The US may never recover from this. Germany certainly hasn't. "Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“I will not yield to disrespectful men.” - Rep. @aoc.bsky.social

Buried in the House's 1,000-page tax-and-budget bill: a provision banning federal judges from enforcing contempt of court rulings over a wide range of court orders open.substack.com/pub/walterol...

A giant banner of Trump is now ominously hanging at the front of the Dept. of Agriculture. It's not the kind of thing American presidents do. It's more in line with what you typically see in places like North Korea -- and it's the latest sign that America might be sliding into autocracy. #Velshi

9 people were killed in a tornado last night in KY. The NWS office responsible for that area has faced some of the most extreme cuts by the Trump administration, including the loss of overnight forecasting. Last night, they were rushing to find help for the office. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...

For "One First," I took a deeper dive into Friday afternoon's *very* significant #SCOTUS Alien Enemies Act ruling—including why it effectively freezes AEA removals for the foreseeable future and its (much) broader potential impact on *all* attempts to bring nationwide challenges to Trump policies:

Coincidentally, when my daughter was a toddler, she used to literally make demands of the wind and the sun. (“Tell the sun to come up!” “No wind, stop blowing.”)

You probably have seen this week's news release from MIT, after a review, expressing "no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and in the veracity of the research." economics.mit.edu/news/assurin...

The best responses I’ve seen dig down to what profs really want students to learn through writing, and are structured to enable that. (My approach so far has been to lean on, and then personally check, outlines and pin cites. This will evolve.)

Breaking news: DOGE is now targeting the Government Accountability Office, a congressional agency. GAO is fighting back: "We are not subject to DOGE or executive orders." @notusreports.bsky.social obtained the email detailing what's happening, sent just an hour ago. www.notus.org/congress/dog...

Our latest investigation, with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reveals the real identity of the man behind Mr Deepfake, the notorious site where non-consensual deepfake pornography is published www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...

In an example of perfect timing, this paper exploring the downsides of AI "companionship" is being presented at CHI 25 as we speak.

Trump’s first 100 days are a blueprint of cruelty, chaos, and corruption. We put it all on display—because silence is complicity, and we choose action.

Prof. @daniellecitron.bsky.social says the Trump administration’s plan for blanket interagency data-sharing runs afoul of the Privacy Act. @propublica.org

Click-through non-consent agreements.

The accusation here—that Big Law is hypocritical for complaining about the EOs—is specious and misleading. Law firms have a 1st amendment right to free association. They can pick their clients, and law partners. Trump violates that right when he tries to punish them for their past choices.

"The president has no power to set federal election policy." — Eliza Sweren-Becker Read: bit.ly/4izsJHm

Showing kindness in-person is so important, especially now.

NEW: A coalition of students from more than 15 law schools across the country have signed a pledge not to work for any firm that “gives in to Trump administration demands…” Signatories include students from Harvard, Georgetown, University of Chicago, UT-Austin… docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It doesn't matter what the rest of the sentence says, the opening 10 words in themselves are the scandal: "President Trump on Thursday directed the Justice Department to investigate ... "

NEW: NEJM has gotten (and responded) to the letter reported on last week that the DOJ sent some medical journals “We support the editorial independence of medical journals and their First Amendment rights to free expression," EIC Eric Rubin wrote. 🧪🩺 www.statnews.com/2025/04/23/n...

I don’t want to repost anyone saying this but Trump absolutely did not “repeal” or “change” or anything similar to the civil rights act. EOs are not law. even then, he’s talking about disparate impact, not the whole act. it’s a big deal but it has no more legal effect than a memo.

Al gore is pissed off and I’m here for it

Executive Functions is hiring Summer and Fall interns. open.substack.com/pub/executiv...

The Trump administration: working hard to make you ill every single day. www.agweek.com/news/policy/...

This cybersecurity news is not good: "Two top cyber officials resign from CISA" therecord.media/two-top-cybe...

Attention law students: here is an opportunity to do meaningful work for an important project this summer. open.substack.com/pub/executiv...

BREAKING: Fourth Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, stops all implementation of N.C. courts' orders in the state supreme court election. Niemeyer, joined by Heytens, writes the decision. Quattlebaum dissents, finding the district court order to be an unappealable TRO. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

SCOOP — The US sent Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen to Rwanda via new diplomatic relationship in which they've agreed to act as a "third country" for deportees unable to be safely returned to their country of origin, per cables reviewed by me. This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.

“Serving in the Southern District of New York has been an honor. There is no greater privilege than to work for an institution whose mandate is to do the right thing, the right way, for the right reasons. We will not abandon this principle to keep our jobs. We resign.”

“People like Kilmar Abrego Garcia are being sent to rot in a mega-prison known for its human rights abuses. With each passing day, this is wreaking further terror on individuals, their families, and entire immigrant communities.” Our statement on Trump's rapid deportations to El Salvador 👇

“Potential tariffs on pharmaceutical products will have extensive implications on supply chains, insurance costs, and access to medicines in the U.S. health care system and abroad,” writes student fellow Jessica Samuels. Read more here: petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/04/14/w...

Showing yet again that well thought-through, human-generated) books (that do not artificially hijack attention) are the answer.

"Six men charged after forcibly removing a woman from North Idaho town hall" www.kivitv.com/news/six-men...

This 100,000% Does opposing cross border kidnapping to Central American concentration camps poll well?

I got an email yesterday afternoon that my NSF SPRF Postdoctoral Fellowship was terminated. My grant focused on testing interventions to address online misinformation and I was 8 months into a two year appointment.

A reminder that “Paul Revere’s Ride” was published in January 1861, and was understood by its readers as Longfellow’s cry to arms against treason and slavery.

Every year at this hour, we walk down to the marker where the British boats landed on 18 April 1775 (inland now, because the river is narrower) and read the Longfellow poem. I offered the children the option to walk the British route to Concord in time for the shot, but they declined. NO KINGS

This is it. All this ancillary litigation is being caused by the fact that the President is asserting just a complete fake claim and power.

Jim Jarmusch interviewing David Cronenberg in Interview magazine is fantastic: www.interviewmagazine.com/film/david-c...

"Supreme Court temporarily pauses deportations under Alien Enemies Act" In the ruling, the court said, “The government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this court.” www.cnn.com/2025/04/18/p...

Just before 1 a.m., #SCOTUS stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation with a (remarkable) ruling that suggests, among other things, that a majority of the justices is tiring of the Trump administration’s Calvinball. For more, see the latest “One First”: www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...

"American doctor receives email from immigration officials telling her to leave the country immediately" www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

Committee to Protect Journalists offers security warning to reporters entering the United States, in a sign of Trump's threat to free press: “CPJ has seen a spike in concern among journalists whose work entails traveling to the United States or crossing the border."

NEW: In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies. By @alecmac.bsky.social

BUSY NIGHT FOR THE COURTS: Late last night, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction barring DOGE’s access to sensitive Social Securitt data, saying the government flouted the law to provide unfettered access to DOGE without a reasonable basis. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...