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Lesley Bartlett
@lesleybartlett.bsky.social
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Prof @UW-Madison. Ed Policy, Anthro, Multilingual literacies, Migration. Açaí enthusiast.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14h
FIRE's rankings are wildly unserious & not in good faith.

Yes, sure, we let Chris Rufo come to lie about higher ed & then get an F in political tolerance in allowing controversial speakers. We invite the FIRE director himself, & get a D. It would be funny, were it not so sad & predictable.
UW-Madison given a D in college free speech rankings, up from last year
The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked 61st overall, climbing 40 places from last year’s Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s ranking.
www.dailycardinal.com

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 16h
“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.”

Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
Perry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million
"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...
www.startribune.com

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19h
Men Explain Rape to Me.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21h
do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai Google Dario Amodei Anthropic Mark Zuckerberg Meta Greg Brockman OpenAl Elon Musk XAI Jensen Huang nvidia “Unites States”

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d
WSJ Exclusive:

The Trump admin used federal funds from the Department of Homeland Security to finance those controversial pro-Trump ads that started airing on TV.

The taxpayer money used to fund the ads came from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Exclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads
White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.
www.wsj.com

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John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 2d
Did anyone ask the experts if teachers are experts? Need to know if I know anything

www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
30 Ideas for Fixing U.S. Schools, Ranked by Experts (Gift Article)
Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?
www.nytimes.com

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 2d
Please don't give the DA reopening the Cornell case any cookies.

District Attorney Matthew Van Houten all but called Jane Doe a liar today. He said that in Doe's initial statement, she described "her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.”

CONSENSUAL

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 2d
Keep the data centers away from our Great Lakes.