NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights. After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Other, more humane worlds are possible.

New evidence shows how discrimination shortens lives in Black communities A biological marker bolsters the “weathering hypothesis” that links systemic racism to health disparities. wapo.st/3NNQ2Dp

Standing with 65 of my UMN Law colleagues (and counting) to condemn ICE’s lawless conduct towards Minnesotans: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

just amazing work by my colleagues at @wsj.com - a frame by frame analysis of the shooting incredible that some continue to rationalize this www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

One of the best and most important @jamellebouie.net takes yet. Watch to the end. I find his moral clarity and knowledge of history immensely helpful in moments like this.

The Carney speech is worth reading in full: globalnews.ca/news/1162087...

ICE is not Gestapo, but slave patrols. It's not foreign, but deeply American, categorical brutalization of non-white people (& now those who stand up for them). They do not need to have warrants, and people facing deportation are not entitled to lawyers, or what we imagine as due process.

In the first of what's likely to be many collaborations with @hebagowayed.bsky.social (and my @us.theguardian.com debut) we argue that abolishing ICE would be a good start.

A sad day for Columbia and for our democracy. "Additionally the school believed there was considerable overlap between needed campus changes and Trump’s demands" has got to be one of the most depressing sentences ever written. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Network analysis clarifies why the power outage at London Heathrow (LHR) is so disruptive to global air travel. I imagine it will take a while for everyone affected to get where they were trying to go.

“We have concerns about the nominee’s past efforts to lower pilot training and safety standards,” said Captain Jason Ambrosi, President of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA).

qualitative data is incredibly important and incredibly informative - check out @awutich.bsky.social @robingnelson.bsky.social @zacharydubois.bsky.social et al. for the many ways qualitative data is essential in biological anthropological studies!

SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...

Here we go again.

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

I have been talking to the media, Time, Fortune, NBC, etc., to explain how the onslaught on science and NIH will impact the health of all Americans. Everyone knows someone who has cancer, heart disease, or depression. Spread the word about how cutting science impacts all. time.com/7216299/nih-...

I have started to hear about specific National Cancer Institute firings of experts and professionals that will have immediate impacts, like regarding the safety of drugs in clinical trials and so on. They are trying to kill people with cancer.

ATTENTION (PLEASE SHARE) If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread. There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.

“So, how can the radical overhaul Trump and Musk are undertaking be reconciled with our constitutional order? Quite simply, it cannot be.”

Of all federal spending, only 6% goes to federal employees. So we are gutting institutional knowledge and firing people who have dedicated their lives to serve their country and saving nothing.

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

Not even the best satire writer in the world could have come up with “Red, White, and Blueland”

Imagine a world where people fought to protect the gains won by Black and Brown people that benefit everyone. Imagine a world where people remembered that authoritarian regimes always start with the least protected and work their way up. Fascism recurs over and over because of bigotry

So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?

This is just 🤦🏻‍♂️

I can't get this out of my head. Every football season. www.anthropology-news.org/articles/pla...

In addition to destroying science & medical research which has direct impact on people's lives, this undermines universities AND crashes the economy. The idea that this will "save" money is FALSE. "In fiscal year 2023, every $1 of NIH funding generated approximately $2.46 of economic activity"

In Tampa, a good chunk of the downtown real estate boom has gone hand-in-hand with the growth of USF’s medical school and growth of Tampa General Hospital. Certainly these cuts will reverberate to real estate market there and similarly elsewhere.

is it woke to want to end cancer?

It looks like the massive indirect rate cut from NIH is not legal--and will face judicial challenges. But for scale, look at your state, and knock off about 25% to see the damage.

For those curious about the purpose of “indirects,” I suggest this FAQ from AAU (thread to follow). In the lingo of Musk et al - BLOF = this hurts economies, employment, science, & health. 🧵 www.aau.edu/key-issues/f...

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...

8. It is difficult to overstate what a catastrophe this will be for the US research and education systems, particular in biomedical fields. It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses. The goal is destroy US universities.

*New pub* **Why Does #Trump Want to Abolish the #DeptofEducation? – And Can He?** My public-facing @us.theconversation.com explainer discusses 4 reasons 1/3 theconversation.com/why-does-tru...

We’re here because liberals did not fight for Affirmative Action and allowed it to be diluted to “DEI” — a term abstracted from the materialist understanding racial redress and justice. So now it’s just “DEI” without any historical context, without acknowledging the generations of racial terror.

In an actually meritocratic system, diversity is a natural outcome. Homogeneity requires enforcement.

Here’s a story with some numbers. The proposed cuts are unfathomable: a 60% reduction to NSF would be the end of American science as we know it.

My latest. As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality. I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI. Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Move fast and break things is not the motto you want to adopt at a regulatory system that, as challenged as it may seem at times, is extremely functional.

I wish everyone in the U.S. would read this essay by @jamellebouie.net.

DO NOT SLEEP ON THIS: they are using #DEI the way #Nazis used ‘un-German.’ When the right says DEI what they mean is ‘the other’ and that’s how they target immigrants, women, people of color, Jews, #LGBTQ, ♿️, and anyone who supports or protects the vulnerable and marginalized. WE ARE AT WAR already

I wonder if there’s any historical precedent for a strongman, obsessed with notions of racial purity, rapidly making claims to other sovereign territories.

“In Trumpian terms, DEI stands for those who deserve retribution for perpetrating the crises he invents in order to justify retribution against those he claims to have perpetrated them: border invasion, energy shortages, military unreadiness, and, now, aviation disasters.”

“The President is deliberately spreading falsehoods to demonize the quarter of American adults who live with disabilities rather than directing federal resources at ensuring such a devastating tragedy never happens again.” Thank you @mariatown.bsky.social. Gift article. wapo.st/3PYbovR

A good summary of what we know and what lines of inquiry the NTSB will likely pursue in its investigation—“a neurotically thorough process that will probably take about a year, and thus meshes poorly with the news cycle and the conspiracy-theorist cycle.”

Thanks for this. This prescient 🧵 from @lancegravlee.bsky.social, written 2 months ago, foresaw everything we've just witnessed the past week & a half: bsky.app/profile/lanc.... That such human tragedy could be weaponized as part of an anti-DEI agenda is simply an abomination.

This thread deserves far greater readership. The anti-DEI rhetoric of the Trump administration is an attempt to roll back human rights to the 1950’s. But the erasure of those trailblazers has been invidious for many years in the press. 🫡 Myron Green