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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

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I'm speechless. Unprecedented levels of academic dishonesty and shenanigans at midterm in a large upper div ECON class at Berkeley It's as though the world were being ripped apart every other day or so by some capricious actors... wait....

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“Overall, the agency’s future lies not in spending less but in spending smarter.” Nice overview by Harvard’s Anupam Jena. Also, I can’t help but wonder whether the White House and Congress are actually listening to this kind of advice www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/o...

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Excellent quotes. Shameful policy by NIH and the HHS. Hoping that university legal departments can provide some relief

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My grad school friend Jeff beautifully explains why the loss of DHS is so painful and upsetting on so many levels.

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“[The men and women of NIH] personify excellence in every way, and they deserve the utmost respect and support of all Americans.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

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“And why isn’t he increasing defense spending?” Because he’s not actually in favor of anything except himself? Somebody should freakin change the name of the next Gerald R. Ford super carrier to the Donald J. Trump. Maybe he’d do the sensible thing and make us safe www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

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More brilliant cost-cutting moves, here DOD reducing funding for understanding the sources of human conflict Not only is the Administration tearing up the way it approaches live or hot human conflict, it’s choking off science that could head it off beforehand www.science.org/content/arti...

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NIH ban on renewing senior scientists | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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The options are either that Mike Johnson believes Elon’s mistakes, or that he’s knowingly lying Either way, he just really stinks, which is really saying something when the comparison group includes Newt Gingrich and Dennis Hastert

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Zoe Saldaña’s speech is going to be the highlight of the night Child of immigrants Dominican ancestry Hard work and great success

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The B’s still beaming over how incredible #FansFest2025 was in West Oakland. Thank you to the @oakland68sofficial.bsky.social, @lastdivebar.bsky.social and the Oakland Sports Community for showing up and showing out! 💚💛

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Aw heck this might make me finally heal a little, after Darth Verlander blew the A’s out of the ALDS twice in a row. The Coliseum was unreal during playoffs I attended, in 2000-2002 and in that magical 2012 season

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“improving access to weather data with NOAA, making it easier and faster to get a passport with the Department of State, supporting free tax filing with the IRS” All of it is gone, all thanks to some dogma

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Strong words from Republican Senator Murkowski

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When the WSJ editorial board sees Vance’s intervention for what it was, and when you can’t, then it’s time for introspection. Ross Douthat has become the worst kind of apologist for bad behavior by the MAGA wing. It diminishes everything including the reasonable www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/o...

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Imagine though if Zelenskyy had worn a tan suit.

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Legal departments of research universities: Let’s go. If you’re short-staffed, I hear there might be some great legal minds out there looking for work

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It’s a sad day when an NIH officer cancels a grant funded in 2023 with meritless political dogma about the scientific nature of the work The grant was funded after study section review, by scientists assessing the science. And now creeps in the White House decide they know science better

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An import stampede in advance of tariffs might be the big story of 2025Q1 GDP, I guess we’ll find out www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

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Wow: Jeff Grant, a top career official at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, retired today. On his way out, Grant sent this letter excoriating Jeffery Anoka, who carried out the DOGE firings, and said Anoka is "ethically and legally bound to restore" the jobs of the fired employees.

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Wall Street Journal Editorial Board comes out swinging against JD Vance. Indeed, key moment in downward spiral was Vance lashing out in response to Zelenskyy's point on diplomacy with Putin WSJ: "It is bewildering to see Mr. Trump’s allies defending this debacle as some show of American strength."

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A silver lining is that the WSJ editorial board and this opinion writer are calling out Vance for being unhelpfully provocative. “Not ready for prime time” is putting it mildly. Good one, JD, unless your intent was disingenuously to torpedo the deal, I guess www.wsj.com/opinion/donb...

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The moment Trump lost it was when Zelensky pointed out how the U.S. may feel safe now, being oceans away, but that won’t last unless the aggression is contained and disincentivized. And since 2014 it hasn’t been Trump seems to perceive no foreign threats except the politically expedient ones

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On this terrible day, I want to say loudly: “God bless the United States on America. “And may God save us from lying, incompetent leaders, because U.S. voters failed to do so in November 2024.”

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Trump comes across as Trump, Zelensky comes across as Zelensky Vance comes across as Tucker Carlson www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

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