This skeet will self destruct

13/ Anyway, this was, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the most perniciously naive things I've read in a while. No wonder The Atlantic connection. And the viewpoint from privilege.

12/ What's worse, Allen doesn't seem to know that these "asks" are also largely how many universities ALREADY OPERATE. The University of California has been doing this for decades and decades. What a "compact" does now enshrining specific forms of discrimination forever as if legitimate.

11/ Again, more naiveté:

10/ This is also, of course, an incredibly elitist and naive take on how a contract could be renegotiated. Why these institutions? Who died and made them kings?

9/ This merely leads to a ridiculous evaluation of how the compact might "reset" things. Does Allen--professor at Harvard which just had a 4% decline in the number of admitted black students--actually think this makes sense?

8/ She uses the dog whistle of "viewpoint diversity". Are business schools actually that woke? Given that business is the single most popular major in the country, one would think it would be super-duper woke, anti-viewpoint diversity. But it's not. Again, misrepresentation.

7/ They were an outcome, however, of lack of direct funding (hence the importance of indirects on campuses) but whatever. In any case, Allen misidentifies the source of the problems to the degree that she ignores all that we actually know about higher ed. For example:

6/ It's also misleading to say that higher ed rested on the Vannevarian contract of big science. This established funding **for STEM research**, not for higher education. Higher education built funding structures around these revenues. But they weren't an outcome of policy.

5/ People didn't lose trust in higher ed because of administrative burdens or just because of high tuition. They lost trust because of the relentless organized discourse against higher education(from "learn to code" to "woke professors).

4/ both a hostile media environment (an odd omission for a scholar at Harvard) and decades of defunding of higher education, particularly by the same kind of (minority) republicans now in power.

3/ Allen assumes that the lack of confidence in higher education is due to "high tuition, rising student debt, increasingly opaque admissions processes, and ever-greater ideological skewing." Sure. Maybe. Though I'm quite confident that the erosion of public trust has been tied quite heavily to

2/ Let's start with the the basic assumptions that Allen is working on. Sure. I think we can all accept the idea that we need a new social contract for higher ed. But to say that this stems from a failure owing to the institutions involved in higher ed is a complete fallacy and red herring.

The argument presented by Allen is both politically naive and historically erroneous. Accepting a compact *for higher education at this point in time* is suicidal. A 🧵

OpenAI promising $1T in investments when it will only start being profitable in 2030 (under the assumption of 2.09 billion users) and with a valuation of $300 billion doesn't sound at all like people buying mansions with promised money in 2008.

Fucking amazing.

Amazed by the miracle of science that has managed to engineer a talking turd

If liar’s pants naturally caught on fire, they would be the single, cleanest and most abundant source of energy on the planet, courtesy of Republicans

Given that the union is basically cooked, the republic is dead, and the constitution is a pile of ashes, I don’t see why it shouldn’t be a hard secession.

NPR sometimes feels like a NYT Headline Editors Nursery.

Friendly amendment

Civil wars take many shapes and forms. This is US 21st century style. It’s not going to happen. It’s happening now.

Same judge. While Miller rails about judges.

That’s it. The union and the republic are dead.

“on a collision course for a constitutional crisis” is like saying the Titanic is in trouble after half of it is sinking into the North Atlantic.

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social and the state legislature should work on a state-equivalent of sedition: those who partake in crimes against the constitution should lose their Californian residency and property.

We are literally being invaded not by red coats but by brown coats. Tariffs. Organized state violence. Usurpation of our taxes and our constitutional rights. The US fought a revolution against a Mad King for far less.

Are they on sale or some shit like that?

I have seen an odious amount of Nazitrucks on the streets this weekend