It is really shitty watching people you love die of cancer as the federal government cancels research money and tells the lot of you to go fuck yourselves

"A French court has found far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of misusing EU funds to pay staff from her National Rally party...with a sentence barring her from running for office immediately, possibly dashing her political ambitions" www.france24.com/en/live-news...

What Vance is doing here is ENORMOUS disinformation. International students at the undergrad level typically pay full tuition, which subsidizes tuition for American students on financial aid by keeping tuition costs lower. At the grad level, domestic students are harder to recruit!

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions. Authors, search your name here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Again, I'd implore my colleagues in the media to stop using euphemisms around "diversity" and "anti -DEI". And start saying that this these efforts are racial and gender purgings. That these efforts are segregationist.

Beginning March 31, people will no longer be able to verify their identity with the SSA over the phone. Those unable to verify their identity through the agency’s “my Social Security” online service will be required to visit a field office in person to complete the process.

The US military just purged their website of mentions of the Holocaust, 9/11 remembrance, cancer awareness, sexual assault, and suicide prevention to align with their new “anti-DEI” policies.

just a reminder that we shouldn’t be disappearing ANY people to El Salvadoran prison camps, whether they have been convicted or even accused of crimes or not

Breaking news: A federal judge on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction blocking Elon Musk and the U.S. DOGE Service from taking any further actions to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development and ordered that steps be taken to allow the agency to reoccupy its headquarters.

The C.F.P.B has recovered more than $300 million in damages to military personnel and veterans. Now the Trump Administration is trying to shut it down. “The impact of shutting down the C.F.P.B. on our servicemembers—it’s huge,” a military spouse said.

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I hear this a lot but I think it's actually vital for cis people to understand what's at stake for themselves in trans people's fight. We can pray for empathy with one hand and fight for shared interests with the other but guess which will get results

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Page One in Dallas. @dallasnews.com

People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.

The DOJ is arguing, on behalf of the President, that the President can scoop up anyone, put them on an airplane, and then no laws apply because no court has jurisdiction. Whether the person is a citizen wouldn't change that because there's no point they could even tell a court they're a citizen.

The headline really sanitizes what they did to this guy. Getting stripped naked, inadequate food, sleep deprivation sounds more like war on terror ear rendition than "interrogation."

They're trying to deport my colleague from the med school and holding her without counsel. She was coming back from a visit to her family. If there are ways to help I'll let you know. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

NEW: The Census Bureau hasn't been recruiting and retaining enough interviewers for three key surveys, including the source of the monthly job report, and lacks a plan for building up a field representative staff, the bureau's internal watchdog, Commerce OIG, finds www.oig.doc.gov/wp-content/O...

Get these things out of your house arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

The "last updated" date on this National Survey of Children's Health page is a lie. I have a copy of the data and codebook from Oct 2024. The materials there today are missing at least one key measure: whether or not the child faced discrimination for their sexual orientation or gender identity.

There will be a separate vote on a Collins/Van Hollen bill that will enable DC to continue funding public education, public safety, & human services in the nation’s capital. We urge all Senators to vote for it!

Seniors came to JD Vance's event to demand the Trump Administration stop cutting Social Security. JD's response: "Don't you all have jobs?"

20% of kids now have a smartphone entering KINDERGARTEN Listen I'm a smartphone addict too but I need the nanny state has to do something. This has gone way too far and broken too many brains.

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

imo the left really needs to put a lot more effort into organizing veterans, especially now. they aren’t a political monolith, and a lot of them are getting screwed over right now.

I’m voting NO on the terrible GOP resolution.

The federal government is the single largest employer of veterans and North Carolina is no exception: 33,000 of fed workers living there are veterans, veteran spouses, or military spouses

If the government can do this to universities, we don't live in a free society. Five alarm fire.

Don't take this as gospel. It's not official. It's a very knowledgable source's best understanding of the situation. This persons likely Yeses on cloture are. Schumer, Hassan, Peters, Durbin, Schatz, King, Shaheen, Fetterman, Cortez Masto and Gillibrand.

We are hiring a pre-doc at Stanford to work on (among other things) a project called Public Pulse, which will provide reports on public opinion in the US, and potentially fill the void of things like 538. Please share with your undergrads. iriss.stanford.edu/predoc/2025-...

All of this is clearly immoral & illegal. But the criminal code is expansive. Authorities could find a “crime” on just about anyone. Authoritarian state actors seeking to target people whose speech they don’t like could find other “legal” justifications for their actions. We cannot accept this.

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Can’t stop thinking about all the people who’ve lost their jobs. Losing your job in this country, it’s like annihilation—not least because it usually means losing health care, too. And for so many people, their entire sector has been eviscerated. I wouldn’t be able to feed my kids. It’s terrifying.

I am telling you most people don't know it's happening.

Ok so not even vibes, “ish,” or “-esque” just straight up literal car salesman

Republicans snuck a provision into the rule for the CR that would preemptively surrender congressional authority to block tariffs. When House Republicans vote for this rule today, they will also be voting to support Trump's tariffs and all the resulting damage to the US economy

This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.

DOCUMENT DESTRUCTION: My reporter Brett Murphy obtained a remarkable directive to folks at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then, "Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break."

was your vaccine-related NIH grant terminated? please reach out: @katherinejwu.12 on Signal

Those who know me know I was highly critical of what I saw as some of the rhetorical excesses of the campus protests. Khalil and I wld probably get into a spat immediately. It's all the more important for people who believe as I do to say clearly, the protections of the law are for everyone.

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

JUST IN: A federal judge clarifies that his order barring enforcement of Trump EO on "DEI" funding applies to *all* federal agencies, not just those named in the lawsuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Mahmoud Khalil was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and took him into custody.

Here’s the reality: This government—despite what they’d have us believe—cannot simply do whatever it wants. The moment we accept that bullshit, we become complicit in this blatantly authoritarian move by the president and his administration. With a loud, collective voice, we must say: fuck this!

The way I reach young men is explaining how they've been underestimated. The Trumps, Musks, and Tates of the world think they can't be responsible, can't do emotional labor, can't look out for others, and can't care about people different from themselves. I believe they can be better than that.