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Same.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

submitted 23 hours ago • 9368 comments

Basic authoritarian stuff: the government revolves around protecting the President and punishing his enemies. Completely inconsistent with democratic norms, but will barely be a blip in the news in our new regime.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

This might be an old person opinion, but it is shocking how spoiled everyone is. Oh, a shot that is cheap to produce, has minimal side effects, and reduces your chance of disease by a full third isn’t good enough? What do you want here and how do you look to achieve it?

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Acting Attorney General of the United States under George W. Bush—>

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Dear politicians: be more like Gov. Mills

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now.

submitted 6 days ago • 2947 comments

We are entering a new era—Government by Gimmick. Policies won’t be serious efforts to solve real problems but mere attention-grabbing stunts.

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

I tried to stay to stay loyal and support WaPo. But I just can’t do it any longer. Just canceled my subscription and donated 10x as much to propublica. Do better @washingtonpost.com

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

This is a good time to remind everyone that this administration hasn't done anything for anyone. It has literally only taken away things we've already paid for and fired and sued people. Oh and the quid pro quo with Adams. That's the extent of what they have done. Kinda nuts.

submitted 10 days ago • 136 comments

I’ve made this specific point about Hitler so many times. I know it’s an overused comparison, but it’s almost uncanny this time. Sadly.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

"... slashing and burning won’t improve matters. It’s just going to weaken the foremost truth squad in American education, the chief sponsor and funder of rigorous analysis, reliable data, and clear-eyed evaluations in a realm that needs more of those things, not less."

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Some reporting from EdWeek h/t @weilanch.bsky.social www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

ETTD

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

“What's the urgency of doing it tonight?" Judge Nichols asked. Shumate replied: "the President has decided there is corruption and fraud at USAID." Shumate did not provide evidence. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Has anyone checked the price of eggs? Are they $.99 yet?

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Per IES “The virtual NCES Data Users Conference, scheduled to take place on February 11-13, 2025, has been postponed to allow the Institute of Education Sciences to consider how to meet our statutory mission given available resources and broader agency priorities.”

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Say it with me now: FORCED REMOVAL IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

This is a genocidal war crime endorsed by the president of the United States

submitted 22 days ago • 887 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 23 days ago • 1329 comments

Government Officials Punished for Protecting Government Data from Thieves

submitted 24 days ago • 16 comments

The stupidity and the cruelty

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Important new research by my @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social colleagues: test-optional admission hurts the chances of less advantaged applicants, who don't submit scores that would dramatically increase their chance of admission. www.nber.org/papers/w3338...

submitted 27 days ago • 12 comments

New results from "The Nation's Report Card" just dropped and they are pretty bad. I got a sneak peek as a member of IES’s Standing Committee, so I had an extra day or so to ruminate about them. A few thoughts 👇 1/n

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments

So all Federal funding paused? Seems to include all research grants? wapo.st/4gfgcHQ

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Nothing like some insanity for a Sunday afternoon:

submitted 31 days ago • 142 comments

If only…. wapo.st/4jsvfRb

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

It’s starting at ED: www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking news: Acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove said state and local officials must "comply with the Executive Branch’s immigration enforcement initiatives,” including mass deportation efforts.

submitted 35 days ago • 82 comments

…..woah

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

The first visual of the Trump presidency at the border; a sobbing woman in Ciudad Juárez stands outside the Paso Del Norte port of entry, clutching a pole as she weeps having learned that her 1:00PM appointment for a chance to seek asylum in the US has been cancelled. x.com/arelisrhdz/s...

submitted 37 days ago • 120 comments

NEWS: There already have been three Federal Advisory Committee Act lawsuits filed today regarding "DOGE" in federal court in DC: - a @publiccitizen.bsky.social one - a @nationalsecuritylaw.org one - an American Public Health Association one by @democracyforward.bsky.social and @crew.bsky.social

submitted 37 days ago • 15 comments

Man this is really disturbed

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. petitioned the FDA to revoke authorization of Covid vaccines in 2021, when estimates had begun to show that the rollout of the shots had already saved about 140,000 lives. nyti.ms/4hkaSnl

submitted 40 days ago • 394 comments

SAT optional policies have no effect on diversity, gender ratios, student quality, or even application numbers (beyond a brief but fleeting increase.) It turns out people have largely been arguing over…nothing. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

I’m the daughter of a fighter pilot and even I’m in awe of these pilots because JAYSUS

submitted 46 days ago • 870 comments