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University researcher. Firm believer in the power of science and technology as a force of good. Married, mother, metalhead, and EDM enthusiast. Came here after escaping the app formerly known as twitter and all meta-owned platforms. Still getting settled.
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3/8/15, NY USA: Musk/Trump Regime pull $400 million of funding from Columbia University to undermine free speech & university research (which US has dominated to their benefit since WW2). Undermining universities is standard authoritarian move to protect regime from hotbed of pro-democratic protest.

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

Something interesting happened here around 2000. The GOP took a hard right turn and never looked back. www.ft.com/content/3046...

submitted 23 hours ago • 47 comments

EU kommisionen planlægger at omlægge forskningstøtten med større politisk styring og fokus på markedsrelevans – på bekostning af grundforskning. Det vil være ramme den frie forskning og koste på fremtidens viden og udvikling. @theyoungacademydk.bsky.social @januseriksen.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

submitted 15 days ago • 73 comments

Our new leader. The @economist.com has always been staunchly Transatlanticist. We don't say this lightly: "Europe must prepare to be abandoned or extorted. Not to prepare for that could leave Europe vulnerable to Russia and to an increasingly hostile America" www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

submitted 8 days ago • 713 comments

In 6 weeks Trump has effectively gutted the government, threatened the world order, threatened government workers, risked plunging us into a recession with all the personnel cuts and eliminated most of the regulations that kept the oligarchs in check. www.salon.com/2025/02/27/t...

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

submitted 8 days ago • 194 comments

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

submitted 8 days ago • 863 comments

🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights are human rights

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

There are so many reasons university endowments can't make up for the dramatic cuts the Trump administration has planned for science. Here are a few. Thanks to @donmoyn.bsky.social for the platform.

submitted 13 days ago • 34 comments

The US voted *with* Russia against the UN resolution condemning the invasion of Ukraine and demanding a withdrawal. Utter betrayal of country, allies, and principles.

submitted 12 days ago • 40 comments

Universities - but also journals, professional associations etc. Anytime you have a link to post on X you are encouraging people to use a site that systematically downgrades dissenting voices.

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

From a DoD statement released yesterday, about the thing the Pentagon has been calling a threat multiplier for like three decades www.defense.gov/News/Release...

submitted 17 days ago • 53 comments

🇺🇦Zelenskyy pleads with Europeans to finally put aside the petty nationalism and unite to put themselves in charge of their own future. "Some in Europe might be frustrated with 🇪🇺Brussels. But let’s be clear: If not Brussels, then Moscow. It’s your decision. That’s geopolitics. That’s history."

submitted 21 days ago • 5 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.

submitted 20 days ago • 2287 comments

Ukraine's independence and territorial integrity are unconditional. Our priority must now be strengthening Ukraine and providing robust security guarantees. In any negotiation, Europe must have a central role. Our Weimar+ statement ↓

submitted 24 days ago • 173 comments

We shouldn't take anything off the table before the negotiations have even started. It is clear that any deal behind our backs will not work. You need the Europeans, you need the Ukrainians. Extracts from my doorstep ahead of NATO Defence Ministers meeting ↓

submitted 24 days ago • 201 comments

This was always Trump’s plan. Art of the Steal.

submitted 24 days ago • 621 comments

submitted 24 days ago • 73 comments

I started talking about our life under competitive authoritarianism c.2017. Lots of folks on the Hellsite told me I was hysterically exaggerating. I’m appalled we’re here. But I’m glad to see the founding experts on competitive authoritarianism clearly explaining exactly where we are in 🇺🇸 in 2025.

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

While you were sleeping: The Trump administration has terminated more than $900 million in Education Department contracts, taking away a key source of data on the quality and performance of the nation’s schools.

submitted 26 days ago • 25 comments

Steve Levitsky, co-author of How Democracies Die "the U.S. is sliding toward a more 21st-century model of autocracy: competitive authoritarianism" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... "A failure to resist... could pave the way for authoritarian entrenchment" www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

submitted 26 days ago • 11 comments

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

submitted 26 days ago • 485 comments

New from me @thebulwark.bsky.social I explain why Trump's attack on university indirect rates is such a big deal, and how it represents one more example of an indifference to the rule of law. The "laws are just vibes" party is doing irreparable damage to America. substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

“So why would I go through the pretense of peer review if the process is ultimately outsourced to an algorithm? I do not care for the aesthetics of peer review. We are not children playing academics. We are supposed to be doing substantive, not performative work.”

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

🧵 The Fight Has Come to Them: Science, Institutions & The Indirects Cut I want to take a moment to talk about the perspective behind these slides I put together. I’ve framed them to be as nonpartisan as possible—but in a moment this polarized, there are limits here. 1/

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

He is describing a dictatorship. One key difference between the US and Hungary has to do with that first bunch of Constitutional amendments.

submitted 27 days ago • 866 comments

The Trump administration has canceled $4 billion in US pledges to the world’s largest climate fund — gutting a UN initiative helping over 100 countries adapt to the rapidly changing world. 🔗 ow.ly/QaEN50UUC1F

submitted 31 days ago • 33 comments

Picking a fight with Canada has America looking like Jake Paul

submitted 32 days ago • 59 comments

So............ I have to teach about the U.S. Constitution today to an introductory level class. How on earth am I supposed to pretend everything is just working normally? Answer: I'm not going to pretend. I'm telling it like it is.

submitted 32 days ago • 1742 comments

“The US’s former allies must not normalise or legitimise the president’s lawless concept of international deal-making”

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I remember watching Star Wars as a kid and asking myself, who would voluntarily join the dark side? I understood Darth Vader's motivation, but not the stormtrooper's.

submitted 31 days ago • 1310 comments

Like the typical bully, Trump turned tail on tariffs when confronted. But the domestic assault on rule of law continues. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/what-the-m...

submitted 33 days ago • 84 comments

“.. we may already have experienced what amounts to a 21st-century coup..”

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

It’s a political version of the thermodynamics axiom: once you (or Trump) breaks things down, it’s much harder to put them back together. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 34 days ago • 32 comments

Trump is a thug, a bully and a gangster. This is what statesmanship looks like: doing what's necessary to protect your country's interests, but keeping open the hand of friendship and hoping for a day when the US will return to its senses.

submitted 35 days ago • 43 comments

Donald Trump is scrubbing critical health information from government websites. This is staggeringly stupid, anti-science, and will have real consequences. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-std...

submitted 35 days ago • 427 comments

As the EOs and orders keep coming, I keep thinking of the exhibit in the Berlin Jewish Museum that displays the 962 anti-Jewish laws and policies in order as they came down. These kinds of drumbeats are designed not just to oppress but to normalize oppression. www.jmberlin.de/en/jmb-journ...

submitted 36 days ago • 24 comments