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It’s about having red hair and freckles FFS and how to be cool with that when other kids make fun of it. By that twisted logic, you’d have to ban pretty much every children’s book, old and new www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/e...

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Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

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🇫🇮🇺🇦 Finnish Prime Minister has called for an urgent EU summit on Ukraine to develop a common position on Europe's role in the negotiations. 🇪🇺 "Only the EU can make decisions on security, Ukraine's membership in the EU or its restoration. For this, there must be a place at the negotiating table."

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Because AP continues to refuse to use 'Gulf of America,' it is being barred indefinitely from the Oval Office and Air Force One, but its journalists will be able to retain their credentials to the White House complex, according to Taylor Budowich, White House deputy chief of staff.

submitted 9 days ago • 77 comments

Hagan Scotten’s resignation letter says it all. Dropping the charges against Eric Adams to turn the Mayor of New York into a lackey of the President is a staggeringly corrupt perversion of justice and democracy.

submitted 9 days ago • 45 comments

Academic freedom is under assault.

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www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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#polisky #WomenInSTEM NSF looking at losing HALF of their staff and two-thirds of their budget. www.science.org/content/arti...

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I am used to reading such proclamations from authoritarian governments in Africa. Hard to believe this is happening in the US.

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Former President Sam Nujoma of Namibia, who led the country to independence from South Africa, died today. He was a frequent visitor to our home in Dar es Salaam when SWAPO was based in Tanzania. (L to R, My mother, Marja-Liisa Swantz, Eva, Lea, Nujoma, his associate, and myself).

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This is heartbreaking but infuriating above all. This madness has to be stopped. Call your representatives! The Forced Fork and the Choice to Stay open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

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Inexplicably cruel and dangerous. State's programs have done critical work supporting civil society and democratic practices where the US doesn't have missions and formal diplomatic ties, or where relations with auth govts are intense like Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, & Venezuela.

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I suspect USAID is first because it's "foreign aid" and fewer Americans will object. But once the precedent is established, expect unilateral dismantling of domestic institutions too

submitted 20 days ago • 214 comments

Goodbye academic freedom! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 19 days ago • 1330 comments

Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."

submitted 19 days ago • 2484 comments

This is where we are heading! thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

submitted 21 days ago • 604 comments

Experts: Trump's efforts to stop spending on all federal grants is unprecedented and illegal. Five alarm fire. NY Times:

submitted 22 days ago • 35 comments

USAID took down its Gender and Health page. Other pages of the same kind seem to be there: www.usaid.gov/global-healt...

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It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

submitted 22 days ago • 1827 comments

A blatant attack on academic freedom. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh

submitted 23 days ago • 69 comments

I am heartbroken. www.abqjournal.com/news/article...

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I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔

submitted 27 days ago • 69 comments

Unbelievable! It is hard to understand how this can even happen. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

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Trump is planning to make foreign nationals (and dual citizens) to pay higher tax rates in the US. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 29 days ago • 45 comments

This will kill so many people living with HIV who depend on PEPFAR programs to stay on their HIV treatment driving further HIV drug resistance. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...

submitted 29 days ago • 47 comments

Omnious: "I think you’ll see professors investigated and terminated. I think you’re going to see students punished, and I think you’re going to see a pre-emptive action on those fronts," according to Crowley at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

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📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 For our anniversary issue, @ailitripp.bsky.social reflects on changes to the study of the comparative politics of gender over the last 20 years noting the growth of the field and an expansion of the themes and regions studied. polisky gendersky https://buff.ly/3PM3d5M

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...

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New article from me @risjnl.bsky.social on how civil wars fit with the concept of critical junctures (CJ) & how CJ framework might enrich civil wars research, w/special attention to issues of women's empowerment after war, engaging w/Aili Mari Tripp & @marieberry.bsky.social's pathbreaking work

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/b...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

How does such an error of such a large magnitude even happen? www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

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Women’s representation in Congress has declined for the first time since 2011. @amandabecker.bsky.social explores why, with insights from CAWP's @kdittmar.bsky.social. Read more in @19thnews.bsky.social: 19thnews.org/2025/01/the-...

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donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...

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Schiff: If the president goes forward with pardoning vast numbers of people involved in January 6 violence, he will begin his new administration the way he ended his last administration, and that is by celebrating violence against our democracy.

submitted 49 days ago • 385 comments

Call for applications for a 2-years 75% research only postdoc on peace, conflict & fragility in the MENA at University of Freiburg www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/call...

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Four-year postdoc in political science at Oslo University www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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