Brendan Cantwell

Yeah.

Ok nevermind. Its a scam bsky.app/profile/drmi...

Oh really? Ok. Maybe I got duped

I don’t mean to be overly ernest but I’m a little shocked at the robot is that inexpensive.

Ok but also Yamamoto!

Vladdy!

I like Bluesky because unlike Twitter a few of my senior colleagues and students are on it.

Hey Microsoft, I want to “similar to” and like “like” because they are different ideas and I am expressing the former. Thanks.

The Lincoln bathroom isn’t the President’s bathroom is it?

maybe he wears grippy rubber shower shoes

I was thinking it looks like a funeral parlor or a Long Island wedding hall

Has the NYT or WaPost reported on JD's comments at the TPUSA thing at the University of Mississippi?

Can confirm non-GSE alum also received the email on GSE letterhead (I received it twice)

speak for yourself

I’d accept an increase of 0.25 for the millage rate

Jon faculty are expensive and annoying

I’m not saying I’m making the argument. But one could make the argument that the social contract between public schools and parents is that the schools take our kids during obnoxious holidays like Halloween.

East Lansing public schools set the schedule through collective bargaining - that means we never have school on Halloween because the teachers union negotiate not having to deal with the children that day.

My reply is also a shit post

Harvard to students: you are here because you are enormously gifted, extremely hard-working, amazingly accomplished, and deserve to be the leaders of society, economy, and the government

Harvard Professors: are students are entitled in class and I can’t figure out why - probably it’s Obama’s fault

Yes. They should all be required to graduate and go to work at Goldman Sachs so that they destroy the world slowly rather than become venture capitalists and founders who destroy the world rapidly

The tactical error was not securing the agreement before announcing it to the world and then opening it up to all comers — makes the Compact a joke

If they hoped to establish a new relationship between the federal government and higher ed through normative anchors, these places are not gonna cut it.

Spending Soars, Rankings Fall at New College of Florida Student outcomes and rankings are slipping at the liberal arts college while spending is up. Critics believe the college is at risk of implosion, and some are calling for privatization.

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Recall that the administration wanted MIT, Penn, and Virginia … I maintain that this was a tactical error by the government.

Yeah. They don’t mind fights. And they want fights with universities. But this fight seems like one they don’t (currently) want

The US House of Representatives has been out of session for all but four days since Trey Yesavage made his major league debut

My reaction: I refuse the age bins. Not the findings. The cut-points that put me in a particular bin.

T H E W H I T E H OU S E W A S H I N G T O N S e p t e m b e r 3 0 , 2 0 2 5 P r e s i d e n t i a l D e t e r m i n a t i o n N o . _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 0 2 5 - 1 3 _ _ _ _ _ MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SUBJECT: Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2026 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, in accordance with section 207 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1157), and after appropriate consultations with the Congress, I hereby make the following determinations and authorize the following actions: The admissions of up to 7,500 refugees to the United States during Fiscal Year 2026 is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest. The admissions numbers shall primarily be allocated among Afrikaners from South Africa pursuant to Executive Order 14204, and other victims of illegal or unjust discrimination in their respective homelands. Refugee admissions under this determination, which may reach but not exceed the numerical limit described herein, are in all respects subject to the requirements of other Presidential policies and actions, whether issued prior or subsequent to this determination. Those Presidential policies and actions include, but are not limited to: Executive Order 14161, which mandates that refugees receive the most stringent identification verification of any class of alien seeking admission or entry to the United States; Executive Order 14163, which suspends the entry into the United States of refugees other than when the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security jointly determine that an admission is in the national interest and does not threaten the security or welfare of the United States; Executive Order 14204, which provides for refugee resettlement of Afrikaners from South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination; and …

NEW: Trump has announced that the US will admit the lowest level of refugees ever at 7,500 in FY 2026. The US will only be admitting as refugees White people from South Africa and "victims of illegal or unjust discrimination," which leaked memos suggest means far-right Europeans.

Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.

"Senior Trump-administration political appointees—at least six by our count—[are] living in Washington-area military housing, where they are shielded not just from potential violence but also from protest. It is an ominous marker of the nation’s polarization..."
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