John Wesley Lowery

@sdccampussafety I wish that HazingInfo.org wouldn’t misstate non-compliance. No Campus Hazing Transparency Report is not de facto proof of non-compliance. The law only requires a CHTR if there has been a hazing finding of responsibility in the past 6 months.

After losing their son Sam to fraternity hazing, this family turned tragedy into action with Sam’s Law and the Stop Campus Hazing Act. Must-read on why transparency matters for campus safety. channelinggrief.substack.com/p/stop-campus-…

@garryhuber @ChrisLaubAI @garryhuber Salam, please find the unroll here: threadreaderapp.com/thread/2045080… See you soon. 🤖

@boazbaraktcs @TheZvi @sama @USWREMichael Profoundly un-American? You are aware that the Department of Defense had a mass surveillance program of anti-war and civil rights activists in the United States in the late 1960s?

1. The DoW is prohibited by law from engaging in any domestic mass surveillance, and @USWREMichael wrote that it would be profoundly un-American to do so, including for analyzing communication of Americans by purchasing data from commercial sources. Hence us and the DoW see eye to eye in our interpretation of domestic mass surveillance. They have no desire to do this, and we have no intention to allow it. 2. There are legal restrictions for publishing contracts with the DoW due to the classified nature of the work. 3. As you can imagine, our lawyers are quite good and they relied on internal advice as well as the advice of outside counsel. On consulting with Anthropic, US antitrust laws prohibit this kind of coordination, as much as we might wish otherwise. 4. The contract gives us the right to implement our full safety stack, which includes automatic classifiers and monitors. We will be working on the stack for this deployment over the coming months. Due to the classified nature of this deployment, only our cleared researchers and FDEs will have visibility into usage, which is why it is important we have them. 5. We believe our contract offers more robust safety guarantees. Note that Anthropic has disclosed that their national security model refuses less when engaging with classified information anthropic.com/news/claude-go…

I'd like to answer questions about our work with the DoW and our thinking over the past few days. Please AMA.

@sama @apples_jimmy How does does caving so quickly de-escalate anything?

It was definitely rushed, and the optics don't look good. We really wanted to de-escalate things, and we thought the deal on offer was good. If we are right and this does lead to a de-escalation between the DoW and the industry, we will look like geniuses, and a company that took on a lot of pain to do things to help the industry. If not, we will continue to be characterized as as rushed and uncareful. I don't where it's going to land, but I have already seen promising signs. I think a good relationship between the government and the companies developing this technology is critical over the next couple of years.

@LarrySabato Paul Manning was later added to the list are there others still?

@drjwlowery More than those two.

Some U.Va. Board Members Asked to Resign as a Democratic Governor Takes Power nytimes.com/2026/01/16/us/…

BREAKING: A video of Frank Sinatra is going viral, after Stephen Miller cited him in an anti-immigrant tweet. "Do you know what this wonderful country is made of? It's made up of 100 different kids of people." Sinatra's parents were immigrants. So was Miller's family.

@meganzahneis @DavarianBaldwin This is a very important article for everyone in higher education to read! What happened at Tulsa on a grand scale is happening at a smaller scale at campuses across the country.

🧵 A dean is abruptly removed. Her account goes viral. At first, it looks like a fight over the humanities. But the more I reported on the University of Tulsa, the clearer it became: this controversy was just the entry point for a far larger institutional unraveling. (1/14)

@dylanhenrich @glukianoff The courts have ruled repeatedly that the University of Pittsburgh is a state actor.

@glukianoff University of Pittsburgh is a private institution. If you oppose its values, you can petition the legislature to stop giving it money. But at the end of the day, private institutions should have the freedom to maintain their own values.

In other words “no dissenters need apply”

@usedgov Doesn’t your OCR resolution manual say 90 days—not 10 days?

ED’s Office for Civil Rights has found that George Mason University violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by unlawfully implementing DEI policies that intentionally discriminated on the basis of race in university practices. GMU has 10 days to resolve these violations. ed.gov/about/news/pre…

@Brett_McMurphy @CollegeSportsO This is not South Carolina’s 2025 schedule…

Costco selling discounted 2 ticket packages for South Carolina, Purdue, Louisville, Virginia, Baylor, Oklahoma State, Tulane, UConn, Louisiana, Western Michigan, Kennesaw State & Idaho home games. Varies b/w $49.99 to $99.99. Some include $20 food/beverage credit or parking pass

@presjimryan We are much better as a university for your selfless service!

Today is my final day in office as President of UVA, and I’ve recorded a few thoughts in this video. Serving in this role has been the honor of a lifetime. youtu.be/ZW-dP8Yo9Gc?si…

@LarrySabato This is a dark day for UVA and higher education.

UVA President Jim Ryan has resigned under pressure from Trump's White House and DOJ & some Youngkin appointees on UVA BOV. nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/…

I wonder if he included the numerous documents that he inappropriately downloaded in his application materials or waited until his interview.

@SenAlexander Too bad that office’s staff has been gutted….

First is "The Nation’s Report Card." This regular accounting gathers essential data, administers key tests of student performance, and informs the whole country as to how its kids are doing in the 3Rs as well as American history and civics and science.

🧵The United States survived for two centuries without a federal Department of Education and could do so again. In the 45 years the department has existed, students haven’t made much progress….but ED does 3 things that matter. Let’s not throw these babies out with the bathwater.

Are you interested in HBCUs, the history of @NASPAtweets , or student affairs more broadly? Join Darryl Holloman, Ph.D. & I for The Ties that Bind: HBCUs & NASPA Celebrate a 75 Year Partnership, on this morning (Tue.) at 10:00am in the Hilton Riverside Grand Ballroom C. #NASPA25

Are you interested in HBCUs, the history of @NASPAtweets , or student affairs more broadly? Join Darryl Holloman, Ph.D. & I for The Ties that Bind: HBCUs & NASPA Celebrate a 75 Year Partnership, on Tuesday, March 18 at 10:00am in the Hilton Riverside Grand Ballroom C. #NASPA25

Hey @SouthwestAir, what is going on! You redirected SWA 3069 and now we can’t get anyone to tell the 100s of passengers on the plane what is going on!

Did you know that in 1971 the Senate held a hearing on the presidential impoundment power, after President Richard Nixon refused to spend appropriated funds on disfavored projects? 1/

Statement by ACE President Ted Mitchell on Federal Assistance Pause: "We call on the Trump administration to rescind the memo issued by the White House Office of Management and Budget. This unprecedented order to pause grants, loans, and other direct federal support is causing great harm to millions of Americans, as well as our nation’s overall economy and security. This is bad public policy, and it will have a direct impact on the funds that support students and research. The longer this goes on, the greater the damage will be."