Adam Harris

Adam Harris

@adamhsays.com

writer, southern. Co-host, Radio Atlantic. Author of The State Must Provide. Writing Is This America? More: www.harrisadam.com

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@adamhsays.com

I realize I haven't talked much about Is This America here! I've been working on it for the last several years. Excited for you all to read it. More soon, but for now:

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While working on Is This America, I've read & transcribed a lot of Confederate letters and diaries. In one letter, Tom Rowland, a Virginian who was leaving West Point to become a traitor, stated the departing cadets’ position clearly. Secession was happening and he wondered what was taking so long.

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Chronicle of Higher Education
@chronicle.com

Mamon Saleh had two suitcases packed for college. He had earned a full scholarship to Penn, and later one to a university in Hong Kong. But visa denials kept him in Latakia, Syria. He's one of the many students who are rich in aspirations and stuck in limbo. https://chroni.cl/4ia9B5S

chroni.clA Student’s Quest for College in a Locked-Down WorldThe world’s borders are becoming more difficult for many admitted applicants to cross. Mamon Saleh found out firsthand.
Adam Harris
@adamhsays.com

“Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry — among the blacks is misery enough, God knows, but no poetry.” - Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Dana Goldstein
@danagoldstein.bsky.social

My deep dive on the "A.I.-driven" Alpha School, revealing their internal learning and enrollment data for the first time, just as the network expands into public education. There is a big gap between the marketing and reality. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comAlpha School Claims to Teach Kids Twice as Fast. Many Don’t Make It. (Gift Article)Alpha School, a private network, is spreading into public education. While its students’ test scores are high, some parents and educators say it doesn’t live up to the hype.

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PBS News
@pbsnews.org

Federal authorities have charged one of Virginia's most powerful Democrats, state Sen. Louise Lucas, with running a criminal marijuana enterprise. Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel announced the charges Thursday morning, which include drug trafficking and money laundering.

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Annie Waldman
@anniewaldman.bsky.social

Replying to @anniewaldman.bsky.social

86 eviction cases in 36 minutes! "Two days later, on 18 June, the morning after a tropical storm hit New Orleans, flooding parts of the city and downing trees across roadways, he heard 86 cases in 36 minutes. All but one resulted in a judgment of eviction."

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The Marshall Project
@themarshallproject.org

So far in Trump’s second term, ICE has arrested more than 8,500 children. Many of those children have been detained in locations where lawyers and family members couldn’t find them. This article was published in partnership with @us.theguardian.com www.themarshallproject.org/2026/10/08/i...

themarshallproject.orgICE Has Arrested Twice As Many Children This YearIn total, more than 8,500 kids have been arrested by ICE in Trump’s second term.

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Maine Public
@mainepublic.org

The plan also calls for eliminating one-fifth of currently vacant positions, combining course sections and eventually closing programs with low enrollment to reduce costs. https://bit.ly/4yB7MUO

mainepublic.orgUMaine will lay off faculty and staff to make up for a $19 million budget shortfall next yearThe plan also calls for eliminating one-fifth of currently vacant positions, combining course sections and eventually closing programs with low enrollment to reduce costs.

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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco
@joshpizpom.bsky.social

EXC: 90 programmes in Edinburgh University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are to be closed. The casualties, which include 48 language and literature programmes, will be 'taught out', w/ no admissions after 2027. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655839...

heraldscotland.comNinety programmes to close at leading university as savings plan takes shapeAccording to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language.

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Rebecca Nagle
@rebeccanagle.bsky.social

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A Navajo professor and her students have spent years driving across the reservation testing wells & made a free map so families can find clean water. www.knau.org/knau-and-ari...

knau.orgNew data added to map of safe water sources on the Navajo NationA professor at Northern Arizona University teamed up with Navajo communities to test water quality in remote wells. The map is meant to help tribal members still struggling with the effects of past…

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Liam Adams
@liamsadams.bsky.social

An ensemble lineup, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez & the late Rev. Jesse Jackson’s son, addressed the nation’s oldest and largest Black Protest denomination’s annual gathering about voting rights. @adellembanks.bsky.social on NBCUSA: religionnews.com/2026/09/11/n...

religionnews.comAt NBCUSA denominational meeting, leaders, advocates and AOC urge midterm voter turnout(RNS) — ‘They're trying to make voting difficult, but you stand in line if you got to stand all day,’ said the Rev. Boise Kimber, president of the National Baptist Convention USA Inc. ‘You are immovab...

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Michael Clemens
@mclem.org

The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.

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Clint Smith
@clintsmithiii.bsky.social

5 years of writing, research, and reporting. 4 continents traveled to. 12 drafts. 18 months of revision. New subtitle. Finally finished. Can’t wait for you all to read it. More coming very soon.

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Kentucky Public Radio
@kentuckypublicradio.org

McClatchy laid off 12 journalists at the Lexington Herald-Leader and eliminated a majority of its positions, as a part of its deep, nationwide layoffs. It leaves the second-largest newspaper in Kentucky with just two reporters left to cover city and state government.

lpm.orgMcClatchy guts Lexington Herald-Leader newsroom, among nationwide layoffsMcClatchy laid off 12 journalists at the Lexington Herald-Leader and eliminated a majority of its positions, as a part of its deep, nationwide layoffs.

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Jonathan Feingold
@jpygold.bsky.social

if you don't know now you know. "The ultimate danger remains that, when institutions comply with authoritarian wishes, the government will just ask for greater and greater concessions. After all, if you give a mouse a cookie, he’s going to ask for a glass of milk." @bakerdphd.bsky.social

insidehighered.comThat Same Ol’ Authoritarian PlaybookThroughout history, autocrats have gone after higher ed finances to control institutions’ culture.

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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net

the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...

nytimes.comTrump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.

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Larry Glickman
@larryglickman.bsky.social

By 1958, the segregationist and white supremacist Citizens' Councils, formed in the months after the Brown decision, had developed an extensive media network that, was, as the historian Neil R. McMillen showed, was federally subsidized, recorded in Congressional recording studios./1

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David M. Perry
@lollardfish.bsky.social

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“In general,” @bakerdphd.bsky.social said, conservative states have a vision for colleges and universities “around job creation and indoctrination.” And they have become savvier, learning how institutions are really organized and “how to hit higher ed where it hurts.”

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David M. Perry
@lollardfish.bsky.social

Red State Universities: we believe in indoctrination and job training Students: we hate that is there another option? Blue State Universities: we promise to have no values except job training. It ain’t enough. My latest. Gift link.

startribune.comPerry: Republicans fought ‘indoctrination.’ Now they’re telling students what to study.The conservative attack on higher education in states like Iowa is hard to watch. But it also provides an opportunity for blue states like Minnesota.