Clutch shot by Fox who I definitely was not slandering in my living room the entire quarter

The Trump administration tried to kill the CFPB. Courts stopped it. Now it's been repurposed — dropping cases against big banks while probing a nonprofit that started with a $77 bake sale. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

When you run for LA mayor but you’ve never voted for LA mayor before.

This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵

Organizations are racial structures.

where is john roberts to tell us that this is just one of those apolitical, unpopular decisions the court has to make sometimes?

WEMBY EJECTED???

Year 1 of the PhD done and dusted!! AND it’s the start of the WNBA season AND we’re in NBA playoffs when the basketball gets good AND I had a bomb breakfast burrito this morning. This LeBron meme has never felt more appropriate!!

Just reminding everyone that Black political representation has material effects on policy. It’s so effective that the last time Black politicians were run out of office (Reconstruction), it was with violent force. They paid with their lives for their success. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

What a joke. This is objectively untrue. I miss when the WaPo was a real newspaper and not just slop and editorialized propaganda :(

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

Rutgers School of Engineering canceled a commencement speech by Rami Elghandour—an alum and executive producer of an Oscar-nominated film about Hind Rajab, a Palestinian child killed by Israel—because "some" students complained: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... His response (via X):

Important to know how much the Voting Rights Act affects things like the number of black & brown people in Congress and state legislatures But I want to reemphasize the (more important to me) point that Black political power produced Black economic power.

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

The CFPB took a major step backward, issuing a rule that eviscerates fair lending protections under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), dealing a devastating blow to the many people who face discrimination when they seek credit. www.nclc.org/cfpb-guts-fa...

It was never about saving money www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

This clear communication by @donmoyn.bsky.social and the work of the Yale Budget Lab is key. And it’s critical that those in power use it to hold lying leaders accountable. If you want to claim cuts are efficient and lower the deficit, you should be forced to square it with the facts. In public.

The assault on the IRS will blow up the deficit. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...

Ugh I love womens basketball

DMV women’s basketball looks GOOD per usual in this year’s WNBA draft!! You love to see it

New paper documenting a negative association between childhood exposure to local wealth inequality and inter-class social ties in adulthood. If children have fewer chances to meet peers from different class backgrounds, those divides may persist far beyond childhood.

ed blum is straight up just trying to eliminate educational opportunities for black kids under the guise of “equality.”

WNBA star Brianna Turner has written an article denouncing the new invasive sex testing requirements of the IOC. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Especially excited for Sykes who deserves this opportunity to really anchor a team. She’s such a bucket!! I miss watching her in DC

As a fairly new LA resident I NEED Nneka back to the Sparks!! 🤞🤞

This is not lets-propose-this-and-see-what-Congress-says. Their plan is more like USAID: eliminate before Congress can weigh in.

I think, all things considered, it was a good weekend for Dawn Staley’s legacy: www.cbssports.com/womens-colle...

Geno Auriemma remains a POS. Always making it about him. LOSER BEHAVIOR!!! Every good coach knows to keep the main thing the main thing

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

It is difficult not to notice that these are the people Ezra keeps spending more & more time with, both on his own platforms & in other public venues. He spends an incredible share of his time granting the premise of & legitimizing these people's views. One really cannot help but draw conclusions.

So the punchline is “ur gay”? This is so embarrassing. The governor’s and his press team should be much more clever and much less homophobic. Not funny, offensive, and also stupid.

They probably only let him out to avoid having him die in ICE custody. Really a 360-degree assault — decimate cancer research, send health insurance premiums skyrocketing, then detain thousands of people and deny them healthcare. Death cult.

@itsafronomics.blacksky.app on Vibe Check…was this made in a lab for me??

“A lot of times people ask, Why don't we have free healthcare? Why is this like this?' And I'm like, somebody just didn't want Black people to have access to those services. And in trying to make things harder for Black folks, you also were collateral damage.” — @itsafronomics.blacksky.app

Thinking today of Dolores Huerta and of all the women who have been forced to choose between suffering in silence and risking the success of the broader missions they have worked to support. medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Really seems like Trump is unable to register about IQ without referencing a woman of color, even if they are completely disconnected from whatever topic he is rambling on about.

Immigrants actually lower the deficit. And without immigrants, the housing crisis would be worse and Silent Gen and Boomer households would be short even more care as they age. The only ones extracting wealth from the taxpayer are the uber-wealthy and those enriching themselves in the current admin

None of it is true, but as I wrote last winter, fraud is a powerful political trope. Since then, Trump's used fraudulent fraud tropes to restrict voting rights, to gut Medicaid, and to unleash masked men on American cities to kidnap people off the street and hold them in detention camps.

Extreme economic inequality is incompatible with democracy, because extreme economic inequality creates ready targets for shit like this.

The screech I let out when MBJ won tonight. Give that man two Oscars!!! You know what? Give him 5 idc!! Deserved wow

“The goal of this project is nothing less than the erasure of the scholarly and institutional gains made by Black studies over the last 60 years.”

Every stage of this process - his arrest, spending a year in jail, being dumped on the streets to die - would be deeply shameful in a society that actually valued human life.

The real story is that foreign govts try to "interfere" all the time. In 2020 and 2024 we had mechanisms to catch them, call them out, & mitigate damage. Now, those mechanims are gone & the Trump admin would prefer to exploit "foreign interference" to justify a federal take-over of elections.

OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

the "WNBA doesn't make a profit" crowd is going to move the goalposts pretty fast here, mostly because their investment isn't in the facts as much as it is in making women feel small

I have noticed that when it comes to anti-Black racism, the ask is usually "let's minimize the impact because of the intent." In too many instances, Black pain, embarrassment, and dehumanization come at the expense of absolving white guilt.

see that's that bullshit a tic is involuntary, but BAFTA not saying anything to Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan afterwards is a choice

You read that right. Sociology students at Florida colleges cannot be taught that institutions intentionally discriminate OR that there is systemic or structural discrimination + bias. Evidence, research, education be damned. The party of freedom, folks. 🥴 Always has been about racism.