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How many of my academic friends saw this? Pitt Pauses All PhD Admissions. www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

submitted 16 hours ago • 78 comments

Where are the Democrats but also Where are the churches Where are the celebrities Where are the NGOs Where are the Universities Where are professional groups like AMA Where are the athletes Where are the unions What people/groups do and don’t do for next month determines our collective future

submitted 9 hours ago • 84 comments

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 7 hours ago • 9 comments

there are so many things happening right now to federal employees that are illegal under current employment laws

submitted 11 hours ago • 9 comments

If you considered posting something critical of the Trump regime but then decided against due to fear for retaliation, then you are no longer living in a democracy.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

This is quite the thread...

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

ICPSR at University of Michigan has been one of the longest-running secure data archives in the world and is stepping up to the challenges being presented in the current U.S. environment to keep government data as a resource for researchers and policymakers. isr.umich.edu/giving/suppo...

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

Is this accountability reporting @ericlipton.nytimes.com?

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

An excellent piece by @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social outlining the devastating effects of Trump's cuts to USAID around the world and a reminder again that it's not too late to save USAID and its mission.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

The office of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was created with a fixed four-year term that does not coincide with a presidential term. In the 75 years the office has existed, no chairman has been removed. Removing a chairman without cause is as authoritarian as it gets.

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the stock market is now below where it was when Joe Biden left office

submitted 1 day ago • 252 comments

Posting my embroidery so people can find me... 🐯 #embroidery #handembroidery

submitted 1 day ago • 1188 comments

Wow… this is ALL PhD admissions, not just those funded by NIH grants. This would imply a massive contraction in teaching resources.

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I really want to emphasize that the degree of pressure being placed on private companies about their own decisions here is unusual.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This is a very important point. In fact, my impression is that the base doesn’t care about traditional “policy” at all right now. We want them to act like we are on the verge of losing our democracy irrevocably, because we are. We can talk about egg prices when our democracy is saved.

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”Silicon Valley’s shift from blue to red is a mirage… In seven of the most affluent Silicon Valley cities — Palo Alto, Los Altos Hills, Los Altos, Los Gatos, Portola Valley, Woodside and Atherton — combined, Kamala Harris won 76.2% of the vote, compared with 20.1% for Trump.”

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

You cannot recover from this with future investments The data uncollected are lost forever

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 431 comments

Emergency Food, TB Tests and H.I.V. Drugs: Vital Health Aid Remains Frozen Despite Court Ruling www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/h...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Again I am begging people in the media to note the legality of these actions in their headlines or blurbs. A post office is literally written into the constitution.

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

Democracy does not mean that a bare majority—or in 2025 America’s case, a plurality—can break any law they feel like and no one else has any rights. There are dozens of democracies in the world, and none operate that way. It wouldn’t make sense, and no one actually thinks of democracy like that.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Lets put this in "business" terms. If you have an arm of your firms that costs $50k to operate, but it produces $500k in profits, and you cut it, you don't save $50k, you lose $450k. By cutting billions, they have the potential to reduce future growth by the trillions.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Rhetoric should match the moment and "lol, good job bringing down egg prices" does not match a moment in which our system of representative government is being dismantled.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Every member of Congress — Republican and Democrat, House and Senate — should hold a live, in-person town hall in their district this week.

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments