Alex McCormick 🇺🇦

Emeritus faculty member in #highered, @IUBloomington. Former NSSE Director & Carnegie reclassifier. Opinions mine, shares=Worth a look.

[Alex McCormick 🇺🇦 @alexmccormick]

Honored to have collaborated on two chapters in the new Research Handbook on University Rankings edited by Ellen Hazelkorn and @GeorgianaMihut. It's a solid collection!
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[Alex McCormick 🇺🇦 @alexmccormick]

@NSSEsurvey No

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Indiana University has served the young people of the state and the country and the world as a model public university. These measures, passed without review or discussion, destroy IU’s independence and will if allowed to stand undo its essential character. This is part of a national campaign to destroy US higher education. We ought to take pride in our universities, because they are the envy of the world and the best hope for the American dream. Instead we are destroying them in order to prevent young people from thinking that there can be a better future with freedom and prosperity.
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[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

It is with great sadness that Jill and I learned of the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis. He was unlike any who came before him. Pope Francis will be remembered as one of the most consequential leaders of our time and I am better for having known him. For decades, he served the most vulnerable across Argentina and his mission of serving the poor never ceased. As Pope, he was a loving pastor and challenging teacher who reached out to different faiths. He commanded us to fight for peace and protect our planet from a climate crisis. He advocated for the voiceless and powerless. He made all feel welcome and seen by the Church. He promoted equity and an end to poverty and suffering across the globe. And above all, he was a Pope for everyone. He was the People's Pope - a light of faith, hope, and love.

[Nikos Unity @nikosunity]

@RpsAgainstTrump Says it all…

[Alex McCormick 🇺🇦 @alexmccormick]

Sad news for education and education research! https://t.co/gGai0lyJq4

[Senator Mazie Hirono @maziehirono]

Trump's chaotic tariffs wiped out $104,000 from the average retirement account.

Meanwhile, the richest people in the world gained over $304 billion to their collective net worth.

It's clear as day who Trump is working for. And it's not working Americans.

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

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[Alex McCormick 🇺🇦 @alexmccormick]

@RadioFreeTom My point is the conflict between your opening and closing statements. I wish you'd resolve it.

[Alex McCormick 🇺🇦 @alexmccormick]

Worrisome news about massive cuts at ED... https://t.co/gWswwN4fJ5

[Alex McCormick 🇺🇦 @alexmccormick]

@DelbridgeMark1 @endlibtyranny I can hardly contain my indifference.

[Alex McCormick 🇺🇦 @alexmccormick]

@endlibtyranny "Trump's victory is a testament to the people's desire for real leadership" - LOL!

[Alex McCormick 🇺🇦 @alexmccormick]

@ShereeWokeAF @politvidchannel Sources for the bullet list please?

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Jennifer Aniston just endorsed Kamala Harris and went off on Trump to her 44.8 MILLION followers:

Full statement:

“Today not only did I vote for access to health care, for reproductive freedom, for equal rights, for safe schools, and for a fair economy, but also for SANITY and HUMAN DECENCY.

Please remember that whoever you are and wherever you live, your voice matters. Your VOTE matters.

I know we don't agree on everything, and that is the beauty of this country, but GOOD LORD aren't you tired of this negativity towards each other? The intimidation and constant threats to those who do not think the same as the other?

Let's please end this era of fear, chaos and the attacks on our democracy - and vote for someone who will unite us and not continue to threaten to divide us
I very proudly voted for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

We are so lucky we get to VOTE and this election is in our hands! We only have one week until Election Day so talk to your friends, your family, your neighbors and let's find our way back to each other with respect, common cause, and LOVE.”

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

“Bohemian Trumpsody”

By @MarshSongs.

EPIC!

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Anyone who was alive in 1968 will remember Ethel Kennedy, shrouded in black, the portrait of dignity and grief at the funeral of her husband, Robert, after his stunning assassination.
The irrepressible Mrs. Kennedy spent the rest of her life advancing the causes and principles they shared.
May she rest in peace.
And may her memory be a blessing.

[Alex McCormick 🇺🇦 @alexmccormick]

@LakotaMan1 Yes they do.

[The Dangerous Ones @DangerousOnesHQ]

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[Alex McCormick 🇺🇦 @alexmccormick]

@iAnonPatriot @realDonaldTrump Except for all the others, that is.