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Clay Hensley
@clayhensley.bsky.social
Posts about #globaled/#intled/#highered, & #intlstudent mobility, + art, democracy, sports.
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It is incredible — the blind spots you develop when you’ve never, ever been poor.
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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“.. Grocery prices. Gas prices. Prescription drug prices. Overall prices. Over just three days, Trump made false claims about all of them.

“.. As of September, the year-over-year inflation rate had increased for five consecutive months.”

@ddale8.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/p...
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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The funniest part of Elon spiraling out about this is that he isn’t responding with anything linked to others or relationships, just posting “great movie”
For reference. I might print this out and hang it in my house:
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Grabbed some post-announcement fuel at Chamoun’s Way. You’ll be seeing a lot more of these faces.

📸 credit to Jon Simone
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Amazon just sued one of the largest power companies in Oregon after it failed to power up two data center (one without enough power and one with no power at all) campuses that were meant to be ready *in 2021*. Sure hope this isn't an industry wide problem!
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amaz...
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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At some point I might just write “what if everybody is wrong?” because there is a chance I believe nobody bothered to work out if any of this would make a profit or, indeed, whether you’d be able to power the data centers themselves
Amazon just sued one of the largest power companies in Oregon after it failed to power up two data center (one without enough power and one with no power at all) campuses that were meant to be ready *in 2021*. Sure hope this isn't an industry wide problem!
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amaz...
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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This is far beyond any measure of “somebody should’ve said something” - it has become a media and society-wide groupthink nightmare where ignorance and fantasy have melded into a “plan for the future” that was neither possible nor profitable, all because everybody craves to believe the status quo
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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I told y'all, the compact failed. They've pivoted back to one-off deals with institutions.
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
For #highered friends, partners, & colleagues attending American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (#AACRAO) Strategic Enrollment Management (#SEM) Conference here at the Horseshoe in Las Vegas…
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars":

".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great."

@variety.com $DIS
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Oscar Isaac Was ‘Not So Open to Working With Disney’ After Jimmy Kimmel Suspension, Said He’d Return to ‘Star Wars’ if Disney Does ‘Not Succumb to Fascism’
Oscar Isaac was not open to working with Disney after Jimmy Kimmel's suspension and will only return to 'Star Wars' if the studio avoids fascism.
variety.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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“We’ll see.”

We’re supposed to accept that Democratic leadership allowed this caliber of strategist to negotiate a deal with the most diabolical, mendacious group of politicians in American government.
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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When a country is sliding into a dictatorship, standing up to the wannabe dictator is the strategy AND the goal. Delaying his consolidation of power using any tool available is of paramount importance.

Winning policy battles should not be a goal, no matter how righteous that policy is.
Sen. Angus King: "Standing up to Donald Trump didn't work"
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Last night I wrote, “It’s going to be another blockbuster, high-stakes legal week. If you feel a bit overwhelmed...remember that I’ll be here for you all week to try and keep things organized and understandable.” I didn’t expect it to be this soon, but here we are. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The Overnight News
Apparently, Sunday night is the new big news night.
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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this kind of rhetoric does more to suppress the vote than any liberal/progressive poster could. and this is a us senator.
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Completely normal
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Donald Trump is Joe Biden now

POTUS's job approval on prices is where Biden's was during peak inflation in 2022-23. Voters say 2:1 that Trump has made the economy worse. Oh, and consumer sentiment among independents hit a new all-time low in November, www.gelliottmorris.com/p/donald-tru...
Donald Trump is Joe Biden now
The president's numbers on prices are where Biden's were during peak inflation in 2022-23.
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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I’d take one Mamdani over a hundred Jeanne Shaheens.
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Never forget who sold us out:

Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Never forget who sold us out:

Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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The answer Sen, Shaheen is that since America elected the Black man to be president, the official position of the Republican Party is “not to work together with Democrats to address the problems that are facing this country.”
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Absolutely correct
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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The administration went all the way to the Supreme Court on Friday night to halt food-stamp funding. 🤡
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM