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This is devastating news. The RDRCs have supported tons of great work on Social Security programs and improving well-being for beneficiaries. Small grants for dissertations and early career researchers have huge returns and help to train the next generation.

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

submitted 6 hours ago • 43 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 10 hours ago • 10 comments

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

submitted 13 hours ago • 224 comments

Federal judges and vice admirals are definitely people you want to annoy with spam emails from Big Balls.

submitted 10 hours ago • 6 comments

From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

submitted 11 hours ago • 162 comments

Ambitions is supposed to check ambition, but it's in pretty short supply on both sides of the aisle in the Article I branch. What are people doing? We can all see you're failing.

submitted 13 hours ago • 7 comments

"In every state, every congressional district, and more than 95 percent of counties in the United States, public charities receive government grants. Without these grants, most nonprofits would be unable to cover their expenses." Should not be a partisan issue. www.urban.org/research/pub...

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 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 11 hours ago • 74 comments

This seems like a phisher's dream. Announcing that a government email is about to go out and that recipients are required to respond to it seems like the kind of thing cybercriminals would love to spoof in order to infect workers or trick them into revealing their login credentials.

submitted 13 hours ago • 47 comments

The current attacks on nonwhite scientists reminds me of this paper by Lisa Cook, on how Jim Crow violence undermined Black scientific activity. This time neo-segregationists seem intent on just destroying scientific institutions outright. lisadcook.net/wp-content/u...

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Last month, I got to discuss with CNBC Digital my research on the pervasive problem of health insurance delays and denials of coverage, and the ways it can destabilize patients' health and economic security. Today, the piece was released. Hope you give it a watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOPr...

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

submitted 11 hours ago • 727 comments

Sharing more townhall videos today because they’re giving me hope. THIS is good trouble! Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.

submitted 21 hours ago • 931 comments

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

submitted 13 hours ago • 978 comments

Reporters: Our latest Bright Line Watch report is coming out Monday with new expert and public survey data on ratings of US democracy, assessments of current and potential threats and new measures of support for political violence. Email me from your work account to get the full report under embargo

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

submitted 18 hours ago • 435 comments

Alarms are blinking red

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

Dear OPM FOIA staff - Remember to preserve all of these email responses, as we will be submitting FOIA requests for this consolidated compilation of information on what the entire federal government did last week. Thx - FOIA community

submitted 13 hours ago • 132 comments

The technical geniuses at DOGE strike again

submitted 13 hours ago • 53 comments

On a Saturday too? Wow — well, here’s a summary of what Republicans voted to do this week: - Defund Medicaid - Defund Medicare - Not to protect IVF funding - Not to protect food assistance

submitted 12 hours ago • 40 comments

Say it louder for the (many, many) folks in the back who think that the most reasonable way to respond to blatant racism is by accepting the twisted terms of the debate & insisting that their behavior is justified per those ahistorical, illogical, empirically unsound terms (“we uphold meritocracy!”)

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Multiple reports of drivers doing spontaneous sieg heil salutes at protesters today, including in one case from someone I know personally. What is being normalized is monstrous and dangerous; every day we step closer to the abyss

submitted 12 hours ago • 47 comments

This piece nicely captures the sometimes subtle benefits of legal mobilization in practice—leveraging concessions, building a public record, winning by losing, etc

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purges...

submitted 15 hours ago • 8 comments

A federal judge has extended the order keeping Elon Musk's DOGE out of Treasury Department payment systems, ruling that the Trump admin's process for granting access to the sensitive data was so flawed and haphazard that it was likely illegal.

submitted 14 hours ago • 39 comments

@warren.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov @whipkclark.bsky.social

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

PRAMS is the source of data for basically every effort to limit infant mortality and all the health dangers mothers face before and after birth. So a pretty big deal the Elon and Co decided to cancel the program.

submitted 14 hours ago • 65 comments

Some wonderful signs today at the @50501-socal.bsky.social march in West Hollywood.

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This was the moment, just over a month ago, when the ADL could've put an end to Republicans doing Nazi salutes. They didn't. They chose instead to provide cover by calling it "an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm." Now the sieg heil salute has been normalized. The ADL literally had ONE JOB.

submitted 15 hours ago • 141 comments

Absolutely despicable. This freeze on research degrees will absolutely set us back and significantly harm us. www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

Incredibly proud of cousin @lowcutconnie.bsky.social for canceling a show at the Kennedy Center with flair. “It says to me that there’s a lot of people out there — I’d say the majority of people out there — who were waiting for artists to step forward and say ‘F--- this.’” bit.ly/3Dc6okg

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

I truly think people don’t realize how many universities and colleges — especially public ones — may shut down if restrictions on and withholding of federal funding persists for even one presidency We are facing the demolition of American higher education

submitted 17 hours ago • 87 comments

Listen up folks

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submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

From an expert: "Last night was the worst night in US civil-military relations since the Civil War." Loyalty purges of the military are very, very bad.

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

Keep defending your public services!

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My research shows that militaries remain in the barracks when they are in a stable coalition with parties that protect their core interests. It's when a party violates this commitment that we see coups.

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No. New. PhD. Students. Direct hit on American innovation. On American competitiveness. On America.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

For those interested, here is a website to find a protest at a Tesla dealership in your area. actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

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