wrote about the latest federal jobs reports and why they contain so many ominous signs for the economy—including, and especially, the surge in Black employment. with insights from @itsafronomics.bsky.social and the @jointcenter.bsky.social's Gabrielle Smith Finnie: slate.com/business/202...

This morning, @mariannecooper.bsky.social and I's TIME Magazine piece about how rising unemployment among Black women is a bad economic sign is a TOP NEWS STORY. Check out the piece here: time.com/7315624/risi...

This afternoon in TIME MAGAZINE, @mariannecooper.bsky.social and I discuss why 300,000 Black women leaving the workforce is bad for the economy, bad for society, and bad for you. In the piece, we argue that Black women are the canaries in the coalmine and why ignoring #TheDoubleTax harms us all.

Rising Unemployment Among Black Women Is a Bad Sign for the Economy. Really great to collaborate with the amazing @itsafronomics.bsky.social. Check out our article in Time. time.com/7315624/risi...

"school shooting industry"

Vinay Prasad of the FDA demanded that @joho.bsky.social’s YouTube channel be removed, and it was. Dr. Howard regularly pointed out the numerous flaws in Prasad’s statements about COVID19 vaccines and other topics. You can read about it here.

Developing story: HHS ousted Susan Monarez as CDC director today after days of pressure over vaccine policy. At least three top CDC officials resigned in the last few hours. w/ @adamcancryn.bsky.social @reportergoodman.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/h...

A sense of doom among US biomedical scientists @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social & team www.statnews.com/2025/08/26/f...

We asked researchers across the country how federal funding changes have affected them and their labs. Their responses indicate a sense of doom and an existential crisis for science in the US: “The ship is going down and we are powerless.” Importantly, there’s still time to fix this. 1/2

I don't know what will break through to people, but I appreciate this mother telling her story. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...

We analyzed responses from hundreds of researchers on how changes in federal funding are affecting them. No joke, one of our codes is “sense of doom” because that’s what many described.

Resistance www.reuters.com/business/hea...

NEW: More than ‎20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform inspections and combat deadly outbreaks.

The clerks where I get my lunch said a man came in last week and asked them where the public entrance to 26 Federal Plaza was. He locked his bike outside, and it’s been there since.

BREAKING: Six leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit on Monday against Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and the health dept, charging that recent decisions limiting access to vaccines were unscientific and harmful to the public. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/h...

I've seen very little mention in the media of the big jump in unemployment for Black workers to 6.8 percent, the highest since January of 2022. www.bls.gov/news.release... Is everyone worried Trump will sue them for talking about it?

Just awful: A 75-year-old man just died in ICE custody, ICE has revealed in a notice to Congress. But here's the rub: This man, a Cuban national, was first paroled into the US in 1966—nearly 60 years ago! They were set to deport him anyway. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/1974...

PBS has made a new documentary on caregiving, and I’m in it! They used some of my footage from when I was in NY in spring 2020. Sharing in case it might be of interest to anyone!

US planning to pull support from Gavi, which provides vaccines to children in poor countries. And effectively it’s what’s happening here at home. Mandate changes will create barriers to access and affordability. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...

Updated: The running list of senior FDA officials who have left the agency www.statnews.com/2025/04/03/f...

You know, I don't have a problem with sexual harassment being something that permanently disqualifies someone from holding public office.

1/ The assassination of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband on Saturday underscores the dangers that women in public office and their family members face. Efforts to track data on political violence are inconsistent, and data on women specifically is more limited. 🧵

Here are the things I know are true: ✔️ Today is June 14, 2025 ✔️ The earth is round ✔️ Vaccines work ✔️ There's no appeasing fascism...there's only fighting it #NoKingsDay

I’m not trying to brag, but today is the last day of 8th grade for my youngest so we are officially DONE WITH MIDDLE SCHOOL. I have a lot of personal and professional opinions about middle school. All I will say here is: peace out to whatever tf that was.

After I watched those people storm the capitol on January 6, I vowed to never again be shocked on behalf of this country. It’s a struggle to hold that line as I watch L.A.

see, the thing *i’m* genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines

If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487

ICYMI, for your Sunday night reading (dis)pleasure: a couple scoops from me this week for @motherjones.com on how Trump’s budget takes aim at women First: It proposes eliminating the century-old, congressionally-mandated Women’s Bureau at the Labor Dept ⤵️ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Every official who now decides Cuomo's harassment of multiple women is fine sends a message to victims and abusers alike that no one cares

Super surprising development: "Their unlikely alliance dissolved into open acrimony, with the two men hurling personal attacks at each other over matters both significant and petty." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

"My career in public health and vaccinology started with a deep-seated desire to help the most vulnerable members of our population, and that is not something I am able to continue doing in this role.” www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-off...

Are you an NIH or FDA staffer? I want to hear what you think about your new leadership. My signal is in bio.

A record number of Americans applied for British citizenship in the first three months of this year, and for the right to live and work in Britain indefinitely, according to official data.

My oldest recently got her driver's license. She just left with my younger son to go do the grocery shopping. What nirvana is this!?!

The first of many papers from the Memory and Forgiveness project is now out at the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Led by the indefatigable Gabriela Fernández Miranda, and with Matt Stanley, Sam Murray, and Leonard Faul, we systematically explored differences (1/n)

What do tax cuts for the rich do? They increase inequality. They have no effect on economic growth or unemployment. "Our results provide strong evidence against the influential political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to boost the wider economy."

Have the economists run the model yet to see what happens to productivity under fascism?

Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever, analysis of new data @epi.org from me & Adam Reich of Columbia Labor Lab. In data back 60 years, Americans' sentiments are both warmer toward unions & cooler towards big business than ever before. www.epi.org/blog/america...

I will look at MF in the face and say I’m 65 years old and dare them to say otherwise. This is nonsense.

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.

NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

My cover story in the June issue of @thenation.com is a dispatch from one of the few clinics offering abortions in all trimesters. It’s a call to defend all abortions and to trust pregnant people. It’s also, incidentally, my pregnancy announcement: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...