Dear US scientists: we love you all, but don't be that "heartened" by legal action. Musk is saying he will ignore judicial orders. USAID/CFPB actions are blatantly illegal.
We're begging you: read @jamellebouie.net @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social on law and politics. 1/ 🧪
We're begging you: read @jamellebouie.net @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social on law and politics. 1/ 🧪
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Dave Levitan
Hearing from more people at affected universities today. One at another major research institute said people there were “frozen with fear” at the potential of the rate cut and relative silence from leadership over the weekend, but heartened by the unified response of the quick lawsuit.
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Instead, mobilize public opinion, and yell at your Senators to use every obstruction tool they have. Don't sit back and trust the courts.
It will be easy for them to just not pay your indirects—either via impoundment, or via direct Musk control of the Treasury payment system.
The court case is one step. But don't trust it to save science.