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NEW: The Washington Post obtained the reduction in force plan that Kari Lake sent to Congress. If these layoffs are carried out in the coming weeks, only 80 people will work at U.S. Agency for Global Media, which houses Voice of America — down from 1,300 in March.

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I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

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All part of the conservative war on higher ed. At one level, a war on curriculum. Another on accreditation. Another on funding. Another on freedom of expression. And here on the fundamental decision-making body behind universities: the trustees. All aimed at one target: to bring higher ed to heel.

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Every 5 years, Congress can vote to leave the WTO. As a new, chart-filled ‪@cato.org‬ paper explains, doing so would be a huge mistake bc multilateral trading system has been VERY good for the USA and the world: www.cato.org/policy-analy...

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Trump has so paralyzed the federal agencies responsible for protecting civil servants’ rights that federal employees may now be able to win relief directly from courts instead, the 4th Circuit rules. A very good decision for the independent civil service. knightcolumbia.org/documents/9m...

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Big news: The Trump administration has essentially proposed shutting down tribal colleges and universities, displacing more than 20,000 students. My latest for ProPublica:

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Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?

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This is an alarming EMTALA development, but tracks with DOJ's actions already. / See: www.lawdork.com/p/doj-trump-... / EMTALA protections will still be litigated if/when providers step in. In Idaho, a hospital sued after the U.S. stopped suing Idaho once the Trump administration took over DOJ.

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More of this, please.

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The most important idea in all of economics is not competition, but cooperation.

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wow -- @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com chokes up while talking about how the Trump administration is killing kids who relied on USAID to get life-saving medicine

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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

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Ukraine's devastating surprise attack on Russia this weekend has big strategic implications beyond the bounds of those two countries. For our country, this might be a really good time to have a robust, competent national security apparatus making smart, well-informed strategic decisions.

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Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

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This is absolutely essential reading in case you’re wondering what the wholesale dismantling of civil service work has to do with you. data4democracy.substack.com/p/how-to-dis...

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called the lack of healthy food options on Native reservations a “genocide.” But the Trump administration ended a program that helped provide fresh, locally produced food for tribal food banks, saying the program no longer aligned with its priorities.

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These people were following the law and went to check in with immigration like they are supposed to. This woman's immigration case was dismissed, which made her immediately undocumented. So ICE took her into custody. The air conditioning was off in the back of the truck. "I can't breathe."

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Saturday's Best of the Week #ABlueView🧵1/3 "The bill has $1.1T in tax cuts for people who make more than $500k a year & $1.1T in cuts to Medicaid & food stamps." tinyurl.com/yumkh2ya #BestOfABlueView #BestOf2025 #BestEditorialCartoons

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Sabotaging AIDS prevention www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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ICYMI - Research has shown that alfalfa and other cattle-feed crops consume 46% of the water that is diverted from the Colorado River www.latimes.com/environment/...

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"ENG" is Engineering. They want to cut Engineering R&D at the National Science Foundation by 75 percent They want to cut Computer Science (CISE) R&D by 65 percent If adopted, it measurably surrenders any US technical advantages in AI. Poof.

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A 4-year-old girl in Bakersfield was allowed into the U.S. legally for emergency medical treatment. Now, the Trump Administration has revoked her humanitarian status. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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This is what happens when you give an interview while you're hungry. #TACO #BURRITO #CHURRO #SALSA #ENCHILADA (Also, #economics)

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Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences is getting hit with a 67.6% cut, worse than other programs within NSF. Funding for archaeologists comes from the division for Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, which is facing a 77.3% cut. It appears every post doc program has been 100% cut.

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Hey OPM tech contractors, if you have a termination letter that credits DOGE explicitly with your being axed (like the one described in this story), that would be incredibly helpful to making DOGE subject to FOIA. My Signal: shawnmusgrave.82 www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

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Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

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New state fact sheets show how the House Rs' extreme budget plan would cut food & health care for millions while delivering bigger tax breaks to the wealth — forcing families, veterans, seniors, & others in every state to bear higher costs & more red tape. www.cbpp.org/research/sta...

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In this day and age, only one of the major news outlets in the United States seems capable of actual journalism and describing things exactly the way they are - @theatlantic.com. Example: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Illinois just banned police from ticketing students for things like swearing or vaping in school — a practice that funneled kids into adult courtrooms and debt. It took years of reporting by @jsmithrichards.bsky.social & @jodiscohen.bsky.social to get here. www.propublica.org/article/illi...

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Strongly suggest that members of Congress (ideally) or their staffs (if members cannot) stop by their local immigration courts, these awful stories are showing up everywhere. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a....

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Republicans changed the rules, & now practically any action the executive branch takes can be challenged in Congress. Any 30 Senators can bring up a vote, & get a guaranteed 10 hours of floor time. Meaning that Democrats could hold the floor indefinitely, if they wanted. prospect.org/politics/202...

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As the FBI assigns hundreds of additional agents to focus on arresting people for deportation, agents "have been told by supervisors not to document moving resources away from high-priority cases toward immigration-related work." www.cnn.com/2025/05/29/p...

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Elon's legacy ranges from gutting cancer research to setting in motion millions of deaths from starvation or disease. I'll be pushing for Congress to hold Elon & DOGE accountable—for every act of corruption, every disastrous consequence, and every law they have broken.

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Former @latimes.com reporter Maya Lau is SUING ex-sheriff Alex Villanueva, ex-detective Mark Lillienfeld and the county, saying they violated her 1A rights when they criminally investigating her for reporting on a list of problem deputies: www.latimes.com/california/s...

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It’s now Marxist to understand that the Constitution only authorizes Congress to impose tariffs.

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This is how this bill will hurt our public schools.

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We have some news to share with you. 🥄 Today we took legal action to challenge our termination, filing an appeal with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board. We did this because we believe the elimination of 18F violated safeguards that exist to protect a nonpartisan civil service.

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The CBO director, Philip Swagel, is a former Bush political appointee and was reappointed in July 2023 by the leaders of both houses of Congress, including Speaker McCarthy. www.cbo.gov/about/organi...

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Must read story about the damage Trump and his cut-obsessed underlings are inflicting on the corpus of American knowledge and achievement.

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A quick primer on the likely consequences of the courts having ruled that (most of) the Trump tariffs are illegal.

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New from 404 Media: a cop in Texas performed a nationwide search of license plate reading cameras for a woman who got an abortion, according to multiple sets of data we've reviewed. Included cameras where abortion is legal, like Washington and Illinois www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

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some of the doge bros, drunk on decades of libertarian, republican, and corporatist kool-aid, are discovering the federal government does, in fact, do many important things, sometimes even competently!

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Musk isn't "leaving" government service. He's making his getaway.

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HHS, led by anti-vaxxer RFK Jr., just canceled a $766 million contract with Moderna to fight potential pandemic flu viruses, including the H5N1 bird flu. Moderna had just announced positive interim results from an early-stage trial of the vaccine. www.huffpost.com/entry/flu-va...

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Day by day, we’re seeing the Justice Department effectively decriminalize and wave away crimes by Trump’s friends and instead selectively focus investigatory resources on Trump’s adversaries and enemies. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/crime-is-n...

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JD Vance cheered on Trump today for gutting oversight of cryptocurrencies, while Trump’s family cashes in with meme coins, NFTs, and stable coin. They even killed warnings about crypto in 401(k) retirement accounts! I’m your Shadow Press Secretary and here are the facts:

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