Brendan Cantwell
@cantb.bsky.social
Professor, or so they say. (sorry
/not sorry for the bad spelling) Periodically deletes. Views and speech are mine alone, ok?
/not sorry for the bad spelling) Periodically deletes. Views and speech are mine alone, ok?
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MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.
Must read 🧵
Jim Ryan wrote a letter to UVA detailing his "resignation" and I'm gonna get some fresh tea before I read it because I feel pretty certain I'm gonna be filled with righteous anger by the end
I'll do a thread but here's the full letter provided by the chronicle
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
I'll do a thread but here's the full letter provided by the chronicle
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Jim Ryan letter
www.documentcloud.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Must read 🧵
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
Evidently politics at the gym are getting tense
November 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Evidently politics at the gym are getting tense
evil. rich. dumb.
November 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
evil. rich. dumb.
I had to delete a post because while it got at something that I believe is basically correct it was somewhat misleading and was getting a lot of play on here.
November 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I had to delete a post because while it got at something that I believe is basically correct it was somewhat misleading and was getting a lot of play on here.
He does not look thrilled
The signing ceremony came just hours after the House passed the measure on a mostly party-line vote of 222-209. The Senate had already passed the measure Monday.
US House votes to end longest government shutdown in US history
The signing ceremony came just hours after the House passed the measure on a mostly party-line vote of 222-209. The Senate had already passed the measure Monday.
l.euronews.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 AM
He does not look thrilled
I haven’t had the chance to pay attention but is the email info as bad as it looks for T or is it just Bluesky hype?
November 13, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I haven’t had the chance to pay attention but is the email info as bad as it looks for T or is it just Bluesky hype?
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Allow me to translate. October data was not collected as field staff were all furloughed. In some cases, that data can be recovered from businesses. In other cases, the window to collect the data has closed (consumer prices, labor force status) and the data hole may be permanent.
WHITE HOUSE: FEDERAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM MAY HAVE PERMANENTLY BEEN DAMAGED WHITE HOUSE: OCTOBER JOBS REPORTS LIKELY NEVER RELEASED
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Allow me to translate. October data was not collected as field staff were all furloughed. In some cases, that data can be recovered from businesses. In other cases, the window to collect the data has closed (consumer prices, labor force status) and the data hole may be permanent.
My sister says people should drink n(ounces) water = body weight in lbs / 2.
This seems extreme to me.
And I just walking around dehydrated?
This seems extreme to me.
And I just walking around dehydrated?
November 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
My sister says people should drink n(ounces) water = body weight in lbs / 2.
This seems extreme to me.
And I just walking around dehydrated?
This seems extreme to me.
And I just walking around dehydrated?
not much of an educator, our Larry
November 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
not much of an educator, our Larry
I can’t deal with an academic conference and Epstein emails at the same time.
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I can’t deal with an academic conference and Epstein emails at the same time.
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Reports of the death of the bachelor’s degree have been greatly exaggerated. Enrollment is near pre-pandemic levels, real tuition is flat or down, and the college wage premium remains high.
I explore how the narrative became disconnected from the data.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/is-college...
I explore how the narrative became disconnected from the data.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/is-college...
Is college enrollment really plummeting?
Reports of the death of the bachelor’s degree have been greatly exaggerated.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Reports of the death of the bachelor’s degree have been greatly exaggerated. Enrollment is near pre-pandemic levels, real tuition is flat or down, and the college wage premium remains high.
I explore how the narrative became disconnected from the data.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/is-college...
I explore how the narrative became disconnected from the data.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/is-college...
I flew from Lansing to Detroit and then Detroit to Minneapolis and now am en route from Minneapolis to Denver and not a peep of these lights out the window. I think you all are making shit up.
November 12, 2025 at 4:57 AM
I flew from Lansing to Detroit and then Detroit to Minneapolis and now am en route from Minneapolis to Denver and not a peep of these lights out the window. I think you all are making shit up.
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High end wealth inequality allows for shit like this
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
High end wealth inequality allows for shit like this
All of this is incoherent
TRUMP: You have to bring in talent
INGRAHAM: Well, we have plenty of talented people in America
TRUMP: No you don't. No.
INGRAHAM: We don't have talented people here?
November 12, 2025 at 3:57 AM
All of this is incoherent
Wrong-think will get faculty punished in some states and could result in harassment anywhere. Avoiding ideas is capitulation. A possible approach is to teach the concepts and then get the students to think through examples without providing a list. Not perfect but I think we need day to day tactics.
Indiana University removed a Lecturer from her "Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice" course after a student filed a complaint about a graphic the instructor showed in class, which included "Make America Great Again" as an example of "Covert White Supremacy."
www.wfyi.org/news/article...
www.wfyi.org/news/article...
IU lecturer removed from class during intellectual diversity investigation
A lecturer in the Indiana University School of Social Work has been removed from teaching one of her classes Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice while the university investigates a complaint...
www.wfyi.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Wrong-think will get faculty punished in some states and could result in harassment anywhere. Avoiding ideas is capitulation. A possible approach is to teach the concepts and then get the students to think through examples without providing a list. Not perfect but I think we need day to day tactics.
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Indiana University removed a Lecturer from her "Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice" course after a student filed a complaint about a graphic the instructor showed in class, which included "Make America Great Again" as an example of "Covert White Supremacy."
www.wfyi.org/news/article...
www.wfyi.org/news/article...
IU lecturer removed from class during intellectual diversity investigation
A lecturer in the Indiana University School of Social Work has been removed from teaching one of her classes Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice while the university investigates a complaint...
www.wfyi.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Indiana University removed a Lecturer from her "Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice" course after a student filed a complaint about a graphic the instructor showed in class, which included "Make America Great Again" as an example of "Covert White Supremacy."
www.wfyi.org/news/article...
www.wfyi.org/news/article...
When you’re the party of it, “it’s not OK to starve children” and for all their new liberalism, that’s basically the Democratic position, it’s hard to to outlast the party of “starving children is fun” when the ladder party holds the levers that allow them to starve children.
November 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
When you’re the party of it, “it’s not OK to starve children” and for all their new liberalism, that’s basically the Democratic position, it’s hard to to outlast the party of “starving children is fun” when the ladder party holds the levers that allow them to starve children.
One thing I have done is stopped trying to guess if writing was aided by AI - student writing and manuscripts for a review - and simply review the it for accuracy, coherence, importance, argument strength, and correctness when appropriate.
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
One thing I have done is stopped trying to guess if writing was aided by AI - student writing and manuscripts for a review - and simply review the it for accuracy, coherence, importance, argument strength, and correctness when appropriate.
Trump‘s desire to return to an aesthetic with rich and striving people go to steakhouses in big cities and shop at Tiffany’s is compromised by his Crypto/AI techno-scammer economy because it eats away at place based institutions culture they support.
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Trump‘s desire to return to an aesthetic with rich and striving people go to steakhouses in big cities and shop at Tiffany’s is compromised by his Crypto/AI techno-scammer economy because it eats away at place based institutions culture they support.
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A little piece of good news. There will have to be more like this: institutions of civil society, academia, and expertise separating from the state.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Dismantled by DOGE, a Foreign Policy Center Finds New Life
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:58 AM
A little piece of good news. There will have to be more like this: institutions of civil society, academia, and expertise separating from the state.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
I will be suing the BBC for £3.3 billion because they edited a documentary about me down to nothing at all.
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I will be suing the BBC for £3.3 billion because they edited a documentary about me down to nothing at all.
Having no reason to hire qualified faculty is a feature, not a bug.
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Having no reason to hire qualified faculty is a feature, not a bug.
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...
True story, this chapter was due in October, but I’ve decided that I have November and December to work on it.
VAN SUSTEREN: Is the Republican healthcare solution going to go into effect at midnight on Dec. 31? Because people are gonna get sticker shock
MIKE JOHNSON: We have November and December to work on it
MIKE JOHNSON: We have November and December to work on it
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
True story, this chapter was due in October, but I’ve decided that I have November and December to work on it.