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Really fascinating that years ago all political and economic focus was steered toward tech to the detriment of education, critical thinking, and disciplines like the humanities that promote empathy and we ended up in a fascist tech dominated dystopia where everyone’s drowning in conspiracy theories.

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A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

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Just four hours ago, even after we’ve learned the shooter was as an anti-abortionist Trump supporter, a sitting U.S. Senator is spreading fake conspiracy theories blaming the murder of a Democratic lawmaker on Democrats. Not only that, he’s pinned the post! Abominably evil stuff from Mike Lee.

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I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Sound familiar?

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Padilla in a brief press conference: "I was not arrested. I was not detained. I will say this. If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question, if this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question...

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

It is completely necessary to support Newsom as a governor fighting an authoritarian president and keep in mind that he has shown himself with incredible clarity to be an individual unworthy of trust who broke the sound barrier in normalizing authoritarianism for personal gain.

submitted 6 days ago • 66 comments

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command...”

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Yes. Many folks are acting like this is just normal shift in priorities. Still. After months of watching the admin take a wrecking ball to the federal scientific apparatus.

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"The Heterogeneities of Immigrant Poverty in the U.S." This is the slightly earlier version of a paper now forthcoming at Population Research & Policy Review. I'm particularly pleased that this paper is coauthored with four of my last MPP students at UC Riverside.

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Really doing everything they can to turn US into a pariah state

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

Oh man, this is gonna get ugly. Of course, it has been ugly for a long time. I am of mixed mind, though. The only thing worse than the Birmingham Water Works Board might just be a Birmingham Water Works Board taken over in a coup by the suburbs.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

If you are a real social scientist, it is very hard to maintain the claim that all evidence of systemic racism is not real science. Much of it is published in top-ranked peer-reviewed journals in Bhattacharya's field of economics. He can either do MAGA, or science, but not both.

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Elon Musk wanted to buy Wikipedia so that he could determine our society’s collective view of truth. He couldn’t, so he created grok. Do not let these machines be arbiters of truth. It is abundantly clear that they are being used to push absurd far-right conspiracies.

submitted 29 days ago • 25 comments

The idea that this is an efficiency, or that they are just gutting woke programs is horseshit. It's a massive disinvestment in science.

submitted 40 days ago • 10 comments

$500 million is… less than 1.25% of the NIH’s 2024 budget. When I say there is no capacity to absorb the shock, I mean it.

submitted 43 days ago • 19 comments

If the courts cannot pretty rapidly step in and stop this obvious abuse of public funds to settle political scores, they won’t do a whole lot else to hold against an authoritarian state

submitted 42 days ago • 29 comments

Hi: Along with @pamherd.bsky.social I wrote the book "Administrative Burdens." This is not reducing administrative burden. Having sufficient money to cover overhead costs is not a burden. Arbitrarily upending research partnerships with poor communication actually increases burdens.

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments

Some schools fight. But UAB is literally sending checks back to donors, killing scholarships for high-performing Black med students rather than risk wearing the scarlet letters of DEI. And just look who gets called "morally reprehensible."

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

The trope that universities are "dependent" on the federal government fundamentally misunderstands how vital this partnership has been for the US. The private sector can't replace it. If we kill it, we're all worse off. From @donmoyn.bsky.social and me: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...

submitted 55 days ago • 17 comments

Your ability to read and think for yourself is quickly becoming a valuable superpower. Do not sacrifice it to AI.

submitted 55 days ago • 7 comments

The administration is “clearly focused not on eliminating disease, but eliminating people with health conditions.” Sadly, this is the most obvious conclusion to be had.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

It works. The government here largely works. Because we are so spoiled by how well it works, we are letting a fool convince us it is broken.

submitted 62 days ago • 26 comments

Received notice that due to the NIH review process consolidation, the Aging & Career Development study section I sit on has been terminated effective May 31. It was an honor to serve with my distinguished colleagues and help guide the careers of some of our nation’s best clinician scientists.

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"If the administration succeeds in privatizing the government-run Student Loan Program, college will become much more expensive, significantly shrinking the number of kids who’ll be able to attend. And that seems to be the point..." educationwars.substack.com/p/connecting...

submitted 76 days ago • 54 comments

We need new leaders in Washington. I’m running for Senate to be one. Let’s go.

submitted 76 days ago • 846 comments

CDC Epilepsy Program eliminated & all team members RIF’d effective immediately. ~500k children & >1m older adults have epilepsy. It has serious, long-term effects on physical, psychological, & cognitive heath. The promotion of suffering & the destruction of scientific capacity continues. #HHS

submitted 77 days ago • 5 comments

Many university leaders think quietly working "legislative contacts" is the way to deal w/ funding cuts. But this isn't proposed legislation. Cuts are happening to their campuses NOW by executive action. Often in violation of current legislation & judicial orders. Real public action is needed.

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The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 81 days ago • 138 comments

So, US health and science agencies are no longer able to study or take part in public health messaging? The right has used the so-called “censorship” narrative to censor any and all research seeking to understand and/or intervene in their bullshit machine.

submitted 82 days ago • 11 comments

Doing this in El Salvador with those prisoners as a backdrop is extremely twisted.

submitted 82 days ago • 2219 comments

Horrific story. But proud of The Crimson White for this scoop. Student journalists are on the frontlines reporting on the Trump administration’s crackdowns. They need our support too. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/u...

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

To anyone living in a state that doesn't respect you for who you love or who you are: Illinois has a place for you. You are seen, you are celebrated, you are protected, and you are welcome here in our state.

submitted 82 days ago • 507 comments

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 82 days ago • 1901 comments

Last week we received the devastating news that Hannah Cole's F31 grant was terminated due to the focus on improving alcohol treatment efficacy for gender diverse folks. Hannah is an outstanding student & and this outcome is deeply unjust. Her letter to our TN senator is below:

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This is absolutely correct, but also...this is where the fact that the Dems do not have an overtly partisan media shows up. Even MSNBC will not push this 24/7 the way that Fox would, let alone the online right-wing media.

submitted 84 days ago • 10 comments

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

submitted 90 days ago • 96 comments

As a former Nebraska resident, I am shocked. Also. I love it.

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

This whole campaign is disgraceful. This administration which is riddled with actual antisemites is using antisemitism as a stalking horse for its campaign against all universities. A kind of elaborate and hideous gaslighting.

submitted 91 days ago • 71 comments

They are going to make it harder for the scientists to stop, or even record, what comes next.

submitted 91 days ago • 11 comments

I know Republicans don’t give a shit about their elderly parents but it looks like they’ll be in for a DOUBLE rude awakening if Medicaid is gutted…

submitted 91 days ago • 5 comments

Stop pretending that the authoritarian repression is BECAUSE of the problems in {higher education, the media, the law, government, immigration policy, etc.}. This is what authoritarians do. If they didn't focus on these justifications, they'd come up with other ones.

submitted 94 days ago • 38 comments

There are massive problems within the Democratic Party that keep it from representing its voters and opposing the growing oligarchical led authoritarian movement. I have my doubts if they can be addressed but I’m certain nothing will happen if Chuck Schumer remains a leader or member of the party.

submitted 93 days ago • 37 comments

As chair of our senate academic policy committee, I just proposed 1) developing a P&T research impact statement (similar to Covid) to support faculty whose research is being halted/blocked and 2) revamping P&T criteria to account for everything breaking. If you're doing the same, let's talk!

submitted 125 days ago • 5 comments

turns out the liberal democratic order relied upon a gentleman’s agreement and there are no more gentlemen standing reconstruction gonna require a metalaw: that there be law “The constitution doesn’t mean anything if no one enforces and defends it.”

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