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The GOP is signaling major cuts to Medicaid are coming. Recent studies have shown cuts to Medicaid have a big consequence that gets typically ignored: crime increases. boltsmag.org/medicaid-cov...

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defunding a program that gives free books to children sounds like a great choice for your state's education system. I'm sure it's a super popular choice to thwart Dolly Parton, too

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Five major airlines are suing to overturn a rule from then-Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg that actually holds airlines accountable for damaging disabled people's wheelchairs. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 100 comments

Unfortunately, this is the last 70+ years of conservative politics if we count white flight from public schools after the Brown v. Board of Education decision. It was the essence of Reaganism in the 1980s as well

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

DOGE says they are saving 4 billion, but... ➡️ Every dollar in NIH research grants generates $2.46 in economic activity ($93 billion in 2023!) ➡️ The $1.7 trillion US biotech industry depends on public-funded science ➡️ Both of those fund a $57 billion US market for scientific tools and equipment

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

Favorite paragraph from this:

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Attiah is spot-on. The Nazis studied & adapted Jim Crow laws: www.history.com/news/how-the... The USA did not become a full democracy until the 1960s. At our founding, only 6% of the U.S. population could vote. www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/w... Millions of American citizens remain disenfranchised.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Hard to square this data with claims that DEI has run amok in higher ed.

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“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said. Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.

submitted 8 days ago • 290 comments

Washington Post got their hands on internal documents from DOGE showing the entire plan to implement resegregation. They're going to purge minorities from government by calling them DEI. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

submitted 8 days ago • 118 comments

when I was a kid in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, instead of snow days we had smog days where we weren't allowed to go to school.

submitted 8 days ago • 43 comments

They want to doxx faculty of color/queer faculty and anyone who teaches that we are human

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

For the 79% of heterosexual married women whose legal married name doesn’t match your birth certificate or passport, get ready to have your voting rights frozen. Yes, read that again. No, that is not hyperbole. Act now.

submitted 11 days ago • 36 comments

Roses are red 🌹 Pulses are leguminous 🫘 They produce 20 times more protein per hectare 🏞️ Compared to meat that comes from ruminants 🐮 #WorldPulsesDay

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

The first people targeted by fascist are always queer people, the disabled, and racial minorities. And it never stops there.

submitted 12 days ago • 23 comments

This might be the most nakedly corrupt document I’ve seen on DOJ letterhead — and I wrote a history of Watergate!

submitted 13 days ago • 252 comments

This is sort of the skeleton key to understanding a lot of shit: there 100% is a non-trivial amount of inefficiency and waste in the federal bureaucracy, and most of it is a direct result of ‘reforms’ that are meant to assuage the people who complain about “waste and inefficiency in govt”

submitted 13 days ago • 43 comments

Listening to a fed employee who is the caregiver for a parent with dementia talking about how the return to work order means he’s having to choose between his livelihood and caring for his parent 💔

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Literally yesterday, my mom told me about evaluating grant proposals for ACS (20+ years ago). She was the only POC and only woman on her panel--and the only one willing to dock proposals that didn't follow the stated rules about engagement with women & minorities. The men though she was a PITA. 😈

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

A month into congestion pricing and my bus commute into NYC is consistently 15-20 min faster each way, no matter what time of day I travel. It has given me 40 minutes of my life back. I work in midtown and crossing the street is no longer gridlock.

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

I mentioned this to an editor on Monday. Canadians also make up a significant portion of the US cruise market, theme park attendance, and things like ticket sales at Las Vegas Knights games during vacations and industry conferences.

submitted 14 days ago • 19 comments

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

submitted 14 days ago • 102 comments

The most aggravating thing in all this (to me) is the sheer number of you, who believe Black people got high-paying jobs on account of their skin color and not their qualifications. That standards were lowered for us, when the truth is the bars are 10 times higher for us.

submitted 14 days ago • 54 comments

Honestly, there’s a lesson here for every institution that is sliding down the path of enablement: none of your quiet accommodations will protect you if they decide that you’re the villain of the week

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

More than 8 out of 10 civilian federal employees live outside the DC region. They are your neighbors!

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

People come from around the world - the best and brightest - to study in our labs. Many stay here forever, making their talent and drive part of our American experience, bettering us all. Every dollar spent in academic research brings $3 to their communities - especially land and sea grant schools!

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Hi there. A reminder to please alt text. Image descriptions not only help people with low vision but those of us who may need context for a meme or image. And it makes your images searchable (or avoidable if someone is muting certain words).

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

“Providing Indirect Cost Rates that Comport with Market Rates” Capitalism is so fun, right, MIT?

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Let’s be clear about something that maybe the wider public will get. Not only will this destroy research but it will also lead to huge tuition increases. Your kids’ college is about to get a lot more expensive.

submitted 16 days ago • 87 comments

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

submitted 16 days ago • 106 comments

It facilitates perhaps the only positive interaction that most people across the globe get w the US government. And it costs a tiny fucking sliver of the budget, the biggest ROI you could ask for and it keeps people alive and fed and with access to meds. How does this benefit anybody!

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

This is a longstanding pattern on the right -- they insist they are The Real Victims of some imagined abuse, which then justifies in their mind their own acts of abuse because they're just pushing back, see?

submitted 18 days ago • 37 comments

I remain fascinated by the expanded child tax credit case study & the implications for leftist policymaking. People received REAL financial benefit from it. It drastically cut child poverty rates and it was rescinded without a real fight. I think about this at least once a week.

submitted 18 days ago • 202 comments

Klan tactics ..., Website "lists mostly Black employees who work in agencies primarily within the Dept of Health and Human Services. "Offenses' for the workers listed ... include working on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, donating to Democrats and using pronouns in their bios."

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

To instrumentalize what my sister is saying below: every time someone says DEI say “you mean civil rights?” Every time someone says they are against woke reply “oh so you’re a segregationist!” Words have meaning! Don’t allow that nonsense to stand.

submitted 30 days ago • 65 comments

Signing back into Bluesky to repost this but it so perfectly articulates my own suspicions about this stuff

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

People keep saying "but there were harms of school closures" as if this is an either/or thing. And quite honestly framing this as the consequences of 'school closures" instead of the pandemic, is a problem. Of course there was learning loss! Of course this had an impact, it was a major disaster!

submitted 19 days ago • 12 comments

The number of people surprised by the long list of words NSF is targeting makes me think many of you all have not seen this: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

submitted 20 days ago • 60 comments

Just a reminder that people used to put paint and formaldehyde into milk and there had to be a huge movement to get proper food regulation, and without it people will die www.eater.com/2020/1/28/21...

submitted 108 days ago • 25 comments

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

submitted 20 days ago • 505 comments

Had a convo recently where the other person--an educated liberal!--was shocked to learn <2% of Americans are trans, puberty blockers are temporary & reversible, and virtually no minors get gender-affirming surgeries. The right is so, so good at inflating things into boogeymen.

submitted 20 days ago • 28 comments