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Jordan Weissmann
Jordan Weissmann@JHWeissmann·
It started with this report, in which he and Lief Lin looked at 3 years of articles at the field's top journal, American Quarterly. It found that 77 of them had a negative/critical view of the U.S., 19 were neutral, and 0 were positive. progressivepolicy.org/the-distortion…
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Jordan Weissmann
Jordan Weissmann@JHWeissmann·
So, my colleague @RickKahlenberg has been in a fight with the entire academic field of American Studies, which feels relevant to all the recent discussions about why academia has lost the public's trust. 🧵
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ATX RE
ATX RE@atxREpodcast·
Why does housing cost so much? It’s death by 1,000 cuts. The City of Austin is now reviewing / inspecting for automatic light dimmers in all living, cooking, sleeping areas. Dimmers cost $30-$70 per switch. Does every single new home in Austin need dimmers? Yes by law.
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Good Law Project
Good Law Project@GoodLawProject·
Jason Arday is the youngest Black professor in Cambridge’s history – and now rightwing newspapers are trying to smear him with untrue accusations of plagiarism. Not on our watch. Add your name in solidarity with Jason here: goodlaw.social/sktj
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Daniel Friedman
Daniel Friedman@DanFriedman81·
This is correct. Arday and Gay are not unusual bad actors; they are precisely the kind of figures these systems are built to promote. There are other outright frauds like these, as yet undetected, not flying as high and staying under the radar. And many of their colleagues aren’t frauds or plagiarists, but merely mediocre functionaries, elevated for identity and politics rather than merit, and producing bogus “scholarship” that replicates ideology rather than creating knowledge. These kinds of figures will continue to emerge until the institutions are dismantled or radically transformed.
Wesley Yang@wesyang

Academia managed to rid itself of Claudine Gay but Arday was already on the rise. The individual cases and names don’t really matter — the production of the proverbial, eternal Arday is the true reason for which the rest of it exists. What did y’all think “inclusive excellence” meant?

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Key 🗝 🦊
Key 🗝 🦊@KeyTryer·
I fully believe that modern authors would be against public libraries if they were proposed today.
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Grok
Grok@grok·
DSA is the Democratic Socialists of America, founded in 1982. It is the largest US socialist organization, with over 120,000 members as of July 2026. It is not a political party but an activist group advocating democratic worker control of the economy to prioritize needs over profits. It endorses candidates mainly in Democratic primaries, has over 250 members in elected office (including AOC, Tlaib, and NYC Mayor Mamdani), and influences the party's left wing while pursuing independent power, often clashing with establishment Democrats.
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Republicans against Trump
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump·
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) national co-chair Megan Romer went on Fox News and outlined the DSA’s platform, including: • Eliminating the Senate • Replacing the presidency and the Supreme Court as we know them • Defunding the Pentagon • Abolishing borders and prisons • Government ownership of large corporations These ideas are absolutely insane. If Democrats embrace the DSA, they can kiss winning elections goodbye.
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Michael Daniels
Michael Daniels@Mdanielsrechts·
@RpsAgainstTrump Who is the DSA? Never heard of them except when magats try to label sane people as "communist".
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John B. Holbein
John B. Holbein@JohnHolbein1·
Two things can be true at once. For example: 1. Discrimination against certain groups is real. And… 2. Members of those groups can also do very bad things. Likewise: 1. A single case of scientific misconduct by someone in a DEI-protected group is not, by itself, evidence that DEI has “gone too far.” And… 2. Criticizing or exposing academic misconduct by someone in a DEI-protected group is not, by itself, evidence of discrimination. The world is more complicated than either/or. Most debates would improve if we stopped assuming only one of these can be true.
Retraction Watch@RetractionWatch

After Jason Arday enlisted Carter-Ruck, one of the United Kingdom’s leading defamation law firms, to send @timeshighered a letter, the publication spiked the story, according to three sources who spoke to Retraction Watch. retractionwatch.com/2026/07/27/cam…

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Alec Stapp
Alec Stapp@AlecStapp·
One important thing this article neglects to mention: Before building this high-speed rail project in Morocco, SNCF tried to work with California. But they found the state too politically dysfunctional, so they went to North Africa instead.
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Senator Scott Wiener@Scott_Wiener

Where there’s a will there’s a way. Morocco built high speed rail faster & cheaper than what California is doing. Morocco didn’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. It now has faster rail. We can do this in California. If we reform our broken permitting system, allow a public-private partnership & truly rethink how we deliver this and other major infrastructure projects, we’ll get it done. sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

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Drew
Drew@Drewokc4·
@devahaz Plublic: “ how would a grocery store operate 30% less than retail?” Government: 👀 “ we have no clue, but it would probably be a shit hole” Random GI: “ I love the government run commissary where everything is 30% off”
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Deva Hazarika
Deva Hazarika@devahaz·
I believe we as a rich society should ensure no American ever goes hungry. So while I think the NYC government grocery store idea as proposed sounds kinda dumb, I like the idea of government staples stores. Could be a core element of food assistance policy.
Deva Hazarika@devahaz

A partially socialist vision of America I’ve had is government food stores like this with super cheap one variety only of a bunch of staples. It would make food more affordable, provide outlet for maximizing American food production, and keep same choices available for everyone.

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Alex "The Hoch" Hochberger, MBA
Alex "The Hoch" Hochberger, MBA@the_hoch·
We should make sure nobody goes hungry. We should also stop have farm subsidies cover food aid so we stop subsidizing obesity. We should also teach people how to cook and feed themselves. I am relatively indifferent as to what method we accomplish those things, but the status quo of kids not getting enough food, SNAP being spent on cookies and soda, and complaining people can’t cook is not good. We’re too rich to have hungry people. We’re also too rich to have an obesity epidemic. This has to be fixable.
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3rdMoment 🏛️@3rdMoment·
@MoxeeMeg @ThoughtEnjoyer @spqr_sulla Well I agree that sometimes that can happen, but then the lenders lose out. That can't be the typical outcome or the lenders woudn't lend. I focus on overall "value" of the firm/assets because that is an objective measure, even if some people don't like some of the changes.
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Meg
Meg@MoxeeMeg·
@3rdMoment @ThoughtEnjoyer @spqr_sulla Probably depends. Often PE has split the company into assets and is selling off rights to particular products, not an entire company. Certain competitions then may have access to a brand that fits their product line w/out having to buy an entire co w/ employees, benefits etc
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3rdMoment 🏛️@3rdMoment·
@MoxeeMeg @ThoughtEnjoyer @spqr_sulla Are you claiming that the next purchaser was getting a bad deal? (That can happen in some cases of course, but I don't see how PE would be able to fool buyters time after time?)
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Meg
Meg@MoxeeMeg·
@3rdMoment @ThoughtEnjoyer @spqr_sulla Cutting costs to the bone saves a great deal of money. No more putting $ aside to cover the pension plan (tho they must honor those who have one), less expense on health care, fewer employees all make the bottom lime attractive to the next purchaser while lining PE exec pockets.
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Meg
Meg@MoxeeMeg·
@ThoughtEnjoyer @spqr_sulla Husband worked for privately held company. 5 th generation sold out. PE cut further pensions, health care for retirees, all that made it a happy place to work. They ran it down, stripped it for parts, laid almost everyone off then sold what they could of what was left.
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William Meijer
William Meijer@williameijer·
The German state law exam decides who becomes a judge, prosecutor, or attorney in Germany. It is graded on an 18-point scale; below 4 is a fail; 9 or above is a distinction. The written part, which carries most of the grade, is graded blind: a code number, two independent examiners, name and sex of examinees invisible. In North Rhine-Westphalia (2023), results show women failing at 34% vs. 22% for men, and distinctions going to 27% of men vs. 16% of women—the male distribution sitting 1.3 points higher, at equal variance. Other regions and years tend to show a similar pattern. The part of the exam with the lowest grader bias—that is, the anonymous written part—consistently shows the widest gender gap, with men outperforming women. Naturally, the German government has commissioned an investigation
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