to get food in the summer when there’s no school lunches. www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

Disney people hurting Disneys bottom line by doing exactly what Disney movies taught them to do.

Example: My ex wife’s parents only allowed her to watch certain Disney movies. The Little Mermaid was not allowed because “it shows a young woman defying her father” And I wouldn’t say they were even uber conservative by MAGA standards.

The further right you go, the less likely people are to consume mainstream media like Disney. Somehow Disney execs have no idea who actually subscribes and it’s kicking them in the teeth

The only federal program that funds on-campus child care, CCAMPIS, has seen unprecedented cuts this year from the Trump administration. Today, @whipkclark.bsky.social & @duckworth.senate.gov are reintroducing legislation to fully fund the program. 19thnews.org/2025/09/chil...

I think just last week admin officials were saying that all the Korean workers detained in Georgia was the fault of Hyundai for not getting the right visas. I’m sure this will make it much easier

So normal, tell me this means a NORMAL day!?

HCM is an important protection, so that if an institution is in financial trouble, ED can keep a closer watch on it, and potentially recoup funds if a school collapses. Abusing it like this will harm ED’s ability to use this authority when it’s actually necessary

Authoritarians abuse government powers to punish people and institutions who resist them.

I know it is not the point, but asking Harvard to provide a letter of credit for what amounts to less than a tenth of a percent of its $53 billion endowment is the most unintentionally funny thing I have ever seen.

The Department of Education is placing Harvard on Heightened Cash Monitoring, a status usually reserved for institutions in some kind of financial distress. Requires Harvard to provide a letter of credit for $36 million. www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

“Once you use chatGPT, you don’t want to think for yourself anymore” 🫠

You can't buy yourself safety by giving ground, exhibit a million

Fired a professor, removed the Dean and Head of Department and still forced out. This whole thing was in bad faith, but if you are going to be forced to resign then you might as well go down swinging rather firing people who have done nothing wrong. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

I am not an expert on trade policy, but this bad www.wsj.com/business/ins...

Nothing but total, blinkered loyalty will ever be enough. But what do Germans know about the vicious creep of a totalitarian takeover

Seems like if you wanted a “steak sauce, maybe Korean inspired” you’d want to start with some Korean ingredients.

Well, this seems like a good thing to spend countless billions on

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

Iconic

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

When you’ve lost John “Torture Memos” Yoo

About time! “University of California students, professors and staff sue the Trump administration” www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/u...

quick thread Today during a congressional hearing, Andrew Gillen suggested that we have too many people going to college than the economy needs. The data he quoted seems to be inaccurate, or certainly misinterpreted. BLS data shows that... www.bls.gov/emp/tables/e...

There's no such thing as being a free speech absolutist until you seize power. That's when you reveal what you were all along.

"Budgets are being balanced on the backs of students—often in the forms of debt." Replay today's Congressional hearing on #college costs to hear from our #HigherEd expert @amylaitinen.bsky.social on how that big "beautiful" (🙄) bill will have a big negative impact on student affordability.

Trump is seeking over $6 billion in cuts to K-12 public schools. House Republicans wamt to cut $4.7 billion in Title I funding alone. In @educationwork.newamerica.org's latest analysis, see how both budgets would impact each congressional district--and then #callyourrepresentative. #edusky #publiced

This is a really cool opportunity working with some awesome people.

Didn't make the article but key point is, what if I told you that there was legislation in the 1800s that gave millions of dollars to HBCUs? Then what if I said it was being done to ensure that other insts never had to integrate? Now you can see what this is www.insidehighered.com/news/institu...

This is a choice.

NYT’s fawning coverage working out well for them, I see

The smells are extra interesting this evening

Couldn’t figure out why the cats are all being chippy with each other. Discovered one of the teens had unplugged an automatic cat feeder feeder to plug in a phone charger.

Just tried to reschedule a drs appt I have this Friday. Next available appts with my doctor are in March 2026. Remind me again about how we should keep our healthcare system because otherwise we’d have really long wait times?

The Citizens United decision continues to chew at the roots of our withering democracy. Taking away some of its power would be an enormous win

We don’t need AI to learn…just our own humanity.

and "GenAI" fosters the opposite of "learning to learn"

Almost seems like something college could be good for apnews.com/article/gree...

I can’t wait for conservatives lining up for this to see the salary for assistant professors of education

Decided this week hasn’t been stressful enough, so thought we’d start a family fight

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When every extremism expert and historian on bluesky is telling you not to celebrate political violence, maybe just don’t do it.