The most interesting part of this is clearly my own (positive!) inclusion in a SPREADSHEET but I am irrationally fixated on the spreadsheet authors' conviction that one of the signatories "(Hasn't said anything but I venture he would if prompted)" - silence is deafening except from that one guy?
Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog
I don’t think “academia is extremely left-wing” and “academia is full of people who find Matt Yglesias unacceptably right-wing” are actually competing hypotheses at all.
Yglesias types once felt they had the upper hand in political discourse. Now that others—often unlike them—take up space and tell the truth about their politics, it’s suddenly “academic social science is just ideological.” No, you’re just being challenged.
I absolutely regret my role in this — it turns out that academic social science is shot through with dramatically more ideological bias than I realized 20-15 years ago and all the stuff you guys churn out should come with huge warning labels before it’s presented to laypeople.
A lot of discontent on this site about Columbia agreeing to comply with civil rights law.
Columbia is going to be right under Kent State in historical infamy. Absolutely torching their reputation.
A lot of discontent on this site about Columbia agreeing to comply with civil rights law.
A lot of discontent on this site about Columbia agreeing to comply with civil rights law.
This is an absolute fucking
#fail by Columbia.
A lot of discontent on this site about Columbia agreeing to comply with civil rights law.
A lot of discontent on this site about Columbia agreeing to comply with civil rights law.
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“The new vice provost, appointed by Columbia, will review curriculum, nontenure faculty hiring and leadership “to ensure the educational offerings are comprehensive and balanced.”
Columbia surrenders academic freedom and its intellectual integrity. Pathetic and ominous.
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Exclusive | Columbia Yields to Trump in Battle Over Federal Funding
Columbia’s agreement is a significant moment in the intensifying battle between Trump and elite universities.
A lot of discontent on this site about Columbia agreeing to comply with civil rights law.
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I'm no longer teaching at Columbia, since 2020.
But if I were, I would resign over this.
A lot of discontent on this site about Columbia agreeing to comply with civil rights law.
Columbia to Trump: Do Tread on Me
total capitulation -- what’s a $15 billion endowment good for? Maybe NYC & NYS should revoke Columbia's tax exempt status unless it reverses course & remains politically independent—let it chose to lose $$ for good instead of for ill.
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Exclusive | Columbia Yields to Trump in Battle Over Federal Funding
Columbia’s agreement is a significant moment in the intensifying battle between Trump and elite universities.
A lot of discontent on this site about Columbia agreeing to comply with civil rights law.
Columbia, the Paul, Weiss of academia.
A lot of discontent on this site about Columbia agreeing to comply with civil rights law.
Well. That’s that for Columbia. What a travesty. I don’t see how faculty or students stay under these conditions.
A lot of discontent on this site about Columbia agreeing to comply with civil rights law.
Utterly shameful of Columbia and will only accelerate the attacks on it and all universities and supposed bastions of free thought and crucial research.
A lot of discontent on this site about Columbia agreeing to comply with civil rights law.
Cross Columbia off the list of schools I would ever send my kid to
A lot of discontent on this site about Columbia agreeing to comply with civil rights law.
This is going to be remembered for all time as Columbia’s response to having a student protestor kidnapped and held prisoner by a budding authoritarian regime. It is unspeakable cowardice.
A lot of discontent on this site about Columbia agreeing to comply with civil rights law.
A sad day for Columbia and for our democracy. "Additionally the school believed there was considerable overlap between needed campus changes and Trump’s demands" has got to be one of the most depressing sentences ever written.
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I heard they’re going to cover the entire Columbia campus in urine with hopes that the predators lose interest
In his first public remarks since leaving office, Joe Biden apparently spoke to the National High School Model United Nations and no one covered it or noticed, which makes that Model UN the most realistic Model UN in human history.
Joe Biden’s First Public Remarks Since Leaving Office… Weren’t Covered by Anyone? | National Review
Apparently, Joe Biden gave his first public speech since leaving office a few days ago… and absolutely no one covered the event.
If I didn’t know better I’d say this is an incitement to violence.
Happy March 15 to the President of the United States and all his team.
I know nobody wants to hear this, but Schumer is right.
www.slowboring.com/p/sixteen-th...
Sixteen thoughts on an averted shutdown
A bitter pill that Schumer is correct to swallow
I'm glad I wrote this so that I never have to write about it again. Read it if you can.
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I Can Only Look Back in Anger | National Review
Five years later, the architects of the Covid Era’s lockdown insanity deserve only our contempt.
Social Media Posts Not Made About Pro-Hamas Riots, Harassment or Disruptions. (With plenty of opportunity.)
I’d be interested in hearing from people in academia what Americans can do to inflict consequences on Columbia for its craven and contemptible behavior.
You know, it’s truly wild how they keep making Batman-adjacent (live action) TV shows but not, like, Batman.
Gotham, Pennyworth, Batwoman, that Titans show where Robin did a cuss, Penguin. I keep expecting HAROLD: THE ORIGIN OF BATMAN’S MECHANIC to show up on Max one of these days.
Had the administration listened to Bari Weiss a long time ago rather than - at best- looked the other way while large segments of the university ran wild with anti-Semitic criminal conduct, they would not be in this situation today.
I can’t wait for Bari, the chief defender of free speech and academic freedom at Columbia University since 2003, to mount an impassioned defense of our alma mater.
Maybe Bezos will buy Bluesky next.
Vibe Shift Alert
what the actual fuck
I really needed this laugh today.
The Bulwark was founded as a place for principled anti-Trump conservatives. The Free Press was founded as a place for self-absorbed vapid contrarians. Pretty predictable trajectories for both.
me, reading all of you on bluesky: the american experiment is over. we know not what hell we enter over the coming years
me, writing an email: Hi! I hope this finds you well.
I guess endorsements of assassination attempts are ok on this site?
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As a dual citizen I’m putting tariffs on all my stuff and charging myself whenever I move an object.
*Offer not valid for those harassing Jews on college campuses*
One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
Thanks to all the Bluesky people who just reply “it will get worse” to whatever you post, it both solves the problem and makes you feel better
“You took your best shot but didn’t stop me!”
Vice-President JD Vance’s first interview since being sworn-in will be on Face The Nation with Margaret Brennan.
I don't even like Trump and I want to find the dude wearing the NR hat and offer him a free yearly subscription, just for angering this man.
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I’m at the Princeton Columbia MBB game, sitting next to one Columbia fan with a National Review hat and in front of another wearing a gold and white Trump 47 hat.
I may need bail money later.
every tech company in 2025
The CW on Carter is all wrong. He is actually underrated as a President (mostly because of his deregulation and post-Afghanistan pivot to being tough on the Soviets, too late to save himself) and massively overrated as an ex-President.
You guys might have seen this coming if you were still on the other site
Goddamn
Someone brought their baby to see Nosferatu
Every now and then he’d yell or squeal, and for a second, I’d be like, “Man, Robert Eggers has gone really weird with the sound design for this one”
“If we sentence people to life without parole it means they can’t kill anyone else!”
“I'm not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police work, there, Lou.”
Bari and Nellie say hi to their many fans on Bluesky!!
It’s so funny that half of Bluesky was like “yes we must kill all the CEOs and then dance in their blood” but Jesse Singal’s mere presence is what led to the dumb company actually having to be like “let’s discuss moderation”
