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A faculty member who trains officers in our most elite military institution couldn’t publish an essay arguing the military needs to be politically neutral

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

When people were getting their loans forgiven, I was saying that they should be PUBLIC about this both because it happened BECAUSE of organizing and also to alert others it was possible. Now if you are in default, BE PUBLIC [don't be shamed into silence]. This is an organizing opportunity.

submitted 15 days ago • 23 comments

Trump’s halting of data collection could have effects that last far beyond his time in office. Even if a future administration seeks to resurrect some of the curtailed efforts, the 2025-29 hiatus will make trends harder to identify and understand.

submitted 29 days ago • 35 comments

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

submitted 30 days ago • 16 comments

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

submitted 34 days ago • 922 comments

Very excited to have this paper with @franciscaantman.bsky.social Bruce Weinberg, and Sgeng Qu out on the (positive!) long run effects of the @aeainformation.bsky.social Mentoring program. www.nber.org/papers/w33689

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Note to editors and producers: If an executive order demands action that is illegal or outside of the president’s authority, then you should not describe it as ordering something. You should say it seeks to achieve some outcome and then note it is illegal or beyond the power of the president.

submitted 56 days ago • 358 comments

There are a bunch of articles like this, which argue that Trump is going after institutions because of their failures. The reality is Trump is going after institutions - bureaucracy, military, judges, lawyers, media - because he is an authoritarian who wants control. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

submitted 60 days ago • 63 comments

Beware the abuser's logic ("you made me do this"). Trump is attacking every institution that might check his power. They all have faults. Those aren't the reason he's attacking them.

submitted 60 days ago • 11 comments

For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.

submitted 61 days ago • 78 comments

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

submitted 66 days ago • 1683 comments

Went to downtown DC to watch them remove the Black Lives Matter mural and wrote about how the removal of such symbols reflects government policy priorities. How the removal of the BLM mural reflects the administration’s desire to remove Black people and history from large segments of American life.

submitted 69 days ago • 70 comments

New, from me: Trump is whitewashing American history, removing not just people, but also the stories, images, and values to anyone who does not conform to his impoverished vision of America. Here is a partial inventory. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...

submitted 68 days ago • 89 comments

One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.

submitted 69 days ago • 358 comments

Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and woman service members as a part of a broader effort to remove all references to DEI

submitted 69 days ago • 138 comments

Students were told for years that, actually, hate speech was protected speech and what was needed at universities. They were told that heckling such speech was itself a sign of intolerance.

submitted 70 days ago • 54 comments

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

submitted 72 days ago • 179 comments

Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.

submitted 73 days ago • 61 comments

1. This is illegal. The President merely cites Article II of the Constitution to remove civil servants. 2. It is part of a pattern of building a personalist legal infrastructure by making sure key lawyers are loyalists who will say yes to further illegal acts. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 75 days ago • 28 comments

Whelp ed research orgs had mass lay-offs yesterday Mathematica: www.linkedin.com/posts/mathem... MDRC: www.linkedin.com/posts/mdrc_t... NORC: www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-ga... RTI: www.linkedin.com/posts/no%C3%... Westat: www.linkedin.com/posts/westat... WestEd: www.linkedin.com/posts/amyhre...

submitted 75 days ago • 14 comments

We need some better language for pushing back against what the administration is doing. They’re not “ending DEI.” No. They're firing women and people of color in the military. They’re forbidding whole fields of research. They’re erasing trans people from existence.

submitted 76 days ago • 65 comments

This. First government agency to contact me after my mom’s passing, SSA then Chase bank.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder that the Census determines how federal dollars, and House seats, are allocated. This is, yet another, five alarm fire.

submitted 79 days ago • 20 comments

This is not law. It couldn’t withstand legal scrutiny. Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.

submitted 80 days ago • 360 comments

Student loan forgiveness: After a court decision, the Trump administration has not just suspended SAVE, but all income driven repayment plans, which preceded the Biden administration. This also affects the PSLF. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/b...

submitted 81 days ago • 36 comments

New from @pamherd.bsky.social & I: Musk and Trump are modernizing the fraud trope, using it in new ways: Targeting core programs in unprecedented ways Undermining the government’s capacity to address fraud *Providing a veil of legitimacy for state capture 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/musks-frau...

submitted 86 days ago • 32 comments

Americans’ obsession with the super wealthy allowed this Trojan horse to roll up into the center of the republic. And here we are.

submitted 86 days ago • 76 comments

Point out things are illegal not from a belief that the courts will save us (they almost certainly won’t) but because it’s important to not shift toward an authoritarian mindset by allowing them to normalize illegal shit

submitted 86 days ago • 8 comments

1/7. Public discourse about racial equity has changed a lot over the years. At @commhsp.bsky.social we’ve been monitoring those changes and their consequences. In a new 538 article, @efranklinfowler.bsky.social and I share what we’ve been seeing and why it matters. abcnews.go.com/538/national...

submitted 87 days ago • 6 comments

Universities really need to pay attention to this. It's not just about the indirects and frozen funds. If these layoffs continue, which by all signs are continuing and going well beyond probationary employees, these agencies will not be functional, including NIH, CDC, and NSF

submitted 90 days ago • 11 comments

"America has no king" seems like a good theme to rally around

submitted 92 days ago • 98 comments

What if I told y’all that race is, in fact, not an immutable characteristic? It is a construct created to parce power, opportunity and economic advantage. A person racialized as Black might be 10% African or 100%, but regardless of genetics, they share a common history of exclusion.

submitted 93 days ago • 36 comments

I'm just a simple country public administration professor so maybe smarter people than me can explain if these options can't work and if others are better, but there is no strategy that involves waiting for something bigger than right now.

submitted 109 days ago • 17 comments

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

submitted 110 days ago • 163 comments