The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda. This is corruption. Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

This clear declaration that Trump views the DOJ to be an entity designed to impose his political retribution - alongside the clear evidence that it is already being used in this way - is impeachable.

“This is state censorship. It’s now happening in the United States of America, not some far-off country. It’s happening right here and right now.”

Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday

America, 2025

A federal judge in Boston said she found it "difficult to conclude anything other than that [the Trump administration] used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country's premier universities, and did so in a way that runs afoul of [federal law]."

Public signers from FEMA put on administrative leave [Gift link] wapo.st/45C4h4U 1/2

First they came for…

I'll say it a thousand times -- any account of the past that only celebrates the good parts of a nation without reckoning with the bad is not what we call "history" It is propaganda, pure and simple.

Every time I think RFK Jr can’t possibly say or do something worse “Nobody blamed the New York Times for spreading that disinformation that football can cause injuries”

This letter, to Harvard's leaders encouraging them not to give in to Trump, is open for signature by everyone. You can remain anonymous if you want. But please read and sign if you can. crimsoncourage.fillout.com/august-letter

"Agents stormed our restaurants in a show of force that went beyond anything reasonable or humane. They raided the heart of our business, tore through our spaces, and left behind a trail of fear, confusion, destruction. Our kitchens were flipped. Our walk-ins emptied. Food trashed. Doors broken."

CDC employees told me the shooting at CDC was much worse than initial police reports suggested. More than 40 bullets hit buildings. “It’s a miracle more people weren’t hit,” said one staffer who was locked down in a building for hours last evening.

The U.S. government has fueled decades of world-leading scientific and technical innovation by funding research efforts through grants programs & universities where researchers controlled decisions. In the USSR, no decisions were made by scientists alone. Every decision required political approval.

Another shakedown, the more you cave to the autocrat the more empowered he feels.

Exclusive: The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

Indiana State Rep. Chris Campbell: “[She was] trying to update her paperwork; she’s following the law, but ICE grabbed her outside of court. Arresting people outside of the courthouse proves that this isn’t about legal immigration.”

They’re going to keep picking off schools, one by one. We need collective action, people.

It is seriously dangerous territory when Trump fires anyone who doesn't cook the books for him. The entire economy hinges on the accurate, nonpartisan data we get from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Republicans need to join us in fighting to protect the integrity of BLS.

Update: I offered this simple amendment in the Appropriations Committee to say no President can withhold funds from a college to try to control their speech. Failed 14-15. Every Republican voted to endorse Trump’s censorship.

The current administration's systematic dismantling of our research infrastructure—402 documented attacks in just 6 months—represents more than policy disagreement. It's an abandonment of the principle that knowledge should serve the common good and expand opportunity for all communities.

aha. It's supposedly about AI letting PIs submit too many apps. "NIH will only accept six new, renewal, resubmission, or revision applications from an individual Principal Investigator/Program Director or Multiple Principal Investigator for all council rounds in a calendar year. "

And this was the meaningless automatic reply I received when I messaged OH senator Jon Husted (appointed, not elected) about protecting public media, which he subsequently voted to claw back money from. “Listening to Ohioans is his top priority” eh? What a joke.

Grant terminations have grabbed the headlines and have seen legal action, but even more damaging to the US research enterprise has been the massive decrease in number of research grants issued by federal agencies NIH has seen a decrease of 57% in the number of awards & 63% in value compared to FY24

NIH suspending or terminating grants with a very broad definition of dangerous gain of function research (which appears to include standard safe laboratory procedures) www.science.org/content/arti...

Genome Sciences is looking for a Director of Departmental Computing. This is a rare opportunity for someone interested in leading our excellent IT team, building and maintaining computational infrastructure, and working closely with our faculty and labs uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/candidat...

I can only hope that democratic leaders are seriously grappling with how to deal with this agency. We should have never agreed to set up this agency from hell

I encourage everyone to read this letter. Please then realize the president is imposing a tax on American consumers to leverage a foreign nation into making a domestic political decision that will help one of his political allies.

Kerr County has been trying to get money for an outdoor siren system since 2018. They’ve applied for grants, but didn’t get $$. Camp Mystic didn’t allow campers to have any electronic devices on site, so cell phone messages/FB post warnings were not received. www.kxan.com/investigatio...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

The full ruling explaining why NIH grant cuts are illegal came out today. It's just as blistering as the judge's oral remarks. And it uncovers fresh details in DOGE's role orchestrating the cuts — and on the cuts at Columbia. Here are my top highlights from the 103-page ruling. 🧵

Nazi Germany did literally ban Nature: "Articles are often published in the London weekly scientific journal Nature containing outrageous and vile attacks on German science and the national socialist state. The journal must therefore be excluded from general use in the scientific libraries."

"Ohioans with an income of at least $138,000 per year will reap over 96% of the $1.1 billion in annual tax cuts." signalohio.org/ohio-budget-...

Quite literally, there is nothing Republicans can do, across 5 decades now, to get the national media to stop referring to them as "fiscal hawks." They will all vote for Trump's tax cuts. Just like they voted for Trump's last tax cuts, & GWB's tax cuts, & Reagan's tax cuts. But nothing matters.

Yep. We protected our freedoms at the state level, so #Ohio Republicans are aiming for the US #SupremeCourt instead — with a bill that would ban all #abortion, IVF, and several forms of birth control. Good lord www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...

“In America, we don’t do kings!” Come out and make your voice heard today: www.nokings.org

This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone.   If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?

Keep in mind: these are AWARDED grants, with Notice of Awards. The federal government is not honoring existing contracts with this university, refusing to reimburse for costs charge on awarded grants.

Every scientist should discuss the consequences of the NIH and NSF grant terminations and delays and failure to fund at their home institution at the end of a talk or seminar. Even if a scientist’s own funding is not threatened, I GUARANTEE there is someone at their institution affected.

The proposed 45% cut to the NIH by the current administration will preclude new awards, and even terminate (more) existing awards. This means a catastrophic decline in the development of new treatments for cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and infectious diseases How is that good for the US?

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding. It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

Inspired by @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social and @ohdearz.bsky.social, here's what the White House proposed budget cuts to NASA would do to the entirety of the agency's Science Mission Directorate. Bloodbath is right.

The goal is plainly and literally to cut the number of people involved in basic science in the US by 70%

Here's the NIH's proposed budget - from $48 billion to $27 billion. NIAID, current ~$7 billion cut to ~$4.2 billion. The proposed 15% cap on indirect costs remains. Again, these budgets are passed, and our leadership in science, technology, and innovation is gone. www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...

NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.

This isn't about whether you like Harvard or not. This is about whether any organization in our country has a right to exist without bending the knee to Donald Trump.

Who's calling the shots at NIH? Sworn testimonies and internal e-mails reveal for the first time the breadth of DOGE's control over the world's largest public biomedical funder. DOGE has provided lists of hundreds of grants to cut, and DOGE is now reviewing ALL NIH awards before they're released

What happens to science under autocracy? The rise of the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany provides an (admittedly extreme) example. Prior to the early 1930s, scientists at German institutions won a third of Nobels. 10 years later, that number was 5%, and has never recovered.