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After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

submitted 11 hours ago • 38 comments

This is like the academic horror story I heard as a grad student, about the job talk where someone asked "what's the significance of your work?" and the candidate replied "p<.05."

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Democrats are fundamentally misunderstanding the moment: We're not asking them to be legislators right now. We need them to be politicians. There's nothing to be done about the legislative situation. They're right about that. But there's PLENTY to be done as politicians.

submitted 1 day ago • 148 comments

If I were them, I wouldn't be asking for five bullets each from millions of enraged federal employees.

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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:

submitted 1 hour ago • 5 comments

Remembered that I wrote about how awful Woodrow Wilson's historic segregationist purge of Black workers from federal government jobs was last year.... www.thedailybeast.com/woodrow-wils...

submitted 2 hours ago • 6 comments

The reply email inbox for this “what did you do last week” email is [email protected], so, you know, definitely don’t send them any unrelated messages that would interfere with their ability to carry out Elon’s dumbass bullshit

submitted 4 hours ago • 266 comments

NEW — The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 282 just emailed its ~8,000 employee members strongly advising them NOT to reply to the “What did you do last week?” email from OPM/Musk.

submitted 2 hours ago • 46 comments

Rape and the abuse of women are pretty much the core, central ethos and bonding activity of MAGA leadership.

submitted 2 hours ago • 6 comments

State-level Democrats & their allies are effectively responding to Trump's authoritarian blitzkrieg much better than most Democrats in Congress so far. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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Forgive me for paranoidly wondering whether people look down on my school (CUNY Brooklyn College) when they see the striking racial diversity of my students and assume the place can't be any good because "too many" brown, Black, Asian, middle eastern students.

submitted 12 hours ago • 10 comments

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.

submitted 21 hours ago • 40 comments

Context for what’s happening here. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 12 hours ago • 35 comments

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

submitted 1 day ago • 1309 comments

We want the Democrats to be defiant not defeatist.

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

submitted 1 day ago • 158 comments

Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

submitted 22 hours ago • 49 comments

200 million dollars of waste.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1229 comments

The ol “how to stop a vampire” trick still slaps

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

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

submitted 13 hours ago • 5 comments

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

You're being lapped, @uwmadison.bsky.social. Catch up! We're supposed to be moving Forward, not backward.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 1 day ago • 158 comments

Staffing the security apparatus and justice department with loyalists and purging non loyal elements is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes. It’s not a “shake up”; it’s power consolidation.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are publicly organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

The idea that the führer embodies the constitution is fascism fair and square.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Join here: www.aaup.org/membership/d...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

If you are in higher ed, it’s easy to join the AAUP!

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We need to come up with an equivalent term for Vichy French for our present context, to forever brand these fascist collaborators, shame them, and one day sweep them out of power & into the dustbin infamous of history.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

It has the same style (though not the same weight) as the galling hypocrisy of Jefferson writing "all men are created equal" on the backs of the Black Americans he enslaved.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

It's a fine thing to say, but actions speak louder than words. I wish Cornell actually meant all this instead of suspending, banning, and trying to deport their own students of color, Muslims, and their allies in human rights for peacefully protesting US complicity in genocide.

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BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

submitted 1 day ago • 157 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 1 day ago • 2798 comments