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submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The US government doesn't subsidize university research. Rather, universities subsidize government research. I've seen recent threads deceiving the first half of this, but nothing recent describing the extent to which universities are doing the subsidizing.

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submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

NEW — The Trump State Department is using the *same language* Columbia used to smear & punish the school's Students for Justice in Palestine & Jewish Voice for Peace groups (for a protest Mohsen Mahdawi condemned an antisemitic disruptor at) to *now* justify deporting him. Read on —>

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

Either the U.S. government *is* able to exert monetary and diplomatic pressure on El Salvador sufficient to produce Abrego Garcia’s release, or it isn’t. The latter would be either a bald-faced lie or a pretty stunning concession of our national impotence. The Vice President should pick one.

submitted 17 days ago • 1609 comments

The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic is asking the public to help them track changes the Trump Admin is making to history-- in national parks, websites, wherever. Please share-- and please contribute! thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

The next season of White Lotus is a short drive from my house. Not sure what to make of this, but it should be interesting…

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

submitted 29 days ago • 960 comments

If the regime (it's not an administration) cared about anti-semitism they wouldn't get their jollies doing Nazi salutes. Letting white nationalists say what's anti-semitism, in order to silence anyone who opposes them, endangers everyone who does not look, live & believe like them. [edited take 2]

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

For future reference: my compilation of the list of 19 participants in the Houthi PC small group www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 37 days ago • 61 comments

On the left: Hegseth's message. On the right: the applicable CENTCOM classification guide provisions. This is all very plainly classified at the SECRET level. They all lied. They should all lose their jobs.

submitted 37 days ago • 322 comments