Dan Futrell
@danfutrell.com
Building Polymath University – a new school that will graduate leaders with range.
Former elected school board, nonprofit CEO, Army vet.
www.polymathu.org
Former elected school board, nonprofit CEO, Army vet.
www.polymathu.org
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If you heard the leader of another nation threatening to unleash the military against his perceived political enemies, what would you call it?
September 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you heard the leader of another nation threatening to unleash the military against his perceived political enemies, what would you call it?
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Peaceful protest against ICE in downtown Los Angeles.
June 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Peaceful protest against ICE in downtown Los Angeles.
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“In this paper, we argue that status threat arises because white Americans tend to perceive racial minorities as competing outgroups, not as fellow Americans… We find little indication that a shared American identity could reduce racial (and, in exploratory analyses, partisan) conflict in America.”
🚨 “We just need to recognize that we’re all citizens of this country.” –– Politicians + citizens often stress a shared national identity when trying to bridge racial, partisan, or other group divides.
@stysyropoulos.bsky.social & I show why such “shared” identities are doomed to fail.
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@stysyropoulos.bsky.social & I show why such “shared” identities are doomed to fail.
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May 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
“In this paper, we argue that status threat arises because white Americans tend to perceive racial minorities as competing outgroups, not as fellow Americans… We find little indication that a shared American identity could reduce racial (and, in exploratory analyses, partisan) conflict in America.”
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Rubio announces reorganization of State Dept, will eliminate anything that promotes democracy and human rights, which Rubio considers "radical." search.app/ipTPHvenBpYc...
Marco Rubio announces sweeping reorganisation of US state department
Secretary of state says shakeup of department will close a number of overseas missions and reduce staff
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April 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Rubio announces reorganization of State Dept, will eliminate anything that promotes democracy and human rights, which Rubio considers "radical." search.app/ipTPHvenBpYc...
What I see in these attacks – removing books, limiting speech and deporting op ed writers, attempting to sanction universities and law firms – is that books, speech, education and law are POWERFUL.
They are a threat to authoritarianism.
Keep writing. Keep speaking. Keep learning. Keep defending.
They are a threat to authoritarianism.
Keep writing. Keep speaking. Keep learning. Keep defending.
Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
www.nytimes.com
April 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
What I see in these attacks – removing books, limiting speech and deporting op ed writers, attempting to sanction universities and law firms – is that books, speech, education and law are POWERFUL.
They are a threat to authoritarianism.
Keep writing. Keep speaking. Keep learning. Keep defending.
They are a threat to authoritarianism.
Keep writing. Keep speaking. Keep learning. Keep defending.
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For a Passover miracle, I am begging reporters to stop repeating the lie that the far right’s purges and efforts to dismantle higher education are rooted in any genuine concern with fighting antisemitism.
On campuses nationwide, many students are saying that the Trump administration's efforts to crack down on antisemitism have caused a chilling effect on speech and political activity. By @elenamoore.bsky.social
For some students who protested war in Gaza, fear and silence is a new campus reality
On campuses nationwide, many students are saying that the Trump administration's efforts to crack down on antisemitism have caused a chilling effect on speech and political activity.
www.npr.org
April 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
For a Passover miracle, I am begging reporters to stop repeating the lie that the far right’s purges and efforts to dismantle higher education are rooted in any genuine concern with fighting antisemitism.
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Every single university president should be asked, in public, why they are not speaking out this way to support all the students currently detained without due process, and all those terrified that they will be next, on every campus in this country. Yes, including Columbia's acting president.
NEW: Tufts files a declaration in support of Rümeysa Öztürk: "The University has no information to support the allegations that she was engaged in activities at Tufts that warrant her arrest and detention." www.tufts.edu/president/sp...
April 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Every single university president should be asked, in public, why they are not speaking out this way to support all the students currently detained without due process, and all those terrified that they will be next, on every campus in this country. Yes, including Columbia's acting president.
The attack on education is an attack on women.
Read more from @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social who connects the dots here.
educationwars.substack.com/p/connecting...
Read more from @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social who connects the dots here.
educationwars.substack.com/p/connecting...
Connecting the Dots
What's behind the Trump world's obsession with education?
educationwars.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The attack on education is an attack on women.
Read more from @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social who connects the dots here.
educationwars.substack.com/p/connecting...
Read more from @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social who connects the dots here.
educationwars.substack.com/p/connecting...
Columbia University’s $14.7B endowment grew by 8.4% last year. That’s 1.24B new dollars of passive income, or 3x the $400M the fed just took back.
Use your damn resources and fight! That pile in the bank can’t protect your students if you leave it there.
Use your damn resources and fight! That pile in the bank can’t protect your students if you leave it there.
I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”
March 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Columbia University’s $14.7B endowment grew by 8.4% last year. That’s 1.24B new dollars of passive income, or 3x the $400M the fed just took back.
Use your damn resources and fight! That pile in the bank can’t protect your students if you leave it there.
Use your damn resources and fight! That pile in the bank can’t protect your students if you leave it there.
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South African car salesman tells U.S. Senator, American astronaut and U.S. Navy captain: "You are a traitor"
March 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
South African car salesman tells U.S. Senator, American astronaut and U.S. Navy captain: "You are a traitor"
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My latest in @thenation.com:
Why Hasn’t Trump Already Closed the Department of Education?
Maybe because its support for students is popular with Republicans as well as Democrats. And because cutting that funding would blow a big hole in the budgets of red states.
www.thenation.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
My latest in @thenation.com:
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February 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Look at this traitor just openly working for Russia
Hegseth: "We must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective ... the US does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement."
February 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Look at this traitor just openly working for Russia
Important story by my friend and fellow Tillman Scholar @erinedwards22.bsky.social
NEW: The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it.
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A Coast Guard Commander Miscarried. She Nearly Died After Being Denied Care.
U.S. service members have long faced strict limits on abortions, even when used to resolve miscarriages. Under federal law, the military will only pay for abortions in cases of rape, incest or to save the mother’s life.
propub.li
December 16, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Important story by my friend and fellow Tillman Scholar @erinedwards22.bsky.social
Traditional college is broken – for students, and for employers.
We're building a better model.
@polymathu.org is interdisciplinary, apprenticeship based, and debt-free.
#highered polymathu.org
We're building a better model.
@polymathu.org is interdisciplinary, apprenticeship based, and debt-free.
#highered polymathu.org
Polymath University
polymathu.org
November 18, 2024 at 5:53 AM
Traditional college is broken – for students, and for employers.
We're building a better model.
@polymathu.org is interdisciplinary, apprenticeship based, and debt-free.
#highered polymathu.org
We're building a better model.
@polymathu.org is interdisciplinary, apprenticeship based, and debt-free.
#highered polymathu.org
"An unexpected result of feminism has been to reveal the ways in which education is failing boys." - @RichardvReeves for @TheAtlantic.
November 20, 2024 at 12:59 AM
"An unexpected result of feminism has been to reveal the ways in which education is failing boys." - @RichardvReeves for @TheAtlantic.
“At the end of the day [crypto and blockchain technology] has to be really boring. When’s the last time you got excited about a utility?” – Mark Daly of @ZeroHashX at the Pat Tillman Leadership Summit.
#ptls22 #tillmanscholar
#ptls22 #tillmanscholar
November 20, 2024 at 12:59 AM
“At the end of the day [crypto and blockchain technology] has to be really boring. When’s the last time you got excited about a utility?” – Mark Daly of @ZeroHashX at the Pat Tillman Leadership Summit.
#ptls22 #tillmanscholar
#ptls22 #tillmanscholar
“I think blockchain has the potential to be the underlying technology for so much and we won’t even know it.” – 2021 Tillman Scholar Jo Unruh, and founder of @NiftyLitMag, on the future of blockchain at the Pat Tillman Leadership Summit.
#ptls22 #tillmanscholar
#ptls22 #tillmanscholar
November 20, 2024 at 12:59 AM
“I think blockchain has the potential to be the underlying technology for so much and we won’t even know it.” – 2021 Tillman Scholar Jo Unruh, and founder of @NiftyLitMag, on the future of blockchain at the Pat Tillman Leadership Summit.
#ptls22 #tillmanscholar
#ptls22 #tillmanscholar
“There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” – 2018 Tillman Scholar Alex Pruden on the nascent crypto / blockchain industry, at the Pat Tillman Leadership Summit.
#tillmanscholar #plts22
#tillmanscholar #plts22
November 20, 2024 at 12:59 AM
“There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” – 2018 Tillman Scholar Alex Pruden on the nascent crypto / blockchain industry, at the Pat Tillman Leadership Summit.
#tillmanscholar #plts22
#tillmanscholar #plts22
“I’ve heard ‘No’ a lot in my life and all it’s told me is that I asked the wrong person.” 2018 Tillman Scholar Natasha Ryan at the Pat Tillman Leadership Summit.
#ptls22 #tillmanscholar
#ptls22 #tillmanscholar
November 20, 2024 at 12:59 AM
“I’ve heard ‘No’ a lot in my life and all it’s told me is that I asked the wrong person.” 2018 Tillman Scholar Natasha Ryan at the Pat Tillman Leadership Summit.
#ptls22 #tillmanscholar
#ptls22 #tillmanscholar
“COVID didn’t exacerbate inequality as much as it exposed it.” 2020 Tillman Scholar @darismcinnis on the state of education today at the Pat Tillman Leadership Summit.
#ptls2022 #tillmanscholar
#ptls2022 #tillmanscholar
November 20, 2024 at 12:59 AM
“COVID didn’t exacerbate inequality as much as it exposed it.” 2020 Tillman Scholar @darismcinnis on the state of education today at the Pat Tillman Leadership Summit.
#ptls2022 #tillmanscholar
#ptls2022 #tillmanscholar
Applications to be a 2022 Tillman Scholar are open February 1-28! Learn more about the @pattillmanfnd's #Tillman cholars Program, including how to apply: Learn more:
November 20, 2024 at 12:59 AM
Applications to be a 2022 Tillman Scholar are open February 1-28! Learn more about the @pattillmanfnd's #Tillman cholars Program, including how to apply: Learn more: