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At least 12 universities now have hiring freezes and nearly 30 have cut PhD admissions this year If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:

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The next step in trying to dismantle Infectious Diseases research - dismantle @niaidnews.bsky.social - should surprise no one that this a R-led proposal. An unmitigated disaster for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of pathogens that affect everyone in the US www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

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Last month, I got to discuss with CNBC Digital my research on the pervasive problem of health insurance delays and denials of coverage, and the ways it can destabilize patients' health and economic security. Today, the piece was released. Hope you give it a watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOPr...

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The United States has a Black maternal health crisis (which I’m teaching about on Wednesday). I’ve worked with the PRAMS data and it’s an invaluable resource on maternal health including the extent and nature of pregnancy complications, which can inform appropriate medical and policy interventions.

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🚨This is a disaster.

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The cats are all going nuts, skittering from room to room on this fine Caturday, and I just want to sing, “Psycho kitties, qu’est-ce que c’est?”

submitted 3 hours ago • 6 comments

A great move would be for a judge to reply, “This week I issued a ruling to block your unconstitutional actions.” (Yes, I know that wouldn’t happen.)

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It's truly insane how much of the communication from the federal government now comes off like a phishing scheme.

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I was glad to be able to contribute to this CNBC Digital analysis of the harms that health insurance coverage denials have on patients, drawing on my research that shows that these denials impose administratively burdensome appeals harmful to marginalized patients. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOPr...

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I was glad to be able to contribute to this CNBC Digital analysis of the harms that health insurance coverage denials have on patients, drawing on my research that shows that these denials impose administratively burdensome appeals harmful to marginalized patients. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOPr...

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This is so cruel and dangerous

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One of the all time best stand-up sets… if not the best… from the good old days when we thought things couldn’t possibly get worse than George W. Bush.

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Trump’s brazen attack on the rule of law, via @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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If we gut Medicaid bankrupting both rural and urban hospitals If we gut medical schools and university hospitals by slashing NIH funding If we cut VA funding and freeze hiring in VHA Where will Americans get healthcare?

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

I think the most wrong I have ever been as a political scientist was when I said in a public forum in 2020 that there would not be political violence in the US (Jan 6 was 2 mos later). Tonight’s purges are a clear precursor to more future such violence. This is textbook authoritarian abuse stuff.

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The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

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“Provocative gesture” is a helluva way to characterize a Nazi salute.

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call it what it is: a military leadership purge www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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I fear that this is just a prelude to further purges, the installation of yes men (pun intended), and the introduction of loyalty oaths. These are the steps that destroy professionalism and make the use of violence to restore "domestic order" thinkable --- and more likely.

submitted 22 hours ago • 19 comments

A pundit tried to argue with @jamellebouie.net just yesterday that Trump isn’t trying to resegregate the bureaucracy. But this stuff would make Woodrow Wilson proud.

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

What was it that the ABA said about the rule of law the other day?

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Ugh, well this sucks. One of many highlights of having moved from a liberal arts college to an R1 has been getting to work with doctoral students engaged in interesting health policy research questions. I am immensely saddened and infuriated that this Administration is demolishing higher ed.

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Pro: Cute little mugs for beer. Con: I would like to speak to the manager of whoever decided that karaoke was a good idea during a beer festival, please and thank you.

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The world is broken and shitty. So I’m very glad that I’m spending tonight at a beer festival featuring over 150 different beers.

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This was a weird month in which to talk with students about judicial legitimacy.

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JUST IN: A judge has enjoined President Trump's effort to block federal funds from going toward grant recipients who engage in DEI practices. The judge says the orgs are likely to succeed on claims that this is viewpoint discrimination, among other issues storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Today in frustrations with elected officials: I’ve left a number of messages for @fetterman.senate.gov but no one ever answers at his office. So, I wrote to convey the arguments from political scientists, over 1k of whom signed a letter in defense of American democracy, but a 1,200 character limit

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We need to start the Politico Read A Fucking History Book Challenge.

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At this point it’s genuinely weird to find a norm that they’ve decided not to violate.

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Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

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How it started. How it’s going

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It says something when even the Nazis think you’re too much of a Nazi for them

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I was rewatching The Big Short recently, and I realized who's running our government right now.

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Doesn't know what AI is, doesn't know what duplicitous means, doesn't know what the CDC does.

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Every vaccine already requires informed consent by law. This is pure antivaxx disinformation, now coming from the CDC.

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It isn’t just that they care more about restricting abortion than they do about maternal health ramifications of those policies. They literally don’t care about protecting maternal health.

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I really ought to have remembered to specify “collate” when printing the midterm exam I’m administering bright and early on Monday.

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This is how the Tea Party started, after all. They just showed up and talked angry shit for a summer & then they got a lot of money from conservative donors, ran candidates for the next Congress and voila, the groundwork laid for takeover of their party. It is far from impossible to do. Hint. Hint.

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Cue Beyoncé’s “Freedom.”

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A few things we need to keep in mind on the SNAP/junk food restriction debate: 1. We don't have black and white standards for healthy food. 2. Restricting SNAP recipients' food choices undermines their dignity and won't necessarily affect their choices. 3. Millions of Americans live in food deserts

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So good: "Fear not. When all these shoddy legal cases start making their way up to the Supreme Court, we’ve got the right person on the job: Justice Clarence Thomas, a man of unimpeachable character, standing as our final, solemn guardian of American law."

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I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

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