Marc Porter Magee 🎓
@marcportermagee
I live in Virginia with @kportermagee, our 3 adorable kids & 3 scruffy dogs. Personal account. Work: CEO & founder of @FiftyCAN. Project: @AdvocacyLabs.
Trump is getting the headlines but what’s really killing higher ed right now is declining enrollment
The U.S. has lost three quarters of its local journalists, and more than 1,000 counties have no one covering local news. @Rebuild_News recently shared a Local Journalist Index estimating how many journalists are in each U.S. County. Read more ⬇️ macfound.org/press/grantee-…
88-year-old D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton tells me this AM: “I’m certainly going to run for reelection.” (Her office has repeatedly walked this back already: axios.com/2025/06/25/nor…)
Beware the Condé Nast touch of death.
📸 GOV. ANDY BESHEAR AND FIRST LADY BRITAINY BESHEAR FOR VOGUE MAGAZINE:
U.S. Olympic committee bans trans women from competing in women's sports trib.al/PQOsVqV
What happened to Democratic accountability hawks? We need a “Where Are They Now?” show.
“Testing and accountability became less popular among Democratic voters after the party’s elected officials and their powerful labor partners firmly united publicly against these positions.”
NYC MAYORAL POLL 🔵 Zohran Mamdani: 39% 🟡 Andrew Cuomo: 21% 🔴 Curtis Sliwa: 18% 🟡 Eric Adams: 9% ———— 2-WAY 🟡 Cuomo: 42% 🔵 Mamdani: 41% ⚪ Not sure: 17% — 🔵 Mamdani: 47% 🟡 Adams: 37% ⚪ Not sure: 16% —— Wick (B/C) | @NextUpHalperin youtube.com/@NextUpHalperi…
New PNAS paper on US academics' publication rates during tenure-track and post-tenure. Publication rates rise steeply until tenure and then plateau for lab-based fields, while declining for other fields.
There are certain areas where you really don’t have much tolerance for mistakes and one of them is your travel plans
I asked ChatGPT Agent to help me plan a trip to Denver and it hallucinated flights in both directions.