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As if today wasn’t enough. More on the horizon. 🧪https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2025/03/29/rfk-jr-laying-off-entire-office-of-infectious-disease-and-hivaids-policy/ #science #NIH

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

The important reminder here is that Le Pen is not banned for running from office because of her political views but because of a criminal case. And enforcing sanctions/ consequences after someone breaks the law is a very basic principle of functioning rule of law.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969. One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.

submitted 2 days ago • 1398 comments

ATLANTIC: “Trump admin acknowledged in a court filing it grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said courts lack jurisdiction to order his return from the megaprison…” Outrageous. Criminal. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 3 days ago • 184 comments

Oh my god. They deported a man who an immigration judge had declared was "more likely than not" to face persecution in El Salvador ... to El Salvador, during the big March 15 AEA flights! They outright admit it! Yet the Trump admin's response to a court is basically "oops, well, no take backsies."

submitted 3 days ago • 87 comments

This, from Timothy Snyder, is definitive, on Greenland open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 6 days ago • 119 comments

Fully agree - I really don't get it. Also, NATO's article 5 is only as strong as the credibility of the assurances, and those of the US commitment is currently very, very shaky. Added value for Ukraine would be...zero?

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

The origin story of Bari Weiss and The Free Press is that they were fighting for free speech, but the real origin story is that as a student she tried to get Middle Eastern professors fired. They are a snitch organization for the Trump regime.

submitted 6 days ago • 52 comments

1/ The Trump Administration is seeking to force foreign companies worldwide to ban diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes within their firms if they want to do business with the US government. It's an aggressive expansion of its anti-DEI crusade. ⬇️

submitted 6 days ago • 195 comments

Marks said he was happy to work with Kennedy to allay concerns about vaccines, but the secretary is not interested in the truth or the science. Vaccines are NOT linked to autism. apple.news/AIvBYR8IDQru...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

An extensive air campaign in Yemen, air strikes in Iraq and Somalia, and U.S. troops still deployed to Syria despite an end to the civil war. Why has an administration that is made up of so many figures critical of “forever war” continuing “forever war” unabated? I have a theory.

submitted 6 days ago • 43 comments

Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked. The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...

submitted 6 days ago • 224 comments

So, reading the article, I am also struck - in addition to the OPSEC catastrophe - by how shallow the strategic thinking here is. Maybe that's just always the way it is, but all the concerns are domestic politics and messaging. No one asks, "will these strikes accomplish anything and if so, what?"

submitted 10 days ago • 41 comments

After taking unprecedented (illegal) access to federal data systems, DOGE has found basically no substantial waste, fraud, or abuse. They've lied a lot but come up quite empty in reality.

submitted 25 days ago • 216 comments

Andrew Marr asking pertinent questions about Palantir & NHS 👇 😳discusses revolving door (who needs NHS England when all your data bigwigs have joined Palantir) 😳cf this week’s secretive US digital trade negotiations, led by Palantir-linked Manselson www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

submitted 12 days ago • 4519 comments

AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person. I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.

submitted 14 days ago • 1256 comments

Hard to imagine. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

We are all his children

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Important detail on Trump's attempt to strong-arm USIP: They're trumping up criminal investigation into the people who wouldn't willingly dismantle an independent organization. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 16 days ago • 21 comments

Due process “is how any of us can have confidence that the folks being packed onto airplanes and whisked off to El Salvador are members of TdA—as opposed to US citizens; political dissidents; or others whom the Trump administration would just as soon be rid of.” www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-133-...

submitted 16 days ago • 78 comments

I've been keeping a running list of the nice things we used to have. It is VERY rough. Please tell me what I'm missing. If you want to use this list to do the project better, please do! www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/18/w...

submitted 16 days ago • 61 comments

Substantial updates to the list of cancelled grants👇 - THANK YOU to all who have contributed. Crowdsourcing restores faith in humanity. - It's still a work in progress. You'll see more updates shortly. - There are multiple teams & efforts engaged in tracking & advocacy. More to come soon!

submitted 17 days ago • 14 comments

These proposed changes are "a way they're trying to use red tape to literally block people from getting benefits." Administrative burdens as policymaking by other means. www.axios.com/2025/03/17/s...

submitted 17 days ago • 12 comments

I could write up why there’s no constitutional problem with the President using an auto-pen to sign official documents—or I could just post the 30-page 2005 opinion by George W. Bush’s Office of Legal Counsel that explains why in lots of detail. I choose the latter: www.justice.gov/file/494411/...

submitted 18 days ago • 450 comments

NIH is likely cutting up to 25% of its workforce this week. NIH staff have substantial expertise, typically PhDs. And they really believe in the work. NIH's will not be able to meet its mission w/these cuts. The scientific threat is not just direct funding cuts www.statnews.com/2025/03/14/n...

submitted 18 days ago • 12 comments

This was the same guy who resigned after he was found making a bunch of wildly racist remarks. Musk, Vance and Trump all insisted he be brought back into government. And for what? So be could access and share private personal data in violation of the law? This is our new era of merit?

submitted 20 days ago • 17 comments

The subjugation of universities to official power is a hallmark of autocracy. No one should be under any illusions about what’s going on here. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...

submitted 21 days ago • 35 comments

Federal Workers Return to the Office. Custodial Staff Doesn’t. prospect.org/labor/2025-0...

submitted 22 days ago • 50 comments

It should go without saying, but: the purpose of the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Agency is NOT to make buying cars, heating homes, and running businesses cheaper. It is to balance those obvious consumer interests with their interest in reducing negative externalities like pollution.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Merz responds to first demand of the Greens, offering to extend definition of what is exempted on defence from the debt brake to Ukraine support (!), civil protection and intelligence services.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

1/4. Ukraine has proposed a ceasefire without conditions. Russia will almost certainly reject this and try to dictate to Witkoff that the US help Russia achieve colonial control of Ukraine, something that Russia could never achieve on its own.

submitted 22 days ago • 46 comments

The government is detaining a green card holder after a bad-faith online pressure campaign by a bunch of Zionist extremists. A green card holder — meaning he’s a lawful permanent resident. This isn’t about ending “antisemitism.” It’s something else. www.dropsitenews.com/p/dhs-detain...

submitted 26 days ago • 36 comments

This would suggest that the White House ordered the detention & attempted green card revocation of a Columbia student protestor

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

www.lefigaro.fr/internationa...

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

The Anti-Defamation League, which still calls itself a civil rights organization, endorses disappearing US permanent residents with green cards. The moral stain of this will never wash off.

submitted 25 days ago • 79 comments

They fired the people who were already doing the constructive work of building digital tools: USDS, 18F, Office of Transformation at Social Security. They don't understand mission, policy, client needs, or legal privacy constraints, without which any products will be useless. So, yeah, I'm skeptical

submitted 25 days ago • 30 comments

The Trump regime expands its discouraged (BANNED) words across federal agencies. The list is long Gift article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 27 days ago • 295 comments

Reminder: When a person or institution you hate is targeted for illiberal persecution by an aspiring authoritarian, you have to defend them EVEN IF you don't like them. It doesn't matter if you don't like campus protestors or Columbia or the law firms. We must defend them or we're all at risk next.

submitted 25 days ago • 61 comments

#ProjectAnimalia (my daily #animalart project...which grew.) Throwback, while I make new art! An #insect I'm always amazed exists. Day 19: Orchid Mantis (Hymenopus coronatus) #sciart #medart #dailyart #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #sciviz

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Any country, corp, org, or individual that uses Starlink is subject to the whims, wishes, demands and insults of The Owner. Do so at your peril.

submitted 26 days ago • 1803 comments

The choice of Columbia in particular shows that there's no amount of suppression of pro-Palestinian speech a university can engage in that will insulate and protect it; so might as well try to do the right thing, which Columbia has determinedly avoided since October 7. www.gsa.gov/about-us/new...

submitted 27 days ago • 25 comments

Now that Trump has begun cutting Europe (especially Ukraine) off from intelligence sharing, Europe can dedicate far more energy to figuring out how Russia got Trump to capitulate. Since all his OTHER bribery is in plain sight, I suspect any RU bribery is lurking just below the surface.

submitted 30 days ago • 64 comments

“We urge the Administration to rescind this guidance…” www.childrenshospitals.org/news/newsroo...

submitted 30 days ago • 241 comments

Interesting on how military operations can affect your ability to conduct intelligence gathering. "The Shin Bet said that the IDF’s botched 2018 intelligence operation in Khan Younis made it more difficult to recruit human intelligence sources in Gaza." www.timesofisrael.com/shin-bet-pro...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment