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“If you had to guess the leading cause of death for children and young people around the world, what would you say? Malaria perhaps? Pneumonia? Suicide? They’re all high up there, but no, it’s road accidents.”

submitted 19 hours ago • 10 comments

I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world. And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

You're saying the billionaire's operation is like an octopus? An octopus? Huh, where have I heard that one before?

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

Glaciers provide stable melting water to a very large % of all farms in the entire world. When (not if) we lose this stable, slow, dependable glacier melt water, our food system will collapse.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Federal career workers: We appreciate you and your work. You don't deserve this mistreatment. Here's a file with lots of resources if you are facing illegal termination. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

Build #soil. 💪

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Not just the highly educated. Welsh miners formed study groups to read Austen and Dickens. Scottish shepherds built lending libraries. Watchmakers & cabinetmakers taught themselves Greek and Latin. The loss of working-class autodidact culture is one of history's great tragedies.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Our inability to imagine big numbers is going to kill us all.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

All my life I have studied democratization and autocratization. My 1st field trip was to newly democratic Argentina. I then added autocracies to my portfolio: Cuba, Ven, etc. I think I can recognize the stages of transition to authoritarianism. Here are the boxes Trump has already checked off.

submitted 6 days ago • 60 comments

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

submitted 3 days ago • 244 comments

I follow French politics a lot, as many of you know. Any effort for mass layoffs of public sector employees there would create such huge strikes and marches, the level of disruption and paralysis would be biblical.

submitted 4 days ago • 641 comments

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submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Accidentally fired the guys running the nuclear program. Accidentally fired experienced air traffic controllers. Accidentlly fired the people trying to contain the bird flu.... Accidentally fired...

submitted 4 days ago • 94 comments

1. OSHA has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an email obtained by Popular Information. The email says the publications have been removed from the web and tells staff that physical copies should be "disposed of or recycled"

submitted 5 days ago • 483 comments

I'm starting to think DEI may have been the only reason so many planes stayed in the sky...

submitted 5 days ago • 186 comments

Here’s a question for @jasonfurman.bsky.social & other partisans of cost-benefit analysis: in computing the optimal staffing level for the FAA, how do you value the economic cost/benefit of people being afraid of flying/unafraid to fly?

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

"Next time you find yourself wondering 'Where are all the protesters?', please think about what you might not be seeing and why." New blog post from me on the big disconnect between media narratives about protest activity and actual protest activity.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

Among everything else, what a shitty fate, to have national systems of support dismantled by two men who have never once changed a diaper.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

"There was a hope, fueled by liberal myths, that if enough peaceful people took the streets, the regime would become frightened and collapse. But the reality was much less romantic." Highly recommend this case study to folks thinking about strategy and tactics for US (and elsewhere) now.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

what god made him shark

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies. Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE. Funny how that works, huh?

submitted 10 days ago • 266 comments

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 8 days ago • 510 comments

If Toronto can do this for suburban driveways, we can do this for pedestrian intersections and transit stops too.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Plutôt que des fleurs et du chocolat.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Need a break from the otter nonsense? 🦦

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Possibly the most overlooked of climate change impacts: damage to crops, and potential food shortages and starvation. A factor that will amplify existing armed conflicts and drive new ones over the coming years.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

"tRump's seasonal hiring freeze and total elimination of the visitor reservation system will spell disaster for Yosemite National Park (and other NPS units) -- "efforts to protect the park’s ecosystems for future generations are being derailed." 🌏

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

We looked at the death schedule and talked about how most of the things they died of are prevented now by vaccines and clean water and today we have a HHS secretary who wants to take us back to the deaths of 1850

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Les PFAS peuvent altérer la santé du placenta pendant la grossesse - Salle de presse de l'Inserm presse.inserm.fr/les-pfas-peu...

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4 employees in region 5 EJ program are now on admin leave. We’re hearing mixed numbers from other region. It’s unclear how it’s been decided who goes on leave.

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submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

In DC talking with Senators Duckworth, Slotkin, and Peters about the assault on federal workers.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment