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It’s sundown in Western New York, & night time is the right time for some fireworks on behalf of Public Good Ufrom 13 current & former leaders of SUNY and CUNY governance bodies. Please read, share widely, & encourage everyone in your networks to sign on!
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Supporting our student veterans💙
Mental health resources for student veterans will be expanded to include peer-to-peer advisement program and specific resources on SUNY campuses to help these students transition back into civilian life.
🔗 suny.edu/suny-news/press-rel…
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A Map for Loving America
Fifty years ago, Stevie Wonder released Songs in the Key of Life. Its message still feels urgent.
theatlantic.com/culture/2026…
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Some of the clearest evidence that the more student debt you cancel, the better off families and the economy is.
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Even Wall Street insiders are saying that AI is a farce.
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Debt activists have been saying this for years. Cancellation is *GOOD* for the economy. Homeownership and credit scores rose for Americans who had their student debt cancelled. Things won't feel AFFORDABLE until debts are gone. Every Dem should call for full scale cancellation.
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If the AI bubble bursts, "we need a people-first bailout," says writer @astradisastra.
democracynow.org/2026/10/21/…
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“performative”
University President Jennifer Mnookin warned about the potential of Columbia becoming a “performative protest space” for nonaffiliates at a Friday University Senate plenary.
columbiaspectator.com/news/2…
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I’ll be talking about ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS with @linamkhan at Columbia Law School this week!
🔗 Join us in New York. Link below.
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"the decline in History education... is emblematic of the broader challenges we face. We are increasingly illiterate, increasingly fixated on “costs” as opposed to “value,” and increasingly privileging our proverbial left-brain at the expense of our right" bit.ly/4yHIYu0
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🚨🚨New version of our student debt cancellation paper is out 🚨🚨
Using a nationally representative credit panel, we follow borrowers whose federal loans were canceled in 2021–2024 for up to four years. Cancellation raised homeownership, credit scores, and credit access.
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Computer enumerate my child's distinguishing characteristics. Make no mistakes
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Yesterday (Oct. 24) 100+ higher ed worker-organizers came together in Chicago at "Against the AI Campus: Building Power in Higher Ed," a 1-day conference hosted by HELU & UIC-UF. Listen to some of the participants' concerns & reasons why AI is a higher ed issue for their unions.
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BREAKING: Thanks to our coalition lawsuit, the Trump administration is abandoning its attempt to disqualify government & nonprofit employers that disagree with the admin's policies from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
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We spoke to the acclaimed writer and activist Arundhati Roy about India's youth-led Cockroach movement against the country's repressive Modi government.
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Immigration Historians Compile Syllabus for Faculty to Combat Misinformation
Leaders at the @UMNews say they want to put immigration enforcement policy debates into context and share accurate information with anyone who wants to learn more. bit.ly/4iBXA8j
ALT University of Minnesota police cut down a sign reading "ICE OFF CAMPUS" after detaining students who chained themselves to the door of Morrill Hall on Feb. 6, 2026, in Minneapolis.
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a little update: am now the managing editor @proteanmag. beyond amped for what we have cooking. and pitch me! charlotte [at] proteanmag dot com 🫡
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The cost of college shouldn’t stand between you and the future you want.
That’s why I expanded free community college to tens of thousands more New Yorkers, giving them the skills to get ahead in a rapidly changing economy.
Learn more: suny.edu/reconnect
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To be very straightforward here, we have a series of creative strategies we think *many* people can use to avoid defaulting on their loans or *fighting* the default. Millions will default — but that doesn't have to be the end. Join us to avoid financial ruin and fight back.
BREAKING: The Trump administration is reportedly preparing to pursue wages and benefits of borrowers with defaulted federal student loans, per Forbes.
The Education Department is working with the Treasury Department to hire private debt collection agencies.
Borrowers in default may face administrative wage garnishment of up to 15 percent of their earnings without a court order.
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Christian McCaffrey's grandpa was the fastest man on Earth, and at the 1960 Olympics he was quietly helping the CIA try to flip a Soviet athlete.
That's the family tree behind this jersey swap, and the rest of it is even better.
His name was Dave Sime. He showed up at Duke on a baseball scholarship as a premed kid, taught himself to sprint by reading every track book in the library, and in 1956 he tied the world record in the 100-yard dash. Sports Illustrated called him the world's fastest human and put him on the cover.
At the Rome Olympics he lost the 100 meters in a photo finish and took silver. On that same trip he was working on getting a Soviet long jumper to defect.
Pro baseball teams wanted him and the Detroit Lions drafted him, but he went to med school and spent his career in Miami doing more than 10,000 eye surgeries.
Then his youngest daughter Lisa went to Stanford to play soccer and fell for a wide receiver named Ed McCaffrey. Ed played 13 years in the NFL and won three Super Bowls, the first one with the 49ers.
Ed and Lisa had four boys, and all four played big-time college football. Max played receiver at Duke, the same school where his grandpa set records. Christian was the Heisman runner-up at Stanford. Dylan played QB at Michigan. Luke, the youngest, was a quarterback at Nebraska who transferred to Rice, switched to receiver, and got drafted 100th overall in 2024.
Three of them made the NFL. Christian had played with or against every brother except Luke, which is why he said going into Monday that this game would complete the cycle.
Luke has one thing on his famous brother too. He ran a 4.47 forty at the 2024 combine, and Christian ran a 4.48 back in 2017. So the fastest McCaffrey brother, by one hundredth of a second, is the kid who spent most of college playing quarterback.
The 49ers won 23-17 and Christian punched in two touchdowns. After the whistle Luke was already out of his Commanders jersey while Christian pulled off the one with the captain's C.
The man who said no to the Lions ended up grandpa to three NFL players. He died in January 2016, before any of them had played a down.
