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THIS. x 1000 (And, yes, this is a subskeet, subpost, or whatever we’re calling it).

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I mean, we knew this was why. But Hegseth just goes ahead and says it. No pretense.

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Federal employees are now being told they will be fired if they do not reply to a guy who does not respond to the Moms of his kids.

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Just got out of jail. Only forty four left to go to catch John Lewis’s record. Remember - peaceful civil disobedience. Don’t comply in advance.

submitted 5 days ago • 203 comments

2025 and Democrats still don’t grasp Lesson 1 of “Dont Think of An Elephant.” NEVER REPEAT FALSE CHARGES

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Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"

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Horrifying Canadian higher ed news: York University, one of the country’s major R1s, is apparently suspending admission to a number of key programs (including GWS, languages, classics, and enviro biology)—very likely auguring cuts. This appears to be straight out of the West Virginia playbook.

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Anyone who tells you that all the Democrats need to do is modulate their policies does not, or cannot, acknowledge and recognize the very deep and deeply unsettling irrationality that is destabilizing the republic.

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JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 6 days ago • 861 comments

AI boosters in higher ed are so embarrassing - deskilling yourself, for what? Eroding the value of education, for what? Pandering to the interests of the bosses and the billionaires, for what? Accelerating climate change, for what?

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

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Cool though. Let’s keep coming up with best practices for students to use chatgpt.

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

Kudos to the school administrator who wrote this letter for making it clear to families what happened and who they should blame. This is the way to build a coalition--with a shared adversary and a reason to fight.

submitted 7 days ago • 53 comments

Sundays are for baking bread. Sourdough sandwich loaf and a whole wheat sourdough round.

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On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

submitted 7 days ago • 479 comments

This thread. “don’t just put your trust in the university lobbyists and ‘DC people.’” And yet that is exactly why my uni leadership is telling us to do. They are “working on it.” Sigh.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

What is going on here? Why does MAGA hate cancer research? The Trumpists don’t look at a specific budget item or topic - they are engaged in a comprehensive assault against what they have identified as their enemy. In response, we must also develop a holistic view of their political project.

submitted 8 days ago • 62 comments

More details on the erasure of housing research at HUD.

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Maybe different color symbols can be used to distinguish those taking SSRIs from those taking other psych meds, and from those with ADHD. 🤔

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I maxed out my credit card, emptied my savings account, and took out a loan to move from Alabama to Bethesda, MD. I don’t even qualify for unemployment since I’ve only worked at NIH for a month. I will be financially and medically devastated. Seeking suggestions for anywhere that’s hiring!!

submitted 9 days ago • 710 comments

Roses are red Violent are blue Institutions are people They’re folks like me and you

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Immediate suffering for the affected staff, the delayed suffering for everyone else.

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BREAKING: Trump has signed an executive order to defund schools of federal dollars if they mandate COVID vaccines for students.

submitted 9 days ago • 93 comments

JD Vance just met with Alice Weidel, the head of the anti-immigration, nationalist Alternative for Germany party. Vance is the most senior U.S. official ever to meet with a leader from the party.

submitted 9 days ago • 143 comments

My 2 cents, outsider analysis: Dem messaging lacks authenticity. Because of this any emotion looks manufactured. (And the minute anyone says something authentic, the political consultant class squashes it. See “weird.”)

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An update on HHS cuts today #1 - all of CDC's most recent class of Epidemic Intelligence Services officers, aka agency's "disease detectives," are among cuts #2 - Stat is reporting that NIH is working out which probationary to cut www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...

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This is where I come out too.

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Because of four decades of bad faith narratives by rich folks who want your taxes to go up and their taxes to go down, most folks don’t know this: career federal workers are heroes who work extremely hard every day and go above and beyond all across America to improve your lives.

submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments

let's see what DOGE has been cancelling at the department of education. @stuartbuck.bsky.social went through the list. will link to his post at the end of the thread. i will start with his 4th example: foundational research to understand how american kids are doing at school

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Uh, want to know “the root causes of why Americans are getting sick” ? It’s a word that’s now verboten: INEQUALITY. But that’s not the research they’re going fund. It will be individual blame/“lifestyles,” ivermectin, jade orbs, and raw milk. Oh, and magical thinking.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Lauer is resigning effective tomorrow, just after Tabak’s resignation. Lauer was the director of NHLBI before serving as deputy director of extramural research (!!) at the NIH for ~10 years. Not trying to overreact here, but…the NIH sort of seems to be imploding

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Calling for a “Shadow Cabinet” is a good idea and has been suggested before (see 2017). But it presumes a level of competence & understanding of political opposition strategy that Democratic Party leaders have not once exhibited, at least in the past decade.

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Our two papers on abortion bans and fertility/infant mortality are now out. In 14 states w/ abortion bans, fertility increased 1.7% and infant mortality increased 6%. Key takeaway is that these impacts were disproportionately felt among those w/ greatest structural disadvantages. Links below.

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

Welp. Guess it’s time to rebrand HHS as the “Department of Hoaxes and Human Suffering.”

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Irreparable harm to science, institutions, and investigators. Which is the point.

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Maddening.

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Internal NIH guidance updated yesterday. Just canceling stuff each day from here on out I guess, pending new guidance. Killing science off both slowly and incredibly rapidly.

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

This is a useful (but day-ruining) post on the current situation (it’s a self-coup), including a list of likely outcomes (civil war is possible, but unlikely). Also, @liberalcurrents.com is clear-eyed and becoming part of my daily reading rotation. www.liberalcurrents.com/is-it-a-coup/

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments

This is a trick question. A sociological finding doesn't count as a breakthrough until an economist rediscovers it.

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I'm in the @washingtonpost.com today with my coauthor @ruraldemography.bsky.social Matthew Brooks talking about marriage and childbearing in rural America— and the outdated stereotypes that seem to be informing the new Trump transportation policy. @mcgillumedia.bsky.social wapo.st/42SavfP 1/3

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UPDATE: A purge of experienced career staff has begun at NIH. The staff was just informed that Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak, who has worked at NIH for 25 years is "retiring." Grant funding remains frozen, in violation of two federal court orders.

submitted 11 days ago • 133 comments

Agree. Clear assessment of where the U.S. is now & what's ahead ➡️ a "competitive" autocracy. I'm not quite as bullish, though, that "[Trump] will be constrained by independent judges, federalism, the country’s professionalized military, and high barriers to constitutional reform."

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