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When the Trump admin talks about their "anti-DEI" purge, they mean erasing from public life people who are disabled, including the chronically ill. It's not just anti-Blackness driving the purge: it's anti-anyone-not-white, it's anti-woman, it's anti-disabled, including your grandma & injured vets.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

submitted 1 day ago • 177 comments

The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 2 days ago • 134 comments

This isn't just POTUS hawking Teslas from the WH driveway like a Ginsu knife infomercial on late-nite TV. This is the broligarchs using the power of the federal government--which they have just purchased--to shove AI & crypto down our throats. Ensuring their bad investments pay off, at our expense.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

The people responsible for this should be fired directly into the sun www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

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Detailed and terrifying description of how the Trump Administration is taking apart Social Security piece by piece. You don't have to cut benefits. You just make it impossible for the government to deliver them. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

But his signal chats

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

It's painful how stupid these guys are

submitted 7 days ago • 49 comments

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

submitted 9 days ago • 885 comments

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

submitted 9 days ago • 340 comments

🚨 Big SCOOP 🚨 Tax revenue could fall by as much as 10% this year, per sources, as taxpayers and businesses see the Trump admin as less likely to challenge tax cheats. That'd be $500 BILLION in lost revenue. It'd nearly double the tax gap in a single year.

submitted 8 days ago • 94 comments

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submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump tax plan only works by cutting public services. This incredible visualization combines the potential tax cuts (which mostly go to the rich) and loss of services (mostly borne by the poor). It is a giant wealth transfer from the poorest to the richest. budgetlab.yale.edu/news/250319/...

submitted 11 days ago • 48 comments

Schoolhouse Rock but it's me learning about all the activities of government as Trump and Elon destroy them one by one

submitted 15 days ago • 23 comments

Hell.

submitted 16 days ago • 27 comments

We condemn in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government. This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...

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NEW: Biggest Federal Employee Unions Says Shutdown is Preferable to Elon/Trump CR talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bigge...

submitted 18 days ago • 103 comments

This. The cuts may not technically affect the availability of financial aid. But the administrative burden (to use a term from @pamherd.bsky.social and @donmoyn.bsky.social) involved in accessing aid will increase substantially and thus reduce the use of those funds.

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

We are at post 9-11 levels of hysteria (with no terrorist attack) combined with 2025 surveillance and misinformation. A scholar at Yale suspended when an AI-driven article, co-authored by humans who want to remain anonymous (doxxing is bad!!) labels her a terrorist. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

Computers are accusing humans of terrorism

submitted 18 days ago • 17 comments

If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen? We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.

submitted 18 days ago • 153 comments

It’s not about rooting out fraud, it’s about benefiting from it. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/musks-frau...

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

@donmoyn.bsky.social Thanks for coming and speaking to us at IU today! I will be incorporating some of your thoughts into my lecture on tech in government this semester!

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

submitted 24 days ago • 879 comments

This is the literal dismantling of your national government

submitted 26 days ago • 20 comments

Let's call this what it is—the selling off of the collective assets of the United States to private investors—a massive transfer of wealth from the public sector to (some wealthy) private individuals. (and the GSA will likely lease a significant portion back, reinforcing the wealth transfer).

submitted 26 days ago • 11 comments

While my fellow scholars of Reconstruction rethink how we understand this moment of multiracial democracy amid the current crisis, I would really like to see an annotated edition of Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction that more fully engages his anti-colonial, anti-fascist, & anti-capitalist vision.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

This is one of the reasons the “fraud, waste and abuse” claims is an effective political tool for Trump and Musk. People don’t want to cut spending, but also don’t want increased taxes. So just make them believe there’s a magical solution!

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

So they are both doing impoundment (not spending money that Congress and the courts have ordered to be spent) and the opposite - spending money on pet projects

submitted 28 days ago • 8 comments

New, from me: Musk is not just destroying core government functions, he is also destroying the tech capacity of government. The people with serious tech skills who care about fixing govt have been fired. Both 18F and the US Digital Service are gone. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/skilled-te...

submitted 29 days ago • 67 comments

I can't stop laughing at this man I'm sorry. This is the kind of shit the biggest loser in the world would say to their girlfriend about buying her flowers on Valentine's Day once, and he's doing so in an argument that started because he called her a bitch

submitted 29 days ago • 907 comments

it’s a great time to remind everyone to keep your cats indoors. i don’t want to hear that shit about how your cat is desperate to go outside or is used to being out there. i had an outdoor cat i had to bring inside after 13yrs. i know how they are. she lived to 20. they’ll get over it & so will you.

submitted 31 days ago • 62 comments

“Seminar on best practices for integrating AI into your teachi—“ Stop.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world. And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

submitted 39 days ago • 14 comments

When people want to talk to me about the backlash against US higher ed but don't want to mention racism, this is one of the key reasons I become very annoyed (Also the data used to create this post had its contract canceled this month so are won't be able to track things like this in the future)

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments

a new agency made of teenage neonazis and drug dealers is in charge of the entire government. the richest man in the world, who gave a nazi salute at the president's inauguration, says he is in charge. officially, he isn't. the government won't tell the courts who is in charge

submitted 38 days ago • 45 comments

If Trump wants to be king, he should first consider how autocrats' rule ends: The most likely outcome is removal by coup, death, civil war, or mass-revolts.

submitted 39 days ago • 9 comments

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

submitted 40 days ago • 1048 comments

A labor economist told KCUR's Up To Date that Kansas City does not have enough available jobs in the area to make up for all the local federal workers getting laid off by the Trump administration.

submitted 40 days ago • 79 comments

Yep, DOGE is as incompetent as everyone thought. An $8 million "saving" has been listed as an $8 BILLION saving. That is 14.5% of their total claimed $55 billion in "savings" having been completely made up.

submitted 40 days ago • 269 comments

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that refraining from provoking the authoritarian is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

submitted 42 days ago • 268 comments

NASA is a good example of actual American greatness: science, courage and ingenuity that enabled extraordinary achievement. It will be gutted by a group of racists in order to increase the profitability of Musk's companies.

submitted 42 days ago • 7 comments