Michael Jones-Correa

Harvard “is seriously considering resolving its dispute with the White House through the courts rather than a negotiated settlement.”

The university president said “the suggestion that Harvard was open to paying $500 million is ‘false’”

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

“Tear up tariffs and tax the rich” will be sitting as a sweet spot for whoever would like it.

this is an extraordinary opportunity for someone who wants to build up a serious program with research resources and opportunities to hire good people.

I wish people cared about research more - this is devastating, and it should be a bigger story.

Picking them off one by one.
Hang together or hang separately.

Even if you think Trump is not yet a dictator, today made it abundantly clear that at least he thinks he is.

Why is it so easy for the NYT to identify this Hindu nationalist position as right-wing, but when it comes to Jews, it’s presented as the default majoritarian stance despite polls (and election results) showing clearly otherwise

Trump administration cancels plans to develop new offshore wind projects The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is rescinding all designated wind energy areas in federal waters.

Trump administration cancels plans to develop new offshore wind projects www.inquirer.com/news/nation-.... Just so stupid.

Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump.

Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt.

Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:

I mean absurd

Trump’s war on Big Law leads firms to retreat from ’pro bono’ work for underdogs Major law firms are scaling back the free work they do for advocacy groups fighting the government in the wake of Donald Trump’s attacks on the profession. Interviews with over 60 lawyers and 30 nonprofits show legal aid groups now have fewer resources to defend the vulnerable.

Go read the whole thing: www.reuters.com/investigatio...

The 👏 president 👏 has 👏 neither 👏 statutory 👏 nor 👏 constitutional 👏 authority 👏 to 👏 unilaterally 👏 negotiate 👏 “trade deals”

You are fooling yourself if you think there is such a thing as a "good" agreement with somebody extorting you.
www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/07/down...

End of the month APSA eJobs update #polisky (there may be a few others listed today, will add later)

July 2024: 93 positions (62 assistant TT positions)

July 2025: 58 positions (40 assistant TT positions)

I exclude non-academic positions / PhD studentships from the total count.

Graph showing daily global mean near-surface air temperatures for 2025. This is also compared to the daily data from the 1971-2000 average, 1981-2010 average, and 1991-2020 average. Annotations are also shown to the current year with the other years from 1940 to 2024 and a threshold of 2°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial level. There is a strong seasonal cycle, with a peak during the boreal summer season. There is a long-term warming trend. 2024 is also indicated, which was the warmest year on record. Data is from ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis and updated through 29 July 2025

We are now at the climatological warmest time of year for the average global temperature. While there will be no new absolute records this year for the annual maximum, our planet remains much warmer than any previous decade in our records. 🤒

Graphic from zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

This is administration is *making* millions of people “illegal”

Rather than being protectors of the status quo (as they run in 2024), democrats should be the party of "our institutions are broken and here's a set of reforms we propose: multi-member districts/PR, congress expansion, term limits for judges...."

STEWART: “I feel like I’m watching something so self-evidently inhumane and horrific and to be told I have to shut up because I risk the Jewish state by speaking out? I would say the opposite — they’re putting the likelihood of a surviving Jewish state much more at risk.”

Federal data has been disappearing under Trump There’s been a “targeted, surgical removal of data sets, or elements of data sets, that are not aligned with the administration’s priorities,” said Denice Ross at the Federation of American Scientists...

From @marketplace.org: "Federal data has been disappearing under Trump"

This is the new norm, and within a few years will be even creepier as the technology gets better.

Ignatius's oped is written as if it's a news story. The "news" in this case is that--SURPRISE!--an Israeli source backed up claims by the Israeli government! (3/n)

x.com/james_acton3...

This is a really crazy thing to do.

the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.

For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.

Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation

Completely outrageous:

"the Trump administration said it would seek drafts of the faculty resolution, all written communications among the Faculty Senate members who drafted the resolution, and all communications between those faculty members and the office of the university’s president"

This is so freaking offensive.
Every single Jewish person should be up in arms over how anti-Semitic this is.
Just gtfo

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups Reports of detailing killing of children and elderly, forced displacement and starvation likely to add to pressure for action

“The Israeli regime now has a new tool that they didn’t use before – genocide …

What we worry about and want to warn about is the fact that any small trigger might make the genocide spill over from Gaza into the West Bank.”

285 acres of Cabeza Prieta Wildlife Refuge taken over by Navy in border security move The Interior Department ceded 285 acres of public land in southwestern Arizona to the U.S. Navy on Wednesday for a "National Defense Area" — part of a Trump administration strategy allowing active-dut...

A thirty-nine mile section of the southern Arizona border has been transferred by the department of interior for a military zone.