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The Times, Post, CNN, and Politico all ran stories this weekend or this morning about Trump getting his base back behind him on Epstein. The most prominent source cited to justify this claim _in all four publications_ was Steve Bannon. slate.com/news-and-pol...

we just republished months of our ICE coverage, free of paywalls, in professionally-translated spanish. check it out: www.404media.co/were-publish...

Trump's administration reportedly wants to incentivize people to have more kids, driven by an ideology associated with eugenics.

#ICYMI: The EPA withdrew a legal complaint filed last year against the GEO Group, a major Trump donor that has more than $1 billion in contracts with the administration to run private prisons and ICE facilities. By @fastlerner.bsky.social and @lisalsong.bsky.social

Congratulations to Harvard on its principled resistance to Trumpism <hand to earpiece> Hold on, I’m getting word -

It’s past time Democrats start calling the media out in their appearances. Talking about ICE? Ask the host if they support white supremacy—and if not then why are they talking about ICE without talking about Stephen Miller, the documented racist who’s running it for a checked out Trump?

important update on @propublica.org's reporting on America's largest oxygen supply company, which made billions while repeatedly defrauding Medicare 👇

seems like this should be a big deal. apnews.com/article/pale...

Last night a bunch of Republicans in the House were saying how awful this bill was. Only took a couple hours, some merch, and a few words from Donald Trump, and they’re lining up to rip away health care from 17 MILLION people. I’m sadly not surprised — but I am still outraged.

"Two U.S. contractors said they were coming forward because they were disturbed by what they considered dangerous and irresponsible practices. They said the security staff hired were often unqualified, unvetted, heavily armed and seemed to have an open license to do whatever they wished."

Republicans vote to kill

It’s worth noting (again) that explaining to non-historians how studying history develops critical thinking skills is the most effective way to help people understand history’s value to society and leads them to support greater funding. aaslh.org/reframing-hi...

Surprise surprise. A week after Sarah McBride gives cover fire for throwing trans people under the bus, some Dems are privately indicating they’ll capitulate on trans youth healthcare and citing the pseudoscientific Cass Report literally drafted in consultation with hate groups.

It’s so bad. Everyone I know with the luxury of citizenship is carrying their passport around. I should say, everyone who isn’t white, since the abductors are clearly and obviously targeting people by race. Many, many people are too scared to leave their homes.

Oh man, I’ve been out of town for the last week or so, but this brought home how absolutely dystopian it is in LA right now. Roving bands of unidentifiable masked men just snatching people off the street, abetted by LAPD. It’s fucking terrifying. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

Federal officers from across US government depts have joined ICE to execute raids, but we don't know who they are while they widely cover their faces + refuse to identify themselves. "Masked agents in casual clothing using force against people in public is associated with police states."

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

The first known detention by the US Marines in their recent Los Angeles deployment is of... a US Army veteran on his way to an office at the Department of Veteran Affairs building. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

THREAD.

Let history note: what's happening on the streets of LA is an extension of DOGE. Musk's guys illegally consolidated data from across government and cut a corrupt contract with Palantir to build an immigrant-hunting computer system. Presumably in use now.

Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"

My latest scoop: ICE has rescinded its accountability policy for warrantless arrests, giving agents “free license to make any arrest,” per one lawyer representing victims. It follows @theguardian.com exclusive that the agency was told to “push the envelope” to meet Trump’s 3k arrest quota.

1. The US Transgender Survey has finally been released, and the results are stunning. - <1% of people are less satisfied after HRT. - The most common reason for detransition, pausing transition, or stopping transition is transphobia. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

"Doctors looked at my body, and couldn’t decide whether to mark M or F on my birth certificate. So instead of changing the form, they tried to change my body. "What I experienced is the opposite of gender-affirming care; it's gender enforcement... "I deserved to make those decisions for myself."

Hospitals shutting down care in preemptive compliance with the Trump administration is cowardice. All this will do is move care to individual providers where trans youth will not have access to large interdisciplinary teams. It won’t stop care, but it will hurt patients.

The Department of Energy is trying to get rid of accessibility requirements for new construction via rulemaking. This unprecedented move, which seems to be illegal, could be the blueprint for other federal agencies to follow. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“None of the women I met at the halfway house could cite positive past relationships with men, yet all were encouraged to pursue reentry plans that involved men.”

The head of the department of homeland security announced that she planned to use military force to take over a democratically elected government in the state of California and we are arguing about whether a California Senator properly identified himself at the door.

Trump just announced new 50% tariffs on household appliances like dishwashers, washing machines, refrigerators. Hope no one out there was in the middle of a remodel, or had a stove recently conk out www.reuters.com/world/us/hom...

The countries largest gender clinic with 3000 patients is complying in advance and shutting down. They treat up to age 25 so trans adults will lose access as well. www.latimes.com/california/s...

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

Abortion is healthcare. Can't believe that's controversial in 2025.

Another factor is the conversion to “student as consumer” model, associated with student evaluations, grade inflation, shrinking requirements. There were problems with “student as product” model, but it rightly emphasized that what you get out of college is proportional to the work you put into it.

The most salient factor, IMO, is rising course loads across all ranks, combined with creeping enrollment caps on GenEd, composition, & introductory courses. Both were intended to create more precarious labor & thus lower costs. they also increased student-to-faculty ratios & assessment loads.

The ChatGPT-driven disruption of education is often presented, including in today’s viral NYMag piece, as a surprise event for which ed workers were caught unprepared This ignores dynamics & decisions that, in some cases, go back decades, without which we could’ve metabolized ChatGPT competently 🧵

Reframe the sentiment as “you only need two video games” and see how quickly the white American male gets involved in politics.

This by itself is impeachable.

"Encouraging young people to bypass learning how to read, think, and write is to harm them both mentally and physically. It is to deprive them of the inner resources they will need in their lives to deal with crisis. It is to imprison them in momentary trifles and distractions."

Holy shit, am I going to spend my entire professional future working for a tech company where everyone younger than ____ needs remedial humanities education? (as if we are not already there.)

Our new study: as ppl identified more strongly w/ neurodivergent movement, rated terms more/less appropriate: + neuro-(diverse, divergent, minority, type) - condition, deficit, disorder, illness, syndrome - developmental (non-aut only) *+ disability (aut only)* www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

One of the things I learned writing a book about global trade is that thing you got delivered next day started its journey *months* ago in China or SE Asia. A few months from now you will see an explosion of stories about empty shelves. It’s going to blow people’s minds.

It's infuriating to see UK anti-trans activists claiming cis-passing trans men can be excluded from both men's and women's spaces as a consequence for our adult choice to change our bodies be cause every other time they mention us we're hapless girls, incapable of making our own decisions.

The European Commission is trying to woo American researchers with a new €500 million program (with France contributing another €100 million) called “Choose Europe for Science.”