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I spent some time at the site where protestors incinerated five Waymos—all lined up neatly in a row in downtown LA—and spoke to journalists, eyewitnesses and activists who were there. This is how protestors weaponized Waymos and Lime scooters, and turned them into icons of the anti-ICE uprising

When the value of a corporation can fall $100 billion -- around 400x what Elon invested in Trump's election -- based on interpersonal relations between a CEO and the President, it does rather suggest that policy isn't really based on the best interests of the American people.

Imagine seeing this image four years ago. You would've wondered what tragedy befell our country where a scene like this could possibly happen.

COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back

I recently partnered with Remarkably Us, a Latina led non-profit that centers Latina former foster youth. Together, we are conducting an oral history project of Latinx former foster youth who've experienced child sexual abuse. Please share this flyer as you see fit. bit.ly/3YlmHm7

From 91 professors at Harvard Law School: a letter to our students. tinyurl.com/letter-to-ou...

Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked. The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...

Thank you @mayorwu.boston.gov for your leadership!

Shame on Tom Homan for lying about the City of Boston.

If Republicans in Congress want to help make our country safe, I have some ideas for them.

The biggest fraud being perpetrated on the American people is the GOP Tax Scam.

Trump promises tax cuts for everyone. The tax increases he imposed today would wipe out any tax cuts the bottom of 40% of Americans would receive. This doesn’t count additional import taxes he’s considering or the cuts to Medicaid and nutrition assistance.

Not taxing Social Security benefits would be yet another tax cut for the wealthy at the expense of the Social Security trust fund that pays all of our benefits. www.cbpp.org/blog/elimina...

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

The Atlantic story on the situation at NIH is sobering. We are so screwed. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

A statement from @sharonparrott.bsky.social on the passage of the House budget resolution, which calls for deep cuts in health coverage, food assistance, and college aid—all to pay for huge tax giveaways for wealthy households and businesses: www.cbpp.org/press/statem...

DEI initiatives are still legal. Universities need to stand their ground. A Friday gift to your university's General Counsel Office - courtesy of an all star lineup of civil rights lawyers and scholars. You're going to want to read this.

NEW: The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep funding frozen at the NIH - a move that some legal scholars say is illegal. Federal Register notices are blocked, so no grant-review sessions can be scheduled. All the gritty details here, and a short 🧵: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Love from Boston. ✊🏼

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

The House GOP's priorities for budget reconciliation in a nutshell: $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy vs. $880 billion in #Medicaid cuts and $230 billion in SNAP cuts

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

No one should comply with this order. It is censorship. #Trump is a tin-pot dictator and this is garbage. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

There's far more idealism in the civil service than people realize. But not for long paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-a-scam...

NEW: Over 60 German & Austrian universities have announced today they are quitting X/Twitter. The backlash against Musk is growing after he endorsed Germany’s Far Right. Germany’s Feberal Court of Justice has also quit the platform, as well as top German football clubs & labour unions.

Private equity perfected the doc specialty roll-up that avoided reg scrutiny to increase prices. Anesthesia consolidators used stealth consolidation to create market power, enact anti-competitive practices, and raise prices 30%. 1/5

Sometimes the combination of arrogance and ignorance is breathtaking. Yes, US health care has high admin costs; that's because it relies so much on private insurers. Govt-run health insurance has much lower overhead