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Bradford Vivian@bradvivian.bsky.social |
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Ed
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I gotta say that people are having a lot of trouble distinguishing cognitive decline (Trump) from age-related changes in expression (Biden). Biden is elderly and talks like it. Trump literally does not have preserved reality-testing
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Justin Hendrix
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"Academics researching online misinformation in the US are learning a hard lesson: Academic freedom cannot be taken for granted." @rcalo.bsky.social & @katestarbird.bsky.social:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Celeste Pewter
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There are many things that infuriate me about the pundit class right now, but probably one of the top on my list: Project 2025 has posted their plans for every single federal department on their website. They have a training academy for prospective appointees. Where are the hard hitting op-eds?
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Bradford Vivian
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The people most disturbed by politicians relying on teleprompters seem to be cable news anchors who do their jobs every day by reading from teleprompters.
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Bradford Vivian
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Academic freedom depends on solidarity across institutions. It's important for all who care about a desegregated, truly merit-based system of higher education to call this what it is: a tactic to impose discriminatory practices on universities via frivolous lawsuits.
www.reuters.com/legal/legali...
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Bradford Vivian
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Project 2025 is full of attacks on publicly funded, desegregated, pluralistic education.
Manufactured populist outrage against education is a classic sign of rising authoritarianism.
Re-upping my @insidehighered.bsky.social article on these connections.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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Bradford Vivian
@bradvivian.bsky.social
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Academic freedom depends on solidarity across institutions. It's important for all who care about a desegregated, truly merit-based system of higher education to call this what it is: a tactic to impose discriminatory practices on universities via frivolous lawsuits.
www.reuters.com/legal/legali...
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Don Moynihan
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There was no GOP party platform in 2020, and Trump wants to shrink the proposed 2024 one. He opposes providing detail on how radical his second term will be because he knows its unpopular. Make no mistake: Project 2025 was written by Trump appointees & loyalists. Its their shared agenda.
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Seth Cotlar
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Here's the announcement from Heritage that they've hired McEntee for their PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION PROJECT. They note that McEntee headed up the Presidential Personnel Office for Trump at the end of his last administration. This is not complicated people. www.heritage.org/press/former...
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Bradford Vivian
@bradvivian.bsky.social
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Project 2025 is full of attacks on publicly funded, desegregated, pluralistic education.
Manufactured populist outrage against education is a classic sign of rising authoritarianism.
Re-upping my @insidehighered.bsky.social article on these connections.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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Bradford Vivian
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Never forget.
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Bradford Vivian
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The theory of popular government and inalienable rights is the most famous part of the #DeclarationofIndependence.
Today, we should also recall its indictments of the king: they charge him with abuses of power to corrupt legal and political institutions of self-governance. 1/2
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Bradford Vivian
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Jonathan Ladd
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Dedicated to the proposition that all people are created equal. Birthright citizenship Equal protection of the laws Due process of law No race or sex description in voting No titles of nobility No insurrectionists in office No cruel and unusual punishment Happy Birthday America!
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Bradford Vivian
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That’s right: the Declaration is a legalistic indictment of a constitutional figurehead. The cornerstone of American independence is that such a figurehead can never be immune from those charges—it’s the duty of the people to levy them “in the course of human events.” 2/2
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Bradford Vivian
@bradvivian.bsky.social
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The theory of popular government and inalienable rights is the most famous part of the #DeclarationofIndependence.
Today, we should also recall its indictments of the king: they charge him with abuses of power to corrupt legal and political institutions of self-governance. 1/2
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Bradford Vivian
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I don’t understand why the political journalists claim to dislike social media—they rely on it for “reporting” every day.
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Bradford Vivian
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Yes, even better said: they sell a poor quality product that makes the appearance of political journalism a lot easier, far more superficial.
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Bradford Vivian
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And in its own way, this is in defense of the excellent social scientists who do survey research so well.
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Bradford Vivian
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It’s always good to remember this fact, but especially these days: US political journalists rely on and enthusiastically encourage an entire pseudoscientific polling industry because dissecting polls is so easy and inexpensive compared to time-consuming investigative journalism.
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Bradford Vivian
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There are no "liberal" or "conservative" ideas. That's the language of electoral advertising. There are just...ideas. Asking if there's "too much" or "not enough" of such content in classrooms turns educational spaces into extensions of political advertising + cable news TV. 1/3
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Bradford Vivian
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The topic of DEI in public discourse has been subject to enormous amounts of misinformation.
www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.
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Bradford Vivian
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The classroom should be a space for suspending the normal temptation to reduce complex ideas, worthy of sustained discussion, to forms of partisan identity and electoral talking points. 3/3
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Bradford Vivian
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Substantive academic studies of classical liberalism + conservatism are great evidence for this argument. Truly understanding them requires examining the many different sources of those political worldviews, their internal diversity, how they address shared questions. 2/3
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Bradford Vivian
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There are no "liberal" or "conservative" ideas. That's the language of electoral advertising. There are just...ideas. Asking if there's "too much" or "not enough" of such content in classrooms turns educational spaces into extensions of political advertising + cable news TV. 1/3
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Bradford Vivian
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The facts are *only* in dispute.
1. No official records exist about whether profs are liberal or conservative. That's a good thing--in a free society, we don't require such records. Any surveys are small, strictly voluntary, often poor in quality. 1/3 🧵
www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
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Gautam Hans
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You'll have to read the WaPo piece for this entirely accurate take from @paulgowder.bsky.social that this lawsuit is racist garbage. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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Gautam Hans
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Oh, you thought the clowning stopped with the end of the SCOTUS term? www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/u...
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Neil Stenhouse
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I have been saying since February that major media are 100% devoted to But Her Emails 2, but I didnt imagine it would get this bad. The day after SCOTUS stops the law applying to Trump, we have to scroll thru 4 fucking top stories on “Biden old” & an ad before getting to anything on SCOTUS decision
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Bradford Vivian
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Me, about halfway through the semester when I worry that my students are getting bored.
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Bradford Vivian
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A researcher on X responded to my critique this way (see below), as if it invalidated then. Okay, great, let’s talk about that report and have a teachable moment…1/3
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
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People still not understanding that the 2016 election was the most successful Russian intelligence operation in history is gonna end with tears in 2024. We have to stop playing on terms that don’t serve us.
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Bradford Vivian
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But the larger point stands: asking whether faculty hold private liberal or conservative views tells us nothing about what they actually teach and research. An imbalance one way or the other doesn't prima facie mean anything about the quality of a university climate. 2/3
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Bradford Vivian
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Faculty responses in the 2016-17 HERI report were, like I said, totally voluntary. A threshold of faculty responses from each uni was needed to count, which favors certain institutions over others. So, issues of motivated reasoning right away. 20k is also a tiny sample of overall faculty. 2/3
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Bradford Vivian
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A researcher on X responded to my critique this way (see below), as if it invalidated then. Okay, great, let’s talk about that report and have a teachable moment…1/3
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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i think we should see the Trump v. United States ruling as a group of Republican apparatchiks taking their opportunity to vindicate Nixon and write the unitary executive into the Constitution. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...
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Bradford Vivian
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Kind of you to say, many thanks. This topic is definitely part of the book. I hope you find it a useful read!
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Bradford Vivian
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3. Reducing university teaching and research to artificial "conservative" and "liberal" categories only presents a parody of what being a professor involves. It misinforms the public about higher education when accurate and constructive information is most needed. 3/3
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Bradford Vivian
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2. All faculty members are entitled to their private political views. Holding those views tells us nothing about what they teach in class and how. Huge non sequitur. Law enforcement and armed services all hold private political views, but they're not psychoanalyzed this way. 2/3
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Bradford Vivian
@bradvivian.bsky.social
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The facts are *only* in dispute.
1. No official records exist about whether profs are liberal or conservative. That's a good thing--in a free society, we don't require such records. Any surveys are small, strictly voluntary, often poor in quality. 1/3 🧵
www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
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Bradford Vivian
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Not hyperbole at all. The core idea of the Declaration is judging when a previously legitimate ruler has abused his office to become a tyrant.
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Don Moynihan
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If we have more NYT/WaPo op-eds calling on Biden to exit than on SCOTUS mainlining an authoritarian presidency, that will give you a good read on where we are.
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Prisonculture
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No shame in feeling scared, overwhelmed and not knowing what to do. To me feeling one's feelings doesn't preclude taking action. These are confusing times. Give yourself some grace.
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Chris Hayes
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Things are bad but all the more reason for optimism of the will and rejection of doomerism and nihilism. Only way out is through.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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SCOTUS is telling us that it has completely signed on to the project of a second Trump administration, which is establishing an elected autocracy.
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Don Moynihan
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This is the ball game folks, the authoritarian green light laid out in advance. Congress will not impeach Trump. And SCOTUS now blesses him with extraordinary latitude to do whatever he wants in power. A second administration will not be constrained by Congress, the courts, the bureaucracy or law.
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Bradford Vivian
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The question I don’t think has been asked yet (and I mean it seriously): Does the former president know what the official functions of the presidency are?
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Bradford Vivian
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Theories aside, I think that would be the effect in practice with the current court.
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