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"The fascist agenda uses key elements of that same tight monopoly on power against civil society institutions not only to deter them from opposition, as an authoritarian might, but to positively require their affirmative participation in the regime’s program of cultural rebirth."

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

Harvard will not comply. “No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” — Harvard President Alan M. Garber www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

submitted 18 hours ago • 17 comments

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

submitted 20 hours ago • 629 comments

Never miss an opportunity to talk about interaction effects :) While Vitamin A can lower the risk of severe measles outcomes in Vitamin A-deficient children, it has little effect on #measles severity in children from high-income countries. #publichealth #episky open.substack.com/pub/jenndowd...?

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Columbia may have signed its own death notice. Word has it that tomorrow Columbia will announce an agreement to formal oversight by Trump. This, if true, will signal the death of Columbia as we knew it - a premier teaching and research institution. I explain it here: youtube.com/shorts/W7Rr7...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Postdoc position at U Michigan Center on Inequality Dynamics, ISR, start Sept 2025. Work w/ Tali Kristal (Haifa) and Pablo Mitnik (U Mich) on ERC grant on Income Distribution in US Manufacuturing, 1961-22. Quant skills important. Info here: cid-haifa-postdoc.tiiny.site.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I had a flight that used facial recognition instead of passes, but oc we all had get boarding passes too to get through TSA. Gate agent told us to put our passes away but 25% of passengers then had to get them back out. Took longer to board plane so yay Big Tech. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Univ. of Maryland business school going all in on AI, with signs advertising AI training at nearly every gate at Dulles. I’m reminded of the Arum and Roksa finding from 12 years ago that business majors show no change in critical thinking or communication skills after 4 years of college.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

How is this even legal? How can the government forbid scientists from going to conferences on their own time and using their own money? Paywalled but screenshots in next post. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

🚨House voting on SAVE Act today, worst voter suppression bill ever considered by Congress. Could disenfranchise: -21 million w/out access to citizenship docs -69 million women who took spouses last name -ends online + mail registration & voter reg drives www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 66 comments

Exclusive: In a highly unusual move, the Trump administration plans to seek federal oversight of Columbia University

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

Whatever fraud there is in Medicaid is largely on the provider side, not beneficiaries. It's health insurance, its not cash. "Fraud" here means going to a doctor if you are unemployed.

submitted 4 days ago • 203 comments

Now that GOP is one step closer to its goal of making it much more difficult for women who changed their name when they married to vote, expect an executive order requiring women to change their names when they marry, justified by some "protecting women" or "eliminating wokeness" bullshit.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

submitted 5 days ago • 481 comments

News: Diana Greene Foster, the MacArthur-winning author of the Turnaway Study, learned her NIH grant — funding a multi-year study on Dobbs' impact — has been pulled. She was told its bc the govt won't study "gender identity." Her work has shaped our understanding of abortion bans' consequences.

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

One consequence of living near a gorge on a college campus: my stomach sinks every time I hear a helicopter. Most of the time, they are rescue copters looking for someone who is suspected to be in the gorge. At 7:49 am on a Thursday in April, it's almost guaranteed they are rescue copters.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Attacking science funding and universities ultimately means attacking the US economy. Other countries understand that the private sector will never shoulder the risk of basic research. I'm sure China will be happy to have the US step aside.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

In attacking universities, Trump is actively harming American national interests. Here's a taste of what now-frozen Dept of Defense grants to Cornell supported. Note how much of this research is in line w/GOP's priorities, historically. Also frozen: grants from Depts of Ag, HHS (NIH), Ed, etc.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Imagine if your session chair told you 4 days before your talk that you'll have 15 min, 2 days before that you have 35 min, then as you're at the mic tells you just 10 min. The US feels a lot like that, assuming chair can pull your funding & imprison you in El Salvador if he doesn't like your talk.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

When fascism comes to America, it will be carrying an M4 rifle and wearing a spray tan, hair extensions, fake eyelashes, and a Rolex.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

We hang together or we hang separately. Could not be clearer what is happening and how universities must respond.

submitted 6 days ago • 45 comments

This will absolutely kill people. The decimation of USAID, the gutting of CDC, NIH and now he’s about to create drug shortages.

submitted 6 days ago • 81 comments

Devastating news for my colleagues, my students, my community, for the state of New York, and for the entire world. Of course, they will not stop here.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Funny, that's almost exactly the entire NIH budget 🤔

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

I've worked in a factory job doing piece rate assembly. It was mind-numbingly boring. It hurt. Then the human assemblers were replaced by a machine. Show me someone who thinks a return to a manufacturing economy is desirable (let alone feasible) and I'll show you someone who sits behind a desk.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

"Adjusting for inflation, tenure-track faculty are now paid 10.2 % less than before Covid... While 'median pay increases for most higher education employees in 2024–25 remained strong, they have dropped...” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t... #edsky #highered

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

20-something ahead of me at YVR airport security tried to get his carry-on through with a can of craft beer, a full-size canister of shaving cream, and a gallon of maple syrup. Now that’s a TSA party waiting to happen.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

I want to know which Congress-people cashed out or shorted stocks early last week. Name, shame, and primary.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Good (but paywalled) story on how Alaska & NW Canada's economies are intertwined. When I was growing up in Fairbanks, our schools held joint ski meets & band concerts w/ schools in NW Canada. We learned Canada's anthem. Moosehead & Molson more common than Hanks & Coors. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The US has tracked gonorrhea rates since WWII, knowing it is a vital element of military preparedness and therefore national security.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

#HandsOff Skagway, Alaska pop. 1,200. Look how many of them are there!

submitted 9 days ago • 38 comments

Today is a perfect day to block accounts that try to "both sides" fascism because Kamala Harris brought Liz Cheney to some campaign events to try to get some Republican votes and might have appointed Adam Kinzinger to Sec of Veterans Affairs. Scratch that: every day is a perfect day to block them.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Other fact-based ways to frame these attacks are: a) part of an ongoing GOP war against higher ed because they view it as a hostile institution b) an authoritarian breaking any venues of dissent. Going with the Trump framing is a choice to support the war and give credence to the authoritarian.

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

A Very Serious Economic report casually dropping "loonie" into otherwise grim economic news provides much-needed levity. (From the Toronto Star)

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment