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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

submitted 36 days ago • 486 comments

I think for me it’s less weakness than bald hypocrisy. They don’t fight for the values they claim to hold because they don’t hold them. They had no problem fighting their base on Palestine, fighting partners on policing, and fighting colleagues on safety net spending.

submitted 54 days ago • 20 comments

1. In a new leaked memo, Pam Bondi is directing the DOJ to go after trans care providers under "anti-FGM" laws. She also has directed the investigation of HRT manufacturers. She calls transgender people "infectious." The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 54 days ago • 153 comments

People are running around looking for compost bags...Some scientists have bought their own soap and cleaning supplies. A snapshot of the chaos at one NOAA lab as contracts for basic services expire. My latest: www.propublica.org/article/noaa...

submitted 67 days ago • 8 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Following the Supreme Court's decision requiring the government to "facilitate" the release of Abrego Garcia, a hearing before Judge Paula Xinis is about to begin. I'm in Greenbelt, Maryland for @lawfare.bsky.social Follow along for updates

submitted 67 days ago • 308 comments

Years ago, one of my professors cut off a fellow student who was waxing poetic about people being "of" their time with respect to chattel slavery. He said: 'do you know who knew that enslavement was evil and morally disgusting? ENSLAVED AFRICANS.' Were they not of their time too? At 18, that stuck.

submitted 67 days ago • 28 comments

Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador

submitted 70 days ago • 2161 comments

I want you all to look at this conclusion in the fucking eye, next to the actual things said by the trans women interviewed. From the repeated testimony that trans women have no family support, are unhirable, and need to both survive and pay for transition care, the researchers concluded THIS.

submitted 71 days ago • 51 comments

Updated just now. Six pages so far. The breadth of destruction is staggering.

submitted 76 days ago • 47 comments

🧵WaPo: A secret memo from SecDef Hegseth tells military: get ready for war with China over Taiwan. Everything else [Russia, Iran, terror groups] is secondary The memo copies parts of a 2024 Heritage Foundation report, now DOD guidance—almost word for word. The report’s co-author runs Pentagon policy

submitted 76 days ago • 113 comments

“We now expect a 3°C world,” Morgan Stanley analysts wrote earlier this month. They predicted this would be good for air conditioning stocks. Something it would not be good for? Life on Earth. www.eenews.net/articles/big...

submitted 78 days ago • 14 comments

NEW: @aclu.org obtained ICE's "Alien Enemies Act Validation Guide," confirming all it takes to be sent to rot in prison in El Salvador is being Venezuelan and 1) having a tattoo an ICE officer says is a "gang tattoo" and 2) displaying "logos," "symbols" or clothes an ICE officer says are gang signs.

submitted 79 days ago • 552 comments

SCOOP: DOGE wants to rebuild SSA's codebase in months, risking benefits and system collapse, sources tell me. The plan is to migrate all systems off COBOL quickly which would likely require the use of generative AI. www.wired.com/story/doge-r...

submitted 82 days ago • 639 comments

Holy shit. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... He's actually doing it. Consolidating all payments under the Tsy. Not to toot my own horn too much, but this is exactly what my paper is trying to address and oppose. We need a strong digital fisc vision to counter this.

submitted 84 days ago • 71 comments

Included in this order is DOGE sifting through voter registration lists and "comparing" them against immigrant data. The objective is to fabricate voter fraud by immigrants and enable the fascist agenda. No state should cooperate with this.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

The first and most important thing to know about last night's Exec order is that it's intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it's intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt.

submitted 88 days ago • 328 comments

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

submitted 88 days ago • 204 comments

Last night’s article in the Washington Post about D.C. police responding to a 911 call by illegally letting DOGE onto private property is unlike any news story I have ever read. Every single person should read this article and think about where our society is going.

submitted 91 days ago • 99 comments

Tonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email: "Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."

submitted 89 days ago • 306 comments

one of the most important things to learn, if you're out there doing things: you don't get to talk about it. you don't get to brag about it, you don't get to tell your friends, you don't get drinks bought for you in the bar off the story. it's always shut the fuck up friday

submitted 89 days ago • 71 comments

This is wild. Trump says he’s withdrawing his executive order targeting the Paul Weiss law firm because they acknowledged “wrongdoing.” They’re also going to provide “$40 million in pro bono legal services over the course of President Trump's term to support the Administration's initiatives”

submitted 89 days ago • 333 comments

Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy. "Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."

submitted 90 days ago • 66 comments

New Yorkers, please call your state rep, state senator, and Kathy Hochul and tell them NO MASK BANS. This garbage proposal would kill people. We're on the verge of a measles epidemic and this terrible governor is pushing this? NO. Find your reps here: reps.fyi gothamist.com/news/gov-hoc...

submitted 90 days ago • 16 comments

From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

submitted 91 days ago • 188 comments

I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.

submitted 91 days ago • 53 comments

SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada. Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:

submitted 91 days ago • 1087 comments

UNREAL. ICE implies in a sworn declaration that MOST of the Venezuelans sentenced to hard labor in a brutal Central American prison without charge or trial or so much as a cursory hearing had never been convicted or even charged with ANY CRIME whatsoever, not even a trivial one, anywhere, ever!

submitted 92 days ago • 220 comments

“He said that the inmates would perform forced labor for at least a year, possibly more, and that the “United States will pay a very low fee for them.”” wapo.st/3FyX8aZ

submitted 93 days ago • 59 comments

#FRANCE A French MP has called for the US to return the Statue of Liberty originally gifted by the French people to mark the centennial of American independence because the US no longer represents the values that led France to offer the statue. www.france24.com/en/france/20...

submitted 93 days ago • 108 comments

EPA warning: do not go outside in the Central U.S. dust storm! Hazardous dust covers parts of OK, MO, IL, TX, IA, AR. On Fri, St. Louis AQI peaked at 3,372 from PM10 (dust); on Sat morning it was 556. AQI over 300 is “Hazardous”, over 500 is off-scale. Consult airnow.gov.

submitted 95 days ago • 3 comments

Men rarely describe masculinity as a positive but rather a rejection of perceived negatives. Readers, I gasped.

submitted 95 days ago • 30 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.” WOW. Planes in air must turn around. A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.

submitted 94 days ago • 1061 comments

sigh Totalitarian regimes are not ones in which people stop working. The world does not suddenly become tinged with sepia when you are no longer free. Sunlight will still shine. Jobs will still exist—indeed, the issue you may have is it becomes harder to not work than ever before.

submitted 94 days ago • 54 comments

Trump is planning to invoke a wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as soon as tomorrow to authorize the summary deportation of migrants, CBS reports.

submitted 96 days ago • 17 comments

Here’s the problem: Even if we somehow get these fuckers out, how can we be assured that the same shit won’t happen again in 4 years? Are we supposed to rebuild institutions twice a decade? Will our former allies bother with us again knowing another asshole will be elected by the next Olympics?

submitted 97 days ago • 89 comments