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Trump Welcomes ‘Any Institution’ to Sign Onto Compact Outlining His Priorities An administration source told The Chronicle that “any institution that wants to adopt these principles” could sign onto the document, which offers a purported edge in grant funding.

Breaking: Trump's higher-ed compact is open to all, I confirmed for @chronicle.com: www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-tr...

“We welcome any institution that wants to adopt these principles to sign the compact,” a source told me.

Chris Rufo Floats Calling in ‘Troops’ The conservative activist says President Trump should consider using the military to dismantle college DEI programs.

Transcript for the discussion can be found here: www.chronicle.com/podcast/coll...

Chris Rufo Floats Calling in ‘Troops’ Podcast Episode · College Matters from The Chronicle · 09/17/2025 · 59m

He's threatened to "expose ideological corruption at the Department of Education" and created a playbook that's being used against colleges that advocate for DEI.

Hear from the conservative activist Christopher F. Rufo in our latest episode of College Matters: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Charlie Kirk’s Watchlist Made Some Professors’ Lives a ‘Living Hell’ His murder conjured up for targeted faculty mixed emotions ranging from empathy to contempt.

Shared one professor listed on Turning Point USA's Professor Watchlist:

“It was the greatest stress of my life, and I literally was just coming off having stage-three breast cancer...It was far more stressful than the cancer, far more stressful.”

www.chronicle.com/article/char...

A sign of the times? You mean a clock? Lol

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

Opinion | Charlie Kirk’s Death Is a Catastrophe for Higher Ed Things were already bad. They’re about to get worse.

"We can expect to see an intensification of the Trump administration’s political and legal battles with universities...and the continued erosion of academic freedom on campuses targeted by the administration."

www.chronicle.com/article/char...

Every Apple event

Person from your past who has zero desire to ever see or connect with you ever again: “Don’t be a stranger!”

Sending my best friend Taylor and her partner a huge congratulations on their engagement.

Exclusive | The Onion Brought Back Its Print Edition. The Gamble Is Paying Off. Publications turn to the old-style products to appeal to nostalgic readers and stand out in a crowded digital-media landscape.

Some incredibly good news:

One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print.

In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast.

In short, it’s working.

So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.

How President Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Affecting Higher Ed Increased detentions, stripped tuition benefits, and other policy changes are imperiling college access for undocumented students — and instilling fear in the broader Hispanic community.

As President Trump’s immigration crackdown plays out, the impacts are rippling across colleges –– from increased ICE presences to limits on access to education. Experts say the changes can hurt students’ success, retention rates, and whether they even come to campus. chroni.cl/4fXrUZj

Tracking Trump’s Higher-Ed Agenda The federal government is reshaping its relationship with the nation’s colleges. Use our new tracker to keep up with the latest.

the @chronicle.com has launched what is going to be a tremendously useful tool: a tracker of the Trump administration's activities affecting higher ed, particularly in the areas of civil rights, research, policy, and immigration. check it out: www.chronicle.com/article/trac...

Donald Trump and Higher Ed: What’s Next? Join us Thursday, February 20 at 1 pm ET to discuss Trump's first month in office and to look ahead at what it portends for colleges and the people who work at them.

“Donald Trump is going to war with higher education.”

Tomorrow, we're talking Trump and higher ed in this @chronicle.com virtual forum: what has happened so far, which news is worth paying attention to, and how things will shape the future.

connect.chronicle.com/trump-higher...

I've started investing in stocks : beef, chicken, vegetable...
One day I hope to become a bouillonaire.

Copy of The Canterbury Tales.

Loads of spelling mistakes in this.

JPM analysts, associates, and VPs: Welcome to the resistance, comrades.

the world is collapsing into fascism but I got my annual performance rating and it was solid and I still have a job

so I got that going for me, which is nice

Me: Oh no that trolley is going to run us over!

Guy tied up on the track next to me who somehow thinks he's actually the guy holding the lever: Lol cry more 😂

lmao no, TikTok users are not moving to Bluesky. They would literally rather learn Mandarin than learn how to read a feed of text posts. This is a millennial retirement home.

(replying) Hey man your post should've been different. You should've used a different word or possibly expressed a totally different idea entirely. Preferably the one I would've used

we are in the era of “it FEELS true” mindset

Colorful diagram of a brain (side view). Blue frontal lobe: Mutuals I owe a repost. Pink parietal lobe: Food/Treats Purple occipital lobe: 👀 Green temporal lobe: The Darkness Tan cerebellum: Keeping shit crispy Yellow brain stem: Lifetron routing station (Doing that with the colors made it like the Lucky Charms commercial litany, for me)

i do not understand how rotisserie chickens operate as a loss leader. you did not trick me into grocery shopping using the chicken, i had to go grocery shopping and now i have a delicious cooked chicken for only 7.99

Was not particularly interested in seeing Wicked, and then my wife gave it a Media Studies framing and said it’s actually about how a gullible and ill-informed public is easy to manipulate with misinformation and I was all in, great movie, 10/10 so far.

You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Than any computer could ever be. You know why? Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

You’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Human beings are far more wonderful than machines. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Mister Rogers never misses

commenting on something happening in some corners of tiktok right now but this is a general observation: it is absolutely brain-breaking how so many people have lost the ability to disagree with someone without denouncing them as ontologically evil or pathological or whatever else

I took a screenshot of my gold Mew EX pull while FaceTiming my boyfriend lmao

Hm okay